Whoa, hold your horses. You simply have to give Thief to your first will-be mage. Lockpick chances are abysmal without Thief, even with 120+ wits geniuses. There's too much good stuff in treasure chests, a Thief is a must-have for any proper dungeon delving - and your mages are the best thieves, this much is very true.
I haven't tested it that much in the current version, but in the previous version at about 80-90 wits picklocking was basically guaranteed to succeed. Maybe it has changed in the current version? As to the loot, the amounts generally aren't all that amazing. It can be a good way to equip your slaves at the start of the game, but later on it kinda stops being all that relevant. Although, that's more of a criticism of the current state of dungeons as a whole.
I've found that focusing on quests is the best way to beat the debt. Do the first 4 quests -> buy more quests upgrades from the quild -> do the 8 new quests -> have enough rep to get the guild election support quest -> finish the election support quest before the 14th day -> never pay a dime of debt. At least that's the theory. I've been too busy messing with the game files. It does require decent charm factor from the master, but I've gotten the election support quest on the 7th day so it should be doable. You'll need to buy some stuff from the store to complete quests and need to get a bit lucky with quest conditions, however.
That's typically the way I do it as well although I've found that to guarantee enough rep to get the support of all 4 guilds before day 14 you need to change from the easy quests to the medium ones. Maybe at high charm affinity you could get away with 2 easy quests per guild but at low charm affinity it's not enough.
You might have missed my previous post, but:
Yes but if you get all 4 you get a surprise.
That's not entirely true. While the math you gave is right, it's just the first part of the equation which is tested against the lock difficulty. So at 100 wits a character without the thief class can open a chest with 25 difficulty without ever failing and with the thief class that character can open a 90 difficulty chest without ever failing. Chest lock difficulty is randomly chosen between a max difficulty value and a min difficulty value. Currently all boss chests have a min difficulty of 10 and max of 25, almost all other chests also have a max of 25. Only event chests in bandit forts have a min difficulty of 30 and max of 60(boss chest is still 10-25). So a character with 100 wits can actually open almost all chests without the thief class at the moment, the thief class is only needed for the rare armory chests in bandit forts.
Only if you're using a disposable slave for it. Not as a master or starting slave class. I generally get enough wits in about 10 days, so it's not generally not a big deal even then IMO.
Ah, you're absolutely right, I forgot that part.
). Thief even gives +5 wits and some evasion to your mage, which is not a waste of XP.Submission was removed in the latest major patch. If you found a reference to it, then that's either an un-updated description or an oversight from the dev.
Same way you reveal anyone else's traits I think - date her (after sex is unlocked) and when her bar is full, ask intimate question. If you're lucky you'll get one of her traits revealed.
Was just confused if I did something wrong re:
Daisy has two events that, if you play her supportively instead of harshly, she'll unlock sex and become just about the best hooker you could have, if you want to use her for that. Honestly not sure how she turns out if you play her harsh. Never tried it.
