My Priest is a tailor, just like my Mage is, except my Priest has a Mooncloth specialty and my Mage is into Shadoweave.

I haven’t really spent a lot of time advancing Tailoring on my Priest since she hit 350 and spec’d for Mooncloth, but I’ve advanced here and there.

Recipe To Use To Advance From 350-370 If Under Lvl 68/70

Imbued Netherweave Tunics is the route I chose on this toon, because she’s way too low to get into the Netherstorm instances even if she could be summoned there to get in in the first place.

You can find the Recipe for Imbued Netherweave Tunic and Imbued Netherweave Robe in Shadowmoon Valley, at the Scryer base camp there, Sanctum of the Stars. The building next to the one with the Innkeeper has a Tailoring Supplies vendor who sells those recipes as unique-sell items (only one of each recipe is for sale, and it has a respawn timer).

That pattern will get you through to 370 but is a more expensive route than if you waited until 70 when you could repeatedly run the Tempest Keep instances like The Arcatraz in Netherstorm.

If money is no object or you’re determined to have your underlevelled tailor at max Tailoring before you can hit those TK instances, you can use the Imbued Netherweave Tunic to get you all the way to 375.

Recipe To Use To Advance from 350-375 If Level 68-70

If you’re like most players, however, you get to 70 long before you hit max Tailoring, so here’s the biggest recipe tip I can give you for getting past those final 25 levels as a max-level character.

In order to get this recipe, you need to be able to get into the Arcatraz in Netherstorm, and it drops from the Arcatraz Sentinels.

It’s a blue bind-on-pickup pattern, and thus cannot be purchased in the Auction House: Pattern: Arcanoweave Bracers. If you’ve got an Enchanter toon (or friend) and regularly send them your greens to disenchant, you’ll have a pile of Arcane Dust floating around and the lack of imbued bolts in this recipe makes it super cheap as well.

This is actually what my Mage used to skill up beyond 350, since I was 70 before I got to that point… and the recipe dropped twice that run. I’m not sure how regular an occurance a double-drop is but it was nice that the other tailor in the group got it on the second roll when I won the first one.

To continue the trek to 375 as someone with access to Botanica and Mechanar, there are other Arcanoweave patterns (boots and robe) that start at 360 and will happily bring you right through to 375.

And then, YAY you can make your final set piece. In my case, I’ve already got the Primal Mooncloth Belt and Primal Mooncloth Shoulders created and sitting in the bank waiting for me to hit 70, and once I get to 375 Tailoring I’ll add the Primal Mooncloth Robe to the mix and a few minutes after I hit 70 on this, my third to 70, my gearing is going to improve quite a bit.

I’ll report on that when it happens. 5 levels is a long time with the way I play any one toon.

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So, a few days ago a guildie made her return after a 4 or 5 month hiatus, and since the levelling guild we share is not one of vast changes over time, her old levelling buddies were still around and still had a handful of alts that she could party up with for the few hours per week she can play.

I’m one of her old levelling buddies, there are three of us in total, plus some friends we each picked up along the way who tag along at times.

So, the other night we took a look at all of our alt toons and discussed which were closest to one of hers that we could all party up with and spend some of her long-accumulated rest bonus.

In the end, the three of us went into Razorfen Kraul - me on my 33 Druid, and my two long-time guildmates and levelling partners who were on a 32 Rogue and 25 (healing) Priest.

“I guess you’re the tank?”

My Druid has long been spec’d Resto, although at times I will go for a Resto/DPS mix in my stats, to go along with the two different gearsets I carry with me on this toon.

So, uh, I threw on my DPS gear and hopped into Bear form, and tanked my first instance, with friendly partymates who were supportive while I fumbled and follied and got the Priest killed.

So Many Fun Aspects To This Game…

I’m someone who likes to challenge myself and to learn and to improve, and World of Warcraft just keeps on entertaining me with the same content, from a different viewpoint.

Last night was about two things: Trying to recall what I’ve seen other good Druid tanks do, and Challenging the healer enough that she didn’t have time to contribute DPS via wanding ;)

I grabbed a Marking addon via the WoWMatrix addon updater, and while it works okay for me, it’s got some problems so I’ll probably be looking for a replacement if I start to tank a little bit more. The one thing about the addon I did get is that it only shows up when I’m party leader, and most times it’s the tank who’s the leader, so it doesn’t show up to bother me at all.

We didn’t get a chance to complete the instance because our Healer friend (the one who just got back into the game) had a slightly unruly child not wanting to go to sleep, and we had to call it after a couple of bosses, not really wanting to turn to the LFG line to fill out the party at the late time of night it already was.

But in the time that we played I had a bit of practice with some of the key Druid tanking strategies, including slapping a Rejuvenate on myself before going to Bear form to gather up 3-4 mobs and beat them down, pulling with Fairie Fire and doing LOS pulls.

It was kinda neat, but I’m not really looking to make a job of it quite yet ;)

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