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More info?)
for more information go to the WoW forums on the wow site and go to rogue.
there is a lockpicking thread
Or If you want here ya go - not sure about the colors but you can visit
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-rogue&t=20276&p=1&tmp=1#post20276
DISCLAIMER: This guide is not intended for the use of people with IQ lower
than 50. Thanks.
This is still not complete, I NEED input from everyone.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I no longer play my rogue and barely have time for the game,
if you need this updated, send me an email to prosper.spurius@gmail.com.
Insults will not get you a solution faster (Yeah, I am looking at you Donzia
from page 35 post 683).
Q. How do I get the skill lockpicking?
A. You must buy the skill from your trainer at level 16. Then you can
complete the quest that trainer gives you to get free thieves tools (or buy
them at 15 silver (or so).
Q. Okay, I have the quest, but my skill is super low I can't complete the
quest, what now?
A. In the same area as your lockpicking quest, there should be some chests
you can level up on. These chests are orange at skill level 1 (see below for
color explanation) and don't go grey until about 100. Also, see down below
for a 1-300 skillup guide.
Q. What do these colors mean? Red? Orange? Grey? I'm colorblind!
A. Every lock you pick has a 'skill level'. Just like with tradeskill items,
they are color coded.
Red = can't pick the lock at your skill level
Orange = guarenteed skill up
Yellow = good chance for skillup
Geeen = low chance for skillup
Grey = no chance for skillup
There is a list down below for commonly items and their skillup numbers in
reference to lock difficulty.
Q. Do I have to visit a trainer to get journeyman/artisan/safecracker rank
in Lockpicking?
A. You don't. Your skill scales with level: every level you gain as a rogue
translates into 5 extra points to your lockpicking cap.
Lockpicking Guide from 1-300
1-100 - Keep picking the instant respawn chests near the lockpicking quest.
100-175 - You can pick the Polly quest chest (Horde LP Quest chest), OR you
can use either of the chests in the Poison quests (Alliance OR Horde) you
get at later levels. You will have to click on your lockpicking skill first,
then click the chest. (If you have the reading and inference skills of a
legaly "mentally deficient" person: YOU HAVE TO READ BELOW IN THE TRIVIAL
LIST.) (I have just insulted retarded people everywhere, I've seen mentally
retarded people with more smarts than half the people in this board.)
For the Polly/Poison Tower chests: You NEED to activate (CLICK) your
lockpicking skill icon first, then (CLICK) on the chest as your cursor will
not change automatically like it did during the quest or before it.
175-225 - Pickpocket mobs for Sturdy Junkboxes. Several mobs drop them,
check thottbot and pick the best location for you. I recomend mobs in
instances, that way you can pick it clean, reset the instance, then go to
town again. You can also pick doors in instances at this range. I personally
picked the door in the Scarlet Monestary cathedral from 180-225 one day by
repeatedly resetting the instance.
225-280 There is no real easy way that I've found to skill this range other
than to keep doing junkboxes. You can use the gates in the NE corner of
Searing Gorge, but there is no reliable way to reset them (see notes below
for more information). Also opening lockboxes in your faction's major city
will get you skillups.
280-300 There are 3 doors in Blackrock Depths that are very close to the
zone in that you can use to skill up this.
Trival list
If your skill is lower than "orange" number, you won't be able to pick the
lock (It won't even let you try). If your skill is higher than the "grey"
number, you won't get a skillup from that item. A "?" marks information that
might be wrong, multiple "???" mark missing information.
Pickpocketted stuff:
Battered Junkbox (Orange: 25? Grey: 100?)
Worn Junkbox (Orange: 100? Grey: 175)
Sturdy Junkbox (Orange: 175 Grey: 275?)
Heavy Junkbox (Orange: 250 Grey: never?)
Dropped Chest - These are extremely random, so don't try to camp them.
Please see note above
Heavy Bronze Lockbox
Ornate Bronze Lockbox
Iron Lockbox (Orange: 75? Grey:???)
Strong Iron Lockbox (Orange: 125 Grey:???)
Steel Lockbox (Orange: 175 Grey: ???)
Reinforced Steel Lockbox (Orange: 225 Grey: never)
Mithril Lockbox (Orange: 225 Grey: never)
Thorium Lockbox (Orange: 225 Grey: never)
Eternium Lockbox (Orange: 225 Grey: never)
Footlockers:
Hillsbrad Foothills - Durnholde Keep (Orange: ?? Green: 145)
Redridge Mountains - Lake Everstill (Orange: ?? Green: ??)
Ashenvale Forest - Zoram Strand
Stonetalon Mountains - Windshear Crag and Associated Mines
Wetlands - Murloc Camps
Desolace - Sar'theris Strand (Loc 34,25) (Orange: 160? Yellow: 175 Green:
200)
Badlands - Angor Fortress
Upstairs (Orange: 175 Green:??)
Downstairs (Orange: <200? Green: ??)
