Does the thief's level come into play when determining which locks can and cannot be picked?

That is to say, if I try to pick a lock at level X and determine that it's impossible, is there any reason I should try again at level X+n assuming no new skills learned, no skill percentage improvements, and the same set of lock picks?

I'm hoping this won't be considered too number-crunchy, since I'm mostly asking in order to save time by not having to check and re-check certain locks each time I rank.

Level has a small effect on lockpicking, but its impact is dwarfed by all of the other factors I can think of, such as quality of picks and whether or not you have improved picklock.

Just clarify...you're saying it has some sort of "relative" effect on success rate instead of a yes/no thing, right? That is to say, there are no locks which are entirely unpickable by characters under a certain level (but that are pickable by characters of some higher rank)?

>Just clarify...you're saying it has some sort of "relative"
>effect on success rate instead of a yes/no thing, right? That
>is to say, there are no locks which are entirely unpickable by
>characters under a certain level (but that are pickable
>by characters of some higher rank)?

Yes and no. You might find you can pick a lock at level 30 that you couldn't at level 10 without changing other factors, but you also might have been able to pick that lock at level 10 by finding a better set of picks, for example.

There aren't any 'this level character only' locks per se; however, you might find some very very hard locks that for all practical purposes will require you to have most if not all of your lock-picking ducks in a line. One of those factors would be your level, although it's one of the smaller ones.

There's the indirect level requirement, of course, that some locks can't be picked (or can't be realistically picked) without the advance pick lock skill, which is a higher level skill.

Okay. I think I can live with that. Basically it's a "maybe". I was assuming the case where all ducks other than level were in line. That is to say, a very good set of picks and the advanced lockpick skill. I was curious whether, if I got to 34 and took advanced lockpick, I could start trying out locks w/o having to re-check the unpickable-at-34 ones as a hero.

>Does the thief's level come into play when determining which
>locks can and cannot be picked?
>
>That is to say, if I try to pick a lock at level X and
>determine that it's impossible, is there any reason I should
>try again at level X+n assuming no new skills learned, no
>skill percentage improvements, and the same set of lock
>picks?
>
>I'm hoping this won't be considered too number-crunchy, since
>I'm mostly asking in order to save time by not having to check
>and re-check certain locks each time I rank.

Don't think so.