Lockpick

Lock picks were released with the addition of hard mode. All hard mode chests (Locked Chest) require lock picks instead of keys. Lock picks have a small percentage chance of surviving the opening of a Chest. This percentage depends on the user's ranks in the Lucky and Treasure Hunter titles.

Using a lock pick to open a high-end adds 1 point toward the Treasure Hunter title. If you successfully retain a lock pick after use, you gain 250 points towards the Lucky. If it breaks, you gain 25 points towards the Unlucky title.

Lock picks also work on all normal mode chests.

Availability
Lock picks are available from all merchants (except those in Pre-Searing). They are also a random drop in hard mode areas.

Lockpick survival chance at level 20

 * The percent chance of a lock pick not breaking after use in hard mode is:
 * (Character level / 2) + (3 * Treasure Hunter ranks) + (2 * Lucky ranks)


 * For a player that has reached level 20, lockpicks survive 10%...41% of openings.

Economic value of using a lockpick on Normal Mode chests

 * Level 20 characters have a base chance of 10% even before titles are factored in, and thus using a lockpick is always a better deal than using a 1250 key.
 * If you purchase your lockpicks from a Discount Merchant, the base price of lockpicks goes down to 1200g per key, resulting in a substantial lowering of survival chance needed to break even. Discounted lockpicks will have a better value than discounted keys only if the regular priced lockpick had a better value than the regular priced key.

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