made some 111 DH speed twinks on 2 accounts for farming BoT trash. Recently I made one of them a tailor to farm extra cloth but the cloth scavenging passive doesnt seem to be working so I did some testing.
Both are farming 25 man normal doing speed clears of the first trash room.
10 resets per session 5 sessions total for 50 clears per character. These are the results
Non-Tailor l Tailor
1st run 252 l 280
2nd run 242 l 239
3rd run 216 l 240
4th run 250 l 264
5th run 277 l 246
50 clears 1237 l 1269
The tailor is only level 1 tailoring in everything with cloth scavenging trained. Is there a profession level requirement as well as having it trained? If so which category? 32 cloth difference over 50 runs is pretty small and well within statistical variance. I have tried researching this but a lot of the information is out of date and conflicting. Does anyone have a concrete answer as to the requirements for scavenging in old content in 8.3?
UPDATE: So after much testing it seems that while simply having level 1 tailoring + scavenging is enough to affect at least some other xpacs ( I only tested BFA and Northrend) Embersilk in Cataclysm is only affected by scavenging if you max Northrend tailoring which seems rather odd.