WoW Lockpicking FAQFollow

For teh discussion on rachet being a netral town. Rachet is in the barrens, the barrens is horde controled territory. In rachet Horde cna attack you but you cant attack them first, only after they hit you the first time. The Faction is neutral the Land is owned by us. And once you leave rachet you are fair game for all, the guards wont protect you anymore.

Reading from page 1, when the first person mentioned getting ganked in rachet i have a feeling he meant by horde not by the guards. The guards only attack someoen who starts stuff in town. But on a PvP server entering rachet as alliance is no different then a horde character entering westfall.

Perhaps I missed it somewhere but I didn't see anyone mention the footlockers in Wetlands located in the murloc camps and surrounding area. I'm at lvl 160 and some are still yellow and green to me. I went directly to these after finishing with the practice boxes in Alther's Mill.

*Note: the ones in the actual murloc camps are higher lvl to pick than the ones that are scattered and the ones in the water.

Just thought I'd add this;

Both lockpicking quest main chests go grey at 125. This is Lucius' Lockbox in Redridge, and the "Polly" chest on the ship south of Ratchet.

Both poison quest chests go grey at 175. This is the one at the top of Klaven's Tower in Westfall, and the one at the top of the tower north of Sludge Fen in the Barrens. Both of these will inflict the "Touch of Zanzil" curse when opened (-15 AGI, drastically reduced stealth ability).

It looks like the footlockers outside Menethil Harbour and the ones inside Durnholde Keep are the same levels, but there are two different ranges. Some are yellow to me at 160, some are green; I would imagine the ones that are green will go grey at 175 and the ones that are yellow will go grey at 200 (possibly 225?). Swamp of Sorrows and the ones of the Sar'Theris Strand in Desolace also appear to be the same pair of level ranges (some of them at both places are yellow, some are orange).

this was all done at lvl 43. Not sure if the chests & stuff grey out earlier depending on your combat lvl or not but this is what i found.

First 1-90.
There are a bunch of locked boxes on a boat below ratchet you can train on until 105. I'll use the map to Polly to show you where the boat is located.

90-125.
On the same boat there is the single chest that respawns about every 3 seconds or so that you can start on at lvl 90 i think is the minimum until lvl 125 max. It is on the same boat just lower level in the cabin.
*Note* For this you'll need to go in your spell book and Click on the Pick Lock ability manually and then click on the chest or it won't work. (Or you can download the addon i have attached.. it lets you pick lock without having to do so)

125-170.
The Poison quest for Rogues contains a chest in it that you need to open to get a Cache of something i forget the name of it. The chest is located RIGHT next to Grand Foreman Puzik Gallywix

170-175.
Here is where you get options on what to do. Being an undead rogue i was leveling in the badlands at the time so I went to Angor Fortress and trained on lock boxes there until 225. But Once you hit 175 you can also train on the locked doors at SM. The location of angor fortress where the boxes are is by this guy Ambassador Infernus

175+.
SM Doors can be pick locked.
Lock boxes in Angor Fortress are still able to level you up.
Pick Pocketing mobs over lvl 42 give sturdy lock boxes which will get you past 225 I think.

Hope the info helps to you Rogues out there.

Also keep in mind the lower level you are your pick locking skill will be cap'd.

45 - 225
44 - 220
43 - 215
42 - 210
41 - 205
40 - 200
... and so on.

One place that appears to have been missed (I didn't have the heart to read thru all of the responses) is in the lake around the Sunken Temple. With the exception of the occasional fish or group coming thru for the instance, you won't be bothered. Just swim laps around the temple. You should get 4-5 box spawns per lap. I don't know the levels, but you shouldn't grey out prior to around 250 and I think the starting range is around 175.

Allakhazam is not run by Blizzard. http://forums.wow-europe.com/ <- That site is.

The ratchet box just went grey for me at 125

I am only new to the World of WarCraft and have only been playing for about 3-4 weeks now but I have found no mention of my info below about lock picking (though might well of missed it, so please be kind).

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It's not easy being a Dark Elf Rouge!

We are all on the wrong island for lock picking and poison quests, but I came across a not quite perfect solution to going over to the Eastern Island for lock picking. You should be able to get upto level 125 without ever leaving for foreign shores by following the info below. Hopefully higher levels to follow !

As soon as you get Stealth lvl 2 this should work (I was level 22 before I did this though). . .

Purchase a set of lock picking tools from the the seller in Darnassus (I am sure the quest is the only way to get them free), once you have these tools you get lock picking lvl 1.

Make your way over to Atranaar in Ashenvale. Just off the road about 100 yards west from Astranaar there is a camp of Thistlefur's. There are loads of them going all the way up North from the first camp you see. Stealth into the camp and start picking pockets.

I get a Battered Junkbox from about every other Thistlefur I pick. It's easy to go round most of the camps and pick 30-40 pockets in about 15-20 mins. You can then retreat to someplace safe and start picking all the lockboxes you have found.

The advantage with this although it takes longer than using the practice boxes on the Eastern Island, you get money for it. Each run I have done I get about 15-20 silver from just the cash and then more from the Junkboxes, sometimes over 1s in each. I also very often come across Healing Potions which sell for 10s+ on my server, along with the food and the odd green item. I reckon I make about 1-2gold per run. I dont know how long it takes for them to be reset (perhaps only when killed?) but there are lots of them anyway. This got my lock picking up to 75-80 over a couple of nights.

Then I just went over to 'The Zoram Strand' (Western Coast of Ashenvale) and went round picking the chests on the beach (very little money in these though!). Currently my skill is 120 and I have only ever gained 1 point from the Eastern islands from doing the 'poisoned chest'.

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You see it can be done, just not as quickly, but more profitably. Now just to find some easy nearby Worn Junkboxes . . .

Hope that is of use to another Dark Elf

PS: Is there a addon/can I set a Macro to just automatically take everything when I pick a pocket without moving the mouse?


Edited, Nov 30th 2006 5:55am by Taraxacum

How does one get past 245/245 on the lock picking skills, I'm a lvl 49 Rogue...

Thanks

This is the best post in the thread so far. Imo at least

100-175 on the chests near ratched? NO WAY. They are grey to me at 130.

ATTN hord Rouges lockpicking 150-175 : in Desolace, on the Sar'theris strand in Ethel Rethor(north of the village), there are waterlogged footlockers in the water along the beach. There are slitherblade naga in the area 32-34, and the boxes are orange at 150. enjoy.