Lockpicking guideTaken from : WoW rogue forums All comments are welcome in the forums here : Class Forums
Q. How do I get the skill lockpicking?
Q. Okay, I have the quest, but my skill is super low I can’t complete the quest, what now?
Q. What do these colors mean? Red? Orange? Grey? I’m colorblind!
Q. Do I have to visit a trainer to get journeyman/artisan/safecracker rank in Lockpicking?
Lockpicking Guide from 1-300
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. 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.
Pickpocketted stuff:
Battered Junkbox (Orange: 25? Grey: 100?)
Dropped Chest - These are extremely random, so don’t try to camp them. Please see note above
Heavy Bronze Lockbox
Footlockers:
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)
From Fishing:
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)
Links for lockpicking quests with respective insta-chests:
List of things that increase Lockpicking:
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. Note that you 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.
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.
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.
PvE rogue buildOne sample of a good PvE build Minimum Required Level: 60
Assassination Talents - 15 points
# Improved Eviscerate - rank 3/3
Combat Talents - 31 points
# Improved Sinister Strike - rank 2/2
Subtlety Talents - 5 points # Master of Deception - rank 5/5
What this build does is maxamises the damage from your swords over long fights. While you can do a lot of damage quickly, ambush based rogues do a lot more in a much shorter period of time. This build is non positional (no haveing to get behind the guy to get great damage from backstabs) and works fantastically on long fights with blade fury to open and slice and dice for lots of white damage (MC boss anyone =).
The solo listFor the solo rogue Check out the following link, very useful list of those quests and mobs we can (and nolonger can) solo or duo. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-rogue&t=386851&p=1&tmp=1#post386851 Page 1 of 1 pages |