Max legerdemain = 100% force lock chance

Iron_Blurr

With all skill points in legerdemain at max rank you can still fail to force lock several times in a row if you get unlucky. I think for the time and skill point investment to max legerdemain and have all passives maxed for it you should always get 100% force lock chance.

Darkhorse1975

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

I would vote yes if we could earn Nocturnal's unbreakable Skeleton Key.

Vildebill

I don't really care since, for me, it's a minor inconvenience.

The "85%" change to force the lock on the other hand seems to be some other number, countless times have I forced a lock two or three times before it breaks. Legit ZOS RNG doing it's thing

Jaraal

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

There has to be SOME inconvenience. Otherwise, just have a treasure chest hireling that mails you a bunch of loot a couple times a day.

IzzyStardust

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

Darkhorse1975 wrote: »

I would vote yes if we could earn Nocturnal's unbreakable Skeleton Key.

THAT should have been TG lvl 10 present - over that assistant xD

idk

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

Granted it does seem top fail more than it should when the chance is high, but OP wants 1005 chance with even master chests. That just seems like entitlement considering how easy it is to level up that skill line and it only costs 4 skill points.

IzzyStardust

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

Here we are again: People being all 'No' just because they like being tedious.

What's new.

Iron_Blurr

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

Think of the time you spend to level up legerdemain.
Think of the skill points you must invest to get the force lock passive.
Would it really be op if you could force lock with the skill line maxed? At most you will be saving like 5 seconds of time on those random force locks you fail despite having a 85% success chance. That still pales in comparison to the amount of time it takes to get the skill points used and get the skill line maxed out.
Making it guaranteed would simply be a small quality of life change.

BrianLovesLisa

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

Because Lockpicks are too damn common and they need to shatter and this is my way to break them with getting rewards.

Starlock

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

I'm mixed on this, but am going to go with yes in part because when you force a lock, you break a lockpick every time anyway. It takes quite a while to get ledgermain up to the point that you can get rank 4 as well.

bulbousb16_ESO

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

This is absurd. If I level up my Destruction Staff to Level 50, should I insta-win combats too?

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Am I the only one who picks locks the old fashioned way? I have 15 toons and dont think I have ever forced a lock in this game, at least not on purpose. Haha

spacebandit

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

What I want is forcing the lock not to break the lock pick unless it fails

phileunderx2

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

It shouldn't take 5 attemps to force a simple lock. 🙄

karthrag_inak

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

seriously? picking locks is almost criminally easy, no?

Bradyfjord

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

You should have a 'middle ground' response. Binary choices aren't usually constructive.

Picking locks is too easy for this to be important. If there was real difficulty in lock picking, at least for master locks, this choice would be relevant. But it wouldn't really matter since I 'right click destroy' picks once a toon reaches 200 picks.

Iron_Blurr

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

Lol people v

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

This is absurd. If I level up my Destruction Staff to Level 50, should I insta-win combats too?

Its more like if you unlock and level up your ultimate and use it, should it fire every single time? And the answer is yes. Because you spent the time unlocking it and purchasing it with skill points for it to work when you want it to..

Iron_Blurr

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

karthrag_inak wrote: »

seriously? picking locks is almost criminally easy, no?

It is easy but if the passives exist to let you force lock it, shouldn't it work if you max it out?

Turelus

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

100% sure simple chests is fine.

I think having others still potentially fail is fine, as it means those who just run around and force locks can mess up giving others a chance to jump in and take the chest.

Stannum

With vWGT first boss that matters )

DeadlyRecluse

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

Eh, I have max ledgerdemain and I don't particularly think it should remove an entire mechanic from the game.

I mean, you're a master thief at that point, picking a lock shouldn't be a big deal!

bulbousb16_ESO

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

Iron_Blurr wrote: »

Its more like if you unlock and level up your ultimate and use it, should it fire every single time? And the answer is yes. Because you spent the time unlocking it and purchasing it with skill points for it to work when you want it to..

Legerdemain doesn't have an ultimate, dude.

CMDR_Un1k0rn

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

If you can't open a master level chest without resorting to force locks then you're a bad thief.

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Nestor

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

How else are you going to use up all those lockpicks?

Besides, if you want a 100% Chance, do them manually.

CMDR_Un1k0rn

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

Nestor wrote: »

How else are you going to use up all those lockpicks?

Besides, if you want a 100% Chance, do them manually.

This lol.

I haven't failed a chest once. It's stupid easy.

Skill points in force lock are 100% wasted.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

How else are you going to use up all those lockpicks?

Besides, if you want a 100% Chance, do them manually.

This lol.

I haven't failed a chest once. It's stupid easy.

Skill points in force lock are 100% wasted.

Ha! Same. To date, never failed a chest. I was really close on a master chest the other day, but I got it at the buzzer. I thought my unprovable (that a word?) and meaningless streak was coming to an end.

Starlock

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

While it's great we have so many folks who find the lockpicking mini game easy, please bear in mind not everybody is you. Some players find it hard and frustrating, or experience failing many, many times especially on the ones with shorter timers. If you find it so easy, you would loose nothing by the force pick being a 100% chance. The people who do not find it easy, on the other hand, would be able to bypass what is a frustrating experience for them.

MasterSpatula

I agree with @Turelus, upping the percentage chance on simple to 100% would be fine by me, but there should be some fail chance on the others.

Of course, the real nuisance of chests isn't the 15-or-more% fail chance, it's the near-absolute certainty that if you fail, you'll fail at least twice and probably three times before success. It's utterly consistent and a clear sign that the RNG system in this game is bad and desperately needs fixed.

JadeCoin

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

How else are you going to use up all those lockpicks?

Besides, if you want a 100% Chance, do them manually.

This lol.

I haven't failed a chest once. It's stupid easy.

Skill points in force lock are 100% wasted.

For myself personally, I don't care about the percent chance at max legerdemain, and I find it easy enough to pick any level lock manually.

Nevertheless, there can be a reason to force them: speed. In certain tight locations, there's an extremely short window when an NPC who does not otherwise move turns away. Force lock is one of the ways my thieves stay clear of any bounty.

In other words, it's not about whether or how often the lockpick fails (by either method). It's about getting in and out unseen.

Grandma

Yes maxed out legerdemain should give 100% force lock chance.

Yes, there's no point. the only time it super matters is if you're competing for chests in the overworld, which does not happen much. otherwise it just adds 5 seconds of disappointed annoyance during a raid.

That, or make it so you get some fabricated replicate of the skeleton key from Sotha Sil (who posesses it briefly in the CWC expansion) for your efforts to save the city, but it's not quite the true skeleton key and it only works on chests (lore explanation for why you can't use it on doors for rooms you aren't allowed to open) so that we don't have to buy lockpicks.

Jaraal

No spending the time and skill points to max out legerdemain should not result in 100% force lock chance.

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

If you can't open a master level chest without resorting to force locks then you're a bad thief.

Nah, the good thief just popped that master lock in 1 second and is on to the next one before you. I have saved hours and hours of time smash and grabbing, it all adds up.


Time = money. If you like fiddling with locks or proving your mad skillz to yourself, by all means. No one can judge you but Sithis.