| Being a Rogue in the World of Warcraft, besides being | | | | When you get your lockpicking Rogue quest you'll be |
| pretty cool, has certain advantages. One of these is | | | | sent to an area with lots of chests that quickly |
| that you are the only one who can pick locks. Others | | | | respawn. You'll either get the mill (alliance) or the ship |
| can blow them up, but you don't have to resort to | | | | (horde) or the dungeon full of chests and trolls (Blood |
| such crude methods. | | | | Elf.) Stay there and work on your lockpicking until |
| Still, you can't quite go to a trainer and just buy the skill | | | | you're at least at 70 skill, but try to get up to 100. |
| as you would if it were mining. You're going to pick up | | | | At level 20 you'll pick up your Rogue Poison Quest, but |
| the lockpicking skill from your friendly (?) neighborhood | | | | since there's a level 23 Elite mob at the end it might be |
| Rogue Trainer, at level 16, but he has this little job for | | | | tricky to finish. When you can get past that guy, on |
| you to do... | | | | your own or with a team, you'll find the target chest, |
| In addition to lockpicking you'll also get the Pick | | | | which needs to be picked. The interesting thing is that |
| Pocketing skill a little earlier in your training. While neither | | | | the chest respawns almost immediately after you pick |
| of these skills is essential to being a Rogue, they're | | | | it. This means that you can hang around and pick it up |
| both useful and fun. They won't earn you honor points | | | | to skill 175 (and kill that Elite Mob a few more times.) |
| in the arena, but you will pick up some decent loot. | | | | Although the skill leveling gets really slow after 160, it's |
| So why bother with lockpicking and picking pockets in | | | | still faster than swimming for footlockers. |
| the first place, if they're not essential skills? Here are | | | | Speaking of swimming for footlockers... You can find |
| three reasons, but you may come up with more. Note: | | | | these under the water in the Naga areas in Zoram |
| I''ll be using the term 'mob" several times. This refers to | | | | Strand and Sar'theris strand. Take a water breathing |
| any of the computer controlled entities you'll be | | | | elixir and pick these boxes till you're bored or you don't |
| encountering in the game. Other players aren't mobs, | | | | get any more skill increase. |
| despite how they may act, and you can't pick their | | | | As you wander the world of Azeroth you're going to |
| pockets. | | | | come across many humanoid mobs. Pick pocket all of |
| 1) For the Rogue loot. You'll pick the pockets of mobs | | | | them for the boxes, dead bugs, potions, pocket dust, |
| for boxes, which will require your special skill to open. | | | | coins, etc. By the way, Nagas and Centaurs and |
| These boxes contain stuff you need for your poisons | | | | Satyrs all have pockets, just as Pirates and Ogres do. |
| and your vanish ability (flash powder.) They'll also have | | | | Just don't think too much about what else is in that |
| some vendor junk and every once in awhile will have | | | | Naga's or that Ogre's pockets... |
| some other useful thing, such as a potion of healing. | | | | Mobs of level 42+ have boxes that require 175 skill |
| I've picked at least as many potions of healing from | | | | and your mobs of 52+ have boxes that require 250 |
| pockets as I have boxes. That's money you won't | | | | skill. The more pick pocketing you do the less you'll |
| have to spend at the auction house. | | | | have to wander off and find lonely footlockers. |
| 2) With a high lockpicking skill you're a little more useful | | | | By the way, picking a mob's pockets doesn't in any |
| to your group, since you can open locked chests and | | | | way effect what drops when you kill that mob. You'll |
| doors and open any boxes that may drop when mobs | | | | get the same loot when you kill him regardless of |
| are killed. Offer free lockpicking to any member of | | | | whether or not you picked his pockets before your |
| your guild. Heck, offer it in the trade chat when you're | | | | attack. |
| in the big city. It's an easy way to up your skill a bit and | | | | Speaking of footlockers...Footlockers in places like |
| you'll pick up some cash tips. | | | | Durnham hold require 110 skill. If you can open those |
| 3) Footlockers are found here and there, lurking, waiting | | | | then you aren't going to get a skill increase from the |
| for your skills. Sometimes they contain interesting loot, | | | | boxes you pick out of their pockets. Footlockers, in |
| so picking them is worth the effort, beyond just leveling | | | | general, require a higher skill to lockpick than the boxes |
| up your skill. | | | | you'll pickpocket off any mobs in the area. |