Classic WoW Tailoring Guide 1-300 - Fast Leveling

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Oh, hello there, future fashion icon! So, you want to delve into the world of Tailoring? Excellent choice! It's not just about looking good (though that's a HUGE perk, trust me). Tailoring is your ticket to crafting powerful gear for yourself and your cloth-wearing comrades, becoming a bag-making mogul, and, yes, lining your pockets with some serious gold! As one source puts it, "High levels tailors can learn and make valuable, useful, or rare items that you can either use yourself or sell to your fellow players for a decent amount of coin".

One of the greatest advantages of Tailoring is that it requires cloth, and unlike herbs or minerals, you don't need another profession to gather it. This self-sufficiency in primary material gathering right from the get-go means you can start your journey with fewer hurdles. Since cloth drops from virtually every humanoid enemy in the game, including those in dungeons, you'll find yourself passively accumulating the basic building blocks of your future masterpieces simply by adventuring and leveling up. This passive acquisition significantly lowers the initial "grind" often associated with other crafting professions. Furthermore, the ability to craft these valuable items, especially highly sought-after bags, positions Tailoring as a profession with strong economic potential throughout your entire Classic WoW experience.

Consider me your personal tailoring sensei! I'm going to walk you through every stitch, from your very first Bolt of Linen Cloth to crafting those awe-inspiring endgame epics. We'll cover the fastest ways to level, where to find the plushest cloths, which patterns are pure gold, and all the little secrets to make your tailoring journey a smashing success. Get ready to turn heads and fill those bags (both the ones you carry and the ones you sell!).

The Bare Essentials: Your Tailoring Toolkit

Finding Your Mentors: Tailoring Trainer Locations

Every great designer needs a mentor! You'll need to visit Tailoring trainers to learn new skills and recipes as you level up. Luckily, they're found in all major cities. If you're ever lost, just ask a city guard, and they'll mark your map!

You'll start as an Apprentice (1-75), then become a Journeyman (75-125), an Expert (125-220), and finally, an Artisan (220-300). A key step in your progression is learning Artisan Tailoring, which requires your character to be level 35 and necessitates a visit to specific trainers often located in more remote or contested territories. This journey to an Artisan trainer is a bit of a rite of passage, taking you beyond the safety of capital cities.

Here's where to find these fabulous fashion gurus:

The Lifeblood of Fashion: Cloth & Other Materials

Darling, cloth is your canvas! You'll be working with a fabulous array of textiles, each dropped by foes in progressively higher-level zones, naturally aligning your crafting journey with your character's adventures.

• Linen Cloth: Your starting material, from low-level humanoids (typically levels 5-20).
• Wool Cloth: The next step up, from humanoids around levels 16-30.
• Silk Cloth: Things are getting fancy! From humanoids levels 28-40.
• Mageweave Cloth: A staple for mid-to-high level gear, from humanoids levels 38-50.
• Runecloth: The bread and butter of endgame tailoring, from humanoids level 50+.
• Felcloth: A special demonic textile used for powerful, often shadowy, gear. Drops from demons level 50+.

Don't forget your notions! You'll also need various Threads (Coarse, Fine, Silken, Heavy Silken, Rune), Dyes (Blue, Red, Green, Orange, etc.), and occasionally other bits like Bleach and Rugged Leather. Most threads and basic dyes can be bought from Tailoring or Trade Goods vendors near your trainers, introducing a small but consistent gold cost to your leveling, even if you farm all your cloth.

Here's a rough idea of what you'll need to hoard for your journey to 300. Remember, these are estimates; your mileage may vary based on skill-up luck!

Stitching Your Way to Stardom: Leveling Tailoring 1-300

Alright, apprentice, grab your needles and thread! It's time to turn those piles of cloth into skill points and fabulous creations.

Apprentice Couturier (1-75)

This is where your grand design begins, transforming humble Linen into your first stylish pieces!

