If You Were a Casual Gamer...

[Treesh]

So, when my 30 rogue went to the trainer to find out where to level up lockpicking, he was told to go to Wetlands.  He went out to the Wetlands and discovered lockboxes there he could not open.  It turned out it was FAR easer to go to Sentinel Hill and open the chest behind Klaven - something that will max your lock picking up to somewhere around 40.

I would say it's still not particularly newbie friendly.
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It's much better than it used to be though where unless you read the boards, you didn't know about Klaven's box and you didn't know you could pickpocket boxes from critters (unless you were a pickpocketing freak). There was quite a bit of "pickpocketing is useless. Why is it even in the game?" comments and they were generally made by people who couldn't pick locks well either. Unless you read the boards or had a knowledgeable friend to rely on, a casual player couldn't get their lockpicking skill up. Now you can because of the lockboxes in the world. And I have never been told by a trainer to go to an area where I can't actually pick any of the boxes. In some of the areas, there are two (possibly more) different levels of boxes. I was picking in Angor Fortress last night and the dented footlockers were orange skill ups after a certain point, but the battered footlockers had gone yellow. All in the same area. IIIRC, when I was picking the boxes in Desolace, there was a similar situation, but I don't remember for sure. I do not know about the Wetlands though since my rogues were either too little or too big to pick in that area so I don't know if there is the same thing there.