Tailoring and ...Follow

i wana go mage meaning that it will be better for me to go tailoring because i cant wear leather.

what proffesion goes well with tailoring?

im slightly unwilling to go enchant because from what ive heard it takes more money and time than the others,but if it is the best couple with tailoring i will.

or should i go herb/alch? would that be a good choice for a mage?


Edited, Apr 11th 2007 9:13am by reacata

lol okies!
thanks! i'll keep it in mind ^^

wonder if it is actually worth going skinning...how often will i need leather in my iteams??...and will i still be able to wear things that have been made out of leather? will they come up as cloth or leather??

is skinning better than enchanting?

k lol let me refrase, which would be better with tailoring... im thinking enchanting atm....

to be able to make good quality cloth armour for myself and to be able to make things that will help other people. making a bit of money would be a bonus and doesnt matter as much to me.

I am Enchant/Tailor and I love the combo. AND YES - d/e if done correctly makes really good money!!

I enjoy tailoring just for the simple fact of handing stuff out to lower toons that might need it. Heck I have even crafted items then d/e them. Then I sell the mats and make money....lol I have been a tailor for about a week and half and have made it to lvl 120. The mats are, so far, very easy to come by and fairly cheap if you need to AH them.

But as far as another prof - check your AH. See what is selling and how much? Supply and demand. My server is overrun with leather and some mining mats, so I steared away from them.

But from what I have heard in my AH is that the 16 slot bags sell for about 10g-14g apiece. Not sure if that is good price but guildies were talking about how good a deal that was.

Last one: Really good bonus too - It is nice to be able to enchant myself and guildies when I have my own mats. You would be suprised how hard you are to deal with when you have +stamina, or +intellect on different items.

I actually leveled my Warlock up to 70 with no professions but Tailoring and First Aid, and I still kept up some good cash, how ? by following the simple laws of "farming it yourself" and "only buying real bargains".

Little more than a week ago I finally decided on my 2nd profession, decided against engineering and finally got me the tipical enchanting.
And so there I went, a level 70 cruising RFC, WC, SFK, RFK, SM, RFD, Uldaman and ZF for disenchants, sometimes I even invited guildies over for a nice rush through the instance, and they were very appreciative even thought I took most of the crap drops they got some nices blues and a heck load of exp on short notice ^_^
And not only have I leveled enchanting fairly easily with BoP's, I also used some of the cloth to make even more stuff to disenchant, and I made some money by selling items and world drops I got while running the instances, as well as selling out the enchanting mats I had stacked and had leveled out of usefulness.

So here I stand, 257 enchanting and nearly 200 gold richer, and still rising :P

i'd say Tailor/Enchanter or Tailor/Alchemist

if you have a farm bot you can get the Herbs and make your own raid flasks and potions... comes great in those hard instances and groups and everyone loves health pots

as for the comment on Tailoring being a dead sink.... there is no way it's a money sink Frozen Shadoweave Set can only be made and worn by a Shadowcloth Tailor and by far one of the best Ice Mage/Shadow Priest Sets

also Spellstrike Girdle of Ruination are simply amazing for casters all are made by tailors .. so you don't need to collect the mats pay someone for the nether and then pay them for the crafting fee..

imo you save yourself 2-3k gold there

Tailoring and enchanting is a good choice. Focus first on using all your spare cloth to level tailoring as high as you can get it. Then you will still get tons of cloth, use this to make more green gear, which you disenchant into mats. Use some to level your enchanting, and sell the rest on the auction house. While you're at the auction house, search for cheap deals on cloth, use this to repeat the cycle, or further level your tailoring. If you have more gold/silver, find cheap greens to bid on, disenchant those, and sell or level your enchanting more. I started a fresh mage and warlock on a new server, the mage is herb/alch, the warlock is tailoring/enchanting. I had no high level toons to give me gold, I started from 0. All my herbs go to the bank (saving for later potions), or I immediately make potions. All my gold is coming from the warlocks tailoring/enchanting. I'm level 14 warlock/13 mage and I have 36 gold purely from the tailoring / enchanting / disenchanting / auction house combo.

The disenchanting is especially profitable for me on level 1-15 greens. I'm stuck now because wool costs alot on that server (about 15 silver for a stack of linen, and over a gold for a stack of wool).


3 stacks of linen makes me 10 green robes. Even if I sold the cloth for 20 silver (high average), thats only 60 silver. I often buy it for that much. Now I disenchant the robes, and get a combination of strange dust and lesser magic essence. Usually I do it in higher volume, I spend about 2 gold on cloth, make 30-40 robes, and wind up with 3 stacks of strange dust (1.5 gold each), 1 stack of lesser magic essence (2.25 gold) and the odd small shard (25-35 silver). The mats cost nothing to list, and 95% of the time sell overnight. Meanwhile I'm bidding like crazy on any cheap greens. Its too tough to list the right prices for everything, but I have a system. Some days I target essences, so I go after weapons in the 1-10, and 11-15 categories. Other days I target dust, so I do the same with armor, and of course spend less per bid. Generally I'm willing to bid up to 20-25 silver on weapons (30 on 11-15 weps) and up to 12 silver on green armor.

Yes it takes extra work, but I like making my own gear. I'm making pretty nice money off it, and I dont have to rely selling my herbs for money. So both my mage and warlock are outfitted in nicer gear then most toons that level, both with enchants on their stuff, and we both get to use nice grinding potions like +armor and +health regen. I also make a ton of wizard oils for grinding, so I get the extra spell damage. I doubt 2 gathering profs would make this much by my level, and even if they did, they would still have to buy gear on the auction house.