Crime Training

Crime training guide Fastest XP/h

This page provides choices in training progression for the Crime skill. For general information about the Crime skill, see the main Crime page.

Equipment

• Bandit Mask: +1 Crime.
• Black Leather Gloves: +1 Crime (Requires 10 Strength, provides +2 Strength +1 Defense bonus).

Equipment adds invisible crime levels that increases your chances of pickpocketing. It does not affect lockpicking.

XP/Hour Calculations

For simplicity, each action of pickpocketing takes about 6 seconds. It is slightly slower after a fail, but slightly faster after a success. But because the success rate is very close to or slightly about 50%, this makes the math easier. If anything, the pickpocketing rates here will be slightly lower than what you could expect in practice.

There doesn't seem to be a very significant difference in the success rate with level, or at least during the range of levels for training, the variance of the success rate makes it difficult to confirm before a new level is reached.

Levels 1–10: Pickpocketing Men

• Level 1: Man – 10 XP per success. 3,000 xp/hr

Note: You can pickpocket the Man outside of Anglham Castle to be right next to the spawn point until you die and repeat. Do not bring any items with you (you will only keep 3).

• Unless you intend to collect materials for potion making, Fisherman and Lumberjack can be skipped because of how quick levels are gained early.

• Level 3: Fisherman – 12 XP per success. 3,600 xp/hr
• Level 6: Lumberjack – 14 XP per success. 4,200 xp/hr

Levels 10–35: Low/Mid-Tier Pickpocketing

• Level 10: Farmer – 16 XP. 4,800 xp/hr
• Level 14: Guard – 20 XP. 6,000 xp/hr
• Level 20: Guard – 30 XP. 9,000 xp/hr
• Level 30: Dwarf – 40 XP. 12,000 xp/hr; potential loot: Iron Ore, Coal, Potion Of Mining (1), Palladium Ore.
• Level 35: Squire – 45 XP. 13,500 xp/hr

Levels 45–99: Mid/High-Tier Pickpocketing

• Level 45: Knight – 65 XP. 19,500 xp/hr
• Level 52: Wizard – 80 XP. 24,000 xp/hr; potential loot: Fire Scroll, Nature Scroll, Water Scroll, Fury Scroll, Rage Scroll, Warp Scroll.
• Level 60: Knight – 125 XP. 37,500 xp/hr
• Level 68: Gnome – 150 XP. 45,000 xp/hr
• Level 74: Wizard – 200 XP. 60,000 xp/hr; potential loot: Fire Scroll, Nature Scroll, Water Scroll, Rage Scroll, Alchemy Scroll, Warp Scroll.
• Level 78: Elf – 225 XP. 67,500 xp/hr; potential loot: Bronze Arrows, Iron Arrows, Steel Arrows, Palladium Arrows, Coronium Arrows, Celadon Arrows.

Levels 85-99: Highest-Tier Pickpocketing

• Level 85: Elder Knight – 270 XP. 81,000 xp/hr; potential loot: Silver Nugget, Blood Scroll, Alchemy Scroll, Gold Nugget, Ruby Gem, Diamond Gem

Alternative methods

Level 35+: Lockpicking Deluxe Chests

In general, lock picking chests, the xp/hour falls between 3,000 to 10,000 depending on the chest. It can be a fairly afk method with no need for food, and if you can loop multiple chest together, and can increase you xp rate if you can combine with pickpocketing.

• Deluxe Coin Chest (locations: Ictirine Jail, Dragonsmoke Island) – 150 XP and 50 coins each; respawn ~180 ticks (~108 s).
• Rotating between 2 chests will provide 10,000 XP per hour (5,000 xp/hr per chest)

Tips

Making NPCs stuck during pickpocketing

• If you use an alt to talk to the NPC they will not move. This makes pickpocketing extremely easy, otherwise they will move around.

Pickpocket as left click option

• You can use option "Prioritize pickpocket" in "Context menu settings" on HighLite to always left click pickpocket npcs. Highly recommended for long grinds.

General Technique

When pickpocketing an NPC, you can preload the next pickpocket

• If you have succeeded the previous pickpocket, there is no delay and can be done right away
• If you have failed the previous pickpocket, the timing is slightly after the the damage indicator has disappeared.
  • If you see the "You are stunned" in the chat box, then you clicked too early.