Tailoring leveling guide Introduction . This guide will show you how to get your tailoring skill up from 0 to 450 . The guide will use recipes available at a trainer as much as possible . See the preparation section for some exceptions . This guide only uses recipes that require cloth and vendor - bought material ( thread , dye ) . The only exceptions are the vendor bought recipes to get to 375 which require , and . is acquired through skinning , comes from disenchanting green items from Outland , and drops from spiders in Outland . Of course , you can buy these from the Auction House as well . This guide assumes everything you make is sold to a vendor . If you have an enchanter alt , you can send the green items you make to him for disenchanting , however this guide does not combine leveling enchanting and tailoring . This guide also doesn ' t tell you how to make money with tailoring . This guide does not tell you how to get all the different recipes from quests , vendors or drops . What you do once you hit 375 is entirely up to you . This guide is primarily aimed at those who want to switch profession at high level . Side note : If you don ' t want to travel around then the only trainer you need is one of the " Grand Master Tailors " that can be found in the starting areas of Northrend ( see Tailoring trainers for a list ) . They teach all levels of tailoring ( from Apprentice to Grand Master ) , and sell every thread and dye required . Preparation . The recipes used require vendor bought components such as threads and dye . These cost gold . To learn recipes from a trainer also costs gold . The amount of gold needed is approximately if you farm all of the cloth . If you want to buy everything you need from the auction house , expect to spend upwards to to get tailoring to 300 and an additional to get your skill up to 375 . This does not include gold for recipes from vendors or the auction house . You are going to need a lot of and , huge amounts of , and and an insane amount of . Below is a table that shows the amount of cloth needed . The minimum amount column shows the minimum amount needed if you would get a skill point every time you make something . However , at some point a recipe will be yellow or even green when you make something , so you won ' t always get a skill point . The estimated amount column deals with this , so try to get the estimated amount of cloth . If you are buying all the cloth you need from the auction house , get the minimum amount and only buy more when needed . This guide uses trainer - available recipes , because they are the easiest to get . However , sometimes vendor - bought or dropped recipes are needed or simply cheaper to use , so there are some exceptions . Below is a table with those exceptions . Check the Auction House for the dropped recipes . The vendor for the and recipes belongs to the Scryers faction . However , the recipes are not BoP , so ask a guild member or friend to buy them for you if you are Aldor . You can also buy the recipes if you haven ' t made a choice yet and are still neutral to both . Getting from 1 to 50 . Getting from 1 to 50 is easy enough . turns yellow at 25 , green at 37 , and gray at 50 . Since you ' re going to need quite a few bolts , making these will easily get you to 50 skill . Skilling up past 50 requires at least 75x , so make those first and set those aside . If you haven ' t reached 50 yet , make a and then a . The will give a skill point . Repeat this until 50 . Once you hit 50 , talk to the trainer to become Journeyman Tailor . You have to be level 10 to become Journeyman Tailor . Getting from 50 to 125 . Use the bolts set aside earlier to make to get from 50 to 75 . There are two other recipes that can be used to get from 50 to 75 : the and the . These recipes are cheaper in components than the , but since the bag sells for more silver at a vendor ( for the bag versus for the gloves and for the cape ) and you made a ton of bolts to get to 50 anyway , making the bags and vendoring them will help you recoup a little bit more of the cost . At 75 , you can learn , which turns gray at 105 . To get from 105 to 125 , you need at least 50x . If you haven ' t reached 105 , make a and then make a until you do reach 105 . Now use the 50x made earlier and make until 115 , and to get from 115 to 125 . Once you hit 125 , talk to the trainer to become Expert Tailor . You have to be level 20 to become Expert Tailor . Getting from 125 to 200 . At 125 , you can make , which turns gray at 145 . Since you ' re going to need at least 195 bolts to continue skilling up , you should easily reach 145 . If you ' re a decently high level ( 60 - 70 ) you can farm silk VERY quickly in the Scarlet Monastery Dungeon ( the last room is the fastest and easiest , I find ) ; about 2 - 3 stacks of silk per run . Now make to get from 145 to 160 , to get from 160 to 170 , and to get from 170 to 175 . At 175 , you can make , which turns gray at 185 . To continue skilling up , you will need at least 90 bolts , so making these should easily get you to 185 . Now back to silk . Make to get from 185 to 200 . Once you hit 200 , talk to the trainer to become Artisan Tailor . You have to be level 35 to become Artisan Tailor . Getting from 200 to 275 . First , make to get from 200 to 205 , and to get to 215 . Make to get to 225 . Make to get from 225 to 235 and or to get from 235 to 250 . At 250 , make until it turns gray at 260 . Use these to make , which turns yellow at 270 , so you should be able to reach 275 using this recipe . " Note : disenchants well , so if you have disenchanting resources available , this is a good opportunity to recoup some costs . " Once you hit 275 , you will need to speak with the trainers in Outland to become a Master Tailor . You have to be level 50 to become Master Tailor . See Tailoring Trainers for the names and locations . Getting from 275 to 350 . Make to get to 280 , then make to get to 300 . " Note - - if you value more than , you can start making at 275 instead of the bags . Also , for those who do not have access to a character with skinning , it may be cheaper to create as it requires instead of leather which tends to be a considerably cheaper option on most servers . Likewise , if you are also leveling enchanting , both and disenchant into . Making the gloves and / or cloaks instead of the bags will give you a head start on the approximately 290 required to go from enchanting skill level 245 - 290 . " At 300 , make , which turns gray at 325 . You are going to need at least 430 bolts to get to 360 , so this should get you to 325 just fine . At 325 , you can make , which becomes gray at 340 . You are going to need at least 90 bolts to eventually get to 375 , so make those . If you are not at 340 , make some more bolts until you are . The bolts are needed in most high - level tailoring recipes , so they are not wasted . However , if you do not want to make more bolts than needed for this guide , make for those last points to 340 instead . Make to get to 350 . Getting from 350 to 375 . " Note - - If you have Wrath of the Lich King , go to one of the Northrend ports to learn Grandmaster tailoring . Then finish leveling to 375 with Bolt of Frostweave . This recipe will turn gray at 375 but it will not go to waste . Make to get to 360 . Make or to get to 375 . Congratulations , you now have 375 skill in tailoring . A couple of nice money savers : An alternative if you ' re just trying to get to 350 , for / etc , do the following . You should make a lot of imbued netherweave for skillups , as you will need 3 every 4 days to make your / etc . . . , so even though it ' s expensive , you need it anyway . This also lets you wait a week or two and make cloth to get from 350 to 360 , saving you some other funds . " Note - - Some will find real viability in making the Netherweave Bag in place of the Netherweave Boots depending on the value of the Knothide Leather and Netherweave Bag on your realm . Another good way to get your skill from 350 to 375 , if you aren ' t in a rush , is building the Arcanoweave set . These recipes ( are BoP drops in Tempest Keep : Arcatraz and Mechanar . They seem to be hard on the but they don ' t use , so they ' re actually a lot easier on the pocketbook . Getting from 350 / 375 to 425 . This will require about x2000 ( 100 stacks ) or x395 if you are purchasing them directly . Getting from 425 to 450 . This is for people who do not have Cataclysm . It will require an additional 100 stacks of to complete . Getting from 450 to 525 . Cataclysm is required to continue past 450 . High level WLK recipes will provide skill level - ups past 450 with Cataclysm . Some Cataclysm recipes will increase skill more than one level . The following list of Cataclysm items can be crafted .