I heard a while ago that wearing less armour increases the chances of you successfully pickpocketing an NPC so to clear the rumour I decided to test this out myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did two trials each having around 300 - 400 attempts at a pickpocket on a paladin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first trial was without any items equipped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After 310 attempts I got 120 failed attempts and 190 successful pickpockets which is a:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38.7% fail rate with no armour on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then did it with full Torag and the obsidian shield on which gave me 232 fails and 202 successes which gave a:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

53.4% fail rate with armour on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So with such a huge gap I would say having armour on really does have a big affect on pickpocketing NPCs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weight does not seem to have an affect on this by the way as when I did the trial without armour on I had over 100kg of armour in my inventory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may or may not of known this but this will hopefully clear things up if you didn't.

apparently rouge's clothes boost the odds of stealing too. and wearing gloves helps too

:shock: Never knew that. Now i know to wear no armor if i ever wanted to get my theiving up :D But i hardley theive but still interesting.

Finally someone else believes me. I posted this in the thieving section of website corrections on my old forum name, the_zobel. Been there for six months with proof, still has not been added to the site.

craven, do you have full rouge? if so can you try with rouge on and rouge off

Wow.. news to me. Thanks for the info. This seems like a good "Did you know?" for jagex to put up one of these weeks.

Try 100 pickpockets WITH rouge , and 100 pickpockets without? So we know if that invovles aswell :)

interesting :D

Wow, I thought this was common knowledge :shock:

 

 

 

Good job on the experiment, Craven! :D

ya, i thought this was common knowledge.. i've read it a few times before... but i guess it was just theory... like the ROW makes you have better drops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everybody knows that the ring is just for asthetic purposes only.

Wow... well researched, this is very interesting,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When i thieve i wont be wearing anything! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- d3nic

good test, useful!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now i know to put armor in inv when i theiv

Hot dog, a chance to use this chart I made!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had the same idea and tried it out after I wasted my time getting the full Rogue suit, so I tried four small trials of 100 picks each on paladins. My results aren't nearly as pronounced as yours, but that may be because I only tried it with lightweight gear (i.e. gloves/weapon/boots) , the rogues' armor and absolutely nothing, instead of really heavy gear like you did. It probably also matters that your thieving is much higher than mine (I think mine was 82 when I did this) or this could be some new thing Jagex implemented recently, since I made that chart months ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The main reason I did it was to see if the full suit of rogues' gear helped any, which it obviously didn't. I never really paid that much attention to the difference between naked and wearing armor, since I only got a difference of a few percentage points.

I suppose it makes you more agile etc so it's easier to thief :?

pretty ignorant advtar there artie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thats cool thanks for the info. i dont care much for theiving but if i can do if faster...im so game. thanks a bunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sk8terfreal. nice sig. lol

nice info. I dont thieve much but when I need farming seeds in the future I'll remember this :) .

Many thanks for testing this out Craven! :D

 

 

 

Tip It team should include this in the Thieving skill guide.

Artie: I think you should have tested it on something with a lower thieving required level. Paladins could be the equivalent to sharks (ie, you keep burning regardless of level without gaunts), you keep failing regardless of what you wear.