I will try to help the OP- all lock tumblers are set be in one of four states of being depressed. Position 1 is about 25% down. Position 2 is about 50%. Position 3 is at 75%. Position 4 is 100% pressed fully down. Each tumbler will begin to vibrate when you press it down to one of those positions- at that point you stop pushing or you will break your pick.

The tumblers can be in any combination of those 4 states on each one. The more advanced the chest, the shorter the timer and the higher the likelihood will be that your pick will snap if you try to power past the set point on that tumbler. Ledgermain skill can help, but practice will give you a "feel" for it once you understand the basics. Once you know where those stop points are on each tumbler, you can just mash them to a set point until you see it shake, then let go and move onto the next one pretty fast. You can also practice on locked doors in some places. I hope this helps you.

What platform you on ? I team up with people for bergama and rawl’ka quest to help them out all the time.
. I bet someone here will help you.
If not here put it in eastmarch zone chat, there will be someone who is an longer term player who is not doing all of the quests but wants an easy event ticket - so looking for that quest in particular.

geng14159 wrote: »

I just hit this issue this morning. I've done this event every year and have the achievement for doing the locks in a shorter time on all of my characters. However, this year, the Advanced chest feels more like a Master chest.

But they get easier as they go up in difficulty. Or maybe just faster, which feels easier because it doesn't take as long?

Epona222 wrote: »

To be fair, picking locks manually is horrendous if you have bad ping or lag.

Ah, yeah. Didn't think of that.

Lockpicking is beyond easy. You just need to get a hang of it. I got the five finger cat burglar achievement on that quest without even trying. -_-

You can even group and have them do the work for you

sno_flah_ke wrote: »

Over 300 lockpics used so far and these chests wont open. I HATE the lockpicking system from the oblivion style and much prefer the Skyrim method.

this is a farce of a quest for the new life festival.

300 lock picks? That's crazy.

If I were you I'd invest 4 points into the locksmith passive under the Legerdemain skill line (it's under the World skills). Will be the best 4 points you ever spend from the sound of it. O.o

Legerdemain 20, locksmith 4
and force them all

How does a snowflake even use a lock pick to begin with?

I pick the locks and have no problem finishing before the timer runs out, but I also have been picking locks for several years now.

E>R>repeat.

I find it is easy to have too heavy a finger on the mouse button and miss a few tumbler shots. I think it has to do somewhat with muscle memory and combat where I tend to smash keys and buttons which is the opposite of what's needed for chests. The funny part is the harder the chest the easier it is for me to keep a light touch.

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Yep. I can break several picks on a simple chest because of 2000 ms lag. Frustrating....

Do you play from the moon?

Sheesh. I hope you don’t PvP with that.