[Farming] Cloth

I'm sure this has been done before but I recently worked on leveling a tailor, and it seems my initial spot for mageweave (Rigger's Cove) has somewhat dried up. I guess the cloth loot tables were all jumped up a bit because I was getting a lot more silk. And since it's just mageweave figured, "Hey, why not ask the rest of TW where they usually go to get cloth?" And you know we all farm cloth at some point, if for nothing else for leveling First Aid. Especially now when cloth seems to drop a lot more often and in more quantities than before.

And an interesting bonus is the Cloth Rep NPCs. Seems the first turn-in for each type nets you XP equal to the level of the cloth in question. This I find nice for adding a little extra XP punch to the normal grind.

So where do you farm for cloth? Right now people are telling me the ogres in Feralas usually drop a good mix of mageweave/runecloth, and I'm pretty sure you'd get some mageweave in good stock from running ZF. Runecloth I'll probably hit EPL Scourge or Silithus since that's the absolute pre-TBC cap so there would be more runecloth and less netherweave mixed in.

i havent had to farm any cloth for first aid

I've never farmed for cloth, I just used what I got anyway to get my tailoring up.

Well some of us usually like to get a head start on alts, especially considering it requires less skill to use bandages. Warriors and rogues solo'ing tended to eat them up fast though. From 60 - 64 on my rogue I was constantly running out of bandages, but by the time 66 - 67 rolled around I'd have a full stack of bandages and several stacks of netherweave, I had to constantly dump it into a bank alt for the AH.

I haven't specifically farmed cloth for my tailors either. But if mageweave is expensive or unavailable, you might try the Feralas harpies Northspring Harpy - NPCs - World of Warcraft (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=5362). They die quickly. I would think it would be more efficient to buy runecloth than to farm it, since it drops from a whole bunch of Outland mobs too.

Highborne Apparition - NPCs - World of Warcraft (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=6116)
Highborne Lichling - NPCs - World of Warcraft (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=6117)

the best mobs for mageweave when I need it, low hps and no one else goes there. there is also a rare spawn that respawns very often in the camp, its a bit spread out but doing a little loop should keep you going.

Using the first 60 wool/silk/mageweave/runecloth turn ins is great exp


silk is best from farming sm
mageweave from the above mobs
runecloth i would usually get from the undead fields in wpl

theres a mine in the northern part of badlands thats a good spot for mageweave

The cloth turn-ins should be done as early as possible, mainly because it seems the XP for the first turn-in doesn't deviate based on level. If you turn in at the earliest possible level you pretty much get XP that's worth a high yellow or potentially orange quest. You add that and then add in all five factions and it's a lot of easy XP.

I dunno about those highborne, my old spot in Rigger's Cover were all roughly the same lvl (45) and I got most than twice as much silk as I did mageweave. The northern mine in the Badlands sounds like either the main door or back door to Uldaman, it would work since nothing is elite there but you'd have to potentially contend with people entering, and given how my realm is you're more likely to hit a 70 running lowbies. Which may be iffy depending on your class and their class.

He might be thinking Blasted Lands from the Horde perspective. I wouldn't think Uldaman mobs would drop all that much mageweave.

Well a friend and I delved into the Cauldron in Searing Gorge, all lvl 46 - 48 mobs and they were dropping a lot of it. Usually 2 out of every 3 mobs dropped at least 1 - 3 pieces.

So I guess if you want cloth find the x6 - x8 mobs in the bracket you need, and if you find it in dungeons go there for 1.5x - 2x the amount.

I dunno about those highborne, my old spot in Rigger's Cover were all roughly the same lvl (45) and I got most than twice as much silk as I did mageweave.

if you look at their loot table in the link you would see that they don't drop silk and its all mageweave.

Farm ZF. Lots and lots of mageweave

I would try ZF, but with the elites HP total it takes way too long to kill shit. I've found Dreadmaul Compound in Tanaris or Jinth'alor in Hinterlands (especially now that the trolls are non-elite). The mobs die a lot faster and you usually get 2 - 4 pieces per drop. My prot pally still sucks DPS-wise even with a 1.70 mace but I guess that's the trade-off for being able to take 4 - 5 mobs at a time.

I'll probably spend some time there farming more mageweave to sell, on my realm that shit has been going for 4g - 8g a stack and supplies tend to go fast during peak hours.

The Temple of Atal'Hakkar

The Temple of Atal'Hakkar

Really? I thought ST was more 50 - 55ish. It's been a while since I've been in there, I call it the necessary evil dungeon. Mainly because everyone has a lvl 50 quest there to kill a boss that usually gives you a moderately useable item. Only time I went on my pally we smashed through it but we couldn't kill that vine boss for my quest because the healer was on a short time budget. :(

I used to farm the harpies in Feralas for mageweave, not sure what their drop rate was though... it just seemed high.

Trolls in Hinterlands drop Mageweave by the bucketload.

Really? I thought ST was more 50 - 55ish. It's been a while since I've been in there, I call it the necessary evil dungeon. Mainly because everyone has a lvl 50 quest there to kill a boss that usually gives you a moderately useable item. Only time I went on my pally we smashed through it but we couldn't kill that vine boss for my quest because the healer was on a short time budget. :(


Allakazam (spelling) shows that place as the main drop for mageweave. The mobs aren't elite, so grinding should be easy enough i guess.

Trolls in Hinterlands drop Mageweave by the bucketload.

I had done it already, I would say cloth drops maybe 60% - 70% of the time and it's always 2 - 4 pieces. But it comes in stints, you can kill 5 trolls and get nothing, and later you can kill 4 more trolls and get 12 - 16 cloth. I prefer this spot if you're Horde because the city is a hop and a skip from town, and it's usually so far from the Alliance town you rarely see them in the area. Not that anyone questing would be a problem for a 63, but a lot of people seem to keep babysitters literally up until Shadowmoon/Netherstorm.

For the higher up cloth drops like Mageweave and runecloth it's easier to do field. Elites in dungeons take longer to kill at the 50+ level and they don't drop more cloth than the normals to justify it. But everything silk and low you can smash through dungeons at a 60+ with little problem. I did a lot of VC on my rogue for linen/wool and copper/ore and the occasional engineering parts off the shop goblins and boxes.