Pickpocketing is a joke

[Grimreaper]

how pick-pocking works in this game is a absolute joke. what is the point of having a check to see if you succeed or not if even after passing the check the person is going to notice they have been pickpocketed like 5 secs after you do it?

thats not even the worst part. it doesn't matter far you go what other activities you get up to or if you take a long rest. they will still be looking for who pickpocket them when you come back, and they make a b-line straight to you even though you have been gone for hours or days.

i pickpocketed the gnome merchant in the druids grove, immediately teleported to a waypoint and started to do other things like clearing the spider cave, and even took a long rest. i came back to the grove and he is still trying to find out who pickpocketed him. and runs straight towards me once i am in range. how does he know it was me? he is in a grove with a gang of little children who are scamming and stealing constantly but for some reason im the prime and only suspect. this is so silly. i can't get to half of the grove any more without having to jump through hoops because he is in a central part when the grove forks into different areas.

[Mr. Darcion]

FYI. I've been figuring out pickpocketing in this thread. It might be helpful for you. :)

[Mr. Darcion]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/3808408328765596090/?tscn=1691253657

[Cosmo 🐲]

I noticed this too, i guess you should move away before they notice. If i remeber correctly DoS had that mechaninc.

[TeufelHunden]

Pick-pocketing was severely overpowered in DOS2, so I'm assuming they were having trouble balancing it for BG3 and thus gave us what we currently have. Pick-pocketing was the go-to meta for acquiring most of your loot so I'm assuming they are trying to avoid that this time around.

[DedJim]

You should read the guide on doing it right! You run away but stay in sight range. They will pace for a while then go back to normal.

If you run away and leave them they will stay mad. Once you figure it out it's easy.

Plus you can just go in turn mode and pick pocket every low level item all at once. Basically clearing out the entire stash in 1 turn.

They did nerf hexing the victim which was making it way too easy. Right now pickpocketing is op, just cast guidance before and go turn mode.

[Unrealtairo]

Lock them in convo first. Switch to thief char while still in convo

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Because if something goes missing you will notice and then you go looking for it, its realistic they added this cuz "stealing was to easy" and this also made sense people investigate when stuff goes missing, so steal and get gone dont stick around where you committed a crime dude thats good crimeing 101 lol

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Unrealtairo:

Lock them in convo first. Switch to thief char while still in convo

classic mark distraction lol

[Cosmo 🐲]

Originally posted by Unrealtairo:

Lock them in convo first. Switch to thief char while still in convo

Dosnt work, i did that and she noticed after anyway.
I think the correct way is this :

Originally posted by DedJim:

You should read the guide on doing it right! You run away but stay in sight range. They will pace for a while then go back to normal.

If you run away and leave them they will stay mad. Once you figure it out it's easy.

Plus you can just go in turn mode and pick pocket every low level item all at once. Basically clearing out the entire stash in 1 turn.

They did nerf hexing the victim which was making it way too easy. Right now pickpocketing is op, just cast guidance before and go turn mode.

[⇧⇨⇩⇩⇩]

Make sure to enable turn based mode for stuff like that, ;)

[Mr. Darcion]

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

Originally posted by Unrealtairo:

Lock them in convo first. Switch to thief char while still in convo

classic mark distraction lol

Hehe. Yea. Works really well though. :P

[Grimreaper]

Originally posted by DedJim:

You should read the guide on doing it right! You run away but stay in sight range. They will pace for a while then go back to normal.

If you run away and leave them they will stay mad. Once you figure it out it's easy.

Plus you can just go in turn mode and pick pocket every low level item all at once. Basically clearing out the entire stash in 1 turn.

They did nerf hexing the victim which was making it way too easy. Right now pickpocketing is op, just cast guidance before and go turn mode.

i basicallly did this by accident by writing this thread. i reloaded the game and left it running while i wrote this post and when i got back into the game he stopped trying to look for me.

doesn't change the fact that passing a check then then the person immediately noticing is silly

the "right way" should be passing the check. the point of passing the check is to see if you get caught or not

[Cosmo 🐲]

Originally posted by Grimreaper:

Originally posted by DedJim:

You should read the guide on doing it right! You run away but stay in sight range. They will pace for a while then go back to normal.

If you run away and leave them they will stay mad. Once you figure it out it's easy.

Plus you can just go in turn mode and pick pocket every low level item all at once. Basically clearing out the entire stash in 1 turn.

They did nerf hexing the victim which was making it way too easy. Right now pickpocketing is op, just cast guidance before and go turn mode.

i basicallly did the by accident by writing this thread. i reloaded the game and left it running while i wrote this post and when i got back into the game he stopped trying to look for me.

doesn't change the fact that passing a check then then the person immediately noticing is silly

the "right way" should be passing the check. the point of passing the check is to see if you get caught or not

Yeah, but at some point you will notice that something is missing from your pockets, right?

[Vaniel]

Originally posted by morrganstain:

Make sure to enable turn based mode for stuff like that, ;)

THIS

[Entity]

I had no problems. I got Astarion to steal a few items quickly, then I ran away behind my team and down the path. He went up to them and they denied it, then he went back to his spot after a few seconds. Rinse/Repeat.