Practice Lock

• Practice Lock
• Item Level 20
  Disenchants into:
  Not disenchantable
• Sell Price: 12

Practice Lock is an item usually made by Engineers that could be used to practice Lockpicking skill up to skill level 80 prior to Cataclysm. This was a slow and potentially expensive way to increase your Lockpicking skill. After Cataclysm these items were effectively useless as lockpicking skill increased automatically by leveling and could not be increased independently of leveling.

The Practice Lock can only be used once. After that, it is opened and completely worthless. Many players will instead practice with renewable lockboxes off the Merchant Coast near Ratchet, Amani Catacombs in Ghostlands or Alther's Mill in Redridge Mountains.

On September 2, 2007, Blizzard patched-in support for the auction house telling potential buyers whether practice locks have been opened or not. Previous to this, unscrupulous players could auction their used practice locks to be bought by unsuspecting players.

Source

Practice lock is made by engineers with a skill of 100.

The components are:

	1x [Bronze Bar]		2x [Handful of Copper Bolts]
	1x [Weak Flux]

The schematic is learned from a trainer.

Notes

• Should be a poor item as of Cataclysm, as they are useless to rogues and only serve a very brief purpose for leveling engineering.
• Lockboxes allowed a rogue to practice their lock-picking as an orange, points-guaranteed skill until they reach 30 points.

External links

• Battle.net (EU)
• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB