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Kind of confused and wanted to know if this is a bug or what. I pretty much just started this game. I'm at the imp's tooth quest and decided to go to the battefield. after scerwing around with the first dungeon for awhile I decided to put some ranks in pickpocket and try to steal from the merchants. I put 2 points in pickpocket and i was able to steal 3-4 items from each merchant, includign all their gold. So I went from being mostly broke, (maybe 7k total including eq for both chars) to having about 50K and a ton of magical stuff. I guess stealing is OK? i didn't loose any reputation or ever get caught. This a feature or a bug?

Feature!
Pickpocked works absolutely correct. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

It's a feature. They changed the way the pickpocket works. Now, every level of pickpocket allows you rob from an NPC of the pickpocket level times 5. So, in your case you can rob from NPC's of level 10 and below.

The pickpocket only allows you to rob a certain number of things (not sure how that is calculated though), BUT things like 30 medium health potions count as 1 object. 4800 gold also counts as 1 object. A weapon is also 1 object.

That's it. After you robbed too much from one NPC you can't rob from him/her again, unless you raise your pickpocket level again.

It isn't correct, in reliance on you skilllevel you can rob all items up to a specific itemlevel.

So when he said your pickpocket "runs out" after a while on people, that wasn't correct?

I suspect he means "your astonishment at the overkill of pickpocket runs out." <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

What I noticed is that I can take one item (or pile or items) for each point I have in pickpocket. The only ones that ever seem to have anything are merchants though. Although I did get a bunch of arrows off the citidel guards.

I have not used it for awhile though. So it may have changed with the last patch. I have so much gold now that I have not even bothered to loot the battlefield dungeons for the last few (except the rare third level spawn). I just run through and kill everything.