WoW Lockpicking FAQFollow

Ratchet isn't that hard to get to. I went through there with a warlock on the sucubus quest and had no real problems. I went up the cost from Theormore to ratchet. The quest lead me to the Barrens. I even crossed into ashenvalle from the barrens. I was only lvl 20 at the time. I did this solo. The only way I can see a problem would be if you are on a PVP server.

Not knowing, I went on the boat docked at Booty Bay. I was never here and was adventuring to my own demise. No one was on the boat so I hoped on it. Boat docked at Ratchet and saw some alliance fighting. I jumped off boat to help them only to see them jump on boat and I was surrounded by Horde. Will never go there again, unless a guild function. That was with my Pally, who I have retired cause they suck. I will go there now because I am a higher level Rogue.

Just to add some info on the Desolace chests...

I went to the Desolace chest area at LP lvl 156 and they conned orange to me so I'm assuming they are first LPable at 150 (155 at the max). I got all the way from 156 to 225 very quickly (30min or so). The chests turn green at 200 but still give good skill-ups up until 225. At 225 they still con green, but I wasnt able to get a single skill-up off of one.

The majority of the chests are located around the underwater naga-infested ruins between the two lil islands that appear on the map. The exact position of the ruins is (37,21). There are a few chests in the ruins themselves but the majority of chests can be found all around in the surrounding areas (all are found in easy to see sandy areas, none in the jagged rocks). There are so many in fact that as soon as you're done LPing one section more in another section have spawned.
The following is a lost of locations where waterlogged footlockers appear:
33,24
33,26
34,20 (x2)
34,21
34,25
35,19
35,20
35,23
35,24
36,20
36,22
36,25
37,22
37,23
38,19
38,20
38,22
40,18
40,20

If you're hellbent on getting all the chests in the area go ahead and use the precise locations, but I think generally it's easy enough to find em just by swimming around. The footlockers go all the way down the coast line until the wrecked ship where I found one chest, but nothing more beyond that.

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Also, a lil side-note for the chest in the lone house at the Venture Co Mine in STV: I went there at LP lvl 130 and wasnt able to open it. I returned at 156 and still was unable to open it. Someone had posted before that it conned green to them at 161 so I dunno what's up. Maybe Blizz has upped its skill level recently. /shrug

For my lockpicking, here is where I went higher levels:

1-75: Redridge up at the farm building. Keep hitting those till you get up past 75 or so.

75-175: Hillsbrad and Arathi. Durnhold Keep in Hillsbrad has lockboxes that spawn to level you quickly. Stromguard in Arathi you can pickpocket the guys for junkboxes to unlock.

175-225: Badlands Angor Fortress south of Uldaman. There are boxes within here to get up to 225 pretty quickly.

225-280: Tanaris Pirate Cove on the East coast. There are dented lockboxes that you can picks that can get you to 280 easily.

280-300: EPL at Tyr's Hand from what I have heard, although I haven't gotten that far yet.

I have hit 280 and there are lockboxes in EPL. If you get stuck, ask your rogue trainer and they will give you areas to level your lockpicking. Of course they go by your current level and not LP level, so if you are level 55 like I was, they tell you to go to EPL when my LP was only 150ish at the time.

Edited, Fri Sep 9 11:03:26 2005 by Clox

Can I just say you are my hero? This is a wonderful post. Will you marry me? ;)

"You go to Ratchet... there is a pirate ship on the beach, in the bottom of that ship is a series of practice locks and a main quest chest at the VERY bottom (towards the Beach), this main quest chest will take you to lvl 175.... now here's the trick... "

Tried this didn't work. I'm 135.

sorry I had not read far enough in the post.

Thanks all for contributing I'll be in the poision quest tower.


Edited, Tue Nov 1 12:27:25 2005 by djprimeight

i got from 253 to 300 in about an hour and a half (i have those gloves with +5 LP)

BRD = YOUR BEST FRIEND

the 3 doors ofc, but actually i mean the arena - i pickpocket every mob in there about 3 times - giving me about 40 boxes, 8 gold and 2 star rubies :)

they drop the highest level box (i got exactly TWO of the next level down juk box while i was there) you dont need to worry about people killing your mobs and you can reset it as much as you like (since it'll take you 20 mins + to rob every mob)

made it a breeze :)

Edited, Sat Nov 12 00:14:07 2005 by Jaszon

In Swamp of Sorrows. Around Sunken Temple went from 135 to 220 in about 40 minutes. Just circle the bottom and first level of the temple. Easy. I bought a bunch of underwater breathing potions thinking it would take a while. Just needed one.

Swamp of Sorrows lock picking info
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I didn't see much information on upping your LP skills in Swamp of Sorrows, so here's the info that is valid as of tonight, 12/14/05...


WARNING: dont get too adventurous on the edges of the Pool of Tears because there are quite a few 40+ elite dragon-kin mobs on land, and a very pesky level 60-62 elite dragon named Somnus who prowls around the eastern edge of the Pool...


(1) If you're NOT undead, do like someone said in one of the messages above reguarding under-water LP boxes: get some potions that allow you to breath underwater!! I can't emphasize this enough -- I was spoiled having two undead characters who can stay underwater sooo long, that I forgot about this part. My 43 Troll Rogue could barely reach the area on the bottom of the Pool of Tears and had about half of the breath left to pick the lock and get back up to the surface!

(2) Your mini map must say "Pool of Tears" at the top, if it says the "Temple of A.....whatever" swim around until the mini map says the correct thing...

(3) There are some level 38-40 fish that will aggro if you get too close and you don't want to start a fight underwater if you're NOT undead, drag any aggroing fish up to the surface and fight them there...

(4) All of the lock boxes I found were inside the DARK BROWN area on the mini-map of Pool of Tears, but your mileage may vary... I just swam around to the same four pops and they would be back up by the time I got back around, so I didn't spend too much time looking elsewhere...

(5) NOW, for the part that people who DO NOT use UI MODs is going to hate... the Cosmos LOC (or other UI mod's I've been told) of the four places I found that you can swim around to with respawns up by the time you get back to the first:

69, 45 (northern part of Pool of Tears)
72, 45 (just east of the above box, also norther part of PoT)
73, 55 (due east of the bottom of the ToP picture on M Map)
66, 58 (south and west of the bottom of the ToP picture on M Map)


And that's all the info you need to get your LP skills up (to at least 215 which was where my Rogue was needing at Level 43). The boxes were Orange in the low 200's where my rogue was at, and were still yellow at 214 or so, but i've read this will get you to at least 250.

Hit a snag.

for a while my lockpicking was x/250, then it bumped to x/260, now 260/260. i've been picking thorium boxes and other yellow & orange things, but it won't go past 260. am i missing something obvious like training or a quest or something that will allow for skill over that amount?

thanks

This is not true, i'm a lvl 48 rogue and i just talked to my trainer about lvling my LP(which was at 130ish) they told me to go to Durnholde Keep i'm at 161 LP right now because i got disconnected, but tomorrow i'm going to get it to at lest 175 there. The battered footlockers for me right now are green, but every now and then for some reason they turn yellow. But those are usaully off the beaten path.

not sure if this is already said... i didn't feel like reading all comments but Ratchet is NOT horde territory... it's Neutral(i could run around as alliance without being attacked there)
just a small thing i wanted to say :)

I'm 157 in lock picking and so went to that ship in ratchett, got to the boxes and they're all grey !!