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Obviously it can be done. I just came across a locked chest in the play house and it said my lockpicking was not high enough, though I have level 5 in lockpicking. I tried going to my trainer and she does not offer to increase my lockpicking threshold, so I'm wondering how does one gain lockpicking above level five without starting a new FoV character?

Nevermind. I found that the female trainer in the Ministry allowed me to train up to 7 in lockpicking.

You can get both points mindreading some NPCs in the city, instead of using skillpoints.

I don't remember which ones, but it should be somewhere on the forum.

If you mindread the Black Market bandit boss, only if your lockpicking was at rank 5, would have automatically bumped your lockpicking skill up to rank 6 [You get 1 Lockpick skill point from the mindread; at rank 5, it'd automatically give the Rank 6 ability and allocate the skillpoint there.]- rather than paying for two ranks via the trainer.

Oh it wasn't a problem at all, by the time I figured it out. I had tons of money and about 10 unspent skillpoints at the time. I really ended up with way more skill points than I needed throughout the game.

Indeed, at the end of FoV I had about 20 or more skillpoints left
... thinking I needed at least a few at the final end battle, but that was really a peace of cake ...