Where do you hunt? And what do you hunt? I found box training not at all hard to train. I went from trolls in fens, to ogres in P5, and to bandits, and raiders. Oh yeah, somewhere in there, I hunted adan'fs for their boxes too.

There was a box hiatus from trolls in fens to ogres, and before bandits, or alongside bandits, I hunted genis.

Hope this helps--clear as mud right?

If you hunt armadillos and such, I can't help you. Hope someone else can.

Oh yeah, boxes will be easier to train in DR3 because you get disarm/lockpick combined into one skill (still called lockpicking though).

Zinaca and her fully-grown raccoon, Shadow

I had about the same ranks as you about 3-4 months ago in lockpicking/disarm. I'm training them pretty good in the Rossman orc bandits. I've got like 30+ ranks in disarm in that time. Now you have to realize I only play about 4-5 hours a week. If you play more you'll go faster. Also remember to pick blind as I can lock my lockpicking in ~2 boxes. My disarm is higher still but I do get it to move for me at an ok rate.

Bluefalcon

I right at 150 myself and have been hopping around between gargs, thugs in Crossing and swains. Crossing thugs and swains are working best, they drop a ton of boxes! Gargs are probably a bit too easy at 150 ranks.

I think the lower level orcs would be a good step after that, especially with bonuses and WOTP up.

GENT

Not really? If I try and get a full bag and backpack worth of boxes, it can take awhile, and I'll tank. If I just got for 10 or so boxes, it doesn't take that long and my bonus doesn't hurt too much.

I'm really just trying to push through these early ranks to move on to other box droppers that aren't city dwellers, so I'm willing to sacrifice a bit. It's definitely not ideal.

GENT

>>Before I could do anything I'd get hit with it again as the last spell wore off.

As far as I know, this is a bug in 3.0 and will be resolved eventually.


>>Anyone know the skill/stat contest needed to stop being "chain" calmed?

http://elanthipedia.org/w/index.php/Magic_3.0#Stat_vs_Stat_Spells

Mind vs Willpower IIRC.

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-Raesh

I dumped some spare TDPs into disciple and the 5 point boost seemed to help. I'll probably be fine after boosting it another 5 points. The two boxes i got originally got me over 17/34 including a couple of pulses. Im looking at magical feats now to see if they'll help while earning those 5 stat points.