what level to pick locks

[711rocks]

what is a good level to start lockpicking in easy places like horutoto? ill use a skeleton key, but what level will have a decent chance of pulling it off?

[Bamce Sylph]

what ever level the agressive stuff doesn't outright agro you, this way u can go about your business unmolsted by low level monsters who think they're tough

[Anya]

Never waste Skeleton keys on treasure chests. Use normal tools.

You should always keep a stack of tools on you at least, you never know when you'll stumble over a chest.

Most people wait until 50 and sub thf for sneak/invis.

[ZQM]

Originally posted by Anya
Most people wait until 50 and sub thf for sneak/invis.

I think you mean /WHM.

[711rocks]

ok lol 50 seems so far away

[BlackScholes]

So, does the job level affects the chance of success in opening a chest/coffer?

I'm interested in using my low level theif to open AF coffer for my main job, with sneak/invisible help from white mage friend. I'm wondering whether this works or not.:confused:

[Anya]

Won't work. You must have the correct Job in order to obtain Coffer AF items.

If you open an AF coffer with thf job while on a different job's AF hunt, you'll just get the normal gil/items.

[guyincorporated]

More to the point, at 42 Thief I used 12 lockpicks and three skeleton keys on a treasure coffer in Ifrit's Cauldron and failed each time.

Seems to me like the chests/coffers get harder to open in the mor advanced dungeons, so you need to be a higher level to succeed.