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  • Level: 60
  • Requires level: 50
  • Side: Both
  • Start: Fahrad
  • End: Fahrad
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Junkboxes Needed

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My rogues need to hone their lockpicking skills, and I need locks of adequate difficulty -- the stuff Zan makes us is unfit for all but the lowliest neophytes.

Tell ya what, if you bring me 5 Heavy Junkboxes, I'll provide you with some of the finest throwing knives known to roguekind.

You can unlock the boxes and rifle through them, but you'll have to leave at least a few coins in them... even a rogue in training needs motivation.
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Heavy Junkbox (5)

Reward

You will receive:
Dusksteel Throwing Knife

Completion

May these knives find a place in someone's heart.

Literally.

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:

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By bawbooo on 12/19/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
When you are doing this quest, unlock the junkbox and loot the stuff but leave the cheapest loot behind. This way, you get some of the coin/loot, but you also have the junkbox to turn in.
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By MeoMix on 06/24/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
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By Sanosuke on 04/07/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
Without any clue still as to the result of grinding out these for reputation to some unknown reward, it's nice to note a small and profitable shortcut for rogues when grinding out humanoids.
Pick the locks on the junkboxes, shift+click open the box so you don't loot it's entire contents. Remove all but 1 item(s) in the box. I usually leave the guaranteed rogue poison reagent, which sells for pennies. Turn in 5 of these 90% looted, unlocked boxes 75 rep and a throwing dagger that sells for 1g32s53c. (note, the throwing daggers are unique, and you must sell it before turning in again. There is a vendor in the basement to help with this, a small annoyance). You likely won't be turning in more than 20 boxes, so it's brief.
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By welcomatt on 09/08/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
You can start this quest at level 50.
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By zoroz on 02/02/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
you dont need to loot the box to do the quest
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By Leonir on 03/02/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Worth doing if you're an enchanter (or like me, disenchanter of BOP's who sells mats) because these knives disenchant into https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16202 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16202 which sell pretty well on my server - sometimes up to 7g.
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By Jagganath on 02/07/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By Mageorama on 03/10/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Getting this rep to exalted need to be an achivement
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By mudfish08 on 01/17/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
To get to 999/1000 Exalted from 0/3000 Neutral you need to turn in 2,800 lock boxes.

42,000/75=560
560*5= 2,800

Good luck, and happy lock picking ;)
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By wingman on 05/02/2009 (Patch 3.1.1)
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By lintelotiel on 07/02/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
From experience, this rep will take roughly 2-3 days of solid hard work. Assuming you have a rogue alt to farm the junkboxes. (LBRS is a good place also).
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By Sloowpoke on 04/17/2009 (Patch 3.1.0)
I suggest you delete the rewards.well if you got 16 k over like i did, pick up the travelers tundra mammoth =) that way you get some cash aswell
^^
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By mekanikos on 05/25/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)
<pre class=""code"">/cast [target=mouseover] Pick Pocket</pre>Bind this to your mouse scroll-wheel (provided you have one) and just sneak around rolling the mouse wheel. No extra clicking required, makes farming quicker.
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By Barrious on 06/17/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
I just finished Pick pocketing every mob in Tyr's hand , yes even the the ones wondering on the side of the mountains and in every building, I received 13 Heavy Lockboxes, this took about 15 minutes

The good news is, you don't have to be concerned with getting any other type of lockboxes like the Sturdy ones that drop from lvl 49-52 mobs in Winterspring.
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By SJBequeath on 02/10/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
As a level 58 rogue, I chose to do a run through Blackrock Depth's Ring of Law. I recommend this area for rogues at least 53. There are no guards on patrol (one Fireguard makes his way to the top of a ramp and turns around) and all the mobs stay still, lowering your chances of being detected (unless you jump blindly into one, like I did). Make a run through, find a safe place, pick the boxes (if it was a bad run go afk for a minute) and the mobs have refilled their pockets.

Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to how long this took. But I did 10 complete circles and one partial one. On 10 full circles, I acquired 49 junkboxes (hence why I did the partial - consisting of 9 mobs or so).

Junkboxes on each circle: 4, 7, 6, 10, 3, 7, 6, 1, 5
Average junkbox per circle: 4.9
Average Wealth per circle: 1g 20s 23.7c

Other good drops: 2 star rubies.

Including the partial run, I ended with 50 junkboxes, 12g 2s 37c gained in wealth, and 3 star rubies - not including, of course, all the Alterac Cheese, Homemade Cherry Pies, Hickory Pipes, Deep Fried Plantains, and Superior Healing Potions I passed up.

