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Comment by cyz0r

Just crafted my Synchronous Thread and on my very first time rift she appeared. She only sticks around for about a min or two and I wasnt able to buy anything because I was looking up what each pattern looked like on here. LOL

She only sells patterns for Embroidered Deep Sea Satin.

Patterns she sells:

Pattern: Azure Silk Cloak for 50 cloth

Pattern: Icy Cloak for 50 cloth

Pattern: Cindercloth Gloves for 75 cloth

Pattern: Cindercloth Vest for 75 cloth

Pattern: Robes of Arcana for 75 cloth

Pattern: Cloak of Warding for 100 cloth (old pattern removed for game)

Pattern: Felcloth Gloves for 100 cloth (old pattern removed from game)

Pattern: Inferno Gloves for 100 cloth (old pattern removed from game)

Pattern: Mooncloth Gloves for 100 cloth (old pattern removed from game)

Pattern: Belt of the Archmage for 100 cloth (old pattern removed from game)

As of writing this, I sat at the same location and the rift does respawn in the exact same spot. Talking to a guildie and he said its probably similar to the alchemist cauldrons and respawn every 6 min with set spawns. Seems to be the case since Im just sitting here farming the same rift.

1st: Vendor, 2nd: Chronal Cache of Cloth, 3rd nothing :(, 4th Vendor, 5th Chronal Cache of Cloth, 6th Chronal Anomaly spawned and dropped a grey :( time to go to bed.

Edit: BTW, you need to having tailoring leveled for whatever expac the pattern is from. I bought Pattern: Cindercloth Vest and dont have old world tailoring leveled :(

Comment by Dragoforce

For those collectors looking to clear out her inventory, you will require 975 Embroidered Deep Sea Satin in total.

Comment by Orixa101

I found my first rift today and was absolutely thrilled to find the Time-Lost Trader. I've been whinging about the loss of Knot Thimblejack's Cache and the rare patterns that were only available there since it was removed when Cataclysm hit with patch 4.0.2 (https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/6893571014)

Thank you Blizzard for finally giving us collectors the opportunity to catch them all... it only took six years! : )

Comment by Russell50

I am sooo happy! Blizz has finally contributed to us collectors of tailoring knowledge!

First, my story...

After finally getting my Synchronous Thread from the Tools of the Trade quest line, I set out to explore Kul Tiras for any Time Rifts, not actually knowing what they looked like, but assumed that they would be similar to the quest line's appearance.

My first one was found at the southern end of the isle that has the Shrine of the Storm dungeon upon. After repairing the rift, nothing spectacular...but on this very day which I write here, I was blown out of the water, pun intended!

At coords 27.7, 57.1 I found my first Time-Lost Trader! I had already saved up all manner of Embroidered Deep Sea Satin as currency and got every pattern she had on her. This seemed to be a destined event for me, for not only did she appear, but was sequentially followed by 2 others...3 Time-Lost Traders in a row!

Thank you, Blizz, for now I have that very elusive pattern Pattern: Cindercloth Vest that has been on my hunting list since Cata

And while I've been writing this entry, I have hung out in game with my tailor at the same coords...and had 4 more Time-lost Traders appear!

Happy Hunting, fellow tailors...it seems that the Time-Lost Traders wont be too terribly elusive. Just do a little camping

Comment by dreamturtle

All patterns are refundable.
If you don't have much cloths to spend and you are struggling with which pattern to buy first (especially when you are under time pressure), you can just buy the ones you are thinking about, and decide later which patterns you want to keep after vendor is gone. Any other trader will give you cloths back.

Comment by bbrett786

I wasn't one of the lucky ones to have the Time-Lost Trader appear after closing my first rift. For me it took well over an hour camping the same rift that respawns every 5-7 minutes before she blessed me with her presence, well worth it though as I'm recipe collector.

Comment by dreamturtle

I think the best place to farm this is Nazjatar - you can fly here, it is small area with no high trees or mountains, and there are lots of rifts. You can easily make your run-around-farm here. Or you can also use group finder to hop around different realms - there are always groups for quests, pvp, rares, etc.

