Rogue's ability: pick lock, no use?Follow

Both picklocks and disarm traps find more use in LDoN since there are chests which are locked. About 50% of the locks are mechanical in nature and require a rogue or bard to sense/disarm/pick them while the others are either cursed or runed and require a priest or caster with the appropriate spells. There are also floor traps which are less important but having a class to sense and disarm them definately helps.

Keep in mind that even outside of LDoN there's areas where having a rogue helps. You need a rogue to enter the crypt area of Sebilis for instance and most CoM reaver raids take a rogue along though now you can get a key for the door.

All in all it's not really a "class defining" skill in that few people make a rogue simply for traps and locks (as opposed to the great amount of melee DPS) but it's certainly worth keeping the skills maxxed out as you go through your career.

I don't have LDoN, there are few door and traps in Norrath to pick and disarm. How I can max this two abilities?
And pick pocket can be a very dangerous skill to raise,any tips on how to raise it. Can I pick pocket a player?

Edited, Mon Jan 12 00:22:33 2004 by therogueBlackMist

Edited, Mon Jan 12 00:23:05 2004 by therogueBlackMist

No you can't pickpocket a PC but you can NPC obviously, I found the best way to increase your pickpocket skill was to simple attempt it on any mob (PC or animal, summoned, elemental) green to you. Mostly to avoid aggro by guard I did most of my pickpocketing in newbie areas

Bear in mind that Pick Lock is a skill that people need a rogue for. While in LDoN bard picklock is probably good enough most of the doors like Chardok and CoM require skill past the bard cap.

I have been on numerous raids - or even groups - where the presence of a rogue was required for this skill. Where in fact the raid would have to be aborted if the rogue did not show up.

And rather like people assume that rangers can track they assume that rogues can pick locks. To get all the way into a zone to the locked door with a raid of 20+ people for the rogue to say "I never bothered to train it" is embarrassing for all concerned.

Train picklock in Befallen. You are pretty safe there (even for a rogue). The second door on the left is locked. Try getting a DEX buff beforehand as this helps. There is also a place in PoT but this may be an exploit.

Sense traps can be trained "on the run" like Sense Heading used to be. Disarm traps needs an actual trap to disarm. Either do a lot of LDoN with lousy groups and you will have enormous amounts of time to practise while they med up after every kill, or try the one in SoLA.

At 65 when doing raids both abilities are essential to the raid. Places like SSRA and VT both have a number of very nasty traps and several doors to pick. Doing the ST key you need a rogue to Pick a lock. Sebilis needs picklocking. All in all both skills are very useful. Now LDON also gives you plenty to disarm. Traps and chests.

To max your picklock skill you head to befallen there are several doors there that need picking.

To max your disarm skills I went to solb. If you go in and to the right you will come to a trap that you can disarm as long as you have patience. There is also a trap in sola.

in CoM there is 1 Black Reaver spawn on the main level behind the first door, which you can get a key from any of the Captian's fo the Guard, its no drop and gets added to your key ring. only the Lift needs to be picked for Shm epic mob up there.