WoW Lockpicking FAQFollow

I was standing around in SM today waiting for the rest of my group to show up and I figured I'd ***** around with the doors. I'm currently lvl 39 and when I got there my LP skill was 190. I picked the arm door (orange to me) and got a skill up. Then went to the cath door (again orange) and skilled up. I then proceeded to the armory where I was going to zone in. Low and behold it was locked again. I went back and fourth picking them until I got to 195. They locked after each pick. I could even stand there and pick the same door. The area was kinda busy, and I did already have a member of the group in the instance. I don't know if this had anything to do with it, or if it was a glitch, but definitely let me skill up fast. I'll be going back when I hit 40 for some more quick skillups.

i would like to update the location of the lock boxes in desolace, they are more precisely located north-west of ethel rethor amongst all the naga

Here is one place that I did not see in the above posts that will take you to 170 lock pick skill. In the barrens near Sludge Fen at location 54 5 is a structure with a 30 elite at the top, Grand Foreman Puzik Gallywix. The way up is guarded by groups of 2 25 level drones. At the top is a footlocker that you can pick till you hit 170. I soloed my way up there, but was level 35. So take some friends if you are much lower. Even at 35 he got me down to about 50% health each time I fought him, he respawned 3 times in about 15 minutes. I took by skill from 144 to 170. I don't know the low end of the box, but it was green when I started.

I tried running around angor fortress and unless i am in the wrong place, the small fortress is crawling with nme's. hardly a place to raise lp'ing without major fighting. plus didnt see (m)any boxes to pick. Otherwise, my lp experience (as alliance):

Good info about the starter boxes.

When pickpocketing folks in Durnholde I got junkboxes as well as emblems and that raised it some.

Then swam around the lake in Red Ridge for a while.

Then went and picked the boxes in Durnhole. There is pretty much a pattern to follow around the whole of the keep and a vendor to sell junk off to as you pick pocket the mobs as you go. (I could imagine a mob going "i know i brought my luch, but I dont have it" then they go to vendor to buy food and pick out what they had packed for lunch and it is in the packaging they put it in. lol)

Then swam around Desolace for a bit. The coords listed about are accurate but found the respawn to be random, but at coords listed above.

Then swam around Pool of Tears a good while. There is a circular pattern if you are alone under the water the boxes usually respawn by the time you make it back around to them, if not keep swimming the pattern. Plus if you alliance you can possibly grab a lost supplies keg on the way, get some human influence and a chance at some good items.

Worked on the doors at Scarlet Monestary for awhile, not much luck. Skill ups seemed inconsistent.

Found skill up boxes when pickpocketing pirates in pirate cove in Tanaris.

Am thinking of heading back to Swamp of Tears to max out lp, currently level 44, lockers in pirate camp in Tanaris red to me at current.

im a lvl 17 and i got that skill but i didnt have to do a quest to get anythiing but it is hard to find thos places and thos boxs if ur in vek'nash plz help me my name is xxflippenxxn plz help

When I had 263 lockpicking I headed down to Tanaris and the Shipyard along the eastern coastline (Lost Rigger Cove or something like that) and skilled all the way up to 300.

Polly chest turns Grey at 125 now FYI. Normally you can't see it's color if you've already done the quest, but if you do the click pick trick as it fades back in you can see it, and yeah, was just gonna level up my lockpicking there. Off to check the tower and see if it works to 170.

i just started WoW and chose to be a undead rogue, i read all you said about lock picking and have a simple noob question lol...lock pickin opens doors and chest..but wut is the real point of it? are there items in these boxs? does spending all this time lvlin ur LP make a huge differnce and is worth the time? wut do i get from it lol? sorry to be such a noob but im new and i want to understand :P thx

ok...looking for boxes to lockpick in Desolace and I did search all over in Sar'Theris Strand and only find shellfish traps. The location y'all keep giving us doesn't mean a thing to me. I don't have the key for the location. One of ya say its in the northside. Bah...not enough information to find those blasted boxes. Sooo since some of ya know where it is could ya at least give the right information where those blasted boxes..otherwise its a waste of my or others time to look for this.
*Bows*

UPDATE As we all know, Ratchet is a Neutral town like Booty Bay. edit I saw how someone thought they got PvP flagged upon entry to Ratchet if they were Alliance...if they saw only flagged allies there it was probably because they were recently in the vicinity of XRs, which is very nearby? I see allies there all the time who are unflagged, and I go to Ratchet quite a bit.

Edited, Jul 25th 2006 at 4:11pm EDT by oblivione

I just thought I would mention that the "Polly" chest in the Barrens will go grey to a rogue once you reach 125 in skill. I personally found this out the other day. It says in this guide that you can reach 175, but this is not true.

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