Quests?There are a couple of quests which will put your Rogue in front of the chance to work up that lockpicking skill. One's the basic Rogue Lockpicking quest and the other's the poison quest.
Once past the poison quest towers there isn't any particular "lockpicking quest" so start yer grindin"! To get past 300 skill you'll need to have
The Burning Crusade installed.
Rremember that the basic skill rank formula is 5 x level, so the max Lockpicking skill for a level 50 character is 250.
You'll get the lockpicking skill (and tools) from your rogue trainer at level 16. He'll give you a quest, so go do it, hand it in, and you'll have your skills and tools. Open all the chests in the quest area until your skill is high enough.
By the way, don't forget to ask your friendly Rogue trainer where to go for lockpicking. Sometimes the info is actually useful.
Blood Elf Lockpicking 1-100If you had the good taste to roll a Blood Elf then here's what you do: You'll pick the chests in the
Armani Catacombs, just west of Farstrider Enclave. Kill trolls and pick locks until your lockpicking is 100, the chests turn grey, or you just can't take it anymore.
Your skill will cap at 5x level, so at lev 16 you'll max out at skill level 80. make sure you're at least level 20 to get to 100 skill.
Blood elves can also find lockers in Zeb'Nowa and Zeb'Tela in the Ghostlands.
Other Horde 1-100 LockpickingRogue Polly Quest - Go to Ratchet, get on the ship, feed Polly a cracker (before Polly eats
you, and unlock chests on the boat until they're grey.
Click here for Polly tips. You don't actually need the quest to pick the locks, but since you're a Rogue and should be doing that quest anyway...
If you are Alliance and like to live dangerously, then this is a good place to go.
See below for the video.
Alliance 1-100 LockpickingIn Alther's Mill, in the Redridge Mountains region, there is a quest to lockpick a series of chests to find a quest item. Like all your skills it's capped at 5x level.
Quest details.