1. 1-45: Craft ~102 Bolt of Linen Cloth (2 Linen Cloth each, Total: ~204 Linen Cloth). Craft until 45 or they turn green. Essential for later recipes.
2. 40/45-70: Craft ~35-40 Linen Belt (1 Bolt of Linen Cloth, 1 Coarse Thread each). Efficient skill-ups. Start when Bolts of Linen Cloth become inefficient.
3. 70-75: Craft ~5-8 Reinforced Linen Cape (2 Bolts of Linen Cloth, 3 Coarse Thread each). Caps off Apprentice level nicely.

Journeyman Stylist (75-125)

Now we're working with Wool, and even dipping back into our Linen stash! Getting fancier!

1. 75-100: Craft ~45 Bolt of Woolen Cloth (3 Wool Cloth each, Total: ~135 Wool Cloth). Essential for upcoming Woolen items and good skill-ups.
2. 100-110: Craft ~13 Simple Kilt (4 Bolts of Linen Cloth, 1 Fine Thread each). Uses up remaining Linen Bolts efficiently. May need a few more if unlucky.
3. 110-125: Craft ~15 Double-stitched Woolen Shoulders (3 Bolts of Woolen Cloth, 2 Fine Thread each). A solid recipe to reach the Expert tier.

Expert Designer (125-220)

Silk and Mageweave are your new best friends! The designs are getting more intricate, and you're starting to craft items with real flair.

1. 125-145: Craft ~201-205 Bolt of Silk Cloth (4 Silk Cloth each, Total: ~804-820 Silk Cloth). Silk is plentiful and bolts skill up for a good while.
2. 145-160: Craft ~18-20 Azure Silk Hood (2 Bolts of Silk Cloth, 2 Blue Dye, 1 Fine Thread each). A common leveling item. Dyes (vendor) add to the cost.
3. 160-170: Craft ~10 Silk Headband (3 Bolts of Silk Cloth, 2 Fine Thread each). Another efficient silk recipe.
4. 170-175: Craft ~5 Formal White Shirt (3 Bolts of Silk Cloth, 2 Bleach, 1 Fine Thread each). Shirts are iconic! Bleach is a vendor material.
5. 175-185: Craft ~94-100 Bolt of Mageweave (5 Mageweave Cloth each, Total: ~470-500 Mageweave Cloth). Prepares for Mageweave recipes and skills up well.
6. 185-205: Craft ~20 Crimson Silk Vest (4 Bolts of Silk Cloth, 2 Fine Thread, 2 Red Dye each). A colorful way to use more Silk Bolts and push towards Artisan.
7. Alt. 205-215: Craft ~10 Crimson Silk Pantaloons (4 Bolts of Silk Cloth, 2 Red Dye, 2 Silken Thread each). If Vests go green too early.
8. Alt. 215-220: Craft ~5 Orange Mageweave Shirt (1 Bolt of Mageweave, 1 Orange Dye, 1 Heavy Silken Thread each). Another option to bridge to Artisan.

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Artisan Icon (220-300)

You're in the home stretch, darling! Runecloth is king here, and you'll be crafting some truly desirable items that can fetch a pretty penny or deck you out in style.

1. 220-230: Craft ~10 Black Mageweave Gloves (2 Bolts of Mageweave, 2 Heavy Silken Thread each). Good use of Mageweave, solid skill-ups.
2. 230-250: Craft ~20-25 Black Mageweave Headband (3 Bolts of Mageweave, 2 Heavy Silken Thread each). Continues the Mageweave trend efficiently.
3. 250-260: Craft ~155+ Bolt of Runecloth (5 Runecloth each, Total: ~775+ Runecloth). Essential for everything from here. Craft until 260.
4. 260-280: Craft ~25 Runecloth Belt (3 Bolts of Runecloth, 1 Rune Thread each). A good, cheap Runecloth item. Can switch to Runecloth Bags if pattern is available and you want to sell, but belts are cheaper for pure leveling.
5. 280-300: Craft ~18-20 Runecloth Bag (5 Bolts of Runecloth, 2 Rugged Leather, 1 Rune Thread each). Priority Craft! Bags are money-makers. Pattern can be camped or bought from AH. This is often the preferred route due to profitability.
6. Alt. 290-300: Craft ~18-23 Runecloth Gloves (4 Bolts of Runecloth, 4 Rugged Leather, 1 Rune Thread each). Good alternative if Bag pattern is hard to get. Recipe goes yellow at 290, so more crafts may be needed.

