In World of Warcraft, there are 6 varieties of cloth, including the netherweave cloth, which is only found in the Outlands (requires Burning Crusade). Cloth pieces most commonly drop from mobs, but bolts can also be found in various chests, as well as trunks you can find while fishing.

Is it so:

• Linen
• Wool
• Silk
• magic weave
• rune cloth
• abyssal weave

The cloth is very useful for all classes and all races, because everyone can take the First Aid secondary profession. In fact, everyone not only can, but must. Other than First Aid, cloth is useful to almost everyone who has a primary profession of Crafting (as opposed to Gathering).

The fabric is obviously crucial for the tailors to make their products. A limited number of leatherworking and blacksmithing recipes also require bolts or pieces of cloth. When a furrier or blacksmith needs a bolt of cloth, he will either have to call a guildmate or, more commonly, buy the bolt at the local auction house.

The best way to gather cloth is, like almost everything else in World of Warcraft, to farm it. Here are the best places and the best mobs to kill to farm the different types of cloth. Keep in mind that unless you’re a tailor, the cloth you collect over the course of your adventures should be more than enough to level up your First Aid skill, with plenty to spare for the Auction House!

Helpful Farming Tip #1

You should always farm the highest level character you have in the same faction (ie Horde or Alliance) as the intended recipient of your farming efforts. This will save you countless hours of frustration, death, and sub-par farming.

Linen

Humanoid mobs in the level 5-15 range drop linen cloth.

• Western Fells: Defias Looters and Defias Trappers have an average combined drop rate of 76%. They are level 11-14 and are mainly present in the central and western areas of the Westfall.
• The wastelands: The Kolkar Wranglers, Bloodchargers, and others, located in the Central Barrens near the Crossroads, have similar excellent linen cloth drop rates. They are mostly level 11-16 and shouldn’t be a problem.

All of these mobs also have excellent respawn rates, so the place would have to be very crowded for you to run out of mobs to kill.

woolen cloth

Humanoid mobs in the level range 14-36 drop woolen cloth. The mobs with the best drop rates are:

• The Mosshide Gnolls in The Wetlands. Moshide Gnolls of all trends except Mosshide Alphas have wool cloth drop rates of around 36%. I speak from experience when I say that the respawn rates are incredibly fast, sometimes so fast that you won’t have time to loot the chests that spawn from time to time at Moshide camps.
• Instance of palisades and deaths. If you’re farming with a high level character, as you should be, then you should have no problem taking out any of these instances in just over 30 minutes. You should have between 60 and 100 pieces of woolen cloth and some linen to boot.

Silk cloth

Silk fabrics mainly from humanoid mobs in the level 25-40 range, some exceptions apply. While they can be found in Gnomeregan (for example) as well as the Bloodsail folks in Stranglethorn Vale, the best place to farm Silk Cloth is:

• The Scarlet Monastery. The Scarlet Monastery Instance, in the northern Tirisfal Glades, is absolutely awash in silk cloth, in traditional ecclesiastical opulence. Going to the Scarlet Monastery alone will produce more silk cloth than you can carry, and I’m just exaggerating a bit. Definitely make room in your bags before you go.

magic weave

Mageweave is very useful for tailors/enchanters who can create relatively valuable items to disenchant. For this reason, the competition for the best place to grow crops is usually quite fierce. Be sure to implement Farming Helpful Tip #1 (farm with your highest level character) if you really want to farm anything.

• Furbolgs of Deadwood in southern Felwood they are level 47-50 mobs and have a combined Mageweave drop rate of over 100%, which means if you kill 100 of them you will end up with over 100 Mageweave. This is pretty hard to beat, and it’s also well known.

rune cloth

Runecloth drops from humanoid mobs level 50 and above, up to 61-62 in the Outlands. There are several great places to farm in Azeroth and the Outlands for Runecloth, and they are:

• silith. The Twilight Cultists, the Avengers, etc., seem to be made of matter. You can expect an aggregate drop rate of over 35% from these mobs.
• Eastern and Western Plaguelands. All of the undead in these two areas have excellent Runecloth drop rates and are a great place to farm, as you’re unlikely to run out of undead to kill.
• infernal fire Peninsula. If you have the Burning Crusade expansion pack, you can farm Runecloth from Bleeding Hollow Peons (around coordinates 56,70). They reportedly have a 32% drop rate for Runecloth. Unyielding Footmen, Knights, and Warlocks in the Expedition Armory (just south of Honor Hold) also have exceptionally good Runecloth drop rates.

abyssal weave

Virtually all humanoids in the Outlands leave Netherweave, as it is, by now, top of the list when it comes to cloth. The best drop rates are for level 70 and higher mobs in Netherstorm, however there is one exception:

• Void Spawn. Voidspawns resemble Warlock’s Voidwalker. They are not too difficult to kill and can be found around the huge diamond that dominates the southwest of Nagrand. Voidlings are in the level 64-66 range, and drop Netherweave at a combined rate of about 79%

Helpful Farming Tip #2

When you grow, whatever it is for, make sure your bags are empty. This goes especially around level 50 and above. The “grey” junk items you pick up will more than pay for your repairs, and if you’re lucky, leave you a nice profit on top of that.