Warriors should be able to bash chests, doors, and all. The damage requirement of the weapon should increase with the difficulty of the lock or the strength of the object you're bashing.

Mages or characters using magic should be able to unlock things with a spell. I don't know if this is currently possible because I don't really play as a magic character.

Warriors should be able to bash chests, doors, and all. The damage requirement of the weapon should increase with the difficulty of the lock or the strength of the object you're bashing.

Mages or characters using magic should be able to unlock things with a spell. I don't know if this is currently possible because I don't really play as a magic character.

Hey thats a very good idea. Thieves would have lockpicking, warriors would have bashing, and mages would have lockpick spells.

Makes sense to me.

this has been discussed for years and still not implemented.

it's why i'm losing faith in the direction gamesas is going.

so many meaningful, yet, simple additions could/should have been included in this game, but, were either simplified to the point of meaninglessness and redundancy or just left out.

this has been discussed for years and still not implemented.

it's why i'm losing faith in the direction gamesas is going.

so many meaningful, yet, simple additions could/should have been included in this game, but, were either simplified to the point of meaninglessness and redundancy or just left out.

A modder could make these things so in a manner of hours with the CK. So there's no reason for it to have not been in the game. I feel like less of a badass mage when I have to get on my knees to pick a lock. There's this one book in the game where a character uses a bolt spell on the lock to blast the door open. How cool would that have been to do in the game? Hell, even in Oblivion, using fire or having a heat source next to a lock made it easier to pick. Sad how things are being scaled BACKWARD....

Man don’t know what the problem is with lock picking for you guys I keep finding more and more lock picks do to I don’t brake that many even on expert locks. I have over 300+ lockpicks right now and I don’t buy any...Plus I dont spend any skill points on lockpicking.

That would cool, as long as there were a chance of breaking objects inside when opening chests using this method.

Unfortunately, there is no way to magically open a lock in skyrim using a spell.

I don't know what happend. Ive never had this problem in any game, and ive played all the Morrowinds and the Fallout 3s and all that. But when I go to try and pick locks, I find myself rapidly enraged by the breaking picks. I cant even explain it, its just...the noise, the odd functions of the pick, the red herrings, the inability to tell where your thing was when it broke in a way that makes it at all possible to reposition it...

...It drives me insane. Ive actually had to stop playing the game for a few minutes so i didnt get angry. WTF is that about?!

This isnt really a question, more just venting. Although if anyone else feels the same way, I wouldn't mind hearing it

RIP indeed. Biggest mistake Beth made for Skyrim.

I liked the Oblivion method better for some reason. I actually had fun doing it (most of the time). The Skyrim/Fallout 3 method just seems kind of boring and tedious.

All these posts and NO hints on successful lockpicking? So here's my 2 cents...

Just for grins and giggles I attempted a Master lock one day. I moved my pick slowly to 3 o'clock and then slowly back to 9 waiting to hear the little clicks. After doing this twice I heard the click and found the sweet spot. After some jiggling my pick broke. I found out with my next pick that I had to actually do the 3 to 9 thing again or my pick broke immediately.

Long story short I picked that lock with 4 picks and my skill is only 30 (I think).

But one question - is the sweet spot always the same for the level of lock? I'm kinda confused on that point...

is the sweet spot always the same for the level of lock?
No let’s say we go with a clock for the directions of the lock. If you pick a lock on the left side of 12 normally the next lock you pick will be on the right side of 12. Normally not all the time.

I've found lockpicking to be too easy in this game. I liked the method from Thief:Deadly Shadows.

Here's 2 mods I recommend to make lockpicking harder, lockpicking perks worth getting, and loot in locked containers better. Picking locks becomes fun.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=7395
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9829

RIP unlock spells

I liked the Oblivion method better for some reason. I actually had fun doing it (most of the time). The Skyrim/Fallout 3 method just seems kind of boring and tedious.

Does the harder lockpicking mod actually reduce the size of the 'sweetspot' at all for the various lock difficulties? Or does it just require a certain level of lockpicking skill before you can open harder locks?

Does the 'more loot from locked containers' mod give you more blues and higher quality loot? Or just a lot more normal/lowbie junk? More gold? Silly getting 8g out of a master locked chest in a high level dungeon.

Most players (myself included), never get anywhere near level 80. So yeah, 6 perks takes away from a lot of other significant ones you could have invested in. Not to mention, unless you really go out of your way to rush-level lockpicking (which isn't nearly as easy to rush as pickpocketing), you're not going to get that final unbreakable-pick perk until quite later in your character's career, since it is a 100th level perk. So, basically, if you are looking for any kind of relief from breaking lockpicks sooner rather than (much) later, you're going to be just about finished playing a char before you even get to that perk. Not much point in it.

As for why bother playing a game if I cheat on lockpicking? I didn't, for over 400 hours. I picked every last lock the hard way, thousands of them, with zero perks in locksmithing on all my chars. I never met one I couldn't open, and I quite used up all the thrill (pffft... lol... like, seriously...) of picking locks, in Skyrim. It's a boring, pointless mini-game that adds nothing whatsoever to the fun of the game, in my opinion. My chars are master lockpickers, and locksmithing technology in Skyrim's mideival era isn't exactly high-tech, ya know? They've learned the skill to the point that popping any lock in Tamriel is as much work as picking their nose. That's what I think of that. The rest of the gameplay? Some of it is still fun and entertaining, and that is what keeps me playing at this point. Lockpicking? Not so much.

then my only advice to you then is to stop picking locks and forget about the 4 gold worth of items you would have gotten out of it anyways and focus on other aspects of the game you enjoy.... there arent many places it is required of you to lock pick to progress your story or sub arcs anyways so you wont miss much.

Here's 2 mods I recommend to make lockpicking harder, lockpicking perks worth getting, and loot in locked containers better. Picking locks becomes fun.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=7395
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9829