The Fabric of Fortune: Farming Your Own Cloth

While the Auction House is always an option, darling, there's a certain satisfaction (and significant gold saving!) in gathering your own materials. Farming cloth puts you in control of your supply chain and lets you explore the beautiful (and sometimes dangerous) corners of Azeroth.

Beyond the Basics: Advanced Tailoring Arts

Once you've mastered the fundamentals, it's time to explore the more esoteric and powerful aspects of tailoring, my dear apprentice. This is where true artistry (and significant profit!) begins.

The Mystique of Mooncloth: Cooldowns & Crafting

Ah, Mooncloth! This ethereal fabric is the key to some of the most coveted tailoring creations in Classic WoW. It's not something you simply farm from mobs; it's crafted through a special process, making it inherently valuable and time-gated.

Legendary Material

Mooncloth

Crafted from 2 Felcloth at a Moonwell

4-Day Crafting Cooldown

Essential for high-end tailoring

Strategic Importance:

Items like the Truefaith Vestments require 10 Mooncloth, and the luxurious Bottomless Bag demands 12. This translates to 40 to 48 days of just Mooncloth cooldowns for a single epic item!

Pattern Source: Artisan Tailoring Trainer (Skill 250)

• The Creation: To make one piece of Mooncloth, you must transmute 2 Felcloth. This alchemical transformation of demonic material into something pure and luminous must be performed at a Moonwell. The pattern to perform this transmutation, simply called "Pattern: Mooncloth," is taught by your Artisan Tailoring trainer once you reach skill level 250.
• The Cooldown: Here's the crucial part that defines Mooncloth's value in Classic WoW: crafting Mooncloth has a four-day cooldown. Yes, four entire Azerothian days must pass before you can create another piece! This strict time gate makes Mooncloth a precious commodity. While later expansions changed this, for Classic, this cooldown is a fundamental aspect of its economy.

Moonwell Locations: These sacred elven sites of power are scattered across Azeroth. You'll need to find one to perform your transmutation. Some accessible Moonwells include:

• Ashenvale: Various locations like the Moonwell of Cleansing (60,72) or Raynewood Retreat (59,59).
• Feralas: Near Dire Maul (58,44 or 60,46), Feathermoon Stronghold (46,46), or New Thalanaar (87,44).
• Moonglade: Nighthaven North (48,33) or South (46,45) – a sanctuary zone, making it a safe bet.
• Felwood: Jaedenar (35,59) or Talonbranch Glade (61,26).

"Specializing" in Style: Endgame Crafting Choices (Classic Focus)

While The Burning Crusade expansion formally introduced Tailoring Specializations like Mooncloth, Shadoweave, and Spellfire, Classic WoW doesn't feature this specific system. However, you can absolutely "specialize" your tailoring efforts by focusing on acquiring and crafting particular sets of powerful and often class-specific gear. This "soft specialization" comes from the patterns you choose to hunt and the reputations you decide to grind.

