Tailoring, 300-351 the easy way.

[rgirty]

I've seen a lot of people talking about spending a lot of $ leveling tailoring.

There are a lot of guides out there to get you to 300, i'm going to discuss going 300-351.

300 skill:

You have a couple of options here.

1. Find a tailor who will allow you to turn all their netherweave cloth into bolts of netherweave. Bolts of netherweave grey at 325. Once it becomes green you will have to make a considerable amount of bolts to hit 325 but it can be done.

2. Buy your own netherweave and make bolts until you reach 315.

315 Skill (325 if you found a friend who needed help)

You have a coupe of options here.

1. Find a tailor who will allow you to turn all their netherweave bolts + arcane dust into imbued netherweave bolts. This greys at 340. Once it becomes green you will have to make a considerable amount of bolts to hit 340 but it can be done. (I personally made over 100 bolts to get these 15 points).

2. Make netherweave bags. You should be able to make netherweave bags from all the bolts you created going 300-315. Continue to make bags and sell them until you hit 340. You should be able to level 300-340 at a profit in this fashion. At this time I can purchase netherweave for 3-3.5g a stack on my server and sell bags for 6-7g giving me a profit of 2-3g per bag. You will be able to do this while skilling up.

Skill 340

Make Imbued netherweave bags. Make them and sell them, on my server you can buy the mats on the AH for 1 or 2g less than the selling price of the bag. Even with only a 1 or 2g profit you can level to 350 at a profit, or at least without spending a lot of gold.

Skill 350, Perform your first xmute here. Depending on what you want to do, you can continue to skill up from xmutes until they go grey while either selling the cloth OR saving it for whatever your spec is. The other option is to sell your cloth xmutes for 5-10g each and again level at a profit.

That should get you to at least 351 with a little profit on the side.

I would advise buying a pattern that starts at 350 that will allow you to create an item that you can sell for profit and skill up at the same time.

For me, it was the bracers of havok. I think i paid 300-500g (can't recall) for the pattern. They sell very well, I typically sell 1-2 pair each day for a 25-30g profit on each set.

Cloak of the black void is also a good option.

Cloak of the black void and bracers of havok are the most +dmg you can get on boe cloth dps items that are available in the game.

[Beruen]

I've run two tailors through that range and helped friends/guildies get tailors through that level, and I really can't disagree. Then again, tailoring doesn't get bad until 360 or so, even without those two recipes you mentioned.

I've always found it easy to hit 325 doing bolts and 340 doing imbued bolts. I've never had the patience to hit 350 doing imbued netherweave bags, and I'm a total storage fiend, so I've made plenty of those bags :-) I usually wind up making a regular netherweave piece to hit 350.

Unless I'm in a hurry, I usually do 350 to at least 355 doing cloth transmutes, and I've gone as high as 358 doing that. Since there's not much you can wear at less than lvl 70 that takes more than 350 tailoring to make, that's usually when I break from leveling tailoring and start banking as much INW as I can make. Of course, if I was doing this on a character that was already at 70, I wouldn't take the time to do this for any longer than it takes to farm enough netherweave cloth to get to 375 because the payoff is bigger, and the ability to farm the cloth is also greater.

[rgirty]

I do very little farming, most of the things I post don't mention farming of any kind because for the majority of my wow career I have been a holy spec priest. I leveled a lot as shadow, and shadow from time to time to experiment (as I am now, going 20/41 after the break) but for the most part farming has been something that is unavailable for me.

[Leonavice]

300-340. Make bolts of netherweave then imbued netherweave for yourself. You are going to need so many of them that it's rather pointless making for other people really.

[Ferenczys]

I think Rgirty was referring to a more cash-friendly way of doing it; if you use other people's mats to get you to 340, you can then buy netherweave on the AH and sell the resulting bags at a profit, having not invested huge amounts of gold into skill-ups from 300-340. Now, I'm also of the mind that I intend to use all that cloth anyway, so I did 300-340 to stockpile (Imbued)Netherweave Bolts for later items. He has a point though, especially if you're just trying to get to 350 so you can do transmutes. On my server, Imbued Netherweave sells for roughly 11-12g a piece, plus cost of primals (20-30 for Fire, 10-20 for Shadow, etc), you can usually craft one (if not all) of the specialty cloths and sell them at profit. Granted, it's a slow, SLOW way of making coin, but it's consistent.

I followed a similar approach; I crafted Imbued Netherweave Bags as soon as I could and sold them at profit. It definitely helped offset the sometimes nauseating costs of stubborn skill-ups.

[drainyou]

Thanks for this info - very helpful.

I was silly - and before the TBC came out I took a break. Anticipating jewel crafting I changed over to mining and dropped 300 tailoring ( back in Sept....when it was pretty much useless accept to the uber raiding guilds that could get the mats for the flarcore stuff ect. ) Of course - now tailoring is uber so I'm leveling it. Got to 225 in one evening. It's nice having a 70 Dest lock and going back through to farm SM / ZF ect. for cloth and disenchanting blues with such ease.

Good times.

[Mirinda]

I am at 358. While leveling tailoring from 0, I note how many bandages I am used to using (as a mage). Now I hate to make bandages given the countervailing demand. Also regret all the primals I auctioned for cash. The need for primal fires is absolutely ridiculous. Farming them is very difficult.

Two more points and I start using the arcanoweave boots pattern (Requires Bolt of Netherweave (8), Arcane Dust (16), Rune Thread (2)).

Compare this with what's required for the imbued netherweave garments: Bolt of Imbued Netherweave (6), Netherweave Spider Silk (2), Rune Thread.

On my server the difference in mats cost is 32g! I hope to offset it by having guildings DE all my drops and tailored items + normal grinding for drops (I favor the ogres in Nagrand).

I need to level my mining for the primals, but ugh that is so tedious. Probably not as tedious as grinding fire elementals.

I also have to remember to get skill-ups when possible from cloth transmutes.

[rgirty]

I advise to farm/do the thing that makes the most money.

Then buy your mats.

I made a set of PMC/spellfire/spellstrike with this method.

[Leonavice]

I advise to farm/do the thing that makes the most money.

Then buy your mats.

I made a set of PMC/spellfire/spellstrike with this method.

Applies to almost every crafting professions really. For example, if you are an Elemental shaman needing primal airs, go farm something else to buy the primal airs instead. You do next to zero damage against air elementals.

[Mirinda]

I did OK farming motes of fire, as an arcane/fire mage, in Shadowmoon.

Lead with frostbolt, pop fire ward, frost nova, ice lance, arcane blast.

It's not like trying to farm water motes as an ice mage.

I killed everything in my path, looted all the trash, and vendored it for great money.

Farmed two primal fires, bought eight for 20g apiece at the AH.

Just yesterday they were 30g. Pays to be a little patient.