Swamp of Sorrows - Pool of Tears (Orange: <200? Green 225)
Searing Gorge - The Slag Pit (Orange: 200 Green: 275)
Tanaris Desert - Lost Rigger Cove (Orange: 225 Green: 285)
Azshara - Bay of Storms (Orange: 275? Green:??)
Eastern Plaguelands - Tyr's Hand (elite) (Orange: <275? Green: ??)
Doors:
Doors in the normal world (aka not in instances) are usually on some sort of
timer. In other words, you can't repeatedly pick the same door over and over
again for skillups. The mechanism of the timers are not well known. Some
people say if you pick something else (anything else) inbetween attempts
that it will reset some timers. Others say that if you pickpocket a mob, or
kill a mob, or so something else, that this will reset the timers. It may be
different for every door. Suffice to say that reset an instance always (to
my knowledge) resets any doors inside, so use that method when you can. I am
leaning towards the pickpocketting theory for now.
Gnomeregan (Orange: 150? Green: 200)
Scarlet Monastery (Orange: 175 Green: 226 Grey: 275?)
Searing Gorge Gate (Orange: 225 Grey: never)
BRD Shadowforge Gates (Orange: 280 Grey: never )
BRD Prison Cells (Orange: 250 Grey: never )
Scholomance (Orange: 280 Grey: never )
From Fishing:
Battered Chest
Small Locked Chest
Reinforced Locked Chest
Sturdy Locked Chest
Ironbound Locked Chest (Orange: 175 Grey: 250?)
Other Stuff:
Most of these are chests used in quests that you can pick after you complete
the quest. Note that you will probably need to activate your picking skill
first, then click on the item as your cursor will not change automatically
like it did during the quest or before it.
Insta-chests from respective lockpicking quests (Orange: 1 Grey: 105)
Main chest in lockpicking quest (Orange: 75 Grey: 175)
Poison quest chest (Orange: 90 Grey: 175)
Polly chest (Orange: 90 Grey: 175) (See note 5 below)
Engineered Practice Locks (Green: 1 Grey: 90?) (You can only pick these
ONCE, so they are WORTHLESS)
Cozzle's Lockbox (house by the Venture Co. STV, it's on a ~20m timer)
(Orange: 150? Grey: 250?)
Links for lockpicking quests with respective insta-chests:
Alliance:
http://thottbot.com/?q=1165
Horde:
http://thottbot.com/?q=799
List of things that increase Lockpicking:
Dark Leather Gloves (+5 LP) (http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5538)
Various notes and other information:
1. Alliance rogues using the Klaven tower (Posion quest) chest: I just did
this at 39, go to Westfall to where the poison quest is at, top floor,
Klaven can take me down to half health at 39 if I don't dual-ambush so he
kinda hurts. Hopefully you can also be outside his aggro range to practice.
To do this just go behind his table (after he spawns he walks around the top
of the tower, wait until he is done and ends up a bit away from you), there
should be two chairs, jump over the chair closest to the chest and from
behind the chair pick the lock. Don't worry about Touch of Zanzil: a death
or Jungle Remedy from STV or cure poison from a high enough player should
make it all good.
You must be of a high enough level not to aggro Klaven!
2.You can skill up 8 times on the doors to SM, there are 4 doors, 2 inside
instances and 2 outside. They are on timers which can be reset.
(See confirmed information 1, above)
Only about half the chests are pickable and are trivial at 175.
Library: Chest in a cubby before the Gallery of Treasures, guarded by 3
mobs. Another chest that spawns in one of the hallways close to Doan
himself, guarded by typically 2 mobs + one roamer.
Armory: Chest either in the Training Grounds (guarded by 2 mobs + 1 roamer)
or inside the first part of the armory (guarded by 2 mobs + 1 roamer.) Can't
remember location of other chest off the top of my head.
Cathedral: Chest on either the left or right side of the fountain. Another
chest that spawns either by the monk guarding Fairbanks' hiding spot, or
spawns on the other side of the cathedral (guarded by 3 mobs + 2 that roam
close but may or may not aggro.)
5.South of Ratchet along the coast a short way is a beached pirate ship. No
pirates around ship, they are camped south of it. Bit tricky getting the
jump up onto the prow of the ship so you can get onboard, but can try
repeatedly with no hassles. The chest is by itself downstairs in the back.
Just keep opening it til you hit 175. No fuss, no muss and NO FIGHTS! (This
is the location of the Horde lock picking quest and is in Horde controlled
territory. Not recomended for Alliance characters on a PvP server).
Thanks to: Too many people to list so I thank: The Rogue Board!
You should thank Tyknee because he has like 10x more patience to deal with
you guys than I do and reworked the whole post so that it's really idiot
proof.
Thanks for the sticky Blizzard
Thanks to whoever put together the footlocker list
For the Polly/Poison Tower chests: You NEED to activate (CLICK) your
lockpicking skill icon first, then (CLICK) on the chest as your cursor will
not change automatically like it did during the quest or before it.
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