• Bind on Pickup (BoP) Masterpieces: Some of the most potent items you can craft, like the Robe of the Archmage for Mages or the Truefaith Vestments for Priests, are Bind on Pickup. This means the character who crafts the item is the one who can equip it (or, more commonly, the pattern is Bind on Equip, but the resulting item is BoP). This makes Tailoring an incredibly valuable, almost essential, profession for these classes if they wish to craft their own pre-raid BiS or even raid-worthy gear. Your ability to craft these items is defined by your dedication to obtaining these rare patterns.
• The Bloodvine Garb & the Tailor's Edge: A critical example of a "specialization" benefit in Classic comes with the Bloodvine Garb set, with patterns originating from Zul'Gurub. If you are a Tailor with 300 skill, wearing pieces of this set grants an additional, exclusive 2% spell critical strike chance. This is a monumental bonus for caster DPS (Mages, Warlocks, Shadow Priests, Elemental Shamans, Moonkins) and makes Tailoring a Best-in-Slot (BiS) profession choice for a significant portion of Classic's content progression. This powerful, tailor-exclusive bonus provides a strong incentive for casters to not only pick up Tailoring but to keep it long-term, as dropping the profession would mean losing this critical stat boost. The patterns for the Bloodvine Vest, Bloodvine Leggings, and Bloodvine Boots are purchased from Rin'wosho the Trader within Zul'Gurub, requiring Friendly, Honored, and Revered reputation with the Zandalar Tribe, respectively.

The Discerning Tailor's Guide to Riches & Raiding

Now that you're armed with skills and knowledge, let's talk about turning your tailoring talents into tangible rewards – both in terms of powerful gear for raiding and a healthy stash of gold!

Bagging the Big Bucks: Your Bread and Butter

Never, ever underestimate the power of a well-made bag, darling! In a world where inventory space is always at a premium, tailors hold a unique position. As one astute observer noted, you have an "almost total monopoly on this market". Bags are a consistent and reliable source of income throughout Classic WoW. From the humble Linen Bag to the highly coveted Runecloth Bag and the luxurious Mooncloth and Bottomless Bags, your creations will be in constant demand.

Haute Couture for Heroes: Must-Have Robes & Endgame Epics

Beyond the practical, tailoring allows you to craft some of the most visually stunning and statistically powerful gear available, especially pre-raid. These are the pieces that will make you a legend among your peers.

Epic Robe

Robe of the Archmage

Bind on Pickup - Mage Only

Requires significant materials including Essences

Pre-BiS for many Mage specs

Key Materials:

Bolts of Runecloth, Essence of Fire, Essence of Water, Ironweb Spider Silk, Star Rubies (exacts vary by database but always high-end).

Pattern Drop: Firebrand Pyromancers (LBRS)

Epic Robe

Truefaith Vestments

Bind on Pickup - Priest Only

Requires 10 Mooncloth!

BiS for healing Priests

Materials:

12 Bolts of Runecloth, 10 Mooncloth, 4 Righteous Orbs, 4 Golden Pearls, 10 Ghost Dye, 2 Rune Thread.

Pattern Drop: Balnazzar (Stratholme - Live)

Bloodvine Set

Bloodvine Garb

Three-piece set (Vest, Leggings, Boots)

Exceptional for all caster DPS

Tailors gain +2% spell crit!

Vest Materials:

3 Mooncloth, 3 Powerful Mojo, 2 Ironweb Spider Silk

Vendor: Rin'wosho the Trader (ZG - Zandalar Tribe Rep)

Other Valuable Endgame Pieces:

• Felcloth Set: Items like Felcloth Shoulders (World Drop), Felcloth Hood (World Drop), and Felcloth Gloves (Pattern from Dire Maul or other drops) are excellent for Warlocks and Shadow Priests.
• Cindercloth Cloak: Essential for fire resistance in early raid tiers like Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. The pattern is a rare world drop, often from Dark Iron mobs in Searing Gorge or Thorium Point, and can be very expensive. Controlling this pattern means controlling a vital piece of raid preparation gear.
• Gloves of Spell Mastery: Powerful caster gloves; the pattern is a random, rare drop from various high-level dungeons or raids.
• Resistance Gear: Patterns for various resistance sets (Fire: Flarecore; Nature: Sylvan/Gaea; Frost: Glacial) become available through faction reputation (Thorium Brotherhood, Cenarion Circle, Argent Dawn respectively) and are crucial for specific raid encounters. Acquiring these patterns requires dedicated gameplay beyond just leveling tailoring, such as questing and dungeon runs for reputation items, further limiting the number of crafters and maintaining the value of these specialized items.

