Rogue Pickpocket Skill (Looking for definitive ruling)

[Naprox]

I pickpocket all the time in Seb. I have never once gotten a gem. What I do see is coin, pages and that powder crap. But I always offer the pages to anyone in group who wants them or just discard them on the ground.

[Eunomia]

Official ruling:

Pick-pocketing Rogues are classic.

Rogues may pick pocket as they pass through an area, they may not linger or return.

A rogue may pick pocket while grouped... until not grouped.

[paulgiamatti]

Rogues cannot pickpocket the beetles in Sebilis. Beetles do not have pockets. Pickpocket only works on humanoid NPCs; oddly, goo-type NPCs are classified as humanoids. If you don't see the "Stop, thief! <Playername>" message while you're grouping with a rogue, they probably aren't pickpocketing. If a rogue is constantly hammering pickpocket on pickpocketable mobs, you're going to see this message a lot.

Pickpocketing often is a great way to never get invited to groups. It not only draws aggro when the NPC catches you - something rogues generally don't want to do - but it also depletes the NPC's coin and gem supply. I tried it once in a Sebilis group at level 55, got caught red-handed, and never tried it again. If you want to make pickpocketing a lucrative endeavor, go get your parchments from Tani N`Mar and Founy Jestands.

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Snakes can kick.

The implementation is classic, though. Snakes could kick.

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

oddly, goo-type NPCs are classified as humanoids.

This is also classic. You could assassinate oozes on live. I remember being like WTF.

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by Eunomia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Official ruling:

Pick-pocketing Rogues are classic.

Rogues may pick pocket as they pass through an area, they may not linger or return.

A rogue may pick pocket while grouped... until not grouped.

Thank you for the response.

[Cecily]

Yeah how it works here, Paul. It's not implemented correctly. "Pockets" are irrelevant. Snakes can kick. The only restriction should be non-animal, non-undead, and within the player vs. NPC level range for it to function. Hill giants can't be pickpocketed atm. They are the classic target for the skill and are not humanoid.

[OfftuneRZ]

Only on a 15 year old elf sim game forum would nerds argue and complain about a rog pick pocketing virtual currency/items in their group. Pickpocket is a skill, let them use it.

[Cecily]

My point is EQ doesn't have to make perfect sense. How it is now, the skill isn't functioning correctly.

[Monty405]

If only I could pick pocket forums pixels

[Swish]

Originally Posted by AceDSilva [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You people who somehow, even with the fucked up economics of coin and money in EQ, think it's OK to poach said coin and money from someone else's mobs were clearly not raised with any regard to how society fucking functions.

Please go ask your mother and father for a refresher course on being a human being, you may need it once you unplug from Norrath. Holy shit.

"I'm not really too sure if this is a right or just thing to do, I have this strange feeling of a conscience creeping up in me, and rather than use any common fucking sense I'm going to go post about it and get a bunch of anti-socials to respond in kind!"

Seriously, your brain does not function like it should. This may be P99 and an emulated game from 15 years ago, but your question says more about you than it does this game.

You sound like great fun to play GTA 5 with Ace [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]