Pick Lock Guide

This guide is for all the up and coming Rogues (and the sneakier Bards!) in the world.

Special notes for Bards.

Lockpicking skill will max at 150 for Bards.

Bards will start KOS at the Rogue Guild in Northern Newport. Dal Dannan (Southern Newport  • Bard Guild) will give Bards access to the Rogue Guild for 10 .

To pick a lock, simply put a set of lock picks on the end of your cursor and click the door open and then closed. The 'Pick Lock' button is not used. Lockpicks can be purchased at any Rogue Guild. If a door jams during an attempt, there is a delay before it can be reattempted. It may be that harder locks have longer jammed periods. Equiping a Probe will increase pick lock making it easier to open doors and making higher level doors available to you earlier. If your skill is only 40 you can open a door that requires 50 by equipping it.

Guards ignore Hide and Sneak, and will aggro if they are nearby during a lockpick attempt. If the NPCs are green, they may not attack but will still produce Heat.

Newport Rogue Guild

Rikki Red-Hands (Northern Newport  at 89, 76  • Rogue Guild) will give you the Lock Pick skill up trials which lead to the item listed beneath the experience banner.

First Challenge

Trivial Level 40

Experience 500!

Soft Soled Shoes

Second Challenge

Skill 25 - Trivial level: 55

Experience: 1000!

Parrying Dagger

Third Challenge

Skill 40 - Trivial level: 75

Experience: 2000!

Probe

Skill-ups

How Skill-ups work

Each door has a minimum Pick Lock skill associated with it. You must have a Pick Lock skill at least that high in order to potentially unlock it, otherwise you will get a message stating that your skill level is not high enough for that door. No amount of clicking will get you any skill-ups on such a door. If your skill level is high enough, but not above that door's "trivial skill level", you will get a skill-up for every tenth attempt, regardless of whether you succeed or fail. If you succeed in picking a lock 10 times in a row with no skill-up, you have either reached that door's trivial skill level or reached the maximum skill for your level. Once a door is trivial, you will succeed each time - but you also won't get any more skill-ups there.