Pattern Paparazzi: Snagging Those Rare Designs

The most fabulous and profitable designs aren't just handed to you on a silver platter, darling! You've got to be a veritable pattern paparazzi, hunting them down in dungeons, from specific vendors, or by currying favor with Azeroth's many factions.

Vendor Patterns with a Twist:

• Qia (Everlook, Winterspring): This vendor is notorious for selling the highly sought-after Pattern: Runecloth Bag and Pattern: Runecloth Gloves. These are limited supply items with a random respawn timer (anywhere from 5 to 90 minutes), making her a frequent campsite for aspiring (and competing) tailors. Be prepared for a wait, or to pay a premium on the Auction House if someone else snags it first.

Reputation Vendors: Many of the most powerful endgame patterns are locked behind faction reputation grinds. This means your tailoring prowess is directly tied to your broader adventures in Azeroth!

• Zandalar Tribe (Zul'Gurub): Essential for the Bloodvine Garb set patterns.
• Argent Dawn (Plaguelands/Naxxramas Focus): Offers patterns like Pattern: Argent Boots, Pattern: Argent Shoulders, and later, the Glacial Set for Naxxramas frost resistance gear.
• Timbermaw Hold (Felwood/Winterspring): Provides patterns such as Pattern: Wisdom of the Timbermaw and Pattern: Mantle of the Timbermaw.
• Cenarion Circle (Silithus/AQ Focus): Source for the Pattern: Cenarion Herb Bag and nature resistance gear like the Sylvan and Gaea sets.
• Thorium Brotherhood (Searing Gorge/Blackrock Depths/Molten Core Focus): Key for fire resistance Flarecore Set patterns.

Dropped Patterns:

• Dungeon & Raid Boss Drops: Many BiS patterns come from the corpses of fearsome foes. Examples include Pattern: Truefaith Vestments (Balnazzar, Stratholme), Pattern: Robe of the Archmage (Firebrand Pyromancers, LBRS), and Pattern: Core Felcloth Bag (Molten Core bosses).
• Specific Mob Drops: Some patterns are tied to specific, non-boss mobs, like Pattern: Robe of Winter Night (Cobalt Mageweavers, Winterspring).
• World Drops: The rarest of the rare! Patterns like Pattern: Felcloth Shoulders, Pattern: Felcloth Hood, Pattern: Mooncloth Bag, and the infamous Pattern: Cindercloth Cloak can drop from a wide variety of mobs of an appropriate level range, making them incredibly hard to target-farm and thus very valuable.

Auction House Chic: Playing the Market

It's time to turn your exquisite stitches into glittering gold, my dear! The Auction House is your runway, and your crafted goods are the latest collection.

The Most Profitable Creations:

• Bags, Bags, Bags!: This cannot be stressed enough. Runecloth Bags are a constant seller. Mooncloth Bags, with their 16 slots and Mooncloth requirement, command a premium. If you're lucky enough to get the Bottomless Bag pattern, you're sitting on a gold mine.
• Mooncloth: The raw material itself is highly valuable due to its four-day crafting cooldown. Selling stacks of Mooncloth can be very lucrative if you're diligent about the cooldown.
• High-Demand Gear: If you possess rare patterns for sought-after items like the Robe of Winter Night, Cindercloth Cloak, or pieces of popular sets (especially those needed for raid progression or pre-BiS), these can fetch very high prices.
• Shirts & Cosmetic Items: Don't overlook the vanity market! A simple Formal White Shirt (crafted during leveling) or other colorful shirts can sell surprisingly well, especially during in-game holidays or special events. Players love to look unique!

• Auction House Flipping (Advanced): This is a riskier venture but can be profitable if you have a deep understanding of your server's market. It involves buying materials (like cloth or even other crafted items) when they are cheap, crafting them into more valuable items (or simply holding them), and selling when prices are higher. You might also find underpriced rare patterns and resell them. This requires capital and a good sense of timing.
• Timing is Everything: While Tailoring doesn't directly produce consumables like Alchemy, the demand for certain crafted gear, especially resistance gear or pre-raid BiS items, often spikes as guilds prepare for or progress through new raid content. Listing your high-demand items strategically can lead to better sales.

