Is it just me or does Tailoring seem like it’s in a funk? I’ve seen several long time fellow tailors drop the profession over the past few months. We were chatting about Tailoring not long ago in Guild Chat getting varying feedback but predominantly negative. In TBC, many quickly leveled enchanting to 375 for the crafted sets that could be made, making demand for specialty cloth strong. The cool down is 4 days which really got me scratching my head thinking reducing the CD to 1 day is probably a needed change. It’s simply overlooked due to lack of QQ.
More than likely Tailors saw the grass so green in other professions such as Inscriptions or Jewlcrafting and switched. Chances are the lack of complaints were due to the fact that players had another profession to generate income and didn’t care. Maybe Blizzard just overlooked the fact that Tailoring is turning into Engineering (less the cool toys?)
Sure there were some positives, just like every other profession at the start of an expansion, a free leg enchant is nice. But each profession balances and scales over time. As a Profession-a-holic, I really feel like this may have been the profession most untended to in WoTLK. I say this because if you’re going to remove the cool down to Transmute Titanium, why not reduce the cool down on specialty cloth to 1 day.
A reduction in the CD will not cause a price drop in the specialty cloth in the Auction House, the cost of materials is the primary driver. If you change the cool down and reduce the amount of specialty cloth you need for the starter epic items, you’ll be able to increase the demand for that cloth. As a result you may actually raise the price for specialty cloth but in contrast you’ll see the price for the items crafted with that cloth decrease.
For example, I have a mage that I’m casually leveling to 80 on the side. When I get to 80 I’m still not inclined to fork up 1000 gold to pick up the 3 piece Spellweave crafted items, I mean there’s not even a set bonus. If the price for that set was between 500 to 600 gold I’d say sure why not, but I’m not dumping 1K gold for a 3 i200 level items with some many places in WoTLK to grab gear even if I’m still wearing blues, I can chain Trials of the Chamipons, hit the 5 mans and pick up i245 level gear. I won’t wear that gear long enough to justify a 1000 gold investment, it’s not must have gear to access content like it was in TBC.
What do you think?
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by Simes, on November 13 2009 @ 9:24 am
There is one good reason for tailoring still – Lightweave Embroidery is the BiS cloak enchant for most casters still. It procs pretty often (50% apparently, 45s internal cooldown) and 295 spell power for 15s is very nice indeed. Works out to be on average additional 74 spell power.
by charlie, on November 13 2009 @ 12:25 pm
I absolutely agree. The 4 day cooldown and the 3g eternium thread requirement to make items both hamstring tailoring compared to any other profession.
by Anthony, on November 13 2009 @ 3:51 pm
I dropped tailoring myself at lvl 445 but ended up picking it back up after taking a look at some of the tailoring patterns on the Test Server. According to some websites that focus on max dps, there seems to be patterns floating around the test server that are next to BiS. Might be a boost to the tailoring profession.