If You Were a Casual Gamer...

[Quark]

When I was told to go to the Wetlands, there were literally no boxes that I could pick.
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Sorry, I got all my lockpicking the hard way (quest chest, SM doors, pickpocketting, Searing Gorge, BRD prison doors), so I don't know the new stuff to well. It sounds to me like the advice given is based off your level - or, in another comparison, your max pickpocketting skill, which is just level*5. If you fall behind in your pickpocketting, you will see stuff you can't pick. I raised mine in spurts, basically after any time I saw something I couldn't pick. But if you do that, you fall behind at parts and can't lockpick stuff from your level. It's important to keep ahead of the curve then, and this should be described better.

Given the advantages of lockpicking, though, I don't know if making it easier is a good idea :blink:. It was nice that Blizzard added in a way to consistently gain lockpicking points, rather than the sporadic nature of doors (that have some sort of timer) and pickpocketting. But it makes some things so trivial, that it certainly should not be trivial itself.