As an observation, my bad run for junkboxes were also bad runs for wealth, and I could tell I'd come up short on boxes when I got more than 3 mobs with just copper.
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By rillah66 on 07/10/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By Thorvi on 05/03/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By Urgata on 10/04/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
After accidentally destroying two junkboxes out of my first 30, first by having autoloot on by mistake, then reflexively clicking on the 2s inside a box with no other junk, I have decided I am too dumb to try opening any more boxes. On the bright side, I can now avoid using a glyph slot on pick lock, and some Ravenholdt trainee can have a fair chance to score his very own epic dagger.
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By PRINCESILK on 09/05/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Ive found Scholo the be the best Box per hour ratio.

Doing the fast circuit I can get 30 per run, each run takes about 15 mins so no problem what so ever with the 5 per hour dungeon limit

Would definatly reccoment a Travelers tundra mount and argent squire with bridal for those non engineers out there
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By Taiyoken on 06/13/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
If you want to pick boxes faster before you turn them in, I strongly suggest https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=43377"">(Item #43377)
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By arkibus on 09/06/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
This is my first post, and I'm glad it can be about something as trivial and elitist as a Feat of Strength. I've been working on this one for a while and reading as much as I could find, so you can rest assured that I have some idea of what I'm talking about.

On a whim, I decided to pickpocket the Greengill Slaves https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=25084#pickpocketing while doing some SSO dailies. I was pleased when Heavy Junkboxes began showing up in my bags! I was not looking forward to spending hours in LBRS or other such instances, not to mention the time involved getting to them. Whereas the Isle of Quel'Danas is relatively easy to get to by taking the portal from Shattrath City. Also, there is no need to lose time or money deleting things from your bags as you can just run over to any of the numerous NPC's at Sun's Reach and sell it. These little guys are neutral, even though they are surrounded by hostile mobs; this would seem to make them easier targets for rogues, as you don't aggro them accidentally while picking their pockets. If you are on the quest to free them, Disrupt the Greengill Coast https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=11541 , you can kill two birds with one stone. Pickpocket all the mobs, then use your orb to free them, they'll respawn shortly-rinse and repeat!

Note these murlocs don't show up on the junkboxes' loot table, but Heavy Junkbox does show up in the slaves'. If it makes any difference, I'm on an RP server-Feathermoon. My links don't seem to be working, I'm sure it's due to my inexperience XD
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By Bonasus on 07/23/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
I've farmed 500 junkboxes so far in LBRS including the first part of UBRS with my 74 rogue alt. I can pickpocket all human mobs in 20 minutes and end up with 30-35 junkboxes per run. Usually I do only one run at a time and log off near Wyrmthalak. Before continuing I log on to my retired hunter engineer who happily waits before the instance entrance and places Jeeves and MOL.E. So the rogue who will be placed right there can sell stuff and send the boxes to my main before I start the next run.

This way I can get almost 100 boxes per Hour and even if you hearth back to the next mailbox, you should get way more junkboxes than in Tyr's Hand.
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By Dreadmight on 03/25/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
This quest is the only way to reach exalted with Ravenholdt- one of the factions required for Insane in the Membrane. Each turn in rewards 75 reputation per turn in- or, if you're like me and are part of a guild with the Mr. Popularity perk at rank 2, an average of 82.5 reputation per turn in.

1405 boxes without any reputation buffs
1277 boxes with Mr. Popularity rank 2
1171 boxes with Mr. Popularity and human racial
1081 boxes with Mr. Popularity, human racial, and Wicker Man buff

Happy farming!
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By khayman68 on 01/06/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
I found a good way to gather https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkbox was to pick pocket Mobs around Blackrock Stronghold in Burning Steppes.

There are 4 units standing in formation, 5x5 = 25 mobs per unit.
  1. Key bind the following Macro
  2. Sneak into the middle of the formation and use the Macro by hovering your mouse over each Mob one at a time and pressing the bound key.
<pre class=""code"">/cast [target=mouseover, exists] Pick Pocket; Pick Pocket</pre>This macro will Pick Pocket the mouseover target.

From the middle of the unit you may be unable to Pick the corner mobs, but if you are having problems picking more than make sure that you have https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=43343"">(Item #43343) glyphed.

