Quick update

Last night I dinged 26. Woot! Now I have all the cool little rogue tricks I got used to with Vebjorg. So, I will be re-outfitting Kaewhy with Vebjorg's stash and deleting the character.

I am at the point with most of my quests that I am not tough enough to go at it alone. That in between stage where one more level and I can handle it, but just not right now. So, I have been doing a lot of killing slightly tougher creatures (which of course means I spend some time in Tarren Mill getting ganked by some ?? NE Druid).

One thing I have not been doing with this character and have shot myself in the foot with - I haven't been keeping my lockpicking up to date. I went into Durnholde Keep and couldn't pick the locks of the guys chained there (which I could with Vebjorg), so, *gasp*, I actually had to kill the jailer. And got ganked by a ?? NE Druid immediately following. But - I got the key, managed to lift enough practice boxes to boost my lockpicking and managed to open every lockbox in the place. My lockpicking is much better now. Hee.

Which brings me to a question - why on earth can we not stay in stealth when picking locks? Picking locks is a basic Rogue thing, along with stealth. One would suspect that if you knew how to do either of these, we could do them at the same time. We can apply poisons in stealth, why not pick locks? Perhaps this is something we learn at higher levels? I doubt it but I hope so. Maybe on a future release of the game....