Tailoring1

Whats the point?
Well, there are quite a few reasons for becoming a tailor. You can make quite a bit of money doing jobs, selling armor to casters, making cloth armor for yourself and friends (especially your armorsmithing friends), and the other various items you can create.

Starting out:
Beginning is the hardest part of a tradeskill. You must find, at level five, your tradeskill master. Underneath his name it will say, "<Tailoring Master>" Talk to him and he will question if you want to join the tailors' guild. You can never change this, by means of appeal or in game so make sure this is what you want to do. Rumors are out there about Spellcrafting or some such being added soon, which sounds wicked cool. This does not mean its being added though.

Great, so now you are a member of the Tailors' Guild. Next you will need the tools of the trade. This will include a Sewing Kit and a Smithing Hammer. Above the tailoring master is a woman with the flag "<Merchant>." She will sell you most of the tailoring stuff you will need along with the Sewing Kit. The Hammer is found near the forge. A man in the house of armor and weapon merchants will sell you ingots and the hammer. You will need a few silver to get started.

To get set up and ready to go, you will need to click on the hand up on your personal menu and look at all the nifty new skills listed. You should see Weaponcrafting, Armorcrafting, Metalworking, Woodworking, Leatherworking, Clothworking, Fletching, Siegecraft, tailoring and a few others. Do not worry that you have all of these, you are supposed to. Your tailoring is your main skill, Clothworking, Woodworking, Metalworking and Leatherworking can all be equal to your Tailoring skill, and will never surpass it, but the other main skills, Weaponcrafting, Armorcrafting, Fletching and Siegecraft can achieve 75% of your main skill. Next to the skill tailoring will be a little needle and thread icon. Click on it, it will attach to your cursor. Switch your hotbar to an empty bar and place the icon down on the bar. You can do this with each of those skills and make certain things associated with each of those skills. For now, only move the Tailoring and Metalworking icons on the bar.

Click on the Tailoring icon in your hotbar. It should bring up a list of generic types of items. Starting with Cloth armor, going through Roman, Cyrmic, Silluric leathers, then Studded, Reinforced, Boned and Llemnar studded armor, finally ending with cloth robes and capes. Each of these will have a small box to the left. Click on the box next to the cloth gloves. It will give you a listing of Woolen, meaning you will create Woolen Gloves. It will also con to you the same way monsters con to you. Grey being the easiest to make and red being the hardest. The number of your skill will determine what these things con to you. Next the Woolen you will see a small icon of gloves. You can click this icon and bring it up into your hotbar as well. Right click on the icon and it will show you what it requires to make the item. If you click on this icon on the hotbar, it will make it if you have the materials needed. Don't bother creating this item, to remove it from your bar, SHIFT-Right click the icon and it will dissapear to be replaced by another icon.

NPC Jobs:
Go back to your tailoring master. Click on him to select him and type
"/whisper task." A small box will pop up saying, "You have been given a Task!" click ok and look at your system window. It should show who needs the item, what item is needed, and how much time you have. I have never seen the time limit anything other then 119 minutes. You can type /task at anytime to review the task in your system window again. Using what I have shown you, create the item. The tasks generally choose things that are Blue, Yellow or Orange con to you to create. Buy the materials from the woman above and make it.

Click on continue, there is more information to be had.