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Star Ocean: The Second Story Ris a very large game - there are more items, weapons, and pieces of equipment than you could ever hope to encounter over the course of a single playthrough, ranging from the overpowered to the eminently useless. Fittingly, there are quite a lot of methods to obtain different items.
One method which may be a bit less moral than most is Pickpocketing. This Specialty can be obtained by any of your party members and, once unlocked, can be used to pilfer the living daylights out of any NPC in the game. That’s right, any single one - including your party members.
How To Get The Thief’s Glove
Unfortunately,unlocking the Pickpocket Specialty by investing some SP into the skillis not enough to let you pickpocket. First, you’ll need to acquire theThief’s Glove, which is a key item - meaning you don’t have to equip it to a character or consume it when attempting to steal, you merely need to purchase it once.
TheThief’s Glove costs 40,000Foland can be purchased from shops in the following locations:
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Once you’ve obtained the Thief’s Glove, you’ll also need toenable Pickpocketing in the Specialty menu. From then on, you’ll be able to Pickpocket any character you come across as long as the character at the head of your party has a level of Pickpocket.
For this reason, it’s a good idea tomake your chosen main character(Rena or Claude) yourmain Pickpocketer. That way, you can reliablyPickpocket during Personal Actionsif you so wish.
How To Improve Pickpocket Chances
There are three ways to improve your success chances when it comes to Pickpocketing:
The Magician’s Glove will also enable Pickpocketing, just like the Thief’s Glove, but the latter is far easier to acquire.
Pickpocketing Risks
As you might expect, Pickpocketing comes with risks. WhileNPCs who catch you can be calmed down with Relax Perfumeand Pickpocketed again, you also have a chance ofsuffering a hit to your relationship with all other party members when Pickpocketing.
ensure you’re willing to take relationship hits or even startmending them with written booksbefore you go on a Pickpocket spree.
