stealing question

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I just don't understand stealing. My thief has been at 52 stealing for
two years now (don't play it all that often), and i'm having no luck
raising it by stealing stuff from barrels. Any suggestions on how to
work it up?

 

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:21:36 GMT, vince garcia <vggarciaxx@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>I just don't understand stealing. My thief has been at 52 stealing for
>two years now (don't play it all that often), and i'm having no luck
>raising it by stealing stuff from barrels. Any suggestions on how to
>work it up?

You have to steal stuff that weighs as many stones as your skill/10. So
you need to steal stuff that weighs 5 stones. When your skill goes up to
60 then you need items that weigh 6 stones. What you can do is fill a
container with items weighing the correct amount, then go to Buc Den
(Trammel) and find a deserted spot inside the guard zone. Then put the
container(s) down and steal the contents from them. I don't recall now,
but I think you need >200 items to flip the item counter but that might
only be at the higher levels. I had 3 bags filled with 125 items when I
was developing my thief.

Or you can just steal stuff from barrels that weighs the needed amount but
in Buc Den when the NPCs report you, there are no guards to whack you.

--
Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

 

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:21:36 GMT, vince garcia
<vggarciaxx@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>I just don't understand stealing. My thief has been at 52 stealing for
>two years now (don't play it all that often), and i'm having no luck
>raising it by stealing stuff from barrels. Any suggestions on how to
>work it up?

I have not had a thief in a very long time, but "if it still works",
get a friend that also wants a thief and find a spot where no one
will bother you, (not in your house, or a house your friended to),
make up bags with items weighing the correct amount and steal
from each other. Gain seems to be better when your stealing from
a PC.

I am sure they have changed it by now, (I hope they have changed
it by now), but I took a thief from 26 to 90 in about 4 hours doing
this with a friend. I was trying to prove to OSI/EA how easy it was
to be one of the biggest jerks in the game. Didn't work on
the powers-that-be, so I just went around stealing from all the chests
in town and made a LOT of gold. 😛 (That's when they put some really
good magic armor in the town chests).

Ice

 

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Michael Cecil wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:21:36 GMT, vince garcia <vggarciaxx@ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I just don't understand stealing. My thief has been at 52 stealing for
> >two years now (don't play it all that often), and i'm having no luck
> >raising it by stealing stuff from barrels. Any suggestions on how to
> >work it up?
>
> You have to steal stuff that weighs as many stones as your skill/10. So
> you need to steal stuff that weighs 5 stones. When your skill goes up to
> 60 then you need items that weigh 6 stones. What you can do is fill a
> container with items weighing the correct amount, then go to Buc Den
> (Trammel) and find a deserted spot inside the guard zone. Then put the
> container(s) down and steal the contents from them. I don't recall now,
> but I think you need >200 items to flip the item counter but that might
> only be at the higher levels. I had 3 bags filled with 125 items when I
> was developing my thief.
>
> Or you can just steal stuff from barrels that weighs the needed amount but
> in Buc Den when the NPCs report you, there are no guards to whack you.
>
> --
> Michael Cecil
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

Thanx--i figured it would be something along those lines. I'll start
haunting Bucs Den now...

 

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vince garcia wrote:

> Michael Cecil wrote:
> Thanx--i figured it would be something along those lines. I'll start
> haunting Bucs Den now...

Try bottles. You can add or subtract from the stack and adjust the
weight. Put the stack in a bag, and steal the bag.

The old pack horse trick still works too. Get a packy, and stay in
town. Tell it to 'guard' you, then open the packy's backpack, put your
items in it, and steal away. You don't go grey, and thus don't have to
worry much about griefers.


--
~ Ghosty
I Awoke In Britannia! http://britannia.blogspot.com

 

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"Ghosty Twofish" <ghosty@gmail.com.deleteme> wrote in message
news:4%VKd.39391$1n2.17164@fe09.lga...
> vince garcia wrote:
>
> > Michael Cecil wrote:
> > Thanx--i figured it would be something along those lines. I'll start
> > haunting Bucs Den now...
>
> Try bottles. You can add or subtract from the stack and adjust the
> weight. Put the stack in a bag, and steal the bag.
>

I don't think that you can steal bags anymore. :-(