Hey all.
My level 7 bard has been attempting pickpocketing lately (his skill is at 20 points) and I haven't been having any luck at all. Most of the NPCs I've encountered attack me once I'm discovered (He'Li, Antone, Myles, etc.) and the others demand I bribe them in order to pickpocket again. So I picked up the Violin D'Amore, hoping its charm ability would help me, and camped myself in front of Lord Brafitt. Then I saved the game, and began a power session. Charmed him, pick pocket. Fail, give him a light healing potion, then try again. Repeat, repeat, repeat. After about 50 failures, and no pickpocketing increases I started getting frustrated. How am I supposed to do this? Am I doing this wrong? I was suggested in various FAQs that pickpocketing is easy to build up once you have it at a decent starting value, allowing your bard/rogue to spend valuable points elsewhere. I have no complaints about my music, the violin improves that stat very quickly, but I'd like to pickpocket something eventually =/ Should I dump MORE points into it?
or keep banging my head giving away everything I own until I'm destitute and wearing a cardboard box as armor?
I'm guessing, based on the README File that saving/loading after every pick pocketing attempt doesn't work, because the result has already been predetermined or something like that.. Thats why I tried the 'bribing method'.
Any advice? =( Sorry if this has been asked before.. searching function isn't working.