GuidesTanning Rack and Spinning Wheel WoW Forever beta
You have the leather for a Defender's Leather Kilt and the recipe still won’t craft: it asks for a Tanning Rack. In Forever, 48 leatherworking recipes can only be made next to one, and 74 tailoring recipes next to a Spinning Wheel. You won’t find either in town: you set your own up at a campfire.
Three things to know before you start:
- The Tanning Rack’s blueprint drops from Razorclaw the Butcher in Shadowfang Keep, rarely, and the Spinning Wheel’s from the Unstable Sentinel in the City of Dalaran.
- A rack lasts 15 minutes and is used up when you place it. Have every reagent in your bags first.
- No blueprint, or under 140 skill? Buy a Tanning Rack at the auction house and have a leatherworker with 140 skill place it. You craft next to it as at your own.
Setting up camp
Light a campfire
A Basic Campfire Kit takes Cooking 1 and one Simple Wood. It holds 3 camp objects around it. The Journeyman Campfire Kit and the Expert Campfire Kit, from blueprints, hold 5 and 10.
Place the rack or the wheel by the fire
It takes 140 skill in its trade. It goes over a Camp Tent or a Faction Banner and keeps what they give: rested experience from the tent, Spirit for your faction from the banner.
Craft next to it
Stay within reach while you craft, as at a town’s anvil. Players who sit or craft by the fire for a minute also get the camp’s bonuses.
- 15 minutes
- A placed rack or wheel stays 15 minutes, then it’s gone.
- Used up
- Placing it uses the item: each new rack or wheel costs its reagents again.
- One hour between camp objects
- Every camp object you place shares one 60 minute cooldown. The campfire has its own, 5 minutes.
My advice: put the reagents of the whole batch in your bags before you place the rack. 15 minutes is enough for a batch, and the next rack is an hour away.
Tanning Rack
- Razorclaw the Butcher
- Razorclaw the Butcher in Shadowfang Keep drops the blueprint, rarely: about once in 900 kills.
- Leatherworking 140
- The skill to learn the blueprint, and to place a rack.
- Each rack costs
- 5 × Medium Leather, 3 × Fine Thread and 2 × Simple Wood. Thread and wood are sold by trade supplies vendors.
- Both can be traded
- The blueprint and the rack itself can be bought and sold at the auction house.
The first rack recipes open at 125 skill (6 blue kilts and legguards), but placing a rack takes 140. In between, you craft at another leatherworker’s rack.
21 of these recipes also ask for Pristine Leather, which the rack does not make. It comes from Skinning: a Scarce material that a beast you skin gives now and then, on top of its leather. The Legacy perk Bountiful Harvest gives 20% more per rank. Only a skinner of level 25 or lower gets it, from a beast of level 10 to 25 that is not grey and lives outside the starting zones: at level 30 you get none.
37 of the 48 are new Forever patterns, the blue armour of level 25 to 30. The other 11 are Classic patterns that needed nothing in Classic, Wolfshead Helm and Barbaric Bracers among them. See them all
Spinning Wheel
- Unstable Sentinel
- The Unstable Sentinel in the City of Dalaran drops the blueprint. How often is not known yet: the dungeon opened on October 8.
- Tailoring 140
- The skill to learn the blueprint, and to place a wheel.
- Each wheel costs
- 2 × Simple Wood, 5 × Bolt of Silk Cloth and 3 × Fine Thread. Thread and wood are sold by trade supplies vendors, the silk you weave yourself.
- Over the Faction Banner
- It replaces the Faction Banner at camp and keeps its Spirit for your faction.
A wheel opens 74 tailoring recipes: 54 new Forever patterns, the blue leggings, slippers, handwraps, cords, shoulders, cuffs, waistcords, gloves and sandals of level 25 to 30, and 20 Classic ones, the Mooncloth and Dreamweave pieces among them. See them all
Our best-in-slot lists count the pieces made at a Spinning Wheel, and say where its blueprint drops.
Every recipe that needs them
Grey skill: where the recipe turns yellow, for the patterns no trainer lists. Pristine Leather in gold.
Tanning Rack: 48 Leatherworking recipes
Spinning Wheel: 74 Tailoring recipes
At 300 skill, a third camp object takes over from each: the Sewing Machine for leatherworkers (91 recipes) and the Loom for tailors (43). Every trade climbs the same three steps at camp: the professions page lists them, and Camping explains the campfire.