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[lawlist]

There are a ton of treasure chests that I have not unlocked and I'm almost done with origins (just cleaning up the side quests) -- how do I open them?  Some of the special ones have keys, but the vast majority of others have no keys that I am aware of.

[caradoc2000]

You need a rogue with points invested in the deft hands tree. Different locks have different skill requirements.

[lawlist]

Oh, dear . . . I have not developed any rogue experience points and I'm almost at the end of Origins -- just cleaning up the side quests. Thank you very much. I should have asked this question months ago.

[caradoc2000]

The skill check is based on your cunning attribute.

[mousestalker]

Leliana is a rogue who is very good at opening chests. Add her to your party and try opening them using her.

[Kaduos]

mousestalker wrote...

Leliana is a rogue who is very good at opening chests. Add her to your party and try opening them using her.

Yeah, this is pretty much the only reason I carry Leliana around with me, aside from being a potential romance (which doesn't matter I guess if you just give her gift items). My last character I built as a dps rogue exclusively and just leveled Leliana up for lockpicking.

But to be totally honest, there's literally nothing in locked chests that you need and they are really only good for some extra pocket change - you can live without them.

Modifié par Kaduos, 09 septembre 2010 - 08:24 .

[lawlist]

Thank you very much -- I was envisioning a super duper sword that cuts through rock locked away inside one of those chests, and Grand Grand Grand Master Ruins with +20 for cold and fire.

[Lord of Fangs]

Some locked chests contain items for side quests...letters and such.

[lawlist]

Okay, well now I have to open the chests (for those side quests) -- very important !!! I wonder how long it will take to go back and visit every single chest prior to the final enslaught of Origins.

[Heather Cline]

Yeah some chests carry things for other side quests and extra gold is always helpful in the game. Also Leliana if you get her cunning up high enough all you need is Expert Lockpicking to pick any lock in the game. Master level is not needed. I know, I figured that out while playing through Awakenings when I had Nathaniel Howe as my Rogue and he only had lockpick at Expert level and a Cunning of like 52. No lock stood a chance against his skills.

[Kaduos]

Lord of Fangs wrote...

Some locked chests contain items for side quests...letters and such.

I don't remember any of those... maybe a love letter or two. Pretty sure most of the important stuff is not in locked chests.

If your goal is to complete every single side quest in the game, sure - you may need to pick some locks. But really, a friend of mine went through the game not looting a single locked chest and he got through it fine.

[caradoc2000]

You'll also get a hefty amount of XP picking locks - as pointed out several times, it is by no means mandatory.

[Lord of Fangs]

Kaduos wrote...

Lord of Fangs wrote...

Some locked chests contain items for side quests...letters and such.

I don't remember any of those... maybe a love letter or two. Pretty sure most of the important stuff is not in locked chests.

If your goal is to complete every single side quest in the game, sure - you may need to pick some locks. But really, a friend of mine went through the game not looting a single locked chest and he got through it fine.

Yep, most of the stuff in chests is vendor trash, small amounts of money (sometimes good amounts of money), gifts, and the odd poultice so it's entirely possible to go through the game without picking a single lock. But the OP mentioned they were trying to finish up side quests so I wanted to mention the letters.

Modifié par Lord of Fangs, 09 septembre 2010 - 09:26 .

[night0205]

Yeah, there is never anything HUGE in the chests, but little things are helpful, and that's why rogues are useful. Which is why I'm playing a rogue character now, and I want to see how good I can get at a bow...

[lawlist]

Oh man . . . it takes forever to gain experience points . . . I wonder how many I can get if I go back and unlock everything? Enough to level up a couple of times?

[Kaduos]

That rogue I played, I literally tried to do everything possible in the game; discoveries, lockpicking, traps - if during an encounter I accidentally activated a trap, I would reload it so I could disarm it for the exp, or if I couldn't pick a lock, I would come back later to finish the job (only had to do that once in the game though, and that was in the deep roads). I didn't have the codex belt though, so that would have been a little more exp right there.

Other than that, I think I succeeded for a majority of the eggs in the game, minus a few traps and entries here and there. Either way, my main character was 24 at the end of origins, which was amazing to me since the first character I played was only 18-19 at the end (but I didn't have all the extra content either). So, yes, I think you do get quite a bit more exp with all of those disarms, picks and codex entries.

Modifié par Kaduos, 09 septembre 2010 - 10:39 .

[DWSmiley]

lawlist wrote...

Oh man . . . it takes forever to gain experience points . . . I wonder how many I can get if I go back and unlock everything? Enough to level up a couple of times?

Just donate elfroot to your elven army if that's what you want.

[Kaduos]

^ That would be something else to do as well. With enough gold, you could definitely hit that 25 mark even without grabbing every single trap, pick or codex entry.

[Addai]

Are you on PC or console? There is a Lock Bash mod which allows you to open chests without a rogue. You get the XP, and can modify it so that you have a chance of losing loot as an offset to the advantage you gain.

[lawlist]

I'm using the PC version on a disk with Win7, and I also have the Mac version which I'm not playing right now. Where are the mods located?

[Kaduos]

Try the dragonagenexus.com.

[searanox]

Found it: http://www.dragonage...file.php?id=301

I believe that if you have a Rogue with a high Cunning (50 or so), Device Mastery won't be necessary to open any chests.  The same goes for Coercion on your Warden, where if you have a decent level of Strength and Cunning, you won't need more than Coercion III on any skill check in the game.  Feel free to get all of them to be safe, but it shouldn't be necessary.

[lawlist]

That was super super helpful -- I'll beef up the coercion on my Warden, which will be a whole lot easier than developing a rogue that I've never used. Thank you.

[Kiely]

Kaduos wrote...

But to be totally honest, there's literally nothing in locked chests that you need and they are really only good for some extra pocket change - you can live without them.

^ Ya, that.

[Janni-in-VA]

If an item is essential to a quest (for example, the Gray Warden documents Riordan was carrying) they'll either be in an unlocked chest or you'll have a chance to get a key. Otherwise, don't sweat it. I hate going to all the trouble to pick a lock and then just finding a piece of elfroot or one deep mushroom. Unlike many other games, locked chests do NOT contain all the good stuff.