There was some recent discussion somewhere on the forums about how long it takes to open boxes with a player character. I couldn't find the original thread but thought this was an appropriate folder for the information. My focus is on opening boxes vs. gaining max experience from them. With that in mind:

level 71 Rogue, 2x in Disarm Trap, Pick Lock, and Perception.
- Mastered in Lock Mastery.
- I checked each box for traps, and disarmed it if needed.
- I used calipers on every box.
- I selected a lockpick that would do the job with reasonable ease. I generally select from a silver lockpick, an invar lockp, and several vaalin lockpicks (off the shelf repaired 5 times, off the shelf repaired twice, and one I made with an exceptional result so better than off the shelf).
- I'll cast 403 if there is any doubt.
- I always cast 404 if there is a trap.

87 Boxes (all from the rift, plane one)
- 36 were trapped
- Slowest 3 times on detecting/disarming traps (91, 49, 32 seconds). 91 seconds was 4 attempts before success.
- Fastest 3 times on detecting/disarming traps (10, 10, 10 seconds). All three of these were 5 seconds to detect and 5 seconds to disarm.
- Calipers were always between 7-10 seconds.
- Slowest 3 times on picking box (35, 20, 15 seconds). 35 seconds was 8 attempts for a good roll at 5 seconds per attempt and 0 seconds on success.
- Fastest time was 0 seconds on many attempts.

It's interesting to note that trapped/untrapped boxes tend to average out on the time as if there is a trap you often spend like 5 seconds identifying it and then some time disarming it and if you don't find a trap you spend around 14-20 seconds making the determination. My fastest detect/disarm times were all on trapped boxes vs. untrapped boxes.

Additional time spent on:
- Used urnon key on 1 box where the scarab trap was beyond my ability.
- Visited the town locksmith 1 time where the trap was beyond my ability.
- Wedged 1 box where the lock was beyond my ability.
- Had 1 result where my one of my vaalin lockpicks was 'bent/twisted'. It was actually one I am waiting to break so I can throw it away so I use it on some iffy cases first.
- Re-calibrated my calipers a total of 6 times for about 74 seconds of RT. This could have been closer to 4 times if I hadn't waited so long to re-calibrate at one point.

Average time spent opening each box: 37.49 seconds per box (this is hard RT and doesn't include time getting/putting away calipers and lockpicks, etc.)
Total of 2,914 seconds of RT (just under 49 minutes) to open all 87 boxes. In reality this occurred over about 2 hours as we spent time going to lockers, moving lockers, and picking up / passing off boxes, selling contents, etc.

As a final note, 16 of the traps were scarab traps which sold for just over 71k. When I am picking for others I generally keep the scarabs and don't accept any other compensation for my time.

-- Robert

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>> I'd call this a compromise between experience and speed

That's a fair assessment. If I was opening level 30 boxes for someone then I would just plow through them with an appropriate level pick without using the calipers.

-- Robert

Bazzelwyn says, "Maul maul maul maul maul maul maul."
Bazzelwyn says, "The answer is maul."