Originally Posted by Havokk
Originally Posted by Industrial
Yes and this is why you shouldn't focus on lockpicking because it's juste useless


I disagree, at least in the early game. I started playing with no rogue in the party and got stopped by most of the Murder quests. Without lockpick I couldn't, for example, get into the murderer's house. I did try bashing the door, yes, but my characters weapon degraded to zero for maybe three or four pixels of the door's health. I repaired and did it again and made a rough calculation that I had got about 1/20 through the door's health. I don't consider "bash the door and repair your weapon 40 times" a particularly good solution, compared to "pick the lock once". hehe

And that is after stealing the smelly items of clothing, all of this required rogue skills to get.

The dirty deed skills are certainly not useless, at least in Cyseal.


equip a staff and use the staff range attack skill. causes zero durability loss. each cast is kind of slow, so alternating between 2 characters will speed it up.

its still relatively slow to break a door down, but it can completely circumvent the durability loss mechanic even for pure physical characters.