Can this set be used by non-tailors?
Just curious if I’d have to pick up tailoring to get it or if I could run alchemy instead
It’s BoP, and requires Shadoweave Tailoring. No, you must be that specialty of Tailoring to create and wear it.
Theoretically you could drop it after crafting and equipping them (assuming that it doesn’t auto-unequip, which I don’t believe it does), but that’s a huge waste.
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You’d be surprised the lengths people will go to for the min-max meta. From what I remember of TBC, there will be plenty of getting a profession to max, creating specific items and then dropping it entirely for a different profession just to repeat the same process. All in the name for that 1% extra damage during raid encounters.
Oh I did not know it’s BoP. I’m used to the retail version that’s not
Well guess I have to decide between tailoring and alchemy then 
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Enchanting is a possibility for the ring enchants, but you could do it with Tailoring if you don’t plan to have multiple sets - but let’s be honest, many people will.
Tailoring is better to have for raiding, but Alchemy is nice too. What were you looking to use it for? Making your own consumables, or making money?
Probably both.
I was thinking that tailoring sets are nice, but they’ll probably be overshadowed by raids sets, where as alchemy is always useful
Both make money, but alchemy would also nearly eliminate my own consumable costs 
I’m really torn now
I feel like as a warlock (displayed on your info here), Tailoring is a must. Since you can get the best items from Tailoring before T5 and probably won’t be fully replaced until T6. Also, you need it to craft and use the best chest cloth (pattern bop but item BOE i remember? Also need to have tailoring to make it work) from Sunwell.
Unless you are playing shadow priest it’s not that good. No hit, no crit. Pure spell damage.
I am maining a warlock for TBC. I didn’t know the sets lasted so long. Gotten too used to retail where crafted gear is a waste lol.
I also just remembered tailoring can craft soul Shard bags. I completely forgot those
What about affliction PvP? Is it better than PvP sets?
I was mostly thinking it would be really good for PvP. I plan on raiding mainly, but PvP in my off time, so I thought it would be a good set to get for that, but would also carry me through early raids
No. There is no resilience. Plus the frozen shadowweave set has next to no stam and int. It’s the ultimate in glass cannon gear for shadow priests.
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Not for warlocks. In fact it’s pretty much only true for spriests. Warlocks go the destro/demo build as soon as they have the hit rating for it and crush affliction dps.
Well that kind of eliminates my entire reason for tailoring 
Guess I’ll be running alchemy for TBC
Thank you for the insight.
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Glad I could help.
Pretty rare. I remember exactly 2 instances where that was ever even moderately worth it… The ring enchants once you got your BIS rings, and the SWP Engi goggles.
You don’t plan to drop a prof and level JC to socket your rings every time you get a new one, just to drop JC and level Ench to enchant that ring? Because I know there are players already stockpiling to do exactly that sort of profession swapping.
That is going to be the new profession meta along with drums, or maybe in place of, depending on the changes made to drums.
Frozen shadoweave boots are bis and hard to,replace, and you need tailoring 350 to get the set bonus from spellstrike. Tailoring is still probably worth having for those reasons if raiding is your primary activity.
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In tbc all of the profession BoP/profession required items will auto unequip if you no longer have the profession. For warlocks the frozen shadoweave boots will be BiS until tier 6. You’ll want to keep your tailoring at least until you get there. But the cooldowns (once you’ve crafted your shadoweave/spellstrike/mooncloth set) will be very valuable for almost the entire expansion. Idk why you’d want to get rid of tailoring.
The only instance I’d suggest dropping tailoring is if you’re in ful sunwell BiS and want to get the BoP jewelcrafting gems that are unique-equipped, and you also want your BiS rings to be enchanted, and the. You want to pvp with the engineering helmet.you’d have to make a compromise somewhere. In this scenario if you’re minmaxxing that hard we’re going to assume your first profession is leatherworking for drums. So I’d drop tailoring for enchanting. Level it to get the ring enchants, drop it to get jewelcrafting for the gems, and then drop it to get engineering and level it up for your stealth detection helmet. This would be the way to go but it would be insanely expensive. I for sure would never do it without having the game BiS gear.
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