is there any point to pickpocket other than the 1 quest?

[Demon]

other than the thieve's guilds first quest is there any point to it? a guy put a bounty on me so i trained my sneak and pickpocket to 100 in like an hour. when i took everything he had on him and left the store he had almost everything back when i went to his store again and that was less than 5 min. is there any point to even have that skill?

[SpeedFreak1972]

Well the thieves guild has enough pickpocket side jobs and the Grey cowl (cc) has also the option at 1 stage. It's all about the freedom to do it. Fun fact you don't even NEED to pickpocket that intro thieves guild quest you can steal the ring and then drop it and the quest will normally progress

[Njorl]

I was training light armor the traditional way with Grelka in Riften and training my pickpocket by stealing my money back from her. Eventually, my pickpocket skill became quite good.
I was working on the last few points when I accidentally stole "all", leaving her in her underwear.

She then went into her "Are you gonna stare all day?" and "Everything I got on display." routine.

[steventirey]

Well, you can make everyone in town naked. I guess that has some use. Maybe.

There might be some unique item of clothing out there somewhere someone may want. If you can't kill the person wearing it, you could pickpocket it. Other than that, there really is no use. Pickpocketing isn't really all that useful. Outside of cities, you can just kill the enemies to get the loot. Inside cities, its mostly just gems, gold, and jewelry - in other words, gold (and its not like its hard to make gold).

The most useful perks in the tree are Extra Pockets (for the extra carry weight) and maybe Poisoned (for killing people with poisons, if for some reason you can't attack them openly).

Edit: Ignore the part about getting unique clothing items. That doesn't seem to work in Skyrim. Perfect Touch does not work on NPCs who wear unobtainable clothing or who are marked as essential, at least according to the wiki. In other words, it is even more useless than I thought.

[alexander_dougherty]

There are a couple of quests were you can pickpocket a key.....
But the skill made much more sense in the previous games, you could even use it to kill a lich with ease for one DB quest in Oblivion.

[Nabinkemper]

You can pickpocket the briarheart from a Forsworn Briarheart causing them to fall over dead.
I like to pickpocket Mercer Frey's sword from him before confronting Karliah in Snow Veil Sanctum.

[Rez Elwin]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

There are a couple of quests were you can pickpocket a key.....
But the skill made much more sense in the previous games, you could even use it to kill a lich with ease for one DB quest in Oblivion.

Not to mention slipping poison apples in peoples pockets, because for some odd reason they would actually eat them. Wiped out a barracks once with that trick.

[Halliwax]

There's a number of cases where a character has a note on them with important information regarding a quest that you can learn through pickpocketing... except usually you don't actually need to take it, you can read it from their pocket, so the skill isn't useful there.

There's also a few rare items that you can get through pickpocketing. Not *useful* items, generally, but rare.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Only thing it might be very useful are those hidden vampire at court quests

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

There are a couple of quests were you can pickpocket a key.....
But the skill made much more sense in the previous games, you could even use it to kill a lich with ease for one DB quest in Oblivion.

Not to mention slipping poison apples in peoples pockets, because for some odd reason they would actually eat them. Wiped out a barracks once with that trick.

Did you know that the guards in Oblivion actually respawn? But the apple applies a damage health effect to the guard and that transfers to the respawned guards as well. So they respawn and die in an infinite loop.

[Rez Elwin]

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Not to mention slipping poison apples in peoples pockets, because for some odd reason they would actually eat them. Wiped out a barracks once with that trick.

Did you know that the guards in Oblivion actually respawn? But the apple applies a damage health effect to the guard and that transfers to the respawned guards as well. So they respawn and die in an infinite loop. :sadisthappy:

I know they respawn, but didn't know that second part.

[FauxFurry]

Robbing an opponent of all of their gear after using the Sneak skill tree perk to cause them to lose one's position even in the middle of combat is one of the best uses to maxing out the Pick Pocket skill tree.

[steventirey]

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Not to mention slipping poison apples in peoples pockets, because for some odd reason they would actually eat them. Wiped out a barracks once with that trick.

Did you know that the guards in Oblivion actually respawn? But the apple applies a damage health effect to the guard and that transfers to the respawned guards as well. So they respawn and die in an infinite loop. :sadisthappy:

Apparently Bethesda didn't learn from their mistake, as there is a similar issue in Fallout 4 as well, involving cryo damage. Enemies that die while frozen respawn still frozen, and can't move or attack. They just lie on the ground.

And since Fallout 4 came out after Skyrim, that means the same issue might be in Skyrim as well.

[Demon]

Originally posted by steventirey:

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Did you know that the guards in Oblivion actually respawn? But the apple applies a damage health effect to the guard and that transfers to the respawned guards as well. So they respawn and die in an infinite loop. :sadisthappy:

Apparently Bethesda didn't learn from their mistake, as there is a similar issue in Fallout 4 as well, involving cryo damage. Enemies that die while frozen respawn still frozen, and can't move or attack. They just lie on the ground.

And since Fallout 4 came out after Skyrim, that means the same issue might be in Skyrim as well.

that would explain why 3 guards suddenly spawned in front of me dead yesterday. and why i find a lot of mutants stuck on the ground in fallout 4

[Cryptic]

I forget about the skill because I always found it kinda useless

[dvdbillen]

Originally posted by Demon:

other than the thieve's guilds first quest is there any point to it? a guy put a bounty on me so i trained my sneak and pickpocket to 100 in like an hour. when i took everything he had on him and left the store he had almost everything back when i went to his store again and that was less than 5 min. is there any point to even have that skill?

You can steal the weapon from a baddie then attack them. I've never found it useful because if I can pick pocket then I could just stealth kill them too, but it's funny af when they start trying to fight you with their fists.