I’m shifting to Warlock for my main and don’t intend on focusing too much on making gold with professions, just character progression via gear. I figure Tailoring/Enchanting is the way to go, but for the armor I craft should I only focus on pieces that wouldn’t be replaced by tier set gear? It feels a little wasteful using mats, profession points and gold on shoulder and chest pieces when they can’t be converted for tier set bonuses. Should I even bother with tailoring? Would crafting a nice weapon be a better method to help my character along?
It entirely depends on what level of content and what kind of content you do. If you’re looking for a best in slot list, I suggest looking at a guide or wowhead or a class discord.
In general you should keep 4 of the 5 slots (chest shoulder helm legs hands) for tier. So nobody orders those slots. Have had literally 0 orders. But wrists and cloaks are popular.
Personally I have a hands slot with a crafted piece because I’m not raiding or M+ on my tailor so who cares what I wear?
If you’re not doing M+ or raiding you can wear whatever you want to wear!
Most people have been asking for weapons this season. Warlocks tend to ask for off-hands. A few have asked for staves. Either way that’s inscription. Some ask for 1H swords. That’s blacksmithing.
If you’re new to crafting, I’d advise against tailoring because it doesn’t have as nice a leveling path as other professions.
However it is a good source of passive gold if you just sell the cloth you pick up (I know you said you don’t want gold, but this is completely passive… You just get cloth when you kill stuff)
The tools that tailoring make like the herbalist hat and alchy’s dress also depends on the armor slots. Tailoring doesn’t have a tool wheel anyhow. There’s also the pvp gear. Those aren’t restricted by tiers and even if they get a ilvl upgrade in PvP regardless of quality, some customers still want best quality.
I have filled the whole armor tree eventually but I did focus on the tools slots then the off tiers pieces and then the rest.