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By Lunii on 05/06/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
What rep do I have to be to start doing this quest? I ask because as a human with my guild's rep benefits, and how quickly I attain these boxes, it is much faster to turn these in than it is to farm the rep via mobs.
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By dartworth on 11/19/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Don't forget about the 10% holiday bonus from Pilgrim's Bounty

https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=61849/the-spirit-of-sharing The Spirit of Sharing
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By b2froggy on 04/11/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Apparently with patch 4.3 they changed who you hand these in to. Winstone Wolfe inside on the first floor of the same building will accept these.
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By FuxieDK on 04/11/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By sandyra on 11/11/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
MoP has arrived! Any changes affecting this post will be added as soon as said change is identified. Feel free to throw in your two copper's worth and I'll update this post accordingly if applicable.Since 4.3, https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=57755 Fahrad (on the balcony) no longer gives you the https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=8249"">(Quest #8249) quest for https://vanillawowdb.com/?faction=349 Ravenholdt reputation. But fret not - there is a new guy in town (well downstairs in the same building to be more specific) named https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=7323#comments Winstone Wolfe who will offer you the quest in Fahrad's stead. Take your https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkbox to him, post-haste!

It's also worth noting, that the quest reward https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=25878"">(Item #25878) is no longer unique! No more tedious hand-in and vend cycles... *cheer!*

For anyone manually pick pocketing the junkboxes themselves (and I was against this for the longest time, but employing a rogue to do my bidding turned out to be too hard in the end) I found the following macro posted by https://vanillawowdb.com/?user=semedori semedori, allowing you to pick pocket simply by mousing over the target and hitting the macro, simultaneously assigning a star above the head of the mob as you do it, so you can work through groups more efficiently:<div class=""quote"">/cleartarget
/cast [@mouseover] Pick Pocket
/script SetRaidTargetIcon(""mouseover"",1)
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By xaizin on 12/15/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Turn in was moved from Fahrad &lt;Grand Master Rogue&gt; to Winstone Wolfe &lt;The Wolf&gt;. Also on a side note, the thrown weapon is no longer unique, meaning you no longer have to delete it after every turn in(thank God).
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By TheBiffledon on 01/17/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
If you live on a low pop server, and you're an enchanter, don't vendor these. Greater Eternal Essences go for about 45 gold on my server, and you can get 2-3 lessers off of the knives.
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By Ravenei on 03/28/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
For the absolute fastest turn-in of your, no doubt, absurd amount of lockboxs', I found that the following process worked great. You'll need an engineer- so mass summon a friend if need be (You'll need to mass summon them outside of Ravenholdt)Create this Macro and place it in a keybound slot.
<pre class=""code"">/script SelectGossipAvailableQuest(1)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()</pre>
  1. Shift Click the icon for the mail containing your Lockboxs'. Place your cursor over https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=7323 Winstone Wolfe, right click and spam your macro keybind.
  2. Continue this process until the amount of https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=25878"">(Item #25878) becomes unsatisfactory. Then vendor them to https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=49040"">(Item #49040) or your other form of ""vendor-bot"".
  3. Repeat the process.
I'm not sure why Wowhead still records this quest as ending with https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=6707 Fahrad, but I can assure you it does not.
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By faelevrin on 04/17/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By basementcat on 07/14/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By DemetersRest on 08/28/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
As of patch 5.0.4 the dagger is no longer rewarded. I'm lvl 85 Belf Warrior exalted with my guild and Revered with Ravenholdt and get rewarded 82 or 83 rep per hand in - no gold no items.
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By simcityfan on 07/08/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
Apparently, the reward has been removed.
I'm trying to become exalted at the moment, and the questgiver does not reward those throwing knives anymore!
Just in case you're wondering...
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By Eostre on 09/21/2012 (Patch 3.1.3)
While leveling an alt rogue of mine I've discovered a nice way to farm these boxes is from alliance mobs in Netherguard Mines in the Blasted Lands. had about 10 in half an hour, only pickpocketing every few bodies or so.
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By Hipster on 02/01/2013 (Patch 3.1.3)
Reputation Bonus:
At the start of the month it is advised doing this quest turn ins during the Darkmoon Faire and riding the Darkmoon carousel for https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=46668"">(Spell #46668).

A long with https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=78635"">(Spell #78635).

You will only need 1171 boxes this way from 11999/12000 honored to exalted. That is 234 boxes less than the original 1403 with no reputation altering buffs.

Speed:
It helps to put https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=38944"">(Item #38944) on your boots and spec at level 15 for https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=14062"">(Spell #14062) for a combined 28% moving speed increase while stealthed.

Glyphs:
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=43343"">(Item #43343), Allows for the AoE Pickpocket Macro to work.
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=42974"">(Item #42974), Makes travel within LBRS faster allowing the rogue to travel at a 100% ground mount speed for 8 seconds on 1 minute CD.

AoE Pickpocket Macro:
My aoe macro I use in LBRS on my rogue, got 300 boxes in a few hours.<div class=""quote"">/targetenemy
/cast Pick Pocket
/script a = GetItemCount(""Heavy Junkbox""); if a==b then b=a else print(a.."" Junkboxes Looted""); b=a endGood luck on completing ?achievement=2336"">(Achievement #2336)!
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By Norrell on 07/22/2013 (Patch 3.1.3)
I roughly followed the post by Fate99 on the https://vanillawowdb.com/?faction=349"">(Faction #349) comment section for their rep until Revered.

