Tailoring - Northern Cloth Skill ThingFollow

When you're just by yourself you won't really notice it, it's a part of the normal looting (ie., sometimes you'll find that a mob have 3 or 4 pieces of cloth - that's the cloth scavenging in action). It's more or less the same in groups, except that it can proc on all mobs, also those that you cannot loot. However, after whoever have the loot rights to that corpse have looted, the cloth will still be there for you to pick up. It'll get loot sparkles that only tailors with this ability can see. It's worth it to hang back and wait for everybody to loot, so you make sure not to miss any extra cloth.

Hmm, I make this sound complicated, but in reality it's just a matter of looting everything that sparkles :).

Thank you Khamu that explained it perfectly.

Its an automatic skill - you dont need to click a mob and 'skin' it like you would with LW/mining/herb - it simply gives you a better chance to get more cloth from a mob, even mobs in your group/raid that you didn't have loot rights to.

Personally, I've found the skill quite useful - my main almost never gets cloth loot and when he does, you're talking 1-3 peices max (1-2 most frequently). The cloth gathering skill, on the other hand, has resulted in my tailor scoring tons of cloth and getting as many as five peices off of a single mob.

So yeah, the skill is well worth having and will easily pay for itself within a level of purchase.

It might be that they tweaked the drop rate of frostweave from when the expansion started.

On my mage, I didn't see any benefit from having the skill, seemed that non-tailors were getting more frostweave than my mage. I did 3 back-to-back heroics one afternoon, non-tailors came out with 3-4 stacks each, my mage, 17 pieces....

Different story when I levelled my priest, same skill from tailoring, but seemed to be overwhelmed by the amount of frostweave that was dropping... Sod's Law I suppose....

Oh my word, i didn't know it worked in raids on any type of mob.

I always wondered why plague bats carried cloth around with them, and i thought the rest of my guild had been passing on the cloth.

I often come through Naxx with at least 2 stacks of cloth and that's with 3 of us tailors in the run. This skill rocks, lots. Just loot and cheer.