WoW Lockpicking Guide

This WoW Lockpicking guide will show you the fastest and easiest way how to get your Rogue's Lockpicking skill up from 1 to 400.

Lockpicking is a very profitable skill but is only available to Rogues. You will be able to sell all the items that you will loot out of the lockboxes. If done right it could make you a fortune.

If you are going to be trying to sell the items, make sure that you are using a really good Gold Guide to help you out.

WoW Lockpicking Guide 1-400

The basic formula for your maximum lockpicking skill at a particular level is (5 * level).

You can also level your skill through Pick Pocket but for this Lockpicking guide, I will use only Footlockers and Doors.

• 1 - 100

  These chests below respawn really quickly. Skill up from 1 to 100 will be realy easy.

  Horde:

  • [Buccaneer's Strongbox] - These chests located on a ship near Rachet in The Barrens.
  • [Burial Chest] - Blood Elves can try this one

  Alliance:

  • [Practice Lockboxes] - Redridge Mountains

• 100 - 170

  The Rogue poisons quests for Horde and Alliance are the best and easiest way to level up to 170. If you've already finished the quest, you can still use the chests to gain skill, but the chests don't highlight when you mouse over them, so you have to search for your lockpicking skill first in your Spellbook and then click the chest.

  Horde:

  • [Gallywix's Lockbox] - The Barrens

  Alliance:

  • [Duskwood Chest] - Westfall

• 170 - 225

  Now you have to go to Badlands - Angor Fortress. You will find two kind of footlockers there, you will need a lockpicking skill of 175 to open the [Dentened Footlocker].

  • [Battered Footlocker] - Angor Fortress - Upstairs
  • [Dented Footlocker] - Angor Fortress - Downstairs

  Don't bother trying to Pick Pocket the mobs, the boxes you will find are already grey to you.

• 225 - 250

  Go to Searing Gorge, it's near Badlands. Now you can try to Pick Pocket mobs too, because the [Sturdy Junkbox] you will find turns grey only at 275.

  • [Dented Footlocker] - There are two kind of Footlockers with the same name, one of them turns green at 250, the other turns green at 275

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• 250 - 300

  Go to Tyr's Hand in Eastern Plaguelands. Pickpocket the mobs and find all of the [Scarlet Footlockers]. In the time it takes to take a full circle of Tyr's Hand, the starting point will be pickpocketable and have boxes respawned.

• 300 - 325

  • [Wicker Chest] - Zangarmash

  You can also Pick Pocket the mobs here, because they drop [Strong Junkbox].

• 325 - 375

  • [Dented Footlocker] - Nagrand

  Same as above, Pick Pocket mobs. When you reach 350, you can go to Northrend if you want, but skilling up on these is a lot faster than pickpocketing mobs at Northrend.

• 375-400

  • Pickpocket any Humanoid mobs at Northrend to get [Reinforced Junkboxes].

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