Are they a waste, like lockpicking is?

I used a few perks in the pickpocketing tree. I find the perk that lets you pickpocket equipped weapons and armor very useful.


I never put perks into lockpicking. Complete and total waste.

Pickpocket is a fun endgame skill and is also useful for stealthy assassinations. I perk the full tree ussaully.

I always chuckle when people say how the lockpicking perks are a waste. I agree they aren't great, but it's a LOCKPICKING skill, what kind of amazing perks would anyone expect to find.

I'm not expecting any cool perks in there since lockpicking is very basic and gets pretty easy. That's why it would be wasteful pumping perks into that tree.

I like having those extra pockets the skill gives me.

Oh yeah... One of the things I have done in a recent re-start is to take a hard look at what IS on the "PERC TREE" (or constellation) of each of the skills. Some of them - like the magicka regeneration percs on the recovery magicka tree are very useful indeed.

In PICKPOCKETTING, I noticed the "Extra Pockets" perc -

What it does is to BOOST YOUR CARRY CAPACITY BY 100 POINTS

Now, THAT I figured - that right there is a must have...
It means that at a point - you can skip over boosting your stamina if all you wanted was to be capable of dragging along a whole lot more stuff!

First thing i do on all new characters is grind pickpocket to get the Extra Pockets perk but then i usually don't get anymore perks from that tree.

Pickpocketing is great when you don't want to use weapons. You can disarm them, disrobe them and with the perk Poisoned, poison them.

And also extra pockets as someone else mentioned.