WoW Horde Lockpicking Guide
Where World of Warcraft Horde Rogues Go to Raise This Class Skill
Lockpicking is one of the most valuable group and raid skills available to rogues in World of Warcraft. Knowing where to go to raise the skill can make it easier.
Lockpicking is one of the most useful skills rogues have to offer other players in World of Warcraft. Lockpicking, as the name suggests allows a rogue to pick locks that keep doors, chests, or other objects such as the lockboxes closed.
The skill works well, but the problem with lockpicking is raising it. Is is often a boring and tedious process. The following steps will detail one way for the alliance rogue to raise his lockpicking skills to benefit himself and his fellow players. Horde players will find the following guide useful to raise their lockpicking skill. A guide for alliance players may be found in the Alliance Lockpicking Guide.
Horde Lockpicking 1-80: The Parrot Outside Ratchet
This part of the of the Horde rogue lockpicking quest involves feeding a parrot crackers. (No, the author is not joking.) A series of lockboxes can be found in a ship off the coast of Ratchet. A rogue should open the practice lockboxes until he can no longer gain skill ups from them and then open the final chest. The final chest has the item that will let the rogue complete the quest.
Horde Lockpicking 81-150: The Venture Mining Company Tower
A towerr operated by the Venture Mining Company in the Northeast section of the barrens is the next place for horde rogues to go to raise their lockpicking skill. Near the top of this tower is a locked chest. Opening the chest will give a rogue skill increases to 175. Characters doing this quest at low levels should bring along a friend to keep the nearby boss away from them.
Horde Lockpicking 151-225: Scarlet Monastery
The doors that guard the entrance to the Armory and the Cathedral of Scarlet Monastery can be opened by a rogue using the lockpicking skill, but only one skill up per door may be obtained per door every five minutes. This effect can be countered by entering an instance and resetting it. Caution is required when using this method or the guardians of the monastery on the outside of the instance may aggro the rogue.
Should the Horde rogue wish to do something else besides reset the instance he can go into the library or graveyard of Scarlet Cathedral and pickpocket mobs for lockboxes. When the rogue has had his fill of pickpocketing or has pilfered several lockboxes, he can go back to the doors and unlock them again.
Horde Lockpicking 226-280: Lockboxes
Rather than go to a specific location, the best strategy to raise lockpicking to 280 is to find and open lockboxes for players who earned them in loot drops. Looted lockboxes can also be pick-pocketed from mobs or the player of the rogue character can advertise that he is opening lockboxes in the major cities.
Horde Lockpicking 280-300
The best strategy to get from 280 to 300 is for a rogue player to get groups for Blackrock Depths and open the many locked doors and other containers that can be found there. This leg may take a while but is well worth the effort.
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