Tailoring Leveling Guide — WoW For Forever

Overview

Tailors sew cloth armor and bags. Their raw material, cloth, drops from humanoid enemies, so no gathering profession is required and both slots stay free. A popular combination is Enchanting: what you sew becomes dust and essences.

Beta build: the skill thresholds on this page were checked against the Forever beta client. Reagents and thresholds can still move before release, and a recipe that has gone yellow no longer gives a point on every craft, so buy a small margin.

Bolts first: every tier starts by turning cloth into bolts. Bolts stop giving points quickly, yet later steps consume them all, so the route tells you how many to prepare in total.
Mageweave Cloth only drops from enemies around level 40 and above. On the beta it is scarce and expensive, so each Mageweave step comes with a fallback.
Vendor goods: thread (Coarse, Fine, Silken, Heavy Silken) and dyes are sold by the Tailoring Supply vendor near the trainer. Tirisfal Glades has none: Undead buy Coarse Thread from Abigail Shiel in Brill.
Elixir of Wisdom is needed for one step (125-140). Buy it or ask an Alchemist; the Alchemy route produces 30 of them.
Camp items: Faction Banner at skill 20 (1 Bolt of Linen Cloth, 1 Coarse Thread) gives a Spirit buff to your own faction at a campfire. Spinning Wheel (skill 140: 2 Simple Wood, 5 Bolt of Silk Cloth, 3 Fine Thread) and Loom (skill 300) are crafting stations.

Trainers

Rank	Skill cap	Requirement	Trainer fee
Apprentice	75	Available to a new character on the beta	10 copper
Journeyman	150	Skill 50, level 10	5 silver
Expert	225	Skill 125, level 20	50 silver
Artisan	300	Skill 200, level 35	5 gold

Apprentice

Horde

Snang — Orgrimmar
Victor Ward — Undercity
Vhan — Thunder Bluff
Bowen Brisboise — Cold Hearth Manor, Tirisfal Glades

Alliance

Lawrence Schneider — Stormwind City
Uthrar Threx — Ironforge
Trianna — Darnassus
Eldrin — Eastvale Logging Camp, Elwynn Forest

Skyborne learn on Zephras Isle from Othesia Evengale (Valanaar) or Taleen Shimmerthread (Shen'dar Village).

Journeyman

Horde

Magar — Orgrimmar
Rhiannon Davis — Undercity
Tepa — Thunder Bluff

Alliance

Sellandus — Stormwind City
Jormund Stonebrow — Ironforge
Me'lynn — Darnassus

Expert & Artisan

Expert

Josef Gregorian — Undercity (Horde)
Georgio Bolero — Stormwind City (Alliance)

Artisan

Daryl Stack — Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad Foothills (Horde)
Timothy Worthington — Theramore Isle, Dustwallow Marsh (Alliance)

Apprentice (1-55)

Skill	Craft	Materials
1-30	30× Bolt of Linen ClothYellow from 25. Keep the bolts for the belts.	60 Linen Cloth
30-55	28× Linen BeltYellow from 50.	28 Bolt of Linen Cloth 28 Coarse Thread

Journeyman (55-125)

Learn Journeyman before the wool bolts: a good streak takes you past 75, and points are lost if the cap is still there.

Skill	Craft	Materials
55-80	45× Bolt of Woolen ClothPoints slow down in the 70s. Craft all 45 regardless.	135 Wool Cloth
80-95	22× Woolen CapeYellow for the whole range.	22 Bolt of Woolen Cloth 22 Fine Thread
95-100	5× Double-stitched Woolen Shoulders	15 Bolt of Woolen Cloth 10 Fine Thread
100-120	40× Bolt of Silk ClothThe route uses 176 silk bolts (704 Silk Cloth) up to 190, so you can prepare them all now.	160 Silk Cloth
120-125	8× Double-stitched Woolen ShouldersYellow by now.	24 Bolt of Woolen Cloth 16 Fine Thread

The capes and shoulders use 61 wool bolts, 16 more than the 45 that gave points: weave the missing ones (48 Wool Cloth) when you need them. If you intend to stop at 150 on the beta, skip the silk bolts and make 29 shoulders from 100 to 125 instead (87 Bolt of Woolen Cloth, 58 Fine Thread).

Expert (125-225)

Skill	Craft	Materials
125-140	20× Gloves of MeditationYellow from the start: a few more than 20 may be needed.	80 Bolt of Woolen Cloth 60 Fine Thread 20 Elixir of Wisdom
140-150	17× Bolt of Mageweave180 Mageweave bolts (900 cloth) are used up to 225. No Mageweave yet? Continue with about 31 Gloves of Meditation, which are green from 140.	85 Mageweave Cloth
150-170	20× Crimson Silk Vest	80 Bolt of Silk Cloth 40 Red Dye 40 Fine Thread
170-190	24× Crimson Silk PantaloonsYellow from 180: the last ten points take about 14 crafts.	96 Bolt of Silk Cloth 48 Red Dye 48 Silken Thread
190-215	38× Black Mageweave GlovesYellow from 195 and green near the end, so expect a few more.	76 Bolt of Mageweave 76 Heavy Silken Thread
215-225	26× Mageweave BagThe final five points are slow; the bags sell or fill your bank.	104 Bolt of Mageweave 52 Silken Thread

On the beta, ready-made Bolt of Mageweave on the Auction House is often cheaper than the cloth itself.

Artisan (225-300)

Not played yet: the beta level cap stops characters short of Artisan, so this range rests on the skill thresholds stored in the client, not on a tested run. Forever shifted many thresholds compared with Classic, so a Classic Era route is not a safe substitute. Check this part again at launch.

Train Artisan at skill 200 and level 35 with Daryl Stack (Tarren Mill, Horde) or Timothy Worthington (Theramore Isle, Alliance). Tailoring is the profession whose thresholds moved the most: many patterns go grey 25 to 45 points earlier than in Classic. A 225-300 route will be added here once it has been played on live servers.

Shopping List (1-225)

Material	Quantity
Linen Cloth	60
Wool Cloth	423 (141 bolts: 61 for capes and shoulders, 80 for the gloves)
Silk Cloth	704 (176 bolts)
Mageweave Cloth	900 (180 bolts)
Elixir of Wisdom	20
Thread	28 Coarse, 148 Fine, 100 Silken, 76 Heavy Silken
Dye	88 Red Dye