Pickpocketing

[ESPADA]

I should start as I have seen people giving false info.
First the talent nimble finger. You get randomly by chance when you start your character and new party. Claude is 50% and 7.8% by crafting. Rena is 70% and 3.9% by crafting. The value on the left is the probability (in %) that a character will start with that talent, and on the right is the probability of that character learning it through specialties. You also get 100 SP and BP when unlocking new talent but is not important now as SP gain is infinite.
You will need the thief's glove which costs 40K at Harley. The shop's name is "The sunken vessel". Raise your Poker face and courage specialities to raise your pick-pocketing skills. You are given 3 tries per person and they each have 3 items. Some people are unique by event or PA(including your party), check whenever an event occurs, they may have different loot.
The shop will also unlock new items after the Celine event. The item is Relax perfume which cost 2K each. It reset the attempt count when used. Your friendship will drop when you steal each attempt. It is not 100% but a low chance. It does not matter if you successfully steal or fail or steal in PA, each attempt has a chance to drop your relationship.

[dog_force21]

Yeah but there's plenty of other ways to raise your relationship level though. So if I try to pick pocket a character and fail three times I can use the relax perfume to try 3 more times?

[ESPADA]

yes

[Xengre]

You actually don't need to worry about relationship being impacted by pickpocketing. See page 2 post #17 for specifics along with other useful foods and money making tips in the thread.

With the right food you can neutralize the relationship penalty for pickpocketing. There is also one for Contraband, too, I should probably go back and add.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2238900/discussions/0/3941272762729645545/?ctp=2#c3941272762732551529

[Mokona]

recruit Ernest for free 2 Battle Suits when pickpocketed.. (one on Linga and one on Marze)

[Louis Cypher]

However, restarting the game because of nimble fingers is pure madness.
Just learn crafting level 1 and let your chars work with iron until they get nimble fingers.

The same goes for other talents

[Rogan]

Does anyone have a link to a really solid Rare Pickpocket List please? Thanks a lot!

[Xengre]

Originally posted by Rogan:

Does anyone have a link to a really solid Rare Pickpocket List please? Thanks a lot!

Honestly? The only good pickpockets I saw are the ones from the fort on second continent as a huge upgrade to weapons you can buy at that point, but only if you aren't doing super OP stuff like pickpocketing goodie boxes (or better yet just crafting them way easier).

A lot of the good stuff you could pickpocket in the older games are irrelevant now because the nearly full IC is available so early on so pickpocket isn't nearly as good as it used to be.

Still, if you want the sword of marvel and some other good stuff you can use art to craft goodie boxes or pickpocket the one in marze from the old man on right side of town building.

[raelynne63]

You pickpocket when you do private moments and no one is with you. Then no relationships are affected.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by raelynne63:

You pickpocket when you do private moments and no one is with you. Then no relationships are affected.

No, still effects relationships in the remake.

Actually, the best method now is to use the Jelly food from Master Chef (iirc Fruit + Vegetables) which you can craft 20 of in a couple seconds at like level 4 cooking on two characters and lv1 compound. This food lets you perform two steal attempts per food eaten without a relationship penalty. No need for PA or not.

[Element]

Originally posted by Louis Cypher:

However, restarting the game because of nimble fingers is pure madness.
Just learn crafting level 1 and let your chars work with iron until they get nimble fingers.

The same goes for other talents

How do i get rena to learn crafting?

[Devalaous]

There are several exclusive/insanely hard to get items from pickpocketing, like the Shrimp Dumplings from a woman in Salva, Awful Cider (if you got Taste too early on all older characters, you can no longer fail to get this) and the Ring of the General which is normally only available to Claude via a certain PA, but is also pickpocketable in Armlock. Theres also a Banana Frappe thats really hard to get, I haven't found anyone with it in Nede.

[Yílõng Má]

Originally posted by raelynne63:

You pickpocket when you do private moments and no one is with you. Then no relationships are affected.

Here, another old timer who spew false info and doesn't play the remake.