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Tailoring allows players to cut and weave various pieces of cloth into armor, bags, shirts, and other cloth items. Tailors can create cloth items for cloth wearing classes: Mages, Warlocks, and Priests. Tailors play an especially important role in guilds because they can create bags for the entire guild. They can also create specialty bags such as Herbalism bags that can increase gathering for the guild. They can learn powerful rare recipes as the highest levels which allow them to create powerful gear useful in raiding. Tailors can create shirts or dress-up items. Tailors do not require any special equipment to create their items, such as blacksmiths require anvils. Tailors can create items wherever they want, as long as they have the proper required ingredients. Tailoring does not require a gathering profession. Proper ingredients must be gathered from monsters or purchased from other players. If your friends know you're a tailor they also may collect tailoring ingredients for you, provided you let them know exactly what you need. Looking for Profession Guides? Click here.

Tailored items require cloth, typically dropped by humanoid monsters. You can ask around to find out what specific monsters drop them or check profession guides. Cloth Types: Cloth Level Monsters Skill Recipes Linen 5-17 1-91 Wool 16-27 75-130 Silk 25-40 125-210 Mageweave 40-50 175-250 Runecloth 50+ 250-300 Felcloth 53-601 250-300 Mooncloth2 - 290-300 Netherweave 54+3 300-375 Imbued Netherweave4 - 325 Spellcloth5 - 355-375 Shadowcloth6 - 355-375 Primal Mooncloth7 - 355-375 1 - Demons and Satyrs (Felwood, Azshara, Blasted Lands, Dire Maul) 2 - Mooncloth is created by combining two Felcloth in a Moonwell. Four day cooldown. 3 - Netherweave Cloth only drops in Outland or around Kharazan. 4 - Created by combining 3 Bolts of Netherweave and 2 Arcane Dust. This requires a Mana Loom. Several Mana Looms are located in Lower City in Shattrath. 5 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued Netherweave, Primal Mana, and Primal Fire while in Netherstorm. Four day cooldown. 6 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued Netherweave, Primal Shadow, and Primal Fire while at the Altar of Shadows in Shadowmoon Valley. Four day cooldown. 7 - Created by combining a Bolt of Imbued Netherweave, Primal Life, and Primal Water while at a Moonwell. Four day cooldown. Creating a Primal Mooncloth gives you a Moonwell Restoration buff that gives 12 health and mana per 5 seconds for one hour. Other Ingredients Recipes usually require thread or possibly colored dye which is purchased from trade merchants. You can usually find the trade merchants that have all available ingredients near the trainers. You might also need leather, gems, potions, and other special ingredients created by other Profession craftsmen. Leather is found by Skinners so you will likely have to purchase it from another player or from a friend. Gems are found from monster drops, treasure chests, Mining, Fishing, and Rogue pick pocketing. Potions will need to be purchased or given by an Alchemist. Recipes Recipes can be found at trainers, as limited items on special vendors, as rewards for reputations, monster drops, quest rewards, powerful boss drops, and in the auction house. Ask around if you can't find a particular recipe. Moon Well Locations Alliance players can find Moon Wells at the Temple of the Moon in Darnassus, Auberdine in Darkshore, the Park in Stormwind, or in Cenarion Hold in Silithus. Horde players have a little more challenging time finding Moon Wells. They can find Moon Wells in Cenarion Hold, in Ashenvale east of Iris Lake, or in Thalanaar in Thousand Needles. In Outland there is a Moonwell at the Cenarion Outpost just outside of Shattrath City. There's also a Moonwell at Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh.

