Tailoring

What changed in Forever

Wowhead puts the main change simply: in Classic you could level without professions, but in Forever you'll want one going early. Tailoring now lets you craft whole sets for yourself while levelling, and they bind on pickup.

Spell-school sets. From Wowhead's pattern tables:

• Skill 60–125: six early sets, each tied to a school or role: Flame (fire), Pearly (arcane), Pristine (healing), Shadow (shadow), Shining (holy) and Silky (frost). The trade-camp vendors sell the patterns for Merchant's Favor. Stronger Filigreed versions of some pieces appear to drop from dungeon bosses.
• Skill 140–235: a second tier named Black, Fiery, Frothing, Gilded, Golden and Radiant. These need a Spinning Wheel to craft.
• Skill 195–205: Nether-named shoulders and cuffs, with only a couple of pieces found so far.

ForeverDB's list of candidate crafts within the level-30 bracket is full of these pieces:

• Gilded Slippers (skill 140): most healers.
• Shadow Gown (skill 110): Warlocks and Shadow Priests.
• Pristine Leggings (skill 125): healers.

Other new patterns:

• Skyborne reputation: the Azure and Cloudy Stormsewn patterns, sold on Zephras Isle. Wowhead says the items bind on equip, are weak, and cost a lot for a new character.
• Level-10 sashes: Wowhead describes level-10 waist pieces that the trainer teaches at Tailoring 35, made from linen bolts plus health or mana potions. ForeverDB lists the blue Novice Arcanist's and Novice Ardent's Sash for level 10, from patterns at Tailoring 50, and so does Wowhead's own pattern list. They look like the same items, but the skill is unclear.
• Endgame: new sets at 285–300, such as Manaflare, Conviction and Demonheart from a vendor in Mount Hyjal, and Venomspew and Swarmtender from Silithus.

Reagent bags. Forever adds a dedicated slot for a reagent bag alongside your five normal bags (Warcraft Tavern, Icy Veins). Tailors make the Linen Reagent Bag from skill 5, then Mageweave and Runecloth versions, up to a Bottomless Reagent Bag at 300.

Stations come from camps. The Spinning Wheel blueprint drops from the Unstable Sentinel in the new City of Dalaran dungeon. The Loom's source isn't known yet (wow-professions.com).

Skill ranges moved. wow-professions.com warns that past 225, many recipes turn grey 25 to 45 points earlier than in Classic, so a Classic guide will mislead you.

Levelling, in brief

From wow-professions.com, tested to 225:

wowtbc.gg prices a close variant from Auction House scans, ending with Crimson Silk Pantaloons and Gloves at about 200. wow-professions.com notes that Mageweave Cloth only drops from level-40 mobs, so it was scarce and dear in the beta. The guide will revisit this step once it sees how fast players reach 40.

Trainers:

• Expert: Josef Gregorian (Undercity) or Georgio Bolero (Stormwind), per wow-professions.com and wowtbc.gg.
• Artisan: needs skill 200 and level 35. wow-professions.com sends you to Daryl Stack in Tarren Mill (Horde) or Timothy Worthington in Theramore (Alliance).

Wowhead's trainer table, last updated 12 October, lists Gregorian and Bolero as Artisan trainers and Daryl Stack as "Master". Check in game. Wowhead also found that, in the beta, an Expert trainer can teach the lower ranks too.

What sells

• Bags: Bags have broad potential demand, but profit depends on cloth cost, competing supply, sale prices and how quickly stock sells.
• Early gold: Cloth supply and demand both rise early. Compare the complete craft cost with conservative bag proceeds or expected disenchant value; widespread cloth drops do not prove it is cheap.
• Bolts: crafted bolts also fill the Fabrics version of the Waylaid Crates, which you hand in at your faction's trade camp for Merchant's Favor (wow-professions.com).
• Title: at 300 you can buy a Tailoring Certification and the title "the Tailor" for 1,000 Merchant's Favor (Wowhead).

Open questions

• The skill needed for the level-10 sashes (35 or 50).
• Who teaches Artisan.
• Where the Loom blueprint drops.