Lockpicking Guide 1-400

Professions - Secondary Professions

The basic formula for your maximum lockpicking skill at a particular level is (5 * level).

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, I will use only Footlockers and Doors.

  • 1 - 100

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

    Horde:

    Alliance:

  • 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:

    Alliance:

  • 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].

    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

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  • 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.

  • 325 - 375

    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.