Tailors are the main creators of bags. Players can acquire bags from loot drops, quests, or merchants. However, tailors can provide bags in larger quantities, while also offering cheaper prices than trade merchants. Every class needs and wants bags, so this provides excellent opportunities for tailors and also makes them extremely popular until players have all of their bags. As tailors increase their level, they can more easily find or purchase ingredients for bag making. Bags Slots Skill Required Linen Bag 6 45 Red Linen Bag 6 70 Woolen Bag 8 80 Green Woolen Bag 8 95 Red Woolen Bag 8 115 Small Silk Pack 10 150 Green Silk Bag 10 175 Black Silk Bag 10 185 Mageweave Bag 12 225 Red Mageweave Bag 12 235 Runecloth Bag 14 260 Mooncloth Bag 16 300 Netherweave Bag 16 315 Bottomless Bag 18 300 Imbued Netherweave Bag 18 340 Primal Mooncloth Bag 20 375 Specialty Bags Slots Usage Skill Required Enchanted Mageweave Pouch 16 Enchanting 225 Enchanted Runecloth Bag 20 Enchanting 275 Big Bag of Enchantment 24 Enchanting 300 Spellfire Bag 28 Enchanting 375 Soul Pouch 20 Warlock 260 Felcloth Bag 24 Warlock 300 Core Felcloth Bag 28 Warlock 300 Ebon Shadowbag 28 Warlock 375 Cenarion Herb Bag 20 Herbalism 275 Satchel of Cenarius 24 Herbalism 300 Bag of Jewels 24 Jewelcrafting 340

Tailors can also create special outfits such as dresses or formal attire. These can impress other people in town or be used for special occasions. Examples: Wedding Dress, Tux Shirt, Tux Pants, and Tux Jacket. Some players wish to purchase these which can result in steady sales in the auction house or directly to players.

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At the highest tailoring levels you can choose a tailoring specialization. The three areas of specialization are spellcloth, shadowcloth, and primal mooncloth. The benefit of specializing is that when making the respective cloth, you create two pieces of cloth for the same materials and cooldown - doubling your cloth making output. Each type of cloth has a four day cooldown on creation on their own timer. Therefore, once you specialize you can make two cloths for your specialization and one cloth of the other two choices, all on separate cooldowns. To specialize, you must have at least 350 skill in tailoring. Head over to Shattrath City, where you'll find four master tailors in the southeast part of Lower City. If you're sufficient level and skill, they'll offer a quest for specialization. You should review the various specialty patterns you can obtain by specializing before you make your decision. Your class and talent build will likely play a role in your decision. Here are some general guidelines for the items you can make with the three specializations: Spellfire Tailoring - Arcane/Fire damage items, 28-slot enchanting bag (Fire/Arcane Mage) Shadowweave Tailoring - Frost/Shadow damage items, 28-slot soul shard bag (Frost Mage/Warlock/Shadow Priest) Primal Mooncloth Tailoring - Healing, 20-slot bag (Holy Priest) You can still make some of the above items no matter what specialization you choose, however, it will take twice as long to create an item outside your specialization assuming you create all the required cloth yourself. There *are* certain cloth sets that can only be created by those that have a certain specalization. So make sure you research what set you want before picking your specialization. Trading specialty cloth with tailors of other specialties can be much faster and more efficient. In addition, set bonuses of the crafted items may require you to be of a certain specialization to become active. You can now unspecialize in tailoring and then select a new specialization. This is a repeatable choice, but costs gold each time.

Artisan Tailoring is available at the highest level once you have reached level 35. Horde players should head to Tarren Mill. Alliance players go to Timothy Worthington (Theramore Isle, Dustwallow Marsh). To advance beyond 300 tailoring, Horde players need to speak to Dalinna (near inn at Thrallmar) in Outland. Alliance players need to go upstairs in the Inn at Honor Hold. Both of these are located in Hellfire Peninsula. Skinning might go well with tailoring, because you can collect leather for recipes. Additional Tailoring recipes can be found in encoded messages found on the members of the Twilight's Hammer in Silithus. There are some tailoring quests such as Shadowweave Mask (NIlith Lokrav in the Searing Gorge) or Meilosh in the Timbermaw Hold, when you have a friendly reputation with the Timbermaw. Some powerful recipes are bind on pickup and only found from high level enemies. Many factions have reputation-based recipes available for purchase.