Pro Tips from Your Fashion Guru

A few extra pearls of wisdom to ensure your tailoring career is as smooth as silk, darling!

The Perfect Pairing: Tailoring & Enchanting

These two professions are a match made in heaven, like a perfectly coordinated outfit! As you level Tailoring, you'll inevitably craft a multitude of green (Uncommon) quality items. Instead of vendoring these for mere pennies, you can disenchant them using the Enchanting profession to obtain magical dusts and essences. This synergy is incredibly powerful because it transforms leveling byproducts, which often have little to no direct sale value, into valuable enchanting materials. These materials can then be used to level your Enchanting skill far more cheaply than buying them outright, or they can be sold on the Auction House for a profit. Some crafted items are particularly good for specific types of dust; for example, Red Mageweave Pants are often disenchanted for Vision Dust. This creates a self-sustaining loop where one profession feeds the other, enhancing the overall economic efficiency of your crafting endeavors.

Bank Space Ballet

You'll be juggling an enormous amount of cloth, various threads, dyes, and half-finished masterpieces. Invest in good bags for your bank slots early on – and hey, you can craft them yourself! If you're serious about stockpiling materials or playing the Auction House, consider creating a dedicated bank alt character.

First Aid Finesse

Even though you're a master of crafting cloth armor, don't neglect the First Aid secondary profession! Every player can learn it, and its primary reagents are... you guessed it, CLOTH for bandages!. Being able to patch yourself or party members up without using precious mana is always a chic and practical skill. Furthermore, cloth is also used for reputation turn-ins in major cities, which can be a way to gain standing with your chosen factions. This means that as a tailor, you're not just using cloth for your primary profession; you're also competing for this resource with every other player leveling First Aid or seeking reputation, which helps maintain the baseline value of cloth in the economy.

Buy or Farm? The Eternal Question

The decision to buy materials from the Auction House versus farming them yourself is a constant calculation for any crafter. Sometimes, especially for lower-level cloths when your character is at a high level, it might be more time-efficient to purchase what you need rather than spend hours farming it. Always weigh the current Auction House prices against the time investment required for farming. For instance, if Runecloth is selling for a high price, it might be more profitable to farm Runecloth to sell, and then use a portion of those earnings to buy the cheaper Linen or Wool Cloth you might need for a specific, less valuable craft.

Patience, Young Padawan

Leveling any profession in Classic WoW, including Tailoring, is a journey that requires time, dedication, and resources. There will be moments when you feel like you're drowning in Linen Cloth or that the next skill point is an eternity away. Don't get discouraged! The rewards – crafting powerful gear for yourself and others, filling your bags (literally and figuratively!), and achieving a healthy gold pouch – are well worth the effort.

Conclusion: You're a Tailoring Icon!

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine... And Makes You Fabulous!

Look at you, darling! From a wide-eyed apprentice handling your first Bolt of Linen Cloth, you've journeyed through wool, silk, mageweave, and runecloth to become a nearly-certified Artisan of Azeroth! You've learned to spin simple textiles into veritable works of art and potent tools of power. You now know the secret haunts of the finest cloth, how to charm the enigmatic trainers, and the alchemical secrets behind crafting those must-have bags and epic, awe-inspiring robes.

Your Fashion Journey Has Just Begun

The world of Classic WoW is vast, and the demand for a skilled tailor's creations is truly endless. The path to 300 skill is just the foundation. True mastery and the most fabulous rewards come from the ongoing dedication to your craft: diligently managing your Mooncloth cooldowns, hunting down those elusive rare patterns, participating in reputation grinds to unlock unique factional designs, and astutely playing the Auction House like the savvy stylist you are. Keep honing your skills, for new opportunities and demands will arise with each content phase.

Now go forth and drape Azeroth in your fabulous creations! May your crits be plenty, your bags always be Bottomless, and your reputation as a tailoring icon be legendary!

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