Dump Alchemy/Herbs for Shadowweave Tailoring/Enchanting

[Lissa]

Well gloves are a red herring - there aren't comparable tailoring ones.

The other big thing (the reason I would have gone tailoring from the start) is it allows you to get all of your loot *Right NOW*. Hydross is a nontrivial dps check - you could use the FSW to help kill him. Also, it takes the randomness out of you loot. It will take an average of 2.5 months to get those boots once Hydross is on farm, and who's to say you will get the first pair. You are unlikely to get the first boots AND the first chest, it might be 5-6 months before they have dropped in sufficient quantities for everybody to get theirs.

Also, if you have the time and $$ to go tailoring, you can pass those items to somebody who doesn't. This increases the power of your raid, and allows you to save your DKP for items you can't get outside of raiding.

Well, the point is, if you're going Tailoring specifically for FSW as an Affliction Warlock, you might want to rethink that before doing so depending on what your present skills are. If you're getting rid of gathering skills (like if you have mining and skinning or mining and herbing or skinning and herbing) it can be worth it or if you do not plan to raid past Kara. On the other hand, if you got a production profession and the complementary gathering profession and do plan to raid past Kara, the reason for switching isn't as compelling to go with FSW.

The other thing you miss is that it's not right now, you still have to get the shadowcloth in hand to make the 3 items, it takes 8 days alone to produce the shoulders, another 16 days to produce the boots, and 28 days to make the robe if you're doing this all yourself. It can take less time to produce the shadowcloth if trade your spellcloth and primal mooncloth for shadow, but saying that you can have it right now is a big misnomer.