World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic - The Best New Recipes For Tailors, Ranked (2024)

In any kind of role-playing game, being able to choose and make a character's wardrobe unique is a popular incentive. World of Warcraft always had a nice selection of both functional and cosmetic clothing, and the Cataclysm expansion added a few more.

Tailoring is one of the primary professions in the land of Azeroth, and this profession uses a mix of textiles and other magical items to make seasonal attire just for fun or best-in-slot gear for the upcoming raid. The best clothes and accessories in Cataclysm are made using the following patterns by Illustrious Grand Master Tailors.

6 Black Embersilk Gown

One Of The Highest Level Cosmetic Patterns

• Regents Needed: 8 x bolts of Embersilk Cloth, 8 x Volatile Fire, 8 x Eternium Thread, 1 Chaos Orb
• Stats: n/a

A lower-ranked item only because it's purely cosmetic, it's one of the most elaborate and difficult to make, and that's not only due to how expensive and rare the materials are. The pattern costs 1 piece of Dreamcloth, which already uses up 8 bolts of Dreamcloth, and at least one other elemental resource, and there's a cooldown time of a whole week to make one.

Embersilk Cloth is a common drop from humanoid enemies level 80 and up, and Volatile Fire is a drop from certain elemental enemies. These resources can also be purchased on the Auction House, but the soulbound Chaos Orb only drops from the last enemy in level 85 Heroic dungeons.

5 Flame-Ascended Pantaloons

Best In Slot Item For Mages And Warlocks

• Regents Needed: 6 x Dreamcloth
• Stats: +512 Stamina, +321 Intellect, +241 Mastery, 1094 Armor, and a yellow gem socket

The Flame-Ascended Pantaloons are one of the best items that DPS-based spellcasters can get in Cataclysm. Since they can be crafted, it's not necessary to run a dungeon or farm certain enemies waiting for them to drop.

What is needed, on the other hand, is some patience. Although only one type of reagent is needed for this pattern, Dreamcloth is expensive and difficult to make, plus there's a 7-day cooldown time on each type of Dreamcloth. If this is available at the Auction House, it always costs at least a few thousand gold.

4 Powerful Ghostly Spellthread

An Essential Enhancement For Spellcasters

• Regents Needed: 1 x Dreamcloth
• Stats: +95 Intellect and +55 Spirit added to pants

The nice thing about this Tailoring recipe is that it's more like an Enchantment spell than a Tailoring pattern. In continuing with the tradition that started with Embroidery in Wrath of the Lich King, spellthread is used to enhance the most important player stats.

Spirit used to be important only for Priests, but some recent changes have made the mana-restoring abilities of this stat useful for Mages, Warlocks, and even Druids and Shamans. Intellect is already an important stat that improves hit rating, so it's essential for Mages and Destruction Warlocks.

3 Belt Of The Depths

A High-Level Item For Mages And Priests

• Regents Needed: 4 x Dreamcloth
• Stats: +38 Stamina, +233 Intellect, +152 Spirit, and a blue gem socket

A best-in-slot for Frost Mages, Shadow Priests, and Demonology Warlocks, the Belt of the Depths is one of the easier recipes to make considering how powerful and expensive it is. Four pieces of Dreamcloth isn't very much, provided the Tailor has all the possible Dreamcloth patterns.

Several different casting classes can benefit from using this belt, and the extra gem socket is always a bonus. It's possible to buy it at the Auction House but it costs several hundred gold.

2 Dream of Destruction

The Dreamcloth Pattern With The Shortest Cooldown

• Regents Needed: 8 x bolts of Embersilk Cloth, 4 x Chaos Orbs
• Stats: n/a

Dreamcloth is one of the most important commodities for Tailors in World of Warcraft. It's used in every high-level recipe, even the enhancements, and is also used as a currency to buy other high-level recipes.

There are a few different ways to make it, but this one takes only a day of cooldown time compared to a whole week for the other recipes. The catch is the Chaos Orbs, which only drop from the final boss of a Heroic dungeon, and are bind-on-pickup so they can't be bought or sold.

1 Illusionary Bag

Nothing Is More Important Than More Storage

• Regents Needed: 8 x Dreamcloth
• Stats: 26 slot bag

At the end of a long day in the battlegrounds or dungeons, what really matters is having enough space to hold all of one's precious and hard-earned items. Higher-level characters have more cool stuff and need more space to store it, which is why this might be the most important pattern a Tailor can learn.

It's also one of the toughest recipes to make, similar to the Embersilk Gown when it comes to the reagents required. It costs one piece of Dreamcloth to buy and eight of them to make it. Eight bolts of Dreamcloth might not seem like a lot, but the wait for each cooldown means this can take almost a whole week to complete.

World of Warcraft

Platform(s)

PC

Released

November 23, 2004

Developer(s)

Blizzard

Genre(s)

MMORPG