WoW Forever Lockpicking: Rogue Skill 1 to 300, Fastest Route

Pick Lock is a rogue ability that opens locked chests, doors and boxes. It needs Thieves' Tools in your bags, and the tools are never used up.

• Its own skill. Lockpicking is a separate skill that climbs from 1 to 300 as you open locks.
• The cap. Your top Lockpicking is your level times 5, so the skill can only reach 300 at level 60.
• Harder locks. A lock that turns grey stops giving points, so the route moves to harder locks as your skill climbs.

Each faction has a rogue quest that hands out Thieves' Tools and leads to a spot full of Practice Lockboxes. The tools require level 15.

Alliance: Redridge Rendezvous and Alther's Mill

1. Take Redridge Rendezvous from Renzik "The Shiv" in Stormwind.
2. Speak with Lucius in Lakeshire, Redridge Mountains, and take Alther's Mill. It gives you the tools.
3. Follow the road east of Lakeshire to Alther's Mill and pick the Practice Lockboxes inside. They respawn fast.
4. Open Lucius's Lockbox, take the Token of Thievery and bring it back to Lucius.

Horde: Wrenix of Ratchet and Plundering the Plunderers

1. Take Wrenix of Ratchet from Zando'zan in the Cleft of Shadow, Orgrimmar.
2. Speak with Wrenix the Wretched in Ratchet, The Barrens, and take Plundering the Plunderers.
3. Use Wrenix's Gizmotronic Apparatus to collect Thieves' Tools and an E.C.A.C.
4. Board the pirate ship at the Merchant Coast, south of Ratchet, and pick the Practice Lockboxes inside.
5. On the lowest deck, open The Jewel of the Southsea. A parrot appears: hit it with the E.C.A.C., then defeat it and loot the Southsea Treasure.
6. Bring the Southsea Treasure back to Wrenix the Wretched.

Each row gives the spot and the boxes to open. Move to the next row when the boxes turn grey.

Skill	Where	What to open
1 to 110	Alliance: Alther's Mill, then Lake Everstill in Redridge Mountains. Horde: the pirate ship south of Ratchet, then Zoram Strand in Ashenvale	Practice Lockboxes, then Waterlogged Footlockers
110 to 150	Windshear Mine in Stonetalon Mountains, Durnholde Keep in Hillsbrad Foothills, or the murloc camps north of Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands	Battered Footlockers
150 to 200	Angor Fortress in the Badlands: upstairs from 150, downstairs from 175. Or under the water at Sar'theris Strand in Desolace	Battered, then Dented Footlockers; Waterlogged Footlockers in Desolace
200 to 250	The Slag Pit in Searing Gorge: the lower level until 225, then the upper level	Dented Footlockers, plus Sturdy Junkboxes from Pick Pocket
250 to 300	Blackrock Depths: the locked doors near the entrance, starting with the door on your left. Leave, reset the dungeon and repeat	Doors

For Desolace, carry a Draught of Water Breathing: the footlockers sit deep under the water. In Blackrock Depths the game limits how many dungeons you can enter in an hour, so pace the door runs.

Pick Pocket the enemies on the way. The junkboxes it pulls give extra points without extra travel.

Locked lockboxes drop from enemies across Azeroth, and Pick Pocket pulls junkboxes out of enemy pockets. They hold coins, gear, consumables and recipes, and Pick Lock opens them.

Box	Type	Item level
Ornate Bronze Lockbox	Lockbox	20
Heavy Bronze Lockbox	Lockbox	25
Iron Lockbox	Lockbox	30
Strong Iron Lockbox	Lockbox	35
Steel Lockbox	Lockbox	40
Reinforced Steel Lockbox	Lockbox	45
Mithril Lockbox	Lockbox	50
Thorium Lockbox	Lockbox	55
Battered Junkbox	Junkbox, Pick Pocket	20
Worn Junkbox	Junkbox, Pick Pocket	30
Sturdy Junkbox	Junkbox, Pick Pocket	40
Heavy Junkbox	Junkbox, Pick Pocket	50

Boxes lower on each list need more skill. Keep the boxes from your own route: at a high enough skill they turn into extra points and loot.

Lockpicking can never pass 5 times your level, so a rogue at level 40 stops at 200 however many boxes they open. The last 100 points open up only on the road from 40 to 60.

Class tips for that road are in our WoW Forever rogue guide, and dungeon play at 60 is in our rogue PvE guide. Our 1 to 60 leveling puts 1 booster on your character for 12 hours a day, and our gold farming brings the gold for your training.