Pickpocket hostile traders/vendors

[Dundrofell]

Just noticed that not only can you pickpocket hostile NPCs but you can actuallty pickpocket hostile traders/vendors, thus getting access to their entire trade inventory (which would be lost if they were simply killed)! I needed the Gloves of Dexterity on my Honour run, but since all the Crèche Y'llek NPCs were hostile (after certain events unfolded in Lae'Zel's companion storyline) I couldn't trade with the quartermaster A'jak'nir Jeera. I proceded to kill most NPCs in the Crèche but let the quartermaster live (by running in and out of the entrance, a tad cheesy, I know). Then when A'jak'nir Jeera was the only enemy alive in the room I could pickpocket her quite easily with a level 6 Thief
buffed with Bardic Inspiration, Guidance and Gloves of Thievery. Very satisfying!

[Kernest]

Another application of this, although I haven't tried it myself, is that in act 1 hag's lair, there's the 4 hostiles before you get to the hag fight.

One of them is not all the way gone and apparently you can take the mask off of them to save them.

Maybe you could knock them all unconscious and come back after the fight, heal the one that's saveable.

[jonnin]

you can KO (toggle lethal) and pickpocket as well. I always PP zelvor after he gets knocked loopy in the grove... you can actually fail to PP a knocked out guy, but there are no consequences, you just click again. However it may be that KO vendors have the 'reduced when dead' inventory selection, so try it when awake is probably better if you need something.

[Dundrofell]

Originally posted by Dundrofell:

when A'jak'nir Jeera was the only enemy alive in the room I could pickpocket her quite easily with a level 6 Thief
buffed with Bardic Inspiration, Guidance and Gloves of Thievery. Very satisfying!

Just to clarify: her entire vendor inventory was available for pickpocketing (and I took most of it before failing).