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.
Hi this is totally random but you seem like someone who knows what they’re talking about lol.
I’m really lost at what specialization to go at this point of the expac. I’ve only just returned and have just got my tailoring to 50, but I’m scared to invest in the wrong spec lol because people are going in about how important it is to choose one.
I’m pretty much a fresh 80 but have acquired the catch up gear which outlevels the tailoring stuff so far. I kind of want bags but I kind of want gold too lmao. I also may or may not focus on raiding or mythic next season lmao. Any advice??
I have looked up on google and I seem to be torn a million different ways by people saying such and such is best lol. I’m a holy priest if that matters and she’s going to be my main.
You don’t need to be scared to pick a specialization. There are plenty of catch up points available at this point in time, so even if you pick something “wrong” you can quickly “fix” it. I put quotes because most things are useful, so it’s not “wrong”, just maybe not what you need at the moment.
That said, why are there a million guides all saying different things? It’s because what you put points in depends on what you want to do with the profession.
Since you’re looking for gold, there are a couple of things you can sell.
- Bags (not the specialized ones, just the plain old bags) sell regularly
- Cloth: weavercloth, dawnweave, and duskweave sells regularly
- Spellthread: these are leg enchants for intellect users. This was my main money maker on my tailor, but now it is a more competitive market than at the beginning of the expansion.
- Consecrated Cuffs (cloth wrists), Consecrated Cloak sell regularly as well
All of these things are also personally useful to you as a cloth + int user.
Here are some things to consider:
- Bags have no quality, so all you need is the recipe to get started making them. You don’t need to worry about points in whatever specialization at all. The only thing you need to get is 20 points in “from Dawn to Dusk” to get at the recipes and you are good to go.
- Getting even 1 point in “from Dawn to Dusk” will unlock one of the types of cloth to drop, so you could just put a single point in that and make gold from the special cloth drops.
- If you want to really lean into gathering cloth, you’ll want to put points into Quality Fabric (30 points) and Textile Treasures (30 points).
- If you want to make spellthread, there is a hidden 30 bonus skill point gain in Quality Fabric node 25. (It’s probably a bug.) If you want to make spellthread, you will gain more points by getting to Quality Fabric 25 than you will by actually filling the entire circle for spellthread. It also gives you the tailoring bag recipe at the same time.
- If you want to go for the wrists, just be aware there is a lot of competition in this space. For this, go for Threads of Devotion–>Making a Statement–>Armbands. Each circle is the same number of skill points (55 points). However, you want to finish “Making a Statement” point 30 first. This will allow you to use “Artisan Authenticity” finishing reagents to bypass the need to have max tools.
- Preserving Embroidery thread, which requires only one point in “Additional Embroidery” continues to give skill after the other basic recipes stop. It will get you to 65 tailoring. To unlock it, all you need to do is unlock “Quality Fabric” then “Additional Embroidery”.
- From 65 you can level with bags. You can also take advantage of patron orders that ask for spark recipes.
- FREE KP: there are 2 treasures in each zone which give knowledge points (kp). Collect all 8.
- you can buy kp for 200, 300, and 400 artisan’s acuity at the Artisan’s Consortium
- You can buy kp for 565 kej in the City of Threads.
If you are going into cloth collecting here is some data. With Quality Fabric(30) and Textile Treasures(30) and duskweave and dawnweave unlocked:
Follower dungeons drop cloth:
The rookery: 6 cloth/min
The stonevault: 3 cloth/min
Priory of the Sacred Flame: 7.8 cloth/min
Ara-kara: 4.4 cloth/min
Darkflame Cleft: 3.7 cloth/min BUT if you just do the beginning before boss 1 it goes up to 12.3 cloth/min; the last part drops nothing so it drags down the average
Cinderbrew Meadery: 0 cloth/min ← hardly any drops at all, don’t go there!
Open world cloth gathering: 7.5 cloth/min
This rate is based on how fast you can kill humanoids. Since you’re a holy priest, follower dungeons will probably be easier to collect cloth in.
What I would recommend is:
- Unlock Quality Fabric, but do not put points in it yet. This will allow you to unlock Additional Embroidery and get you to 65 by spamming that recipe.
- Go get the treasures
- Get the 300 artisan acuity kp item from the Artisan’s Consortium. Learn it and it will refund some of that acuity. With the refunded acuity and a few patron orders you should be able to get the 200 artisan acuity kp item as well.
- Get the kp from the City of Threads. It is called “And That’s a Web-Wrap!”
- Figure out what YOU want to do with tailoring, not some guide. Then put points into the trees mentioned above. Remember that if you’re “wrong” it doesn’t take that long to fix things.
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