Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) General How do you learn the lockpick skill?! HELP!

For the life of me I have never run across anywhere that gave me the option to learn the lockpicking skill, and it's becoming more required as I go along. I've looked everywhere I can online, and everyone talks about lock picking, but not a single source mentions where you go to learn the skill.

I hope it's quick and simple. This is driving me mad!

- open up the skill window (click the bottom left icon in the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, by the health bar; it shows an arrow in a target if you have no free skill points, or a white arrow icon on a red background if you do)

- if necessary, use the arrows in the centre of the window, on either side of the 'Way of the Warrior/Mage/Survivor' title, to switch to the survivor skills

- select the Lockpick skill (top level section, top row, second icon from the left, with an opened padlock icon), and (if you meet the level requirements and have a free skill point) click on the checkmark button (centre bottom) to lean the skill.

Level 1 of Lockpick can be learned as soon as you have a skill point; level 2 requires character level 7.


Lockpicks are required to use the skill. Normal lockpicks will break upon successfully using the skill, though you will eventually get some magic unbreakable lockpicks (hang on to them, rather than complete the associated quest - in the updated original disk release you could return them to complete the quest and buy them back, but in the download / anthology version you can not).


You can get 2 levels of Lockpick in Verdistis (one as an option from a couple skills as a quest reward, and another from something like a quest).


Welcome to the forum.

Holy Crap! That brings up a lot of new options I never knew existed! Hahahaha!! Good thing I hardly used any skill points so far. Bless you, Sir.