Default Lock pick Breakage

Treemagnet · February 2020

I open A LOT of treasure chests and I am wondering if my findings are nearly equal to the norm.

1). The breakage rate of lock picks appears to be one in five (20%) when depressing the 1/3 or 2/3 depth. No breakage, of course, on the full cylinder depress.

This seems to hold regardless of how careful you are.

2). Never more than one broken pick per chest.

Can you confirm my assumptions?

ghastley · February 2020

I'd contest the simple percentage on the breakages. I suspect it's a percentage of failures, not of attempts, and likely a different number. The rest seems about right.

CMDR_Un1k0rn · February 2020

People break lockpicks?

EDIT: I just find lockpicking to be hilariously easy. I wish it were more difficult to be quite honest.

kargen27 · February 2020

I don't often break lock picks. Definitely nowhere near 20%. When I am on my main though I just do the auto pick thing. I know doing that I fail much more on the easiest chests than I do master chests.

Muizer · February 2020

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

People break lockpicks?

EDIT: I just find lockpicking to be hilariously easy. I wish it were more difficult to be quite honest.

My experience as well. I don't know what determines lockpick breakage, but I find this extremely rare. Definitely less than 1 in 20 chests, so I'd say the odds per tumbler are somewhere between 0.01 and 0.001. The master chests are the only ones where occasionally I run out of time, but only if I'm not concentrating. A bit more challenge would be appreciated. Not much of a mini-game atm.

Mik195 · February 2020

It took me over a year to figure out lock picking (granted, I wasn't terribly motivated). It tells you to release when the pin starts shaking, but actually I need to release right above where the shaking starts. I had no idea why I couldn't get it to work so I just forced.

JamuThatsWho · February 2020

I don't even bother picking then anymore. With the Legerdemain passive, I just hit Force Lock once or twice.

Contaminate · February 2020

Never had any issue with lockpicks breaking. Master locks are probably the easiest since they move the fastest

UntilValhalla13 · February 2020

I've literally picked them with my eyes closed, to see if I could. Whenever the controller vibrates strongly is when to let go. XD

BackStabeth · February 2020

Treemagnet wrote: »

I open A LOT of treasure chests and I am wondering if my findings are nearly equal to the norm.

1). The breakage rate of lock picks appears to be one in five (20%) when depressing the 1/3 or 2/3 depth. No breakage, of course, on the full cylinder depress.

This seems to hold regardless of how careful you are.

2). Never more than one broken pick per chest.

Can you confirm my assumptions?

I have never had any issues with "force lock" I haven't picked locks in any other way in a very long time. I never have to buy picks I get plenty from looting, in fact I get so many that I sell them in bundles of 200. I have never run out of picks, not once. I just force the lock and move on, it's much faster if you are doing a circuit.

It's not difficult to pick locks, it just takes more time, it's not nearly as efficient as just forcing the lock if you have the skill maxed. I don't know why anyone wouldn't max force lock if they are picking, it makes no sense to me.