Pick Lock

For those coming across this post years later, I can verify that as of 6/3/2012 you can still got to PoT and stand facing the rotating book for lock picking skill ups. It doesn't matter which direction you face as long as the lock pick set is on your cursor and you are facing the book. Then just spam your U key for easy skill improvements. I went from 24 to 224 (at level 46) in about 20 minutes while watching the season 2 finale of Game of Thrones!

Handy tip clickin the book in Tranquility: Left click and spam "U" to interact with closest object. Pick up skills up as fast as you can spam both ;)

15 to 216 in about 15 min. nice.

Bard lvl 76 start picklock from 0 to 293 less than 30 min in Plane of Tranquility

I got the Quest Behind Closed Doors from Kressrala in the area of the Guild Masters at lvl 10. The second door of th inn on the right in the city will get your skill up to 30. Ill keep coming back as I level and see if I can see if its progressive or not.

As of June 2006 many of the old places to pick locks don't work anymore or the doors are no longer locked. My baby rogue found a door on the second floor of Befallen however that was locked and she could gain skill in (started there at 170) It is on the second floor, loc is -566 +43 and is the door labeled "B" on the OLD eqatlas maps. (hee hee thank goodness for old paper maps!) This door requires the Charred Bone Key for those non-lock-picking types. As of this date also, the door to the Hole was not working for my rogue at all. (could not open it or pick it)

The first door in befallen has been fubared for a while. It opens without a key.

Just two days ago i went from 11 to 200 in Befallen in a few hours(non stop picking)...

I will go to freeport today(so I can afk and not freakin get dead by the stupid named that almost keeled me in befallen the other day lol)..

But it works easy enough.. the POT probably works faster.. but lol.. i activated an old account for this rogue and havent gotten a copy of Platinum (which has PoP etc).

You must have a min of 11 to pick the lock at Befallen. So add some points then go down and max yourself out.

Simple tip. Keep clicking on the door. I waited like a dummy till the door closed before I hit pick lock again. You can open and close and in a matter of 30 minutes I went from 11 to 90.

is there a skill cap on this for bard? at 48 i seem to be stuck at a skill of 106

ok with doors u pick up the lockpicks and click on the door. With a locked chest like in LDoN u click on the chest and have it targeted and click the pick lock hotkey (be sure the chest isnt traped) and there ya go.

Edited, Fri Nov 28 06:32:06 2003

Ive been playing for almost a year and so far i have yet to find a locked door or chest. Where do you normally find them?

Im wondering what great use we have for lock pick. Can we open the chests in LDON and is there money in the banks if I do decide to get carpal tunnel learning the skill in befallen?

wher does one find "mechanical lockpicks". I tried ti look them up on alakazam but came back no such item exists.

Can someone plz tell me the spots to buy lock picks!! Thanx!!

Does anyone know of a chart of door trivials and which door can not be picked?

Thanks for the info i spent 30 mins trying to pick the locked chest in the derv camp tent. with a pick lock button .

I have found paineel a very handy place to start my lock picking career. After killing around 400 kobolds in the warrens from level 8 to 11 I finally got to dubious with the gaurds, then (still unable to get the key from them) I just picked the lock and headed in (handed in heaps of teeth and got 12th in seconds and amiable faction)
I have skilled up to 70 on the paineel rock so far and it took around 20 minutes.

Redspectre

ok i want to know if you could skip the shackle keys that you need to get in crushbone to free the elven slaves. could you pick the locks instead of using the shakle keys to free the elven slaves


24 level rogue
xev server
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Yeah items that modify (sp) your skill will help.
Like for a lvl 41 rogue(with max skill 200) give him a pair of Gloves of the Blood and he now has the skill of 206

Gloves of the Blood are nice they have no other stats other than +lock pick %3

How i figured its 206 (200 x .03) (.03 is the whole % just in decimal form)

200 x .03 = 6 then just take the 6 and add it to the 200 because its adding to your skill

Heres a link if you want to take a look at them
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=8074


Zenthes 51 paladin
Hurrwin 42 druid
Nurrwin 41 rogue
Lkru 39 shaman

Ok, I've built up my skill to 185 in befallen 6 months ago, and never seem to have time to go back there. I have friends who want me to pick locks that require 200, and the only places I know to practice are Befallen, Freeport, and I suspect Najena, though since the other doors require keys, I suspect the one in the jail might, too. None of these places are convenient since the nexus made druids obsolete. I can get a port there, but getting a port out is going to be a hassle. I've searched Shadowhaven and found nothing pickable, and on several attempts to get lost in shar vahl I've found nothing pickable. I've been to Katta twice, and didn't find anything there either. Are there pickable doors anywhere within reasonable distance of the nexus or any nexus spire without sow or ports?

Having just maxed my skill out to 200 here is my findings:
1. The ability button Pick Lock does nothing.
2. To pick a door you need to be holding you lock-picks in your mouse cursor and then you left-click or press 'U'; over the door you want to pick.
3. At lvl 6 you need to put 5 practice points in the skill as the first door in Befallen needs a skill of 11 to be picked.
4. Providing your skill is high enough to pick a door, i.e. 11 for the first door in Befallen, you will NEVER fail.
5. Providing your skill is high enough to pick a door, i.e. 11 for the first door in Befallen, you will have a chance of getting a skill increase.
6. You can practice your skill from 11 to 210 on the first door in Befallen (you can use any door to practice once you have a high enough skill to open it).
7. The skill cap for pick lock is the standard 5 * lvl + 5 with a cap of 200 below lvl 50 and 210 above lvl 50. (This means that your skill will cap out at 200 at lvl 39).
8. You can not open lock chests, boxes, etc. using this skill, just doors.

There seems to be no quick way to raising this skill, just find a door and click. It has just taken me over 2 hours to get from a skill of 175 to a skill of 200, so I would suggest Frank Herbert's DUNE as a good playing companion while practising this skill.

To open the door in EFP for the Burning Rapier Quest it is reported that you need a skill of 122 (lvl 24) and to open the door in the bank at NFP you need a skill of 201 (lvl 50+). You can use a set of mechanical lock-picks that gave you a +2% modifier to lock-picking giving you a skill of 204 at lvl 39, which allows you to open the bank in NFP and I imagine almost all the other doors in the game (it might let you open the EFP door at lvl 23).

You can not open the door on the 2nd floor in Highpass Keep or the door in the Freeport Militia building in West Freeport using this skill.

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Edited, Mon Apr 29 09:55:46 2002

I have a lvl 7 rogue and I have found a locked chest but I can not fiuure out how to pick it. if i putt the pick on my curser and left click it drops the picks in the inv spot and now i have that chest on my curser. the item is a no drop so i can not remoove it from my inv.. PLEASE HELP

Edited, Fri Apr 12 11:09:13 2002

I think I may have screwed my first message up while trying to thank Cykatik for the information on lock picking so this message is to make sure that he knows I appreciated the info.

Thanks Cykatik for the instruction. I never would have figured it out on my own. If your ever in RV look me up and we down a few at the Fools Gold. Good Hunting. Thanks, Tufi

wow nobody has anything to say about pick lock huh