Tailoring Guide for Midnight

Like always, Tailoring will be responsible for creating cloth gear for combat, such as Arcanoweave Cloak, and gear for other professions, such as Thalassian Alchemy Coveralls. They can also make cosmetic gear such as Scout's Cape, and some House Decor.

Besides crafting cloth armor and profession gear, Tailors are able to make bags like the Sunfire Silk Backpack, leg enchants for casters and healers, such as Sunfire Silk Spellthread, and powerful embellishments such as Arcanoweave Lining.

Tailors can also learn to loot much more cloth when killing enemies, and gain a chance to loot high Quality cloth through some of their knowledge talents. Finally, they have cooldown cloth transmutes and specialization trees for Arcanoweave Bolt and Sunfire Silk Bolt.

Alliance players can be Kul'Tiran for +2 skill points with Tailoring.

As you need to be a Tailor to loot cloth from enemies, Tailoring also goes well with traditional farmers who can pull and kill high amounts of hyperspawning cloth-rich enemies constantly in a 2x4 group farm format, such as Balance Druids, Guardian Druids or Beast Mastery Hunters!

Tailoring can make great use of all four stats, but you might want to focus on specific stats with different Tailoring specializations. We go into detail with Tailoring stats and the gear you can use to boost them in the specialized guide below:

Increasing your skill is done by crafting items that grant skill points as usual, and in order to be efficient, we recommend trying to get as many first-craft bonuses while leveling as possible, which also grant experience if you are not at maximum level.

Besides learning basic recipes from the trainer, you can also learn extra recipes beyond the profession trainer by buying them with Moxie from reputation vendors and the vendor next to the profession table in Silvermoon. These will grant more first crafts and can occasionally be the most efficient way to level in the later levels.

You will be able to track all weekly and one-time sources of profession knowledge with Myu's Knowledge Points Tracker, which has been converted to an addon in Midnight!

There are also eight treasures around the world that you can loot to gain up to 24 extra knowledge. You can find them all easily in-game with the aforementioned addon.

The best passive option is to max out the Fabric Specialist tree, as the bonuses granted massively increase the amount of cloth you loot and also allow you to loot high Quality cloth occasionally. Pick the Eastern Kingdoms Cloth sub-node if you want to maximize your cloth gathering in the Eversong Woods and Zul'Aman zones, or Otherworldly Cloth if you are instead looking to farm on Harandar or Voidstorm.

Investment into the Nimble Needlework tree is the only way to enable drops of Sunfire Silk and Arcanoweave when killing enemies. This tree also teaches you how to craft some Embellished gear and the cooldown bolts, Arcanoweave Bolt and Sunfire Silk Bolt. While initially you can only accumulate 10 crafts of each and it takes a day for their cooldown to be ready again, you can learn how to accumulate up to 30 crafts and halve the cooldown by fully investing into the leaf nodes.

For cloth gear crafting, profession gear, and cloaks, invest into the Sin'dorei Finery tree, which will increase your skill at these crafts massively and also unlock the generic epic gear recipes with its leaf nodes.

Finally, the Fiber Arts tree is also very valuable for most tailors due to the high stat gains it provides for all tailoring crafts. The Embroidery sub-tree is particularly notable because it grants stats and skill towards the valuable Spellthread and Embellishment crafts despite being in the generic skill tree.

Tailoring allows you to convert cheap cloth into expensive bolts, bags, and crafted gear or leg enchants. High-end gear pieces and bind on pickup profession bags are likely to fetch a good price in the Crafting Orders system, while everything else can be sold at a profit on the auction house.

It is particularly hard to unlock the crafting of Tailoring recipes at maximum natural skill this time because the trees are configured in a way where the skill increasing nodes are randomly located deep into otherwise useless trees, as is the case in the Fabric Specialist tree, which has 15 skill increases, all locked behind large knowledge point investments.

As most Tailoring requirements for natural maximum rank crafting require the usage of maximum rank materials and all knowledge skill increases, a gigantic amount of knowledge is needed in order to unlock the best crafts, which will otherwise be locked behind Concentration usage, providing a great opportunity for gold making early on!

Finally, you can make a lot of passive / farm gold with Tailoring by investing into all the various cloth drop support nodes, as that will cause valuable cloth to drop from whatever enemies you kill during your daily activities.

We have a specialized guide for Midnight gold-making below, which contains a gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!