Lockpicking Guide 1-400

WoW Lockpicking Guide

Lockpicking – Unlocking the Secrets

Lockpicking is skill available only to the Rogue class. When he reaches level 16, a Rogue can train the lockpicking ability called Pick Lock with his class trainer. With this ability he will be able to open locked footlockers, chests, doors and lockboxes which are a random drop from mobs and bosses.

Is Lockpicking a profession?

Lockpicking operates similar to any other profession. It can be trained and then skilled to the maximum. A maximum skill in Lockpicking will allow a Rogue to open everything that’s locked. 

How can I raise my Lockpicking skill?

The answer to this question is simple. A Rogue can raise his skill only by picking locks. The leveling works same as with gathering professions like Mining or Herbalism. You need to find locks that are near your current lockpicking level in order to skillup. However, Lockpicking isn’t quite easy to level up but a great help with this will be your Rogue trainer who can point you to certain areas where you can find footlockers.

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Why is this skill only available to Rogues?

Rogues are considered to be characters that live in shadows. Most of their time, Rogues are in stealth or sneaking. This makes them perfect robbers and treasure hunters. They can sneak near some guarded chest, unlock it and take the treasure. Hiding is their main asset and advantage.

Special features

There is only one thing that can enhance your Lockpicking skill - Dark Leather Gloves. These gloves are created with Leatherworking and can increase your Lockpicking skill by additional 5 points.

Dark Leather Gloves are also very useful since they are able to reduce the chance that your lockpicking attempt will fail and they also contribute to a better range of your skill.

Is there any alternative to Lockpicking?

If you can’t find a Rogue skilled enough to unlock a lockbox for you or if you just found a chest in an instance and there is no Rogues in your group, you will have several alternatives.

Blacksmiths can make different Skeleton keys which can also unlock locks. There are 4 different Skeleton key recipes available to any Blacksmith at his profession trainer. Each of these recipes can create two keys. Engineers are also able to use Seaforium Charges in the purpose of opening locked doors and unlocking the chests.

Should a Rogue charge for his skill?

This solely depends on a Rogue himself. If he is offering his services via in-game Trade Channel then he will probably say if he is doing it for free or for a small fee. In most cases you won’t see many Rogues offering their Lockpicking skill.

Asking for assistance

If you happen to have many of the lockboxes in your possession and you are wondering what might be inside find a guild mate with Lockpicking and ask him if he can do it for you.

If there is nobody available in your guild or none of your Rogue friends have Lockpicking skilled up, you can ask any friendly player you come across in the city. Make sure you ask first if he can or wants to do it for you before trading him.

What can be found in the lockboxes?

Various uncommon, rare or even epic items can be found in different lockboxes as well as recipes, patterns and mats.

WoW Lockpicking Guide 1-400
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Here is a list of Junkboxes you can get with Pick Pocket. You can train your lockpicking skill with these too, however in this Lockpicking guide, we will only use Footlockers and Doors.

1 - 100

These chests below respawn really quickly. Skill up from 1 to 100 will be realy easy.

Horde:

• [Buccaneer's Strongbox] - These chests located on a ship near Rachet in The Barrens. 
• [Burial Chest] - Blood Elves can try this one 

Alliance:

• [Practice Lockboxes] - Redridge Mountains 

100 - 170

The Rogue poisons quests for Horde and Alliance are the best and easiest way to level up to 170. If you've already finished the quest, you can still use the chests to gain skill, but the chests don't highlight when you mouse over them, so you have to search for your lockpicking skill first in your Spellbook and then click the chest.

Horde:

• [Gallywix's Lockbox] - The Barrens 

Alliance:

• [Duskwood Chest] - Westfall 

170 - 225

Now you have to go to Badlands - Angor Fortress. You will find two kind of footlockers there, you will need a lockpicking skill of 175 to open the [Dentened Footlocker].

• [Battered Footlocker] - Angor Fortress - Upstairs 
• [Dented Footlocker] - Angor Fortress - Downstairs

Don't bother trying to Pick Pocket the mobs, the boxes you will find are already grey to you.

225 - 250

Go to Searing Gorge, it's near Badlands. Now you can try to Pick Pocket mobs too, because the [Sturdy Junkbox] you will find turns grey only at 275.

• [Dented Footlocker] - There are two kind of Footlockers with the same name, one of them turns green at 250, the other turns green at 275 

250 - 300

Go to Tyr's Hand in Eastern Plaguelands. Pickpocket the mobs and find all of the [Scarlet Footlockers]. In the time it takes to take a full circle of Tyr's Hand, the starting point will be pickpocketable and have boxes respawned.

300 - 325

• [Wicker Chest] - Zangarmash 

You can also Pick Pocket the mobs here, because they drop [Strong Junkbox].

325 - 375

• [Dented Footlocker] - Nagrand 

Same as above, Pick Pocket mobs. When you reach 350, you can go to Northrend if you want, but skilling up on these is a lot faster than pickpocketing mobs at Northrend.

375-400

• Pickpocket any Humanoid mobs at Northrend to get [Reinforced Junkboxes].