Tailoring... is it still worth it?Follow

I agree, and I've let my tailoring languish. I raise it as I have the mats, but I don't go out of my way or buy them on the AH.

The Frostweave Bags are nice, but they require too many mats that are currently expensive to buy. With the drop rate of Frostweave being lower than Netherweave, I don't if the availability will cause the prices of FW bags to drop, either (as it did with NW bags). Then again, everyone has more money now so perhaps it doesn't matter.

I'm not getting a carpet, even after they fix the vehicle issue and make it a true mount. And the gear isn't that appealing.

I'm tempted to drop tailoring also, in favor of JC, but Blizzard tends to do things in cycles so I think I'll keep tailoring on one of my other characters and drop it off of this one.

I don't care about the money, that's easy enough to handle (and I've leveled Tailoring x 2, Enchanting, Alchemy, and Engineering all to 375, I know about the cost of those last 5-15 points :-). I'm more concerned about being able to do something useful with the skill, especially the BoP items.

Since I don't need my PMC or FSW and there isn't a replacement, one of my Tailoring skills is about to be axed methinks.

The only people who think any profession is going to be easy are the new players who don't listen to me when I tell them to get gathering professions on their first character and only take a "real" profession when they have a main.

I don't think there is anything wrong with tailoring. The problem is the progression break Blizzard put in place yet again. There is simply not enough cloth dropping right now, just like you're skinning way too many scraps rather than real leather. While it wasn't so bad with cloth when BC came out, I remember getting hardly anything but leather scraps when BC came out. Looking now at WoTLK, I think that when compared to the last areas of TBC, just about every piece of "scrap cloth" in Northrend should be Frostweave, at least for tailors who picked up the scavenging skill.

It just doesn't make any sense. You're finally getting a pattern for something you could actually sell while leveling up, but at the same time it requires materials that are so rare and expensive that you end up losing money yet again.

The epics you can craft are level 200, so they are just at heroic level. At the same time though they're not BoP anymore and don't require you to specialize either. You'll also have noticed that you don't need to be at maximum skill to make those epics. You can craft entry-level PvP gear, but it carries stats that aren't necessarily ideal for a healing priest.

I'm currently hoping for the 3.1 patch (or whatever the first content patch might be) to introduce the 450 skill BoP stuff.

Guess by the time I reach 450 I'll have every alt on that server fully stocked with Frostweave Bags. My priest is fully equipped with them now, and I just sent 3 of them to my DK. Seems better than losing money on them.

Anybody else screaming when somebody uses the valuable stuff for something like... a freaking BANDAGE?

I kept it on my main, but dropped it on my mage. I'm not going to level it twice.

I like having my flying carpet, I've got my [wowitem=42103]moonshroud gloves[/wowitem] and I'm making moonshroud for my [wowitem=42100]moonshroud robe[/wowitem].

I did notice that one of the patterns the trainer will give you for doing the dungeon achievement is the [wowitem=41609]wispcloak[/wowitem], but I've already purchased my cloak on the AH.

There's some good places to farm cloth, at least.
On the Horde side, you can round-up some invaders at Vengeance Landing which are level 68. They are in groups, so just Mind Sear or whatever.
For the Aliance, I am not so sure. There are a lot of humanoids around Utgarde Keep, which are about as easy to kill. Also, the instances are good places to loot cloth, too. Put Utgarde on farm mode.
I usually ask people for their cloth, if they do not want it, too. It's not really worth selling unless you get a lot of it.

155 gold - the 75 the bag is sold for = a cost of 80 gold. Sure, it's still comparatively much, but only double of what I paid for a possible level of engineering; and like I said, engineers have it easy right now. And it seems to me you're unlucky with your server too, those bags sell for 110-120 gold on mine, bringing the effective cost down to 45-55 gold which is the same as a point of engineering.

Don't know what they were thinking. There should have been

18 Slot Frostweave Bag
20 Slot Imbued Frostweave Bag
22 Slot Glacial Bag (although seeing the requirements in both materials and reputation, it should be AT LEAST 24)

The pain of skilling up the profession aside, I think that the next content patch will bring back the specialized patterns in one way or another.

I kinda like it the way it is now. Rather than having to farm for a random drop pattern you're just either outright buying it, completing achievements for it, or trading in other stuff.

It's somewhat sad that I have a Mooncloth tailor without a Mooncloth set, a Tribal leatherworker without a Tribal set, and a Swordsmith without swords to make, but I'm trying to look at the bright side too:

Frozen Orbs aren't BoP right from the start, so those epics you actually can craft right now only depend on the farming effort, not so much on your luck while rolling. You can actually craft yourself into heroics without ever setting foot into one.

Moonshroud Robe + Gloves, Frostmoon Pants, Aurora Slippers.. that's a nice foundation to start the grind with at 80, without having to worry about reputation with anybody.

Yes, of course, but there is no "Moonshroud Set" like there was with Primal Mooncloth. The chest piece used to be the same item level (and above) as Kara drops unlike the current pieces that are merely on heroic item level. Tailors are lucky for at least getting that extra piece of cloth. Other professions get absolutely nothing right now.



Haven't made any Ebonweave yet for that very reason. Too much trouble to even get to that place. At least the Nexus is nice to get to, and making the cloth is easily combined with the dragon-catching daily. At least you have to go somewhere for Moonshroud now. Alliance mages would just portal to Darnassus and more or less land right in the Moonwell.

I'm actually surprised at how few people realized that tailoring was a mass money maker for the first month of LK. Let me explain.

On Kilrogg Server
15 Frostweave=15-20g
2 Infinite Dust=10g
1 Bolt of Imbued Frostweave=45+g.

In one week I started out at roughly 150g, and by the end of the week had 4k from simply making the imbued. And prices for the imbued are steadily dropping, and so are the mats to make it. Meaning that my profit margin is large enough so that when I go back to buy materials to skill-up my Tailoring, I was in fact making twice as much as I would have with the initial materials I sold (100% production increase)

However, on my server, the prices have altered slightly in the past week, making my method more or less useless from here on out (We'll see) but I still made more than enough gold to cover myself for a while (And the occasional gold scrap for training etc.)

I am still doing this, mats for NW bags now cost 3g50 - 5g50 depending how much cloth is on AH and bags are selling for 10G - 15g thats 5-10g profit per bag and I can often shift a stack of 12 once or twice a day depending how long I have to spend putting stuff up.

I was disappointed in the new patterns as well but I am still making my money from it.

Edited, Jan 9th 2009 6:17am by Kanngarnix