Ebonheart: Best Stealing Location I've Found

Sunburnt_Penguin · September 2015

Hi all,

After a bit of time searching the Web and traipsing across the map in the search of lucrative stealing areas, I accidentally found a gem in Windhelm that's great for farming for gold, motifs and recipes.

It's the first building on the left to the North East of the inner city Outlaw Refuge. It has an intermediate lock, 22 nodes plus 2x advanced silver box locations and 2 NPCs that don't cause an issue:
3x Nightstands/Desks
2x Wardrobes/Cupboards
3x Drawers/Trunk
3x Sacks
11x Crates/Barrels/Baskets
The 2x silver boxes are downstairs by the worktops and upstairs between the basket and the bookshelf
1x NPC on each floor

Simply do a sweep and then log out and back in but you're going to farm with a friend I'd recommend logging out at the same time to increase chances of silver boxes spawning.

Give it a go, let me know if it's of any use and if there's anywhere better!

Turelus · September 2015

Thanks, I will check this out.

Sunburnt_Penguin · September 2015

@Turelus No problem, the place is great and my Veteran friends have now taken to it over their previous spots.

RAGUNAnoOne · September 2015

Mine is the tribunal temple in mournhold, stealing from the three

it has many desks around 4, 4 safeboxes(I think) 2 of them behind people that never turn around 1 barely guarded and many barrels and even dwemer urns. best place for novices to learn to steal. just be careful if you get caught I don't think you will be able to escape without teleporting as there is only one exit and ordinator guards are everywhere.

Sunburnt_Penguin · September 2015

@RAGUNAnoOne Thanks, I'll try this out tonight and let you know. I got a Dwemer motif from farming in the place near the Harbourage but the reset on it is temperamental.

Violynne · September 2015

Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »

Simply do a sweep and then log out and back in...

It's faster to enter the outlaw hideout and exit. All you need to do is leave the zone and reenter it to reset those coffers.

Also, watch your back. I'm sending the Dark Brotherhood after you for giving out my secret.

Okay, I'll be nice and share another secret that's not well known.

As most people know, those purple motifs can be tricky to find, but there's one building with a likely chance (but not guarateed) to produce it, if you're willing to work for it. I discovered this entirely by accident, but it's no coincidence two separate characters found a purple motif in the same building.

In Eastmarch, there's a quest where you have to decide dinner: Bear steaks or goat stew. To the right is an inn. Enter the inn and check everything, including sacks.

DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING[*]! Instead, search everything. If you don't find the motif, leave and head east into the cave. This takes you out of the zone. Return to the inn and repeat.

I have found both the Daedric and Barbaric motif in a sack on the first floor with both characters.

How did I discover this? Because on my first character, I left the inn without grabbing the quest. Went back, and just swept the area again to see if anything changed. There it was, a Barbaric motif.

Yesterday, my first sweep netted nothing, but I remembered the quest, so I left, went to the cave, returned, and there was the Daedric motif.

Certainly can't be a coincidence.

[*] So why can't you take anything? Some areas will retain their "search" status when you take something. For example, you take something from a nightstand, but when you return, the nightstand isn't reset, but shows as empty, even if you exit the zone.

ZheinLevin · September 2015

If you ever find a door with an advanced lock let me know. It definitely has to be a door. I'm gonna grind the hell out of it xD

Nestor · September 2015

ZheinLevin wrote: »

If you ever find a door with an advanced lock let me know. It definitely has to be a door. I'm gonna grind the hell out of it xD

Most any of the Manor houses have Advanced Locks. I have even found them in Zone 2, but more of them in Zones 4 and 5

Nestor · September 2015

Violynne wrote: »

[*] So why can't you take anything? Some areas will retain their "search" status when you take something. For example, you take something from a nightstand, but when you return, the nightstand isn't reset, but shows as empty, even if you exit the zone.

I have found that if I open a container to look but move on, when I come back to it's empty more often than not. Last night I was in the Inn in Rocklaw (yes I spelled it wrong shoot me) and poked my nose into every container while I was chatting on TS. Well I saw some nice loot so after the talk I went back to those containers and each one was empty even though I took nothing out. I see this happen all the time TBH. It seems to happen more so with owned containers than un-owned.