Guide to Leveling Tailoring and Making Gold in Shadowlands
This page covers everything you need to know about leveling Tailoring in the Shadowlands expansion from 1-100, as well as how to make gold with the profession.
Changes to Tailoring in Shadowlands
One of the core new systems being introduced in Shadowlands is the Legendary Crafting system. Similar to the Legion Legendary system, everyone will eventually be able to craft and equip a legendary item on your character once you have the required components. There are several components required to craft a legendary item, one of which is a piece of armor or jewelry created through a crafting profession. Tailoring is used to craft all of the cloth armor pieces.
It is important to note — while these crafted armor pieces are required to create a legendary item, they are not soul-bound. This means that you can buy them on the auction house or get someone else to craft them for you. However, they require lots of materials to make and may be extremely expensive in the first few weeks of Shadowlands. This also means that if you are a Tailor, Shadowlands launch could be an opportunity to make lots of Gold if you focus on crafting the right legendary pieces early.
Additionally, tailoring offers an excellent set of starter gear, better than the equivalent that you could make in BfA or Legion. As a Tailor, you can create a full set of 151 item level gear, which is good enough to do heroic dungeons with. This is the easiest and best option for gearing your character immediately upon reaching level 60 since you will instantly be dungeon ready.
Leveling Tailoring from 1-100 in Shadowlands
Leveling from 1-100 in Shadowlands Tailoring is extremely easy and quite cheap. Everyone will get lots of cloth just from questing and killing enemies while leveling from 50-60, so you should have ample cloth to buy on the auction house even in the first few days of the expansion. Below is the easiest way to go about leveling from 1-100.
1-100 Crafting List
- 1-15: ~17x
Shrouded Cloth Bandage — 17x
Shrouded Cloth
- 15-31: 8x
Shrouded Cloth Cape — 32x
Shrouded Cloth, 8x
Penumbra Thread
- 31-37: 2x
Shrouded Cloth Hood — 12x
Shrouded Cloth, 2x
Penumbra Thread
- 37-40: 1x
Shrouded Cloth Spaulders — 6x
Shrouded Cloth, 2x
Penumbra Thread
- 40-65: ~30x
Heavy Shrouded Cloth Bandage — 60x
Shrouded Cloth
- 65-71: 3x
Shadowlace Cord — 60x
Shrouded Cloth, 12x
Lightless Silk, 9x
Penumbra Thread
- 71-75: 4x
Shadowlace Handwraps — 80x
Shrouded Cloth, 16x
Lightless Silk, 24x
Penumbra Thread
- 75-87: 4x
Shadowlace Cowl— 100x
Shrouded Cloth, 20x
Lightless Silk, 24x
Penumbra Thread
- 87-90: 1x
Shadowlace Tunic — 30x
Shrouded Cloth, 6x
Lightless Silk, 10x
Penumbra Thread
- 90-96: 2x
Shadowlace Trousers — 60x
Shrouded Cloth, 12x
Lightless Silk, 20x
Penumbra Thread
- 96-100: 2x
Shadowlace Mantle — 50x
Shrouded Cloth, 10x
Lightless Silk, 20x
Penumbra Thread
In total for 1-100, this comes out to 507x Shrouded Cloth, 76x
Lightless Silk,
and 119x
Penumbra Thread. If you level from 50-60 by questing first, you can
probably expect to get at least half of this yourself during that time.
Making Gold with Tailoring in Shadowlands
Tailoring offers some excellent ways of making Gold, particularly in the beginning of the expansion. The best ways are outlined below.
Legendary Crafting
This is by far the biggest benefit to having Tailoring in Shadowlands. As I mentioned above, in Shadowlands you can craft legendary items. For more information on how to craft these items, check out the guide linked below.
One of the required components for forging a legendary is that you need a crafted piece of gear of the appropriate rank as a template of sorts to craft your legendary item with. These are specific items, and for Tailoring these are the "Grim-Veiled armor pieces". Players will want specific armor pieces because legendary power can only be utilized in specific gear slots depending on the legendary, meaning not everyone will want the same pieces.
