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Tailoring is the art of taking all of that cloth that drops from humans and making it into clothing instead of just vendoring it or putting it on the Auction House. Not only can you make robes, hoods and pants, but you can also make tuxedos, wedding dresses and even epic items.

Priests, mages, and warlocks benefit the most from tailoring since they can use the items they craft, but other classes may take it for the profit or for items to disenchant.

The first step in becoming a tailor is going to any of the main cities and talking to the Journeyman tailor. You can find him by talking to any of guards and asking for the tailoring trainer. The first type of cloth you will loot and use to make clothing is linen. This drops off of a majority of level 1 – 15 humans. These are plentiful in the starting zones for each class. For each two pieces of linen cloth you can make a bolt (these will give you skill-ups) that will be used for your new cloth armor.

Once you get to 50 tailoring and level 10 you can go to the Expert tailor (in any major city) to allow you to reach 150 tailoring. This part of tailoring requires wool that drops off most human enemies. Unlike linen bolts wool bolts take three pieces of wool per bolt. Many of the items made of wool cloth are green items and they have all of the right stats for a caster class.

After you attain 125 tailoring you will have to go back to any major city of your choice to find the Artisan tailor. He will be able to teach you how to get past 150 tailoring to get to 255. You must be level 20 to get this skill. This section of tailoring requires silk and mageweave cloth. As you work your way through these tailoring patterns you will begin to be able to craft items that improve magical damage in general, or a specific sub-school, such as fire, ice, arcane, or shadow. Many of these patterns are available through the artisan trainer or from world drop items, but in the magic section of the Undercity and the Slaughtered Lamb in Stormwind (by the warlock trainers) are tailoring trainers that can teach you the shadoweave set (+shadow damage).

Once you hit 200 tailoring you will have to find the Master trainer. He is not in one of the main cities, unlike all of his peers. The Alliance trainer is at Theramore Isle and the Horde trainer is at Tauren Mill and both factions need to be level 35 to get this skill. This is the final trainer you will learn from (until the expansion) and he will be able to teach you patterns all the way to 250. At that point you must get recipes from through the world or buy them from the auction house. During this final phase of tailoring you will be using runecloth, a type of cloth that drops off high level humans, and felcloth, that comes from high level demons. The felcloth is turned into mooncloth for superior (blue) and epic (purple) cloth armor. One of the best epic cloth pieces a tailor can make is a Bind on Pickup robe that is class specific. There is a robe for priests, warlocks, and mages.

You can get high quality tailoring patterns from many places:

• 50+ 5 and 10 man instances
• Reputation grinds
• Molten Core
• World Drops

Sometimes you will be out of cloth, but you can always

• Ask guildies for any extra cloth that they get
• Farm humans for Reputation and/or Experience
• Buy the cloth off the auction house

Most of the things that tailors make can be sold on the auction house (sometimes for a large profit) and if you are an enchanter you can disenchant any of the items you make that are green quality or better.

As you get close to 300 tailoring the price to make each new item grows steeply, but getting to the top opens up many new recipes.

Burning Crusade

Right now the expansion is still in beta, but Blizzard has said that there will now be subdivisions in tailoring much like leatherworking, blacksmithing, and engineering. When the expansion comes out the tailoring cap will be raised to 375 and hopefully the subdivisions will be released soon.

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Submitted in the WoW Stratics TBC Beta contest.