After entering the jail in Arnika and descending to the vault there, you reach a room with some stuff, a teleporter back to the surface, and a door with 8 cylinders to pick. Force= 0% chance, and with the 42% lockpick skill my ninja seems to have no chance opening it.

Is there a fixed combination of how to raise the cylinders or do I have to have more than 100 lockpick to get a chance of opening? There seems to be no lock for a key.

Morthal

Er. Don't bother trying to open it. It just takes you out into the corridor to the elevator up. Just use the teleporter to get out and be happy! Unless you *like* to fight bank guards.... ;)

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Morthal:
After entering the jail in Arnika and descending to the vault there, you reach a room with some stuff, a teleporter back to the surface, and a door with 8 cylinders to pick. Force= 0% chance, and with the 42% lockpick skill my ninja seems to have no chance opening it.

Is there a fixed combination of how to raise the cylinders or do I have to have more than 100 lockpick to get a chance of opening? There seems to be no lock for a key.

Morthal<hr></blockquote>

actually why u must open the door ...
????

Thank you, I really hate leaving a place with 'unfinished business'. Now I can lean back and fight Savant Guards until getting too bored of that. ;)

Morthal

You will meet lots of these types of locks in midgame.

My way of opening them:

Have a spellcaster cast knock knock at full power (if it fizzles, load and try again), then switch to your lockpicker and open up the remaining tumblers. I have a few spellcasters who know knock knock so it is a luxury for me, cast...switch...cast...switch...normally by the second cast, only 1 or 2 tumblers are remaining and my gadgeteer can pick the lock easily.

Edit: Warning, opening that particular lock will set off an alarm and make the whole bank hostile.

yeah, that's the bank door. they really try hard to keep out the riff-raff. :D (that's you and me, btw!)

i haven't been able to open it yet, either. but it's a GREAT spot for raising your skills fast. you can sit there for as long as you like, trying over and over.

those 8 tumbler locks are the hardest, so i would think you need really high skillz and prolly good spells to raise those skillz.

ps: i have heard the treasure is non-existent. so don't get your hopes up on that score. just use it for target practice.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by hjx:


actually why u must open the door ...
????<hr></blockquote>

I sleep much better then, not thinking about what might be behind that door. Exceptions of course are doors like in the Monastery where it's obvious that you need a special key.

Morthal

One good thing about that lock... keep at it till your lock pick skill stops rising. If yer persistant (like I was), I saved the game, cast Knock Knock till I got it to hold 4 of the tumblers, then picked away till it opened. Took a half an hour but was fun to do. [img]smile.gif[/img] Besides got lock pick and knock knock sphere up.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by MornD:
You will meet lots of these types of locks in midgame.

My way of opening them:

Have a spellcaster cast knock knock at full power (if it fizzles, load and try again), then switch to your lockpicker and open up the remaining tumblers. I have a few spellcasters who know knock knock so it is a luxury for me, cast...switch...cast...switch...normally by the second cast, only 1 or 2 tumblers are remaining and my gadgeteer can pick the lock easily.

Edit: Warning, opening that particular lock will set off an alarm and make the whole bank hostile.<hr></blockquote>

Ahhhh yes, that's the way, I remember reading something similar in the manual, though I should leave that special door closed.

Morthal