WoW Lockpicking Guide 1-400

Updated for WoW patch 3.0.2

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

If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold. You also need to realize this is not a leveling guide, so if you are looking for a leveling guide, the best one is this 1 - 80 Leveling Guide.

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

Here is a list of Junkboxes you can get with Pick Pocket. You can train your lockpicking skill with these too, however in this Lockpicking guide, I will use only Footlockers and Doors.

• 1 - 100

  These chests below respawn realy 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

  Now you will open Doors in Blackrock Depths. There is three easy to reach door in BRD, and one Shadowforge Mechanism. You can skill up your lockpicking skill on these. There are other doors, and prisons inside, but I never tried them. They are much deeper inside the instance, these four objects are right near the entrance. You can reset the instance five times in an hour. I have done the five runs, after I logged in with one of my alt, and played a bit. When the one hour passed I logged in back to my rogue and I made the five runs again.

  You don't have to play with your alt, you can go back to Searing Gorge while you are waiting for the reset. Or you can go inside one of the instances in Blackrock Mountan and Pick Pocket mobs for [Heavy Junkbox].

  • This is the map for the 4 objects you will open.

  If you don't want to go to BRD, you can try the [Scarlet Footlockers] located in Eastern Plaguelands, and Pick Pocket every mob there. But I think it's a lot faster to level lockpicking in BRD and Searing Gorge.

• 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 then pickpocketing mobs at Northrend.

• 375-400

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