The https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=921"">(Spell #921) macro he posted-<div class=""quote"">/cleartarget
/cast [@mouseover] Pick Pocket
/script SetRaidTargetIcon(""mouseover"",1)-was phenominal (I used it to create a mouseover macro for https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=6770"">(Spell #6770) as well). You'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

I don't like competing with people for resources so instead of running around https://vanillawowdb.com/?zone=46"">Burning Steppes I chose to Pick Pocket my way through https://vanillawowdb.com/?zone=1584"">Blackrock Depths in order to get my https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkboxes.

I know what you're saying, ""But Norrell, BRD is too low for that!"" Pish, no it's not. A large section of it will give you https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16884"">(Item #16884)es but an equally large section will give you https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkboxes, and if you know which sections those are there's no reason you can't farm https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkboxes until you're doing it in your sleep.

I recommend using https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=74718"">(Item #74718) and https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=57133"">(Spell #57133) to speed your way through the instance, https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=58017"">(Spell #58017) to extend your range, autoloot turned on so you don't have to loot it all manually, and to have a https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=40768"">(Item #40768) on hand to mail the https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkboxes off to an alt for safekeeping while you continue your https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkbox grind.

The route through BRD is easy to learn:
1) Enter the East Garrison and activate the closing mechanism for the large dwarven gate (you know the one I mean). Don't Pick Pocket anything in the East Garrison, they'll only give you Sturdy Junkboxes. In fact, you might want to kill everything here just so you're not tempted to try them later on.

2) Move to the left and cross the large gate you just closed. Pick Pocket your way through the West Garrison and the Manufactory (you can even Pick Pocket the bosses there).

3) Move through the Grim Guzzler, don't Pick Pocket anything here, you'll only get https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16884"">(Item #16884)es. You have to cause a disturbance for the inner door to be opened so you might as well kill everything here so you're not tempted to try.

The https://vanillawowdb.com/?faction=59"">(Faction #59) has a vender in an alcove here so this is a good place to empty your bags of all the non-https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16885"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_box_03.gif)"">Heavy Junkbox junk you pick up on each loop through the instance.

4) Move through the Grim Guzzler door and Pick Pocket the 3 groups on the upper semicircle of Shadowforge City.

This next section covers a huge section, a good part of it with very few things to Pick Pocket, but it does contain 2 sections with good Junkbox yields. You may choose to cut it in order to tighten your loop through the instance, but I got so many Heavy Junkboxes there that it's worth a mention.

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5) Move through the Chamber of Enchantment to the Mold Foundry. There's nothing in this Chamber but a boss you don't need to kill.

6) Pick Pocket your way through the Mold Foundry.

7) Kill the Seven in the Summoner's Tomb, light the fires in the Lyceum, and kill the big molten boss to open the doors to the Imperial Seat.

8) Pick Pocket your way through the Imperial Seat. It's best to take one side (don't forget the upper floor) until you get to Emperor Thaurissan and then do the other side on the way out. You don't have to kill the Emperor or the Priestess standing next to him. You can Pick Pocket both without trouble if you hop on one of the chairs directly in front of them.

9) Run back to Shadowforge City. Some of the mobs in Mold Foundry and that semicircle of Shadowforge City might be available to be Pick Pocketed again, but there's no guarantee.

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10) Jump down by the Mole Machine and Pick Pocket your way through the Hall of Crafting, the lower semicircle of Shadowforge City, the Vault area, and the Domicile.

11) Avoid the 2 Dwarf mobs between the Domicile and the Shrine of Thaurissan, they only give https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=16884"">(Item #16884)es. Feel free to murder the poor bumbling bastards.

12) Pick Pocket your way through the Shrine of Thaurissan and the Ring of the Law.

This will bring you back to the East Garrison where you can begin your run again. There is no need to leave the instance. By this time all the mobs you Pick Pocketed before should be available to be Pick Pocketed again. It's very possible to do this loop until you run out of bag space (a very long time indeed with https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=82446"">(Item #82446)s), at which time you pull out your handy https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=40768"">(Item #40768) to send them to an alt for turn-ins or safe keeping while you continue your Dark Iron Pick Pocket Adventure.

Hope this helped.
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By shmonnorshmusie on 06/07/2013 (Patch 3.1.3)
Does anyone know how long it takes for an NPC's pockets to refill after you pick them? I'm not sure if I'm better off killing them and forcing a respawn rather than just waiting.
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