best way to rob shops?

[Lordimbroke]

best ive managed is waiting till it closed, knocking out the swordsmith and stealing his stuff

im not goo enough for the very hard locks in the back, any advice?

[Invisible]

You need to train lockpicking until you are allowed to open hard and very hard locks. This is a hard barrier to avoid getting the best stuff in the early game. You would be filthy rich if you sold the stuff to the miller guild.

[Frequens]

Originally posted by Invisible:

You need to train lockpicking until you are allowed to open hard and very hard locks. This is a hard barrier to avoid getting the best stuff in the early game. You would be filthy rich if you sold the stuff to the miller guild.

Yeah pretty much this.

An alternative approach you can try is to ask Peshek to help you train pickpocket to a good level from where you can then raise the skill yourself by practicing on sleeping peasants or wanderers. Continue doing this until you hit at least level 10-12 so you can sneak up on most shop vendors when they're asleep. Pickpocket their inventories for chest keys - with those you can open even the hardest locks in their shops without raising the alarm.

Kinda grindy too but stealing the vendors' keys is safer than fiddling around hard locks since you can insta-open doors and chests. Just make sure you wear dark clothing which lowers your overall conspic values and muffles your steps.

[2GenL]

Need level 15 at least for shop main chests - especially for weapons and armour

[「CharlemagneRex」]

All of the above. If you train a little in Skalitz and get the Luck of the Drunk perk, you can pick very hard chests as soon as the prologue is over. As soon as I get to Rattay I rob tyhe armoursmith, sword smith, and tailor at night. Make sure you have a torch. Walk, even fully encumbered, out of town towards the mill. If anyone stops you, bribe them. You should have around 6K from the chests alone. My bribes are always around 20-25 groshen so it is literally impossible to go to jail.

Good luck!

[MF]

Originally posted by Invisible:

You need to train lockpicking until you are allowed to open hard and very hard locks. This is a hard barrier to avoid getting the best stuff in the early game. You would be filthy rich if you sold the stuff to the miller guild.

I became so incredibly rich sneaking into Rattay at night on my first few playthru's I stopped doing it. Too much money and nothing to spend it on.

[MF]

Originally posted by MF:

Originally posted by Invisible:

You need to train lockpicking until you are allowed to open hard and very hard locks. This is a hard barrier to avoid getting the best stuff in the early game. You would be filthy rich if you sold the stuff to the miller guild.

I became so incredibly rich sneaking into Rattay at night and robbing all the shops on my first few playthru's I stopped doing it. Too much money and nothing to spend it on.

[Bodean Abernathy II]

Criminal scum. I hope they send you to the gallows, knave!

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Lordimbroke:

best ive managed is waiting till it closed, knocking out the swordsmith and stealing his stuff

im not goo enough for the very hard locks in the back, any advice?

get the lock picking perk i think its level 8 or 9, makes locks 30% easier to pick if drunk.
When you get it, you can unlock all locks pretty much as long as youre drunk.

Otherwise youre doing fine for stealing.
FYI try not to steal in the city you mainly sell stuff in. You get worse prices im pretty sure, I know if you steal a lot it seems merchants raise their price. So if you steal in that city, go big or go home.
Itll reset eventually obviously, and if youre not using mods to make cash much much much harder to get, then it prolly doesnt matter.

Also I realized I commented on this post a while back LMAO.

[Drunk Rambo {The Dirty Dozen}]

Originally posted by Lordimbroke:

best ive managed is waiting till it closed, knocking out the swordsmith and stealing his stuff

im not goo enough for the very hard locks in the back, any advice?

You don't need to rob shops and hence destroy your good karma. Just build Pris and you will have limitless cash to throw around and win hearts and minds.

[2GenL]

Originally posted by Drunk Rambo:

Originally posted by Lordimbroke:

best ive managed is waiting till it closed, knocking out the swordsmith and stealing his stuff

im not goo enough for the very hard locks in the back, any advice?

You don't need to rob shops and hence destroy your good karma. Just build Pris and you will have limitless cash to throw around and win hearts and minds.

That works for after prib. But before this stage, you have to build up a relationship with selected shops to gain lots of money

[Lieste]

I don't. Collect armour, weapons and jewellery taken from enemies, or looted from magpie nests, treasure maps and other random-ish caches in the woods.
Offer these at a slight discount to shop keepers who will take them to improve reputation and reduce purchasing costs in the future (as well as increase their future supply of coin).

Stealing is only safe once you have practised a lot, and shops are a 'tougher' target than someone's shovel in an outhouse (or the totally safe locked treasure caches). Getting caught destroys reputation and significantly increases guard harassment going forward, plus all the spendy shiny stuff is marked stolen for ages so you can't safely use it near towns.

Better to buy the stuff you want, even if the coin comes from sticky fingers elsewhere.

[Drunk Rambo {The Dirty Dozen}]

Originally posted by 2GenL:

Originally posted by Drunk Rambo:

You don't need to rob shops and hence destroy your good karma. Just build Pris and you will have limitless cash to throw around and win hearts and minds.

That works for after prib. But before this stage, you have to build up a relationship with selected shops to gain lots of money

You don't build good relations with stores by robbing them.

[Lordimbroke]

Originally posted by Drunk Rambo:

Originally posted by 2GenL:

That works for after prib. But before this stage, you have to build up a relationship with selected shops to gain lots of money

You don't build good relations with stores by robbing them.

Originally posted by Drunk Rambo:

Originally posted by 2GenL:

That works for after prib. But before this stage, you have to build up a relationship with selected shops to gain lots of money

You don't build good relations with stores by robbing them.

i ended up getting rich by just how the game works. im used to rdr2 where you need the horse right near you to store/remove items. i found the system of looting and just stashing all to horse.

i think this is the issue with the game and its realism. it trys extremely hard and well for something based in medieval but there's few things that dont make sense.

got like 5k or so killing cuman and then bought the nicest horse, and some decent armor. by the time my lockpicking is good enough I'm not worried about the money

i do wanna find more books, i swear ive bought/stole all from the scribe and rattay