TBC tailoring leveling planner

How to level tailoring in TBC

TBC Anniversary has 242 crafting recipes here for tailoring, with a maximum skill of 375. 238 recipes have a matching recipe item. 29 require skill 375 or higher, so they do not help you reach that cap.

87 additional tailoring recipes are left out because their learning requirement or availability is not established for TBC. A missing crafting route does not mean you cannot train further in the game.

The starting route uses Linen Cloak, consuming 1 Bolt of Linen Cloth, 1 Coarse Thread per craft. The shopping list counts each ingredient consumed. If you already have Bolt of Linen Cloth in your bags, subtract that stock before buying more.

Recipe colors and material costs

Linen Cloak requires skill 1, turns yellow at 35, green at 47 and gray at 60. Orange grants skill every craft, yellow and green grant skill less reliably, and gray grants none. The green boundary is the midpoint between yellow and gray, rounded down to a whole skill point.

A worked tailoring route

Starting at skill 1, the default target is 75. The available route reaches 75 using ~87 (74 to 99) crafts estimated. That covers 74 skill points.

For this route, Bolt of Linen Cloth requires ~131 (118 to 143) estimated; Coarse Thread requires ~89 (76 to 101) estimated; Red Dye requires 24. Repeated ingredients are combined across steps. Crafted intermediate materials remain separate shopping entries, so subtract any that you make along the way.

Which tailoring recipe uses fewer materials?

At skill 1, Linen Cloak consumes 2 reagent units per craft, compared with 2 for Bolt of Linen Cloth. Each item counts as one unit, regardless of its gold price. The route minimizes expected units over the entire skill range, including extra attempts after recipes turn yellow.

Red Linen Robe can be learned with Pattern: Red Linen Robe. Check recipe access, quests and specializations before shopping. Exclude recipes you cannot learn or whose materials cost too much on your realm. Lock a known recipe to give it priority whenever it can grant skill; overlapping locks use the lower expected reagent total.

How estimated tailoring craft counts work

Linen Cloak has a yellow boundary of 35 and a gray boundary of 60. Its estimated skill gain chance at skill 47 is (60 minus 47) divided by (60 minus 35). Expected crafts equal one divided by that chance. For skill 47 to 48, this gives ~2 (1 to 5) crafts est.

The Linen Cloak range covers at least 80% of outcomes under this estimated chance model, using the variance of independent attempts. It describes crafting luck under that model, rather than a guarantee about your game. For the longer route to 75, the planner recalculates chance after every skill gain. Update your current skill as you craft, and train the next profession rank before your current rank limit.

What differs in other versions?

TBC uses build 2.5.6.70577 for tailoring. Classic has no additional recipe spells in this comparison. Forever adds recipes such as Linen Bag and Linen Reagent Bag.