Some other facts:

the trader has a chance to spawn from Time Rift after using Synchronous Thread (BfA tailoring item)
this spawn chance is probably around 18 % (I managed to get 21 traders from 119 attempts total)
the trader despawns after 2 minutes
requires 975 Embroidered Deep Sea Satin to all patterns the trader offers
all patterns are refundable back for cloths at any other vendor (not just time-lost traders)
a trader can be a gnome, human, draenei or blood elf - each has approximately same chance to spawn. The race doesn't matter, all are freindly to both Horde and Alliance.
all traders wear Mooncloth Robe

Comment by LaffiBoozegnome

Player named slylockk and Riallity made this list on the Synchronous Thread Page:
Recommended addon: CopyPasta Addon
Important! You can get Time Lost Trader more than once a day.
/way Drustvar 23 43 Time Rift
/way Drustvar 33 23 Time Rift
/way Drustvar 36 72 Time Rift
/way Drustvar 46 38 Time Rift
/way Drustvar 52.08 23.07 Time Rift
/way Drustvar 60.26 21.07 Time Rift
/way Drustvar 63 35 Time Rift
/way Drustvar 65 27.5 Time Rift
/way Nazmir 26 78 Time Rift
/way Nazmir 29.5 56.5 Time Rift
/way Nazmir 38 58 Time Rift
/way Nazmir 38 89 Time Rift
/way Nazmir 43 29 Time Rift
/way Nazmir 53 56 Time Rift
/way Nazmir 55 21 Time Rift
/way stormsong valley 36 70 Time Rift
/way stormsong valley 46.4 46.1 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 23 23 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 39.8 23.6 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 40 24 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 50 30 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 53.64 59.61 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 54.6 24.4 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 54.6 75.46 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 61.9 17.2 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 62 29 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 74.73 45.65 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 75 12 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 76.39 62.20 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 84.8 76.4 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 67.4 63.4 Time Rift
/way Tiragarde Sound 53 59
/way Vol'dun 37.5 86.55 Time Rift
/way Vol'dun 41.03 64.02 Time Rift
/way Vol'dun 48.94 84.14 Time Rift
/way Vol'dun 49.65 64.36 Time Rift
/way Vol'dun 51.21 72.63 Time Rift
/way Vol'dun 54 41 Time Rift
/way Vol'dun 58.25 62.87 Time Rift
/way Vol'dun 63.2 47.23 Time Rift
/way Zuldazar 43.6 77.4 Time Rift
/way Zuldazar 45 39 Time Riftm
/way Zuldazar 54 60 Time Rift
/way Zuldazar 59 75 Time Rift
/way Zuldazar 67.17 54.61 Time Rift
/way Zuldazar 71 35 Time Rift
/way Zuldazar 72.51 66.83 Time Rift
I also made a few contributions myself, that were missing. I have also made some of the coordinates more accurate.

Comment by Mason

Given the information about the 6 minute respawn, I made the most effective route to farm these with the provided waypoints above.

Comment by madmurdock

As a collector I just found out about this NPC today, built the needed Satin for the removed blue BOP patterns and tried my luck in Nazjatar. Because no one else did, here a list for tomtom

Macro 1

/way 47.4, 75.8
/way 37.4, 68.0
/way 43.8, 86.6
/way 42.0, 47.0
/way 29.4, 45.2
/way 26.8, 36.6

Macro 2

/way 36.6, 27.8
/way 38.0, 19.6
/way 44.4, 16.4
/way 50.4, 31.2
/way 69.8, 24.4
/way 77.6, 25.4
/way 64.6, 46.8
/way 62.4, 57.0
/way 79.0, 51.8

Not the best order, but feel free to edit it yourself.

During my first route 14 of 15 of the tears were open on my realm. I found 2 time vendors and 1 BC chest. So I got all of my missing patterns and about 400 gold in materials using the 2 macros once. Because of that I wouldnt recommend farming this to make money, but it seems a good way to get the mats for BC transmog items., resp for your collection. But I guess this depends on your server and how fast you can make gold. Also I cant say for sure, youll gett a BC chest every round.

While typing this I camped a spot. It respawns in about 5 to 6 mins. So if youre lazy and have some netflix to watch, you also can stay at a tear. Would recommend one without mobs and not near a flight point though. :D

Comment by Kilrathi3

I would hope that maybe other time lost vendors would be made available.
Making this the only way to get the now removed items that were sold at one time.
cooking, patterns, gotta be more stuff we could want back!

Comment by Allie82

Just an FYI only the person with the actual item closing the rift and spawning the trader can see it, even if you are in a party with another tailor. That person will not be able to see or use the vendor.

I was working on stuff on my tailor and didn't do this during BFA. I screwed myself out of being able to queue for Heroics by dinging 51 and the items needed to make the Synchronous Thread is locked behind 2 heroic dungeons. FML. Currently not many people doing BFA heroics :(

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Time-Lost Trader

This NPC can be found in Nazjatar (18), Stormsong Valley (8), Tiragarde Sound (8), Zuldazar (8), Vol'dun (6), Drustvar (5), Mechagon (3), and Nazmir (3).

Time-Lost Trader

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