helpful hint for tailorsFollow

Folks;

A friendly word of advice to tailors out there. I always knew that when I was a shadoweave tailor to make my frozen shadoweave epix, that you had to be a shadoweave tailor to use the set bonus (The healing part of the set), but I didn't think that it applied to the +damage portion of the armor. IT DOES. I switched to spellcloth spec to start working on my spellfire sets and *pow*, I get 0 bonus damage from my robe, boots and shoulders. So, it does not just apply to the set bonus, but the bonus damage as well.

Just something to be reminded of. Now I have 1/3 complete in spellfire, and I'll have 2/3 completed tonight. *Whew*...

You could be brave and take up Tailoring and Jewelcrafting at the same time.

Once I get my spellfire set crafted, I'm going to drop herbalism and level enchanting.

WHAT??!:!?!?!**!@*(#(@&!@

Tailoring gives you access to create your own epic gear (frozen shadoweave for frost mages and spellfire for fire mages) and spellstrike gear...

This stuff is better than T4. Looking at your armory, you're wearing blues, so I'm not sure if you knew this or not. You can start crafting your epics at 350 (?) or 360 ish. See the tailoring vendors in shatt by the battlemasters. They are just west of the scryers in the lower city, I believe. Also, you can make spellcloth (50G per piece) and mooncloth and shadow cloth to sell in the AH, and make bags to sell.

Tailoring is, in my opinion, a must for mages that are PvE and going to raid. If raiding you won't drop it until you get into SSC and TK for the T5 gear.

I have 2/3 frozenshadoweave in bank seenhere and here, I don't use it because of the poor stats that it gives, and because of the fact that my focus is on PVP, I don't use it, as it gives no resil, nor enough stam compared to most blues. As well, for PVE, I'd have to probably say that I'd prefer the aldor's set over either the frozenshadowweave or the spellfire set, as 35+ spell dmg, or 20 hp every frostbolt would give me very little compared to a nice cooldown reduction on all my t2 talents.
Other than that, the spellfire and shadowweave sets are useless for me.
I gear myself towards gladiator and pvp gear ATM, I don't plan on raiding as it takes too much of my time, and I am currently in my senior year in highschool. I play about 1 hour a day, and have just recently come back to wow (and alla) from a 6 month break from the game, which is why you don't see me in full merciless like some of my friends in the game.

Yes, but it takes them longer and more work to get the same gear.

I'm still debating whether to tailor (again). My lock had 375 tailoring until I started getting some T4 drops, and its very expensive. Getting everything crafted and leveling from 1-375 is over 5000g imo. If I decide to that my mage will become my new 'main', I'll go tailoring after I get the epic flyer. I'm not looking forward to the 3x spellfire and 2x spellstrike grind again, I did the whole FSW/powerlevel tailoring on my lock already.

Pretty sure I'll just farm and PVP with my mage, so arena gear ftw. I would never craft the tailored epics for PVP, they're only for raiding imo. I'm leveling a rogue (39 now), and I think I'll raid on my rogue and use my mage as a PVP/farming alt. Not sure though, we'll see. Number one thing I'm buying this time is a flying mount though, its easier to level tailoring after you have that first, because running out of quests in Outlands without an epic flyer sucks. My lock has no more quests to do except 6 dailies a day (5 when I can't find the escort quest), and trying to mine/pluck herbs on a normal mount sucks. Unless you want to dive straight into raiding at 70 I'd suggest people wait until they get their epic mount first, then level tailoring.

edit - I meant epic flying mount. Buying that before I even think about tailoring.

Edited, Oct 4th 2007 3:31pm by mikelolol