- Helm —
Grim-Veiled Hood: 55x
Shrouded Cloth, 20x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 12x
Orboreal Shard
- Pants —
Grim-Veiled Pants: 55x
Shrouded Cloth, 20x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 12x
Orboreal Shard
- Chest —
Grim-Veiled Robe: 55x
Shrouded Cloth, 20x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 12x
Orboreal Shard
- Shoulders —
Grim-Veiled Spaulders: 45x
Shrouded Cloth, 15x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 10x
Orboreal Shard
- Boots —
Grim-Veiled Sandals: 45x
Shrouded Cloth, 15x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 10x
Orboreal Shard
- Gloves —
Grim-Veiled Mittens: 45x
Shrouded Cloth, 15x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 10x
Orboreal Shard
- Belt —
Grim-Veiled Belt: 45x
Shrouded Cloth, 15x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 10x
Orboreal Shard
- Bracers —
Grim-Veiled Bracers: 35x
Shrouded Cloth, 10x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 8x
Orboreal Shard
- Cloak —
Grim-Veiled Cape: 35x
Shrouded Cloth, 10x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, 8x
Orboreal Shard
The best pieces to craft early are going to be the Helm and the Chest, so Grim-Veiled Hood
and
Grim-Veiled Robe. These should be the most desired pieces initially since
Mages, Warlocks, and healing Priests can all use one these slots for their BiS legendary powers. In general more people will want
the pieces that offer the most stats, meaning Helms, Chests, Pants, and Shoulders. If you can craft
these early on to put on the auction house, you should be able to charge a decent amount of gold
for eager players looking to quickly get a legendary item.
Legendary Item Ranks
Legendary items can be crafted in ranks. Higher ranks of legendary items require more materials to craft, but will be higher item level and thus will give more stats. You will learn the rank 1 patterns from the Tailoring trainer, and from there you can earn higher ranks of specific armor pieces by crafting multiple copies of the previous rank until you have enough "experience" that you will automatically be given the next rank. Overall, you need to earn 225 total "experience" in a specific slot to learn how to craft the rank 4 version of that piece of gear, which is the highest rank in the first tier of Shadowlands. Each new rank requires 75 experience in the previous rank, which equates to 15 crafts per rank.
- You start with Rank 1 of a recipe from your Trainer.
- To learn Rank 2, you must craft 15x of the Rank 1 pattern.
- To learn Rank 3, you must craft 15x of the Rank 2 pattern.
- To learn Rank 4, you must craft 15x of the Rank 3 pattern.
This rank up process has to be done for every piece of gear that you want to craft higher ranks for. As you can see, this requires lots of materials, and if you wanted to learn the rank 4 pattern for every single slot you are talking about thousands of materials, which will take significant time and gold.
Starter Gear
Tailors can also craft excellent starter gear for fresh level 50 and 60 characters. The level 50
gear is the "Shrouded Cloth" set of gear that ranges from item level 99 to 129, such as the Shrouded Cloth Robe.
The level 60 gear is the "Shadowlace" set of item level 151 gear, such as the
Shadowlace Tunic.
The Shadowlace gear specifically will be quite popular at the start of Shadowlands since it is
the best way for fresh characters to become geared enough for heroic dungeons. For making
gold, you could sell full sets of the item level 151 Shadowlace gear early on to newly leveled characters,
which would be in high demand.
- To craft a full set of 99-129 item level Shrouded Cloth armor (9 pieces), you would need
48x
Shrouded Cloth, 12x
Penumbra Thread
- To craft a full set of 151 item level Shadowlace armor (9 pieces), you would need
195x
Shrouded Cloth, 39x
Enchanted Lightless Silk, and 64x
Penumbra Thread
Additionally, you can learn how to make Crafter's Mark I. Crafter's Marks
are optional reagents for when you craft armor than can upgrade the armor depend on the rank of the mark
and the item level of the crafted item. There are four ranks of Crafter's Marks.
Crafter's Mark I is learned from the Blacksmithing Trainer in Oribos.
Crafter's Mark II is bought from Venari in The Maw.
Crafter's Mark III is bought from Archivist Janeera, the Revendreth Quartermaster. This requires Revered.
Crafter's Mark IV is currently unknown.
Bags
There are two new bags craftable with Shadowlands Tailoring, the Shrouded Cloth Bag
and the
Lightless Silk Pouch. These are 30 slot and 32 slot bags respectively, which
makes them on par with the best bags you could make with BfA Tailoring, so they are not super
exciting. Chances are they will not sell for much early on, since the materials will be more valuable
than the actual bags themselves. However, later on when the cloth is much cheaper, these might
be more reasonable to craft.
Shrouded Cloth Bag — 20x
Shrouded Cloth, 15x
Penumbra Thread
Lightless Silk Pouch — 15x
Lightless Silk, 25x
Penumbra Thread
Transmogrification
There are probably more unique items that have not been uncovered or farmed yet, but
currently we do know of one. The Pattern: Pink Party Hat is a zone drop
in Maldraxxus, which for just 6x
Shrouded Cloth, 2x
Penumbra Thread,
and 1x
Pink Dye, lets you create a
Pink Party Hat. These
hats are BoE and could be potentially valuable early for anyone after the look.
Changelog
- 24 Nov. 2020: Guide added.
This guide has been written by Impakt, an Officer in BDGG, the #2 North American guild on retail. In addition to live WoW, he has also been a classic theorycrafter and enthusiast for many years. You can watch him stream on Twitch, or follow him on Twitter.
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