It can get a little confusing for tailors with 6 different Spellthread flavors available, some you can craft for others and some are for tailors only.

This article will break it down for you so you know what you want and what you need to get it and start DOMINATING.

All Spellthread can be broken down into 2 basic categories:

- Spell Power + Stamina

- Spell Power + Spirit

Each of the above also comes in 2 flavors:

35 sp + (20 Stamina or 12 Spirit)

50 sp + (30 Stamina or 20 Spirit)

Of the bigger ones (50sp + (stat) ), Tailors get a self-only version of each when they hit 405 in Tailoring. But you have to get Exalted with Kirin Tor and Argent Crusade and have reached 430 in tailoring to be able to create the BoE version of the high-end spellthread.

So here they are broken down with the draw-me-a-picture version (For people like me

The 2 basic Spellthread

Azure and Shining

You’ll note the low material requirements almost anyone can afford that on every pair of pants they wear as they upgrade to Epic and the Spellthread itself will sell for 45-60g on most servers … a rather profitable return on investment.

The Tailor-Only Spellthread

Masters’ and Sanctified

These are still a great deal for every tailor and you’d be missing out if you didn’t apply it to your own pants. Tailoring Warlocks especially benefit from this since as of 3.0, with the use of Fel Armor, 30% (39% with the Demonic Aegis Talent) of all spirit is translated directly into spell power. That means Sanctified Spellthread is worth up to 58 sp for any Warlock that can sew, making this item by far the most cost effective enhancement a Warlock will ever find! You would need 6 abyss crystals, 2 stacks(40) of infinite dust and 2 stack(20) of Cosmic Essences to get slightly more sp value on your weapon (~1200g value on some servers). Note that you need one of the basic Spellthread as a reagent for these.

The Rep Rewards

Brilliant Spellthread formula can be obtained from Exalted reputation with Argent Crusade. This can be hard to justify seeing how they have next to no cloth armor of significant value (typically the only classes that would pick up tailoring). The only exception being the Signet of Hopeful Light which can most likely be replaced as soon as you set foot in Naxx.

The cost of these materials may seem staggering but is not so bad if you know where to look for mats. Anyone who has purchased the AH Mastery guide will most probably want to buy the mats and resell for a profit (depending on their server of course). For those who still want to farm, the silk drops from the blue spiders in the cave just north of K3 in Storm Peaks while the Eternal Life (10 Crystallized Life) is easiest to obtain from creatures that are concentrated in a few zones. Look it up using the link above and pick your favorite spot.

And Last but certainly not the least, we have the Sapphire Spellthread. You need Exalted with Kirin Tor for this one and it’s well worth getting because you get to buy many items including a Head Slot Enchant and the biggest dagger ever seen at Revered. While at Exalted you can pick up the Spellthread pattern and a chest piece.

It should also be noted that all merchants in Dalaran value Kirin Tor Rep … repair costs are lower with Exalted reputation, so Kirin Tor is definitely your first choice if you are a Tailor and a Caster

The Crystallized Fire can most easily be obtained while you complete your Sons of Hodir dailies from the Seething Revenants. As you’re completing your daily quests just stick around a little and you can easily pick up an Eternal in 10-15 minutes.

All in all, if only for yourself as a tailor this is a must know. If you are part of a guild you can always offer guild mates to craft the Spellthreads for them if they supply some or all of the mats since it will continue giving you skill points until 445. And over time you might end up getting exalted with every faction, now you have a starting point. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

“Now you Know … And Knowing is Half the Battle” so get out there and DOMINATE.