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Why are all of the chests Simple locks?
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robynheraty_ESO✭✭✭Arsenic_Touch wrote: »TIs your character several levels above the zone level? If so, that's why.
The chest difficulty is based on the difference between your characters level and the chest base level, which depends on the zone the chest is in.
If you're in a level 20 zone and your character is level 25, pretty much all of the chests will be easy.
Conversely, if your character is level 20 and you're in a level 30 zone, you will see a lot of hard and even impossible chests.
Impossible means you're too low compared to the zone. This is to prevent you from getting loot that is much higher in level than your character.
;-)
This is correct.
Yup, and it also depends on how much experience your character has at picking locks. My husband and I were in Coldharbor the other day and we found a chest. Our characters are the same level, but he hasn't opened as many chests, so his lock picking experience is lower. The chest looked like a master to him and it was intermediate for me.
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Gigglesnort✭✭✭Arsenic_Touch wrote: »killedbyping wrote: »P.S. And NO, chests difficulty have nothing to do with character level and chest level. I happened to meet alot of master chests in low level zones with my VR12 character.
Incorrect.
Chest difficulty has everything to do with chest level and character level.
https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1596/kw/lockpicking
I understand what you are saying, but my wife and I are the same level, V4, in the same zone, and chest will be simple for her and advanced for me, she has opened a lot more chest than me, so there has to be some sort of lock picking skill meter involved somewhereOIIIIIIIO
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emeraldbay✭✭✭✭✭
This link says that the chests will get harder in higher-leveled areas, but I've been all the way to Reaper's March and seen almost exclusively simple locks. Perhaps that's not what they intended.Arsenic_Touch wrote: »Incorrect.
Chest difficulty has everything to do with chest level and character level.
https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1596/kw/lockpicking-T h e - A l d m e r i - I n i t i a t i v e-— O r d e r - o f - t h e - R a v y n —0 -
SirAndy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭May i present to you, the IMPOSSIBLE pudding!
Level 9 alt in Reaper's March (Level 40ish zone):
Never mind that sneaky Khajiit trying to steal my chest!
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Daethz✭✭✭emeraldbay wrote: »Obviously this isn't as important as the current FPS or phasing issues, but I'd like to see this tinkered with.
Or the Stamina builds and weapons being completely destroyed by magicka counterparts to the point where not picking a magicka weapon is complete idiocy or stubbornness.Waiting, and watching, for the return of Melee Weapons.
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Loyheta✭✭Too bad the locks are relative. Means that you aren't guaranteed good loot just because it is a master lock. I would really like to see better looking chests that drop blues or better that are guaranteed to be advanced, intermediate, or master. I only loot chests for the achievement and for vendor trash. Wish they were worthwhile.1 -
jelliedsoup✭✭✭✭✭I always get simple but the force lock chance varies.www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ks8_KGHqmO40 -
Thralgaf✭✭✭I was running around eastmarch at level 19 in order to pick up the thief stone. I ran across two impossible chests. It's level to zone based.0