I want to create a new thief but to be honest I have never created one before
Where should I put my thieving skills in ? I want to be backstabbing and pickpocketting most of all. I have learned that there aren't sufficient locks in the game to pump the skill and I'll be using a party so knock to open right ?
More precise how many points in hide in shadows, move silently etc to be succesfull ?
You don't need to specialize in any skill, just as many points as possible.
a lockpick of 80 should be enough to open all locks in the game, same for detect traps.
As for hide, and move silently, as high as possible, but around 100 you can hide 95% of the times without problems.
As for pickpocket, I always reload when I fail so with 90 you're allright. But there are so many points to distribute that all skills should be high at 1/2 of the game.
Did you place this in the ToB folder because you're creating a thief starting in ToB? If not, I'll move it back to SoA. You'll probably get more responses, there.
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Note on pickpocketing: You'll have to use potions to boost this skill, unless you have it set very high (150 or greater) - since this one tends to fail a lot. (Do not set over 255 - otherwise it will roll over to low numbers.)
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