Post by joeI'm a level 60 Rogue wanting to get my lockpicking up to 300. Opening an
occasional lockbox helps, but is there a faster way?
Instance resetting and opening doors in BRD like someone has mentioned is
pretty good. One way that is relatively fast and has the bonus of pulling
in ~30g/hour when you are good at it is pickpocketing all the mobs in
LBRS. Back when I still played my 60 rogue, I would go into the instance,
pick every single mob in the first area and out into the start of the big
open area to look across and see if the locked chest was spawned where the
Ogres are (you can open this one when the roamer paths away without
agroing anything).
They will drop Heavy Junkboxes quite regularly which will take you all the
way to 300. Also, I grabbed an Ornate Spyglass from an engineer and always
checked for Bannok Grimaxe. He's a rare spawn down the bottom who spawns
in one of three locations. You can walk out onto that jutting beam type
thing up the top and do your search without pulling agro, then restealth.
He's a solo pull who is actually pretty easy to beat with any spec. Just
stun him, ss to Expose armour, hit evasion and SS spam to evis and you
shouldn't have a problem at all. Bring a health pot just in case you get a
bad string of crits against you. He has a chance to drop the plans for
Arcanite Reaper that should fetch okish money.
Pickpocketing can get you 30g/hour in this instance but is boring.. then
again almost all grinding is and this way at least you won't be ganked by
farmers at Tyr's hand. Just remember the instance limit now and only
reset the instance every 12 minutes and you won't go over 5/hour.
Some tips on pickpocketing if you want to give it a try for money
grinding:
* There is a slight delay between when you pickpocket and when the actual
loot window appears. During this time you can keep walking so long as you
stop before the loot window appears. Once you get good at this you will
die a lot less often as you get into pp range, hit pp walk out of pp range
and stop just before the loot window appears. This stops almost all of the
accidental agros from the mob walking a couple of steps into you while you
are stationary.
* If you are serious about it, go down there with with no gear other than
weapons and speed enchanted boots, plus items with no durability eg cloak.
If you get spotted and die (vanish isn't up) just GY res get on your
mount and ride back down there from Thorium Point. It's pretty fast.
* Subt build is best for this obviously, Camo will make it a fair bit fast
and I've already mentioned speed enchant on boots. Also, Elusiveness
(very underated talent generally I feel) can save time with 3.75 minute
vanishes. Preperation also gives you an extra vanish every 10 minutes. MOD
is nice but you can probably get away without it as these mobs are a lower
level than you anyway.
* You get tonnes of food etc from PP that vendors ok. Also, you'll be
getting gems occasionally that vendor ok (50s I think) but might do better
at the AH (I was too lazy to AH that sort of stuff).
* It's BORING but very reliable stream of income.
LBRS in general is a very stealth friendly instance. There are no stealth
detectors. Two rogue duo have killed every single boss in the instance,
including the last boss. They had very good gear though, but two rogues
and a druid should be able to kill any boss in there with standard level
60 gear. Pads of the Dreadwolf are from Halycon the dog which are very
nice rogue boots.