Hello all you budding tailors out there, this is a guide from 0 to 225 tailoring in under 12 hours without spending a single dime (should even come out a bit ahead). This came about as a way for my retired priest to generate some money since skinning was doing me no good sitting in IF all day. I decided to make a guide out of this and set a few goals for myself at the same time. I betmyself I could get to 150 in 6 hrs TOTAL time including collecting the mats. That worked out so well, I figured I'd go for 225 in 8 hours (that didnt work out so well because of the MASSIVE amounts of silk needed). This is equally friendly for BOTH factions.

There are some prerequisits so lets start there shall we?

REQUIRED

High level main (preferabley 60)
Alt that is at least 20 (your tailor)
12 hours of play time

MY SET UP

60 Rogue main (farmer)
45 Priest (tailor)
My rogue is also an enchanter for DEing all the green drops to save on bag space/down time.

THE STRAT

0-120 minutes

I started out in The Barrens at Agama Gor grinding on level 17-20 Bristlebacks. I chose here becasue of the sheer numbers of mobs in a reletively small area. Also, because of their level, I knew they would drop both linen AND wool. This proved to be a huge key in the success of this strat. I stayed here for exactly 2 hours with about 15 minutes of AFK for bathroom, booze and kids. In 105 minutes of solid grinding I collected the following items.

gold: 1g 43s
Cloth: 7.11 stacks
Wool: 6.15 stacks
Greens: 17
Patterns: 3 (including elixir of giant growth formula..sells for about 30g on my server to alliance)
DE: 22 soul dust, 9 greater magic essence, 1 sm glimmering shard, 2 lesser astral essence

120-140 minutes

IF to empty bags and send cloth/wool to tailor

140-200 minutes

Raven Hill Cemetary ***NOTE: it was a mistake to come here, very inefficient
I just did repeated laps in the catacombs killing alll the level 26-30 undead in there. I ran into some competition which slowed me down a bit so I left after only an hour.

gold: 1g 89s
Wool: 2.1 stacks
Silk: 3.10 stacks
Greens: 8
DE: 3 greater astral essence, 4 greater magic essence, 8 soul dust, 2 moonstone

Not happy with my silk production I headed to STV since it was close by. Here I found silk heaven.

200-320 minutes

Ruins of Zul' Kunda (just West of Nessingwary's Expedition)

This place is just huge and crawling with level 33-36 trolls who are silk machines. I stayed here for about 2 hours like I did in The Barrens and it paid off nicely.

gold: 2g 78s
Wool: 2.2 stacks
Silk: 7.2 stacks
Greens: 2
DE: 3 lesser mystic essence

320-330 minutes

IF to send wool/silk and log for the evening. So in 5 1/2 hours I collected the following items

Cloth: 7.11 stacks
Wool: 10.17 stacks
Silk: 10.12 stacks of silk
Greens: 27

330-400 minutes

Crafting at IF and SW

At around 160 or 165 two things became GLARINGLY aparent. 1: the silk part of tailor SUCKS and 2: I needed more silk. Back to the rogue I went and back to STV for more trolls.

400-460 minutes

Ruins of Zul' Kunda (part 2)
Wool: 1.1stacks
Silk: 5.5 stacks
Greens: 0

460-610 minutes

Hoping that was enough silk to get me to mageweave (it was…barely) I headed off to Tanaris for some Ogre raping. Dune Maul Ogres level 45-47 for decent mageweave producers but Im sure there is a better source out there. In just under 2.5 hours of grinding them I came up with the following goodies.

Silk:2.18 stacks
Mageweave: 5.17 stacks
Greens: 2
DE: 1 greater eternal essence, 2 lesser eternal essence

Then I packed it in and headed to IF to mail the stuff and log.

The last little bit of time I spent was crafting (about 1 hour) and it took me right up to 225 with a few scraps of wool, silk and mageweave left over. Total time: Approximately 11 hours and 45 minutes.

Now for the grind portion. What good is a collecting strat without a grind strat to go with it. I tried to always grind on orange items for the skill up and as I got into silk I made sure to always (when possible) craft green items for DE purposes. Here is the list.

1-35: bolt of linen cloth
35-45: linen cloak
45-60: heavy linen gloves
60-82: reinforced linen cap
82-103: bolt of wool cloth
103-110: grey wool ? (I didn't write it down…lol)
110-118: woolen cape
118-125: white woolen dress
125-145: Bolt of silk cloth
145-157: Azure silk hood
160-170: silk headband
170-175: formal white shirt
175-185: bolt of mageweave
185-205: green silken shoulders
205-220: black mageweave legs
220-225: black mageweave gloves

And there you have it. 0-225 tailoring in under 12 hours and it didn't cost a dime. In fact, if you include all the stuff I DE'd I MADE about 30g profit from the grind.

ENJOY!!