Tailoring + Enchanting: the best combination for cloth users?

Why did this duo become so traditional for cloth users?

Because it brings together several advantages in the same account:

• Tailoring creates gear cloth, bags and strong embroidery
• Enchanting improves your own gear and uses loot in materials
• the two professions go well with the fact that you kill a lot of humanoids and accumulate cloth

Tailoring in WotLK features Embroidery and Northern Cloth Scavenging, while Enchanting maintains the classic value of disenchanting and also gains exclusive ring enchants. This goes a long way toward explaining why the duo remains so popular.

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Combined benefits for cloth classes

Tailoring

• gear cloth and useful upgrades
• Lightweave/Darkglow/Swordguard depending on the profile
• bags and utility
• indirect cloth gain by Northern Cloth Scavenging

Enchanting

• own ring enchants
• easy access to enchants from your own gear
• use of drops and crafts to become material

For Mage, Warlock and Priest, this fits almost naturally.

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Material synergy and gear progression

The duo's biggest difference is that part of the economy revolves around its own useful waste:

• cloth dropped
• crafted parts
• disenchanted items
• maintenance of the gear itself without so much external dependence

It is not a “collect + craft” synergy, but it is still one of the most organic combinations in the game for cloth users.

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Duo maintenance costs

Good point

Once assembled, the duo usually pays off better for those who play a lot with cloth.

Bad point

The cost of entry can be heavy, especially in Enchanting, if you try to buy everything too early.

What helps

• use Tailoring to generate items that can be turned into materials
• enjoy the gameplay itself
• do not try to cover both impulsively in AH

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Where it loses to alternative combinations

It loses space when:

• the player wants Engineering as a fixed power/utility profession
• the class benefits more from another specific bonus
• the focus is pure market, not personal utility
• the character is not even the main cloth user

So it’s not “the best universal combination for every caster”. It's one of the best for those who really play cloth and want autonomy.

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Recommendations by player profile

Best for:

-Mage -Warlock -Priest

• those who value autonomy of gear and enchants
• those who like couples with strong personal value

Less attractive for:

• who wants min-max with Engineering always present
• those who play little with the character
• those who want a profession that is more market-oriented than personal use

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Minimum recommendation

Tailoring + Enchanting remains among the best combinations for cloth users because:

1. conversation with the class
2. combines competitive bonuses and convenience
3. Make good use of the flow of cloth and loot
4. reduces external dependence in the long term

If you play cloth frequently, this duo remains one of the easiest choices to defend in WotLK.