Doors

Skill levels	Zone	Location	Time	Notes	Goodies
6 - 36	Erudin Palace	Erudin City Office		Four doors in the dungeon	None
6 - 75	Northern Newport	Rogue guild		Set of four doors	Quest items (Old Playing Card x3)
30 - 65	Southern Newport	Bard guild's neighbor		(485, -45) One guard paths near this house, and a mangy dog inside	a rusted blade + Small Coin Purse + Small Painting
30 - >=35	Southern Newport	Tailor's neighbor		Door to the right of the Tailor	Small Coin Purse
30 - ?	Southern Newport	Brick building next to bank with the trash barrel in front of it		1 Guard (1:38 cycle), stand as close to the door as possible to stay out of range of the stationary guard near the bank	Cheap Jewelry
40 - ?	Northern Newport	Sneed Galeway's Trading Post		2 Doors, near the tavern and pond One guard paths by twice (2:25 cycle)	Silverware x2 + Coin Purse
? - <=70	Oggok	Tailor		2 doors, no guards	Bag of Gems + Small Statue
? - <= 70	Oggok	Armor Shop		2 doors, no guards	None
? <= 70	Oggok	Brewery		No guards	None
40 - <=73	Northern Newport	Houses		Five doors near Southern Newport 2 north most and the south most can be done at 40. Robert Grayes's blue house and the red one next to it can be done at 45. First Guard 00:50 cycle and Second Guard 02:45 cycle	1st house: Silverware x2 2nd house: Expensive Liquor 3rd house: Nothing 4th house: Locket + Small Painting 5th house: Silverware
40 - ?	Southern Newport	White house behind bank, across the street from office of the people		One guard paths by twice (1:38 cycle), always a citizen in front that will make you draw heat.	Small Painting
<49 - ?	Grobb	Weapons, Armor, Fletcher, Shields and Tailor shop		Didn't see any guards. Not sure about trivial levels but I was able to pick it at 49 without using the Probe	Coin Purse x2 + Expensive Liquor
45 - 85	Southern Newport	Bag n Barrel		No guards patrol here, citizens only present during day time. Citizens will call for guards even if invisible.	Cheap Jewelry x2 + Painting
50 - 85	Southern Newport	Nesiff's Wooden Weapon		Guard patrols during daytime only (1:46 cycle)	Small Statue
45 - 85	Southern Newport	Voleen's Fine Baked Goods		Bakery next to oven where you find Voleen during the day. One guard patrols here.	Silverware x3
61 - 75	Underhill	Near waterfall	?		?
57 - 80	Shrouded Island	?	?		?
75 - ?	Southern Newport	Blue house across from the Alchemist, building where you find Glamrer		1 Guard (1:38 cycle), there is always a citizen near by that will make you draw heat.	Small Painting x2
75 - 105	Athica	Tovanias Venom		Basement (right door) No guard(rats will give you heat if they see you)	Expensive Liquor x2
80 - 110	Thurgadin	Tailor's door		Two stationary guards day and night	?
80 - 110	Athica	Armor merchant's store		Two doors upstairs - [What's the point? The main entrance is locked and cannot be picked with 80 skill.]	None
80 - 100	Shrouded Island	Basement door		Through mansion main doors, follow left wall to second door, basement door is book shelf at (610, 56)	?
>=82 - 105	Southern Newport	Fish's Ale		1 guard patrolling	Silverware x3 + Expensive Liquor x2
100 - 135	Southern Newport	Building with Silver Crown Soldier out front (258,-299)		Northern Newport Rogue Quest	?
95 < ? <= 105 - ?	Southern Newport	The Herb Jar		One guard (1:38 cycle)	Ornate Knife
95 < ? <= 105 - ?	Southern Newport	Fireprides			None
100 - 135	Athica	Alchemist's shop		Upstairs; stay hidden	None
110 - 145	Athica	Tovanias Venom		Basement (left door) No guard (The rats produce Heat)	Large Coin Purse
110 - 140	Northern Newport	The Cobbler		First Guard 00:50 cycle and Second Guard 02:45 cycle	Silverware
X<150 - X>150	Everchill Caverns	-		Door to Nazdritch caves	-
125 - 160	Thurgadin	Mordin's Meat		No guards	None
125 - 165	Thurgadin	Argash's House of Carpentry		No guards	None
137 - 160	Thurgadin	Doogle's Drinks		No guards	None
<=160	Red Sun Mines	yellow area S of merchant		4 jail cell doors, 2 gobins in cells, one guard at W end. Can hit all 4 without moving	?
140 - 155	Mielech's Lair	Library		Door behind the false wall - stay hidden	?
155 - 180	Thurgadin	?	?	Two doors next to each other	None
? - 185	Eldenal's Mansion	Castle door	?	Stay hidden on the guardrail to avoid guard	?
155 - 185	Northern Athica	Building with Tailoring, Jewelcraft, and Lore Merchants		Three locked doors. Stay in the middle of the hall to avoid aggroing from inside the room	?
150 - 185	Thurgadin	Jeweler		No guards	None
180 - 215	Red Sun Mines	SW of merchant(-792, -421, 56)		Goblin roamers	?
Nontrivial in low 170s	Valley of Erimal	Alchemist (925, 755, -80)		an erimal dweller	None
Nontrivial in low 180s	Valley of Erimal	Food and Drinks (945, 655, -80)		an erimal dweller	None
175 - 205	Thurgadin	Shadowknight Guild (-20, -110, 2.5)		No guards	None
180 - 215	Cyrtho Malath	?	?	Near 4 Chancellors	?
? - 180	Thurgadin	20, -120, 2.5			None
200 - 235	Thurgadin	11, 155, 2.5		Rogue Guild (Directly across from The Icy Mug tavern) stay out of sight of npc inside or you will draw heat	?
206 - 235	Southern Newport	Fighter's Arena basement		In the room that leads to the Sewers	?
206 - 235	Thurgadin	?	?		?
225 - 250	Northern Newport	Paladin guild's neighbor	?	(-32, -87) Guard patrols	?
235 - 250	Northern Newport	Jewelry store		Two guards	?
<= 85	Thurgadin	Internal door of bank		Guard posted during daytime only	None
? - <= 180	Southern Newport	Office of the People		One guard (1:38 cycle)	Large Coin Purse
? - ?	Southern Newport	Central Port Warehouse		2 guard patrol very close by. Once you get in I suggest using a 2nd character to see when it's clear to come back out.	?
? - <= 180	Erudin	Tailor		1 guard patrol?	Small Coin Purse
? - <= 180	Erudin	Fletcher		1 guard patrol?	None
? - <= 180	Erudin	Blacksmith		2 citizens nearby, stand on the side of the building by the forge to pick without drawing heat.	Tinkered Gadget
? - <= 180	Erudin	3 doors at bags merchant. 1 door at entrance. 1 door to get behind counter. 1 door that leads upstairs.		1 guard on patrol? Asmen Durkal inside.	Expensive Liquor
? - <= 180	Erudin	2 doors inside augmentation shop.		1 guard in room, you need a "distraction" to safely pick this lock.	Large Coin Purse x2