How To Ninja Locked Treasure Chests

Dungeon Chests

Most people assume that if there is no rogue in the dungeon group, then any locked treasure chest within the dungeon is unlootable.  "It's locked.  Keep pulling!" I'm not sure why this is a common belief, but I always use it to my advantage.  We as auctioneers are often profitting off of other players' errors and ignorance, and this is another oppurtunity. 

Dungeon Groups

If you are dungeoneering in a guild group or with a group of friends, then you probably use your lockpicking skill to open any locked chests.  If you are in a PUG dungeon group, do you use your lockpicking skills?  I only do if it is a quality group and we are planning on running multiple dungeons.  If not, I ignore all locked chests within the instance.  Why?  Being the greedy and evil goblin that I am, I want to keep all the chest's contents for myself.  I go back through the instance after the dungeon group disbands and claim all of the chest's goodies for myself.  These random PUG members may never cross your path again so you don't really owe them anything.  You way remember back during Hallow's Eve when I discussed this tactic briefly for claiming all the scarlet monastery chests for yourself.

3 Ways To Ninja Locked Chests

1)  Rogue - "Sorry my lockpicking skill isn't high enough."  Then go pick the lock once everyone leaves and collect all the gold and items.

2)  Blacksmith - No one needs to know that you are a blacksmith or whether you have blacksmith keys on you or not.  Use those blacksmith lockpicking skills after everyone else leaves.  You do carry keys on you right?

3)  Engineer - Just like blacksmiths, engineers can craft seaforium charges to open chests.  Backtrack through the dungeon and collect those locked goods waiting for you in the empty instance.  Bonus if you use a speed boost with your engineering gadgets to get to those chests.

Just remember to have the dungeoun group clear out any mobs near those locked chests so you can return to the safely when you are alone. 

How To Be An Evil Goblin

Guaranteed to get you flamed, hate-mailed, reported, and cursed.  Use at your own risk.  So I present the devious ways to make gold in WoW.




1)  SINGLE ARROWS - We all know about the posting 1 arrow or 1 bullet for the price of a full stack.
2)  MISSPELLED ALT - Ever been sending in-game mail to another of your alts and accidentally mailed it to the wrong character?  Ever got lucky and got the error- you cannot send mail to opposing factions?  Well it happens to us all, so lets be evil and take advantage of others mistakes.  Got a major AH competitor named Greedy.  Well make a bank alt named Gredy and see if anything shows up in your mail that was meant for him.  Stick to altering the names to letter keys that are next to each other on the keyboard and can be easily juxtaposed.  a-s, g-h, m-n, t-y  are probably the most common.

3)  SNEAK ONE IN - Similar to the single ammo concept, but more devious.  Find something that is purchased in large quantities, like Netherweave Cloth that also has a large amount listed on the Auction House.
Look through the price listings of stacks and find where the prices break within the list.  Then post a stack of 2 NW Cloth for the exact same price as the higher priced stack of the price break.  Anyone quickly grabbing up mats could risk getting caught snagging that 2 stack for the price of a 20 stack.  Example:

20x NW Cloth 5g
20x NW Cloth 5g
20x NW Cloth 5g
 (Price Break)      <--------Post a 2 stack for 5g50s
20x NW Cloth 5g.50s
20x NW Cloth 5g.50s
20x NW Cloth 5g.50s

Now don't do this over and over in the same spot.  Throw up your sneaky break fillers in all the different price breaks through the whole list.  Now laugh as multiples get bought for crazy prices per item sold.

4)  FALSE PRICE MANIPULATION - Post a rare item over and over and over for 30 days at an insanely high price that is extremely overvalued.  Re-list this same item every day for 30-60 days.  Then one day suddenly drop it down to a still extremely overinflated price that also is a good cut lower than your insane pricing.  This can trick add-on users into getting fooled that there is an item posted for much lower than it is worth, because for 30-60 days you have been falsely elevating its value and now it appears to be on-sale and may get snatched right up by an add-on user.  This works best for rare items that are very rarely listed on the auction house.  (Like a Firefly non-combat pet.)

5) KILL EM ALL - If you see a player two boxing on the neutral auction house or someone is beating you to all the deals.  Just log onto your Bloodsail Admiral and kill off the auctioneers in the town.  Then head over to another auction house and grab his stuff he posted to transfer or buy your cross faction items in peace.  Love decimating the entire town of Booty Bay!

6)  COD PLEASE - Many players have no idea what I am talking about when I ask if they will COD the item the are selling in trade chat to me.  After I explain what it is and how to do it some still get it wrong.  When you go to open your mailbox, not only will you have the items you requested be sent COD, but more times than you would imagine, these idiots will send you the items and send you the gold, instead of COD mailing it with a COD charge to retrieve the items!  So always ask if they will COD to you first.

7)  SPECIAL DELIVERY - Wrap some lame items in gift wrap and send them to random people COD and see how many take the bait.  This may be a ban-able offense.  Do it at your own risk.

8)  LOOTED LOOTS - Take looted items that are also containers, like Clam Shells, Heavy Junk Boxes, etc, and turn off the auto-loot feature in your characters UI.   Now loot all the goodies and leave the junk behind.  Example:  Searching all your Big-Mouth Clams for Golden Pearls, but leaving in all the clam meat.  Then sell the Big-Mouth Clams on the AH instead of the Clam Meat.  People hoping to get a pearl out of the clam will buy it up, not knowing you already took out all the goodies.  (has been hotfixed - no longer possible)

Leave some comments here if you have other ideas on the same topic or leave some notes, if you get any of these things working for you.  Enjoy you greedy evil little bastards.