Because of that, pickpocketing isn't really the best way of earning gold, even when there are times when you will find some valuable loot. It's recommended to buy / find a spell of invisibility (in the school of air magic), to not use gold on scrolls and potions.

Additionally, without developing your sneaking skill, or having an invisibility spell, the whole process of pickpocket is pointless. However, it's still hard to find any NPC with a decent amount of gold or any valuable item in their inventory - there's also a limit on how many items you can steal from somebody.

Pickpocket - this skill becomes useful only when you max it. Remember, that the higher the level of the character and it's crafting skills, the better the end products of crafting will be - and the more valuable they become. If you are willing to craft, you can make more valuable items from those which aren't very profitable to sell.Д®very item in the game can be processed to something else.Д¬rafting - it's one of the methods to process ingredients of low value into more valuable (or extremely valuable) products, like magical potions (which can be easily replaced by using magic, like spells for regeneration instead of using healing potions) from mushrooms, or crafting pieces of armor from ores, which are common and free. What you should be collecting, are weapons and armors (especially those magical), potions (even the ones you won't even bother using - you can sell them for some good amount of gold), golden elements (especially tableware), gems and, most of all, paintings, which are extremely valuable. Remember, that your characters have a limited amount of weight they can carry, and sometimes it's not worthy to go back to town to just sell some junk. It's recommended to buy the spell of invisibility (from the school of air magic), so you can avoid spending money on scrolls and potions.Д¬ollecting - contrary to your first thought, collecting everything you can find and selling it for nothing isn't really a very effective way of earning money. The Golden Grail is a special crafting item which, when combined with various armor pieces, such as cloth or metal armour, adds a gold color to the armor. The most valuable items, besides the contents of chests, which can be found inside of houses, are paintings, golden cups and tableware (plates and cutlery). If you still can't find the key, try searching under various objects - under a bucket, or a pot. Use the button responsible to highlight surrounding items, because the key is often hidden under furniture or recesses. It will either be in the possession of the owner of the house, and, if not, in some of the adjoining rooms. Remember - the key to the room is always inside of the house. Additionally, you can find hidden / closed rooms in the houses of residents, where you will find a chest. The game allows you to enter each and every house, search every chest and pick up almost every item. It's quick, often of almost no risk and it guarantees you huge profits. Robbery - without a doubt, the best method of earning gold.

I take it you must be fairly early in the game so you probably wont be able to get all the skillbooks you want at your current state, just do a few quests and level up a bit, loot what you can and soon you should have enough for a more fleshed out arsenal.Cecil's apartment and the key hidden under the pot. Other trick is to look out for junk items that sell for quite a bit, gold cups and paintings sell for quite a lot (however as far as I can tell the paintings on the starting ship dont sell for anything), weapons and armour sell for a bit so sell what you cant use. To get a lot of gold, find the raised balcony with the high ladder on the balcony in Fort Joy. However other tricks to maximising your gold involve having at least 1 character with thievery, you can pick the pockets of vendors and steal the skillbooks you need as well as good items and gold, that said you can only pickpocket a certain ammount (determined either by gold value or item weight, whichever bar fills up first) and you can only pickpocket each NPC once with each individual character, if you have 2 characters in your party with thievery then you can double dip but that is up to you. At the start of the game, you will not have much gold.

Take it you aren't very far in the game? Most of my gold comes from selling junk and I pick up anything with a gold value, you should be able to get a fair bit of gold fairly quickly if you are economical.

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