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GUIDE TO TAILORING
First let me say that Tailoring is a very difficult skill to raise in both time spent and
platinum invested in the trade but I do think it is a great moneymaker once you get it
high enough. It is not totally out of whack like many ppl think; it's just harder than
other skills. Of all my skills, tailoring is the one I'm most proud of. There are
hundreds of Master blacksmiths and Jewelers on my server but only one master
tailor, me.
When do things become trivial?
Patchwork: 26
Studded: 68
Backpacks: 90
Reinforced: 122
There are no patterns for Masks, Belts, Shoulders, and Capes despite the recepies in
the book.
There are no recepies for Quivers and Fleeting Quivers despite the patterns being
available.
Studded tunics are broken and can't be made. Reinforced tunics work however.
AC and weights (medium armor)
Patchwork
Boots: AC 3, wt 2.5
Cap: AC 3, wt 0.6
Gloves: AC 3, wt 1.5
Gorget: AC 2, wt 0.5
Pants: AC 4, wt 3.0
Sleeves: AC 3, wt 1.5
Tunic: AC 6, wt 4.4
Studded
Boots: AC 4, wt 2.5
Cap: AC 5, wt 0.6
Gloves: AC 4, wt 1.5
Gorget: AC 3, wt 0.5
Pants: AC 5, wt 4.0
Sleeves: AC 4, wt 1.5
Tunic: BROKEN
Reinforced
Boots: AC 5, wt 2.5
Cap: AC 6, wt 0.6
Gloves: AC 5, wt 1.5
Gorget: AC 4, wt 0.5
Pants: AC 6, wt 4.0
Sleeves: AC 5, wt 1.5
Tunic: AC 11, wt 3.5
To become a successful tailor you must also become a blacksmith (or be very good
friends with one).
The Best class to be for tailoring is either a Wizard or a Druid. This is because you
do a LOT of traveling and wizards and druids can teleport themselves all over.
Once Patchwork becomes trivial you need to move to studded armor. There is no
profit in studded and it is VERY time consuming and costs a lot of platinum, but is
needed to advance on to making Reinforced armor, your best consistant
moneymaker.
To make studded armor you need medium pelts. The best place I found for medium
pelts is in the deserts of Ro and the Oasis. Pumas give both Puma skins and medium
quality pelts. I found about 1 in 4 pumas will yeild a medium pelt. If you're lucky you
can find a merchant loaded with medium pelts. Check the Inn and Fishing Village in
N. Ro and the Gypsy Merchants and the Inn in Oasis (near P2). Medium quality pelts
can be bought from merchants for 114cp with 100 charisma. The Freeport area is a
good place to work on studded because of the availability of medium quality pelts
and ore for blacksmithing the studs. I found the best way to go about it is to empty
out all of your backpacks, buy 200 waters and 600 small ores (all stackable). This
will make around 180 metal bits (200 if you have no failures). Once you have these
metal bits, buy 1 water per 3 metal bits and make studs. This may yeild about 50
studs. Studs do not stack btw. Take your studs and large sewing kit and gorget
patterns (buy 1 pattern for every 2 studs) and move to the deserts to find your pelts.
50 studs will yeild 25 attempts at making studded, which will probably give you 5-10
skill increases, depending on intellect.
Relax now, it gets easier at this point.
You can continue doing studded till it trivials out at 68. But studded is such a pain in
the butt so I'd suggest after getting it to around 45 or so, start working on
reinforced.
To make Reinforced you need steel boning. This becomes trivial at 41 for
blacksmiths but I raised my blacksmithing to 60 and I think it helped my success rate
for making steel boning. To make steel boning you need one brick of ore, 1 water,
and 1 file. The file is reusable. Again, like studded, I empty out all my backpacks and
buy about 40 waters, take my file out the bank and go buy as many ores as I can
hold. Ores are VERY heavy and you will be so encumbered that you cannot walk,
unless you have SoW cast on you, otherwise only buy maybe 1 backpack full at a
time. Then slowly move from the merchant to the forge and make your steel boning.
Once you get a bunch of steel boning you need to find High Quality Pelts. These are
very abundant in the Karanas, so head to west karana and check out the village
merchants there. Try the small village near Qeynos Hills and the one near T2. If
these are empty I found a nice supply in North Karana at the Gypsy camp and also in
East karana at the village near the Beholder zone entrance and the village to the
right as you come off the wooden bridge at the fork in the road. Again you can see
how much traveling you need to do.
Once you get your skill up high enough (80+) you can now start making backpacks.
These are a very good profit item. Save all of your High Quality Bear Skins till you
get your skill in tailoring up real high. I sell these for 50pp each. HQ Bear Skins come
off Black and Brown bears only. Grizzly and Kodiak bears will yeild Grizzly Skins. The
best places to find black and brown bears are in West Karana, Rathe Mountains, and
the Commons. I offer 10pp each for all the HQ bear skins, but you can probably get
away with offering 2pp-5pp (I like to keep the competition away). Keep in mind that
HQ Bear skins are used for the Bear Cloaks, so if you see someone else auctioning
for them it's either a budding tailor who wants to TRY to make a backpack or
someone who wants to do the bear cloak quest.
Once I get a bunch of HQ Bear skins, I'll take my sewing kit, patterns, and skins to a
high level zone such as Mistmoore, Lower Guk, Sol A, Sol B, etc. and auction. If you
try to auction a 10 slot backpack in a low level zone for 50pp everyone will laugh at
you. This item is for the high level rich people. They aquire a lot of items and
desparately need more room to store it. Usually when I find a buyer they want 8-10
at a time. 8 for their bank vault and 2 to carry. So if your skill in tailoring is low and
you risk losing a HQ bear skin to make a backpack, chances are you will fail and that
is a potential 50pp you just threw away.
Now what else is there to make money on in tailoring besides backpacks? Well,
backpacks may be your best single moneymaker but you don't sell these in mass
quantity. I make Reinforced Leggings, Sleeves, Gloves, and Tunics and sell them for
10pp each. Your best customers are Druids. Druids can only wear leather and
Reinforced is better than the best leather they can buy. There are much better things
they can wear at higher levels though, so your target is the mid level druids who
don't mind spending 10pp. I cater to mostly lvl 15-30 druids and best places to sell
are in Greater Fay and North Karana.
Caps, Boots, and Gorgets don't sell cause there are other items such as Savant's
cap, Bearhide boots, and Studded Leather Gorget (from Blackburrow) that's easier to
get and cost less. Sometimes I come across some ppl who want reinforced for the
status (no one else has it). There are so few tailors who can make reinforced as
many give up at skill 30 or so. I am probably the only master tailor on my server
(xegony).
So, despite all the complaints about tailoring it is a nice moneymaking skill once you
get it up high enough. It's just hard to raise.
Now what would I change? First I'd put in the mask, belt, shoulder, and cape
patterns. Then I'd provide recepies for quivers and fleeting quivers. I'd also allow
tailors to make leather. Let studded become trivial at 45 or so, then let tailors make
leather from 45 to 68.
However the greatest change they could make to tailoring is to make studs and
steel boning stackable AND make them available from a vendor. One skill
should not have to rely so heavily on another.
If you have any questions or comments please post and I will do my best to answer.
However I don't check this forum as much as I used to, maybe once per week so be
patient.
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Xekl Xephyre
Level 36 Erudite Wizard, Xegony
Master Potter 168 [MAX]
Master Alcohol Tolerance 174
Master Fishing 155
Master Fletcher 142
Master Baking 137
Master Brewer 135 [MAX]
Master Tailor 122 [MAX]
Research 105
Blacksmithing 60
Begging 15
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