How to open that first chest?

[|Revenge|]

that one lady gives you a very hard chest that you need to lockpick, i ain't leveling up an entire skill just to open it tho. Is there any other way?

[unripe mango]

lockpicking it is the only way. you're free to ignore it tho

[Duke Fleed]

yeah and its a really high level required too. Something like 50ish. My advice is that since lockpicking is already a useful skill to just make multiple training chests and practice on those, they dont use lockpicks

[Astasia]

You need 41 lockpicking skill while using a lockpick to unlock that special chest. I don't know the skill requirement without lockpicks yet, it's above 66.

You are going to encounter a lot of locked chests, it's worth leveling lockpicking. It's not "mandatory," you can ignore that special chest and bring other chests to an informer to unlock, but that costs more money than you often get out of it.