Tailored Armor Step XV  

 

I realize this is 2 years too late, and you have probably moved on to bigger better armor, but I was confused too, and will post my best guess as to how this works for other ppl just come back to EQ wanting to do this.
I made the boot template this morning, gave it to my druid partner and she made the Rustic Boots of the Tender np.
This is the tier 1 VoA armor using Rustic Footwraps we looted in Argath.
You only fail on templates, once you have the template, which is tradeable, you are golden, you can't fail on the finished item.
Before you do any combines, you buy the Tailored Armor Step XV from the drakkin "a cultural tinkering historian" to the left of the PoK library front door. You click scribe and it poofs, it's gone and you're done with it.
Tailored Armor Step XV does two things as I see it:
First, it puts ALL the leather and silk template recipes for the Alaris armor in your recipe list.
Second, it ALLOWS you to attempt the template combines even if they are WAY beyond your skill.

I am only about 230ish tailor skill. My druid Vista is only 120ish. The template trivial is 400+. Most level 90ish players are not gonna have tailor skill anywhere near 400. On other items way over my skill, if I attempt to combine I get a message like, "Your skill is too low to attempt this combine". Scribing the Tailored Armor Step removes this roadblock. I tried the template twice with Vista. Two fails. I then tried it with Clio, one fail, then success. Passed the completed template to Vista and she made the druid boots. Remember, the finished item is NO TRADE, but it's also NO FAIL.
You can pass the templates and wraps around all you want, but the toon that's gonna wear the item has to do the final combine.
I'm guessing they did it this way so you don't get the armor EVERY time, and to keep you pharming Fantastic Animal Pelts, thus playing longer, and dropping more plat in a moneysink for the parts, if you really want this armor.
Chantress Clio
Drinal