Tailoring Overview: Perks, Tools, & Patterns

The Tailoring profession allows players to craft many useful items using cloth and thread, from hoods and robes to bags and embroideries. It’s unusual as a crafting profession that does not require a gathering profession, and it’s often paired with Enchanting for that reason.

What You Get From Tailoring

Tailors gain access to two special perks at endgame: cloak embroideries and spellthreads. The Tailoring-exclusive spellthreads offer the same stats as standard spellthreads but require fewer materials. Cloak embroideries, on the other hand, are entirely unique.

Cloak Embroideries

Cloak embroideries can only be applied and used by Tailors on their own items in the Back slot. These enchantments offer a large amount of Intellect, Spirit, or Attack Power on a proc. The randomness of procs makes these enchantments less reliable than other profession perks, but they can be powerful for bursts of healing or damage, especially when paired with cooldowns or if used for snapshotting.

• Darkglow Embroidery
• Lightweave Embroidery
• Swordguard Embroidery

Cloak embroideries must only be learned once and they each have 3 ranks. They upgrade automatically when you reach 500 and 550 skill in Tailoring, so you won’t need to train the new ranks.

Spellthreads

Spellthreads are not exclusive to Tailors, but only Tailors can craft them. They provide strong Intellect enchantments for the Legs slot. Tailors get their own soulbound version of each enchantment which offers the same stats but at a much cheaper materials cost. One set of spellthreads offers Spirit while the other offers Critical Strike along with their Intellect bonus.

Bags

Royal Satchel is the new epic crafted bag for Mists of Pandaria, providing 28 inventory slots. The pattern can be purchased upon reaching Exalted with The August Celestials.

Tailors can also craft many lower-level bags. Embersilk Bag continues to be popular as a large, but relatively cheap bag in Mists of Pandaria.

Crafted Equipment

Mists of Pandaria adds a lot of new patterns to the game for crafting high-level gear with Tailoring.

Windwool Leveling Set

The Windwool set is the most basic crafted gear for Tailoring in Mists of Pandaria. Each piece is made from 3-5 Bolt of Windwool Cloth, making them quite cheap to craft. Windwool Bracers are the cheapest item you can craft if you are looking to Disenchant items for Pandaria-level Enchanting materials. Each piece of crafted Windwool gear comes with Intellect and Stamina by default, and each has a random suffix that gives it various secondary stats. They are item level 384, but you can also get lucky and proc rare (blue) versions of the items that have a 415 item level and more stats.

Crafted PvP Gear

There are several patterns for crafting high-level PvP gear with Tailoring.

First, there are two basic Contender’s sets: Contender’s Satin and Contender’s Silk. Their patterns can be purchased with a Spirit of Harmony each from the Tailoring Supplies vendor in each faction’s Shrine in Vale of Eternal Blossoms. These pieces are all item level 450. Like the leveling set above, they require only a few Bolt of Windwool Cloth to craft.

In Phase 2, you can learn to craft many Crafted Dreadful Gladiator pieces. These patterns are learned randomly when crafting Imperial Silk. They too require only a few Bolt of Windwool Cloth to craft. These pieces are item level 458.

In Phase 4, you can learn many Crafted Malevolent Gladiator patterns from crafting Celestial Cloth. These are made from 7-8 Bolt of Windwool Cloth each. These pieces are item level 476.

Crafted Epics

And of course, there are the epic endgame items that can be crafted with Tailoring. The first set of patterns can be purchased from the Golden Lotus faction at Honored reputation. These create item level 476 items:

The next set of patterns are raid-wide drops from the first tier of raids: Heart of Fear, Mogu’shan Vaults, and Terrace of Endless Spring. These patterns a item level 496 pieces:

Falling Blossom pieces are item level 522 and their patterns can be learned while crafting Imperial Silk starting in Phase 2:

Finally, there are four item level 553 patterns that can be learned while crafting Celestial Cloth in the final phase of the expansion:

Cosmetic & Fun Items

In addition to gear that is useful for its stats, there are plenty of items you can craft that may be appealing for transmogrification, including lower-level items.

Tailoring is also the main source of Shirts in the game. Shirts don’t have any stats and are valued for their appearance alone.

Nets

Tailors can craft nets to root their enemies, which can be a pretty useful little utility item. There are no new nets to be crafted in Mists of Pandaria, but the old ones should still work:

• Netherweave Net
• Heavy Netherweave Net
• Frostweave Net
• Embersilk Net

Battle Pets

There are two battle pets which can be crafted as a side product when creating Imperial Silk:

• Imperial Moth
• Imperial Silkworm

Mounts

Tailors are able to craft three unique flying carpet mounts:

• Flying Carpet
• Frosty Flying Carpet
• Magnificent Flying Carpet

Cloth

Cloth drops from mobs of the appropriate level range, primarily Humanoids. Windwool Cloth is the basic cloth of Pandaria and what you will be working with the most as a Tailor in MoP Classic.

Imperial Silk is this expansion’s special cloth that can only be crafted through Tailoring and only once per day. This material will be the bottleneck for crafting most endgame recipes.

Celestial Cloth is another special cloth material that is added in the last phase of the expansion alongside the Siege of Orgrimmar raid. It also has a one-day cooldown and is required for a few of the most powerful crafted items.

At 325 skill you can learn Northern Cloth Scavenging from either A Guide to Northern Cloth Scavenging (a random Bind-on-Pickup drop from mobs in Northrend) or by completing the Cloth Scavenging quest from any Tailoring Trainer in Northrend. Once learned, this passive ability will cause extra cloth to drop when you are in Northrend locations. There is no equivalent skill for other continents or level ranges.

Tools

There are no special tools required for crafting with Tailoring, and there is no equipment that improves the Tailoring skill.

There are also no Tailoring-specific bags and no racial abilities pertaining to Tailoring.

Tailoring Specializations

There are no Tailoring specializations in Mists of Pandaria. In earlier expansions there were three types of Tailoring that you could focus on, but those specializations were removed in Cataclsym. Any Tailor can now craft patterns from any former specialization.

Where to Learn Patterns

Many patterns are learned directly from Tailoring Trainers, but there are some that must be obtained elsewhere.

Patterns for the Two Contender’s PvP sets are sold by Tailoring Supplies vendors in each faction’s Shrine in Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Each of these patterns costs a Spirit of Harmony to purchase. Here are the vendors:

• Alliance: Raishen the Needle at Shrine of Seven Stars in Vale of Eternal Blossoms
  • /way Shrine of Seven Stars 64.6, 44.6
• Horde: Esha the Loommaiden at Shrine of Two Moons in Vale of Eternal Blossoms
  • /way Shrine of Two Moons 32.6, 53.6

There are some patterns for items for the Chest and Hands slot as well as the Greater Spellthreads that require Honored with the Golden Lotus faction.

The Royal Satchel bag pattern is purchased from The August Celestials. at Exalted.

There are 4 patterns for Chest and Hands slot items that drop inside the three Tier 14 raids.

Some other epic patterns are learned when crafting Imperial Silk or Celestial Cloth.