What does it cost to level Tailoring right now?

1kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 119 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1kg.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 19:27 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Cataclysm Tailoring · KR · prices as of 19:27 UTC

Tailoring leveling 1 → 75 · Cataclysm Tailoring

1kg in reagents over about 119 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 1kg.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Embersilk Cloth×2074

1,030

×2071,030

Total1,030

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 30

Orange→Yellow

Embersilk Bandage

trainer

About 31 crafts.154

per skill point5

Embersilk Cloth×31

Step 2 · Skill 30 → 75

Orange→Green

Heavy Embersilk Bandage

trainer

About 88 crafts.876

per skill point19

Embersilk Cloth×176

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Heavy Embersilk Bandage8812

8811

Embersilk Bandage3112

313

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket1,015

What's worth crafting with Tailoring right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Tailoring right now?: 1kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 119 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1kg.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 19:27 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.