WoW Rogue Lockpicking Guide

The Rogue is the only character that can have lockpicking skills in the World of Warcraft or WoW in gaming parlance. For most players, however, Rogue lockpicking skills are often taken for granted and underutilized. Warcraft lockpicking skill is good to have as you will come across locked chests, boxes, and doors that could give you tools or access to areas that allow you to level up or to get more loot to sell in the auction house. It is actually in doing the initial WoW Rogue lockpiquing quest where you can build up your skills.  

A Step At A Time 

You can be an Alliance Rogue improving lockpicking skills at the tower in Lakeshire for the initial WoW lockpicking quest. While you are at it, you should pickpocket as many humanoids as you can for anything that might be of use to you. You can actually save some of the items that you cannot open yet for that fast boost when you level up. If you want to know how to level lockpicking, WoW guides are available for you to learn from. A Horde Rogue can simply feed a parrot a cracker near Ratchet and then move on to unlock the chests on the boat. In both factions, a Rogue has to wait until the chests turn grey before moving on. 

Slowing Down and Leveling Up 

If you do not want to move into mobs or go on exploring for chests, you can stay in town, and sit and wait to open boxes for people. This takes some time but this is a way by which you can do your WoW lockpicking leveling through this. Keep in mind that your maximum lockpicking skill points could only get up to five times your level. A player starts at level 70 in the Wrath of the Litch King and lockpicking skill can be maxed to 400.      

Questing 

You can up your lockpicking skill by completing other quests like the Poison Quest where you have to unlock a chest on top of a tower at the Venture Co. for Horde Rogues or at the Westfall for Alliance Rogues. You just have to keep on opening the chest until it turns gray again just like in the initial WoW lockpicking quest. This can get your lockpicking skill up to about 175. Be careful, though, because you will get cursed every time you open the chest.  

Tricky, Tricky, Tricky 

The next step is quite tricky as it will require you to be quick and stealthy. At the Scarlet Monestary, you can unlock the door and get into the cathedral instance. You need to make sure your stealth points are high so that you will not be detected easily. You can either take the slow route of pickpocketing everything in the first instance or take the quick route of running fast into the instance and then back out the cathedral door while avoiding being aggro’d. You can get to as high as 250 by just the cathedral door alone. 

Getting to 300 Up 

Keep on pickpocketing mobs for boxes and footlockers you can open. Again, save those you cannot open yet for when you need a fast boost later in the game. You can find a number of footlockers to pick in zones within your level range. Then, you can move on to the Black Rock Depths and keep on lockpicking until you reach 300. You can simply open up three doors to the left of the entry to the Black Rock Depths and then go into a rinsing and repeating process until your lockpicking skill points show 300.      

If you want to learn more about how and where does a Rogue learn lockpicking in WoW, you can check out Dugi's Ultimate Profesions Guide for a 1-400 lockpicking leveling guide. Whether you are playing Horde or Alliance, you can find a Rogue lockpicking guide to help you improve your lockpicking WoW skills and get through a lot of chests, boxes, lockers, and doors for more loot.