Pick your ownFollow

Well I'm not going to sit here and let enchanters do all the whining...

Not technically a trade skill, but my rogue is accustomed now to being asked to open a lockbox while hanging around in (or rushing through...) any of the cities. Or out in the middle of nowehere...and nowhere near the person who's asking, because they just searched for rogues in the zone. Once in a while I'll get a tip, slightly more often they'll answer my whisper as to what was in the box - I get some small reward from knowing someone else got something nice.

But I was fishing in Dala the other day when a dwarf nudged me and asked if I'd open a box (I'm pretty sure he said a box...) His first attempt involved putting the box in one of the trade slots in the trade window, rather than the action slot at the bottom....followed by two more boxes, again in trade slots. I closed the window and told him how to use the action slot. So...first box, second box, third box, got a little rhythm building up here, not taking too much time really....fourth box....tenth box...twelve boxes, total.

I'm already committed here, so I went all through the twelve without kicking off, but latterly thinking "there'd better be a tip and a half in this for me...".

No, of course not, not even a thank you.

So, if anybody runs into me and is appalled that I'm now charging 1g a pick, up front, for random requests, there's your reason.

Sounds to me that guy/women needs a social lesson,

A year ago I had a sort of same situation, I felt compelled to say something about it which, ofcourse, ended in a flame from that individual. --> 2 possibilities:

1 rude
2 child

eitherway: /ignore

Guess I'm lucky in that my GF is a rogue so I mail her all my lockboxes.



Heh, back before Outlands when, crap, can't remember the name of the armor, but it was the black stuff with the lightning bolts all over it, was first rate feral armor - combine that with the fact that some type of dagger was my weapon and quite a few peeps thought I was a rogue - doubly funny seeing as I'm horde and therefore my druid is a Tauren.

My motto holds! There are 6 billion people in the world, most of them are idiots and they are breeding the fastest.

I haven't gotten anything unlocked since before WotLK came out (for one, there are just about 0 rogues that play anymore and I simply haven't gotten many boxes while leveling); but while I was at the level cap of 70 for a while, I'd always tip 3G to open a box. My alt was a disenchanter and the mats more than made up for my tip. Ports were usually 5G but every once in a while I'd throw out 10G if I was feeling generous. I don't raid so I didn't really have anything to save up for anyway.

I abuse my friends for boxes/DE. Abuse is the keyword. It is so bad I should be put in jail.

Yes, you do get skill points for opening peoples boxes through the Do not trade box.

If your trying to skill up Lock picking, here are my hints.
grind humanoid mobs your your level, pick pocket every single one of them as you grind.
Have a LW make you the +5 lockpicking gloves, it can help you bridge those small gaps between box types.
remember your LP skill is maxed at 5*your level. if you dont know what level mobs to pick pocket to get boxes you need, generally take your lock picking skill and divide by 5 and pickpocket humans that level.
....its soo more effiecent to pickpocket for boxes to level, rather then stand in town opening other peoples boxes....
happy hunting

For reference here's my old pick pocket macro:

#showtooltip Cheap Shot
/cast [stealth] Pick Pocket
/cast [stealth,nomod] Cheap Shot; [stealth,mod:shift] Sap
/cast [nostalth,nomod,target=mouseover] Gouge


And 12 boxes without even a thank you is grounds for a /w flame-fest to that jerks face holes followed by the glory of /ignore.

Just sayin'. =)

ya but doesn't that cost you way more gold than it would to just bribe...errr tip a rogue? Even if you are a miner and farm the mats yourself, you can still sell those mats for ~10-20G

When levelling BS I found that the skeleton keys were one of the cheapest ways to get skill ups, and so I made about 15 stacks of 20 keys. They can't be sold for much (requires BSing to use), so we may as well compete with the rogues...

Last night I was checking my mail in IF and someone just randomly opened the trade box and threw a lockbox in it. Is it so hard to ask first? At least tell me how many you have before I commit to opening them. One time I opened 12 boxes for a guy and got nothing. I've decided that from now on if you don't ask, I don't open. I don't need a tip, just common courtesy.

I also ask 5g for a portal. I usually start making the portal and wait for the trade window to pop u. If it doesnt, I cancel the portal right at the end and start making a new one.
Had a user during the Easter event ask for a portal, and kept the trade window open without any money in it. After the 3rd portal I cancelled, I mounted and left. He got really pissed off and put me on ignore. =/

I always tip at least 2g per box, or 2g for a portal, more if the rogue or mage travels to me. They are providing a service I require, and I compensate them for it accordingly.