>lm app my lock
You examine the ora lockpick very closely. It appears to be in excellent condition. It seems to have a below average level of precision and is strong. As far as you can tell, the lockpick has never been repaired. You could probably handle a well-crafted lock pretty easily with it.
Roundtime: 2 sec.

>lm repair my lock
The lockpick appears to be in pretty good condition already.


Lockmastery is for any serious picker, an amazing guild skill. If....well its an investment.

>>>I last remember when we break a lockpick, its properties will drop once it's repaired & it won't be as good as when it's new. Is it the same now? What about lockpick that is being repaired while been stressed, bent & etc without breaking it? The properties not as good as well? Is there anyway to check the lockpick? How much diference does it have between a repaired one & a new one? very significant? Can someone advise me? Thank you ~Chzin, Player behind: Tchzin

As THORNBROOK showed you, Lockmastery is a skill well worth the time sink it requires.

The below is taken from the seminar with GM Smite on changes to locksmithing during the release of Lock Mastery aka LFM.

Q: Sayrena says, 'Please address the various degrees of damage a lockpick can suffer. Bends,
stress, snaps. Are those calculated with the fumble factor or is it intended that a fumble
will always result in a total break of a lockpick as we are all now experiencing. And, has
the frequency of fumbles been inceased? It seems they occur much more frequently then they
ever did before your lockpick changes.'

Smite Reponded with:

A: Ok, a lockpick can be damaged in 3 ways... well more than that, but 3 basic ways... It can
break outright, this is determined by the strength of the pick. Instead of breaking outright,
it can also be damaged. This depends on a number of things, but for the most part, it
subtracts damage points form the pick until it is repairs... Finally picks can be 'tweaked'.
this means bent, twisted, whatever. Depending on the numebr here, you can tweak a pick a few
times before damaging it. Or you might tweaka pick and twist the tip right off, breaking it
completely. When you finble, first we check if you break it outright, if not, we check if you
just damaged it, if not then we check if you tweaked it a bit. All of these can be repaired,
but there is always the chance that you will loose some max damage points, bonus, tweak
factor, etc when the pick is repaired or broken.

As usual, no specifics on exactly how much it can be damaged (modifier for picking and strength modifier), but it does show that a tweak/twist doesn't necessarily mean that the modifier was damaged yet.

After every break/repair, the modifier is affected, but it might not be damaged enough to knock it down a level in the LFM appraisal of that pick.

~Lori aka Horsefreak (One of the Many)

Its the sort of thing people would want if they have nice alters. If you are thinking of doing this on other occasions, I'd suggest combining repair and alteration services and doing alters if there is low demand for repairs.

Generally speaking I don't have alters on lockpicks (I just have the one which was a picking contest prize, which I would get repaired if you did this early enough), because sooner or later its going to be broken enough that I want it replaced, but if there was a reasonable chance of getting a proper repair from time to time, that would change.

Would exception LM made picks get repaired to their original stats or standard vaalin?

I have a couple I'll bring if I'm able to make it there to have it done, one I won at a lockpicking contest years ago and my earring lockpick. In general though, I rarely use my special picks since they'll eventually get broken no matter what I do. Like the other poster said, if it were possible to repair picks back to like new condition outside rare events like this I'd use them more and look for more unique picks to use on a regular basis... even if it cost more then buying new picks off the shelf or required 200+ ranks in lockpicking to repair them to that level.

As it is now, I just toss my picks when they break and make a new one.

Starchitin

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> I, as a player of a rogue, would like to see it a rogue skill and not a merchant service, but I am not involved with Dev.

The current system has advantages. There are wide ranges of mods that cannot be purchased but can be got to by using the degradation on repair to manufacture an appropriate pick.

I would consider it a serious nerf (it would cost upwards of 50 exp per box on a lot of boxes) to lose the ability to manufacture the right pick for the job.

I've got one pick that I'd pay Tayberry to repair. I've got 4 that I wouldn't let Tayberry touch even if you offered to pay me millions.