WoW Lockpicking FAQFollow

I would just like to ask if anyone could help me on this one.

I have the Pick Lock skill (from Rogue Trainer), the Thieve's Tools and still don't have the skill on my Character Sheet (the skill one), this way i can't up my level, is this a bug ? Have i missed anything ? Any sugestion to fix it ?

I sneak into BRD and Scholo to skill my lockpicking up. The doors in BRD I think are 260 minimum (Lvl 52) and Scholo is 280 (lvl 56). You can easily sneak to these doors and pick them. Then leave the instance, lather-reset-repeat. (Scholo's door locks behind you so you can re-pick it on the way out.) If you're daring, you can also sneak up to the undead guys in the first room in scholo and pick their pockets--they can contain junkboxes for extra picking fun.

Once you get to 60, I would recommend you start picking the orcs' pockets in Hellfire. I picked a couple of strong junkboxes and I still can't open them because I'm only 59 and you need a skill of 300 to pop them. If you're an imp sap rogue and just need easy cash, sappem and pickem, then move to your next victim (they do not aggro when coming out of sap). They're pretty perceptive though so use distract if they grunt at you. Easy peasy.

For Horde:

The chest you get your poison quest from will give you skillups to 170 or 175. It's on autorespawn, so it's a good way to go. You will still get the Curse of Zhengi or whatever, debuff. When you've hit 175 go find a pally/shaman/priest to cure it, and you're golden.

Dunno what the coords are. It's up past the mirefens.

I want to confirm something with this post as well, after reaching 160 LP from Durnhold, go to Desolace the boxes in the water located in naga infested waters are at the very North West part of the map off the shore. The average Naga is 32-35 however i did come accross a few that were around 37 but every once in a while. The boxes near the shore are orange at 160 which is great, they turn yellowish at 180-190, however if you go deeper underwater to some of the wreckage there is moss covered boxes that turn orange at that LP level. There are bubble fizzures to give you breath, however if you arent an undead rogue I highly recommend getting underwater breathing pots, because its a long swim down and up, in some cases you have to fight naga to get to the bubblers.

Yeah, confirmed. Those damn chests are kinda hard to find until you know what you're looking for, but I took mine from 169 to 192 there before I got sick of waiting for the chests to respawn. But it's high enough to take care of the level 40 lockboxes, so that's prolly how I'm taking mine to 225.

ZF ftw!

I am so happy i was able to find this. I have been looking for the lockpicking skill required for everything for a very long time. This has been very useful to me. Thank you. =]

I am level 85 lock picking and I need a place to improve my lock picking. All I need are the coordinates and location to keep it simple, I still don't know much about WoW yet. Thank you.

Another great place for skillup. Lake near the Sunken Temple dungeon (eastern part of Swamp of Sorrows). there are a lot of chests underwater.
Chests become orange on 190 skill and respawns pretty quick. Just take some water breathing potions and swim circles around the temple.
When they will be grey, you will be able to open most high-level lockboxes including Mithril, Eternium etc.

The horde poison quest chest is grey for me at lockpick 139, so I surmise that it turns grey long before 175 :P
...and I was hoping for an easy up...

Lockpicking makes a LOT of money in tips, but once you reach 225 skill in it, the only reasons to up it further are picking dungeon doors and junkboxes. But if you cared about junkboxes, you'd still be at an equivalent level of lockpicking for mobs at your range. ;) I can even open outlands junkboxes from level 60-something players with 300 skill (295 red, with +5 from dark leathers orange) so as far as I know, I can open everything that can be opened in /trade :p

And now there's a new area for starter lockpicking, Ghostlands thanks to the XPac. Amani Catacombs is the site for starter lockingpicking and can get you to 80+, and two Ghostland Troll villages, Zeb'Nowa and Zeb'Tela have primitive lockboxes, and are the destination for the follow-on Rogue quest.

Maybe things have changed since the time when it was hard to level lockpicking, but I have personnaly found it very easy (I am currently at 270).

I used the information above to level until about 220 and then only did I realize that I could effectively pickpocket all humanoids that have pockets ;) (and some non humanoids as well, like the slime-like monsters which btw look like they have tons of things in them as you can see arrows and other items in them).

SO, pretty easy: before using cheap-shot/ambush on any monster, pickpocket it first (mobs tend to detect you extremely rarely if you do it properly, i.e. coming from behind). You mostly get money, sometimes other cool stuff (namely rogue components) and sometimes chests. These are not as common as the other stuff, but still fairly common. If you do that on mobs of your level, you'll get green/yellow/orange chests, so not each will guarantee a skillup but most will give you one. According to my experience, about 10 chests will do for the 5 skillups you need at each level. And getting 10 chests from lockpicking is very easy. That's it.

Hope this will help others (try to be smarter than me and do it from the very beginning, you can occasionally also drop some cool stuff from lockpicking).

N.B. This lockpicking habbit helped me a LOT with some quests where you have to drop items from mobs... especially in Ashara when you have to drop scroll pieces from the slime-like creatures since a) there are very few of them and b) the drop-rate is ridiculously low: I pickpocket MORE pieces from the mobs than I got from looting them... and sometimes I got 1-2 from pickpocketing AND 1-2 from looting... SO, always pickpockets mobs from which you are expecting a specific loot.

N.B. bis: This is a bit obvious, but I still wanted to reply to one poster who said that, strangely, the doors of the Scarlet Monastery were green to him with about 170 lockpicking or something: this is because you character carries the key to the monastery, thus it is green. Otherwise it would be red.

Cheers,
nostra

Alexa,

Nothing to worry about here it seems.

Remember that your lockpicking skill is capped at 5 x your level. You say you're lvl 38 now, I assume that you've just leveled up and when you were lvl 37, your lockpicking skill was capped at 37 x 5 = 185.

When you successfully open an orange lock, you get an automatic skillup, guaranteed. For yellow ones, you most often do get one as well. For the green ones, it varies. Just like other skillups.

Now that you're lvl 38, try lockpicking more orange/yellow chests and you'll reach 190, no worries.

nostra