Lockpicking and Dispelling (to a lesser extent) are kinda useless.
Game Devs needs to understand that when skills is involved it very often makes the actual '' skill level '' completely useless, kinda like lockpicking in TES games such as Morrowind and Oblivion.
At least in Fallout 3 and NV if you weren't good enough you couldn't even attempt lockpicking. Not the optimal solution but better than allowing good player to pick level 100 locks at level 5.
Still love the game though, just never gonna use those skills ever!
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