If You Were a Casual Gamer...

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This has been taken care of much better in the patch.  Now the rogue trainers have a chat option where you can ask where your character needs to go in order to skill up their lockpicking and there are many more locked boxes in the world so you don't have to whore yourself out in a major town to open boxes or pickpocket higher level critters until your mind has been numbed to oblivion.  It used to be relatively difficult to raise up your lockpicking past 100, but now it's much easier and newbie friendly. :)

I still agree that rogue is a good starting choice though for casual gamers.
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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.