Lockpicks tip

[Hathur]

Just a small tip for people struggling to find lockpicks. You can very easily craft them in huge supplies by combining a hammer with nine inch nails (lots of nails laying about the town in various places). Each nail will give you 4 lockpicks.

[Qiox]

Lockpicking... waste of points.

I prefer to punch the chests to bits :)

[Peek]

Originally posted by Hathur:

Just a small tip for people struggling to find lockpicks. You can very easily craft them in huge supplies by combining a hammer with nine inch nails (lots of nails laying about the town in various places). Each nail will give you 4 lockpicks.

Nice tip. I should start reading all the recipes.

[Ri0Rdian]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Lockpicking... waste of points.

I prefer to punch the chests to bits :)

Won't that destroy some of the things in though?

[Chops]

Thanks for the tip, I only just started playing, how do you combine?

[shaki92]

Punching takes too much time, and damages your weapon. Lockpicking FTW

[Qiox]

Originally posted by shaki92:

Punching takes too much time, and damages your weapon. Lockpicking FTW

PUNCHING. No weapon in hand when PUNCHING.

Mind you, the ones with high hp take forever when just using your fists. That's why I always keep 2 or 3 junk weapons to beat on with.

I never use my actual fighting weapons to bash stuff. Anyhow, repairing is free so it don't really matter what weapon is used.

[feliscon]

Use skills to destroy chests, skills don't damage your weapons.

[Zara]

Doesn't work with only crafting 1, so going to assume crafting 2

[Qiox]

Originally posted by feliscon:

Use skills to destroy chests, skills don't damage your weapons.

Putting those points into Body and Wisdom is far more usefull. You'll see when you start getting chain stunned/frozen later on because you can't make a save.

[Sentinel 08295]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Originally posted by shaki92:

Punching takes too much time, and damages your weapon. Lockpicking FTW

PUNCHING. No weapon in hand when PUNCHING.

Mind you, the ones with high hp take forever when just using your fists. That's why I always keep 2 or 3 junk weapons to beat on with.

I never use my actual fighting weapons to bash stuff. Anyhow, repairing is free so it don't really matter what weapon is used.

I'd like to hearby request a nerf to combat this chest opening exploit!

[Qiox]

Originally posted by jpnole:

Originally posted by Qiox:

PUNCHING. No weapon in hand when PUNCHING.

Mind you, the ones with high hp take forever when just using your fists. That's why I always keep 2 or 3 junk weapons to beat on with.

I never use my actual fighting weapons to bash stuff. Anyhow, repairing is free so it don't really matter what weapon is used.

I'd like to hearby request a nerf to combat this chest opening exploit!

Exploit? Did you not pay attention in the tutorial when IT TEACHES YOU THIS METHOD!?!?!?!??

[feliscon]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Originally posted by feliscon:

Use skills to destroy chests, skills don't damage your weapons.

Putting those points into Body and Wisdom is far more usefull. You'll see when you start getting chain stunned/frozen later on because you can't make a save.

What points? I think you can get direct damage skills for every single skill-granting ability, and I can't imagine anyone not starting with ANY of them...

[Hathur]

Originally posted by Chops:

Thanks for the tip, I only just started playing, how do you combine?

Drag a hammer (quite common to find) onto nails in your inventory. You may need 1 or 2 points in crafting to do it, not sure if it works with 0.

[Horrorscope CC97]

Typically you can physically beat a chest in to get its loot, so it isn't silly thinking you can do it in game. I'll see if I can find the link to a ton of recipies in game, but magic is also another way. Teleport and Flare are just a few, no wear either.

[Hathur]

Regarding using skills / weapons to open doors. That may work often but i've encountered a fair share of doors and chests that would require me standing there for 4-5 minutes real time bashing on the lock to get it open. Some doors and chests have enormous amounts of health.

You also cant get access to doors or chests like that if there are npcs nearby, as if its flagged as an owned property they'll attack you. With lockpicks you can either distract the npc with one party member and open it with the other, or just use sneak / invisibility if you're a rogue.