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I asked earlier in chat but I've done some experimenting since I posted it there.

From chat: Sometimes I break into a building, the guard alerts, and even though I escape successfully without a face-to-face, it still says I got away with no loot despite having picked stuff up. Is that randomized/luck of the draw?

I switched to just breaking into houses and, even when I set off no alarms, it still often comes up saying that I leave without any of the loot I picked up inside ["You escaped the building without anything valuable. You gained 6 experience points."] -- Am I doing something wrong?

Are you opening the doors, too?

If you just select the loot box and escape, you'll get that message. If you unlock one of the doors and get loot, you'll get a different one, saying that you collected valuable loot and escaped without getting caught by the guards (if you manage that).

Ahh so me getting any loot is contingent upon me successfully looting everything in the building

Basically here's a quick rundown:

The boxes aren't worth much, picking up those just gives you that.

If you get *some* of the doors and they have worthwhile stuff, you get a much better xp reward.

If you get ALL of the stuff in the doors and boxes, you get an even better xp reward.

Definitely advise working mechanics and hacking up for that. You don't have to do both, but if you can level both up that helps.

Hacking has nothing to do with B&E but you're right about Mechanics.

You can't pick the locks on the doors without it, it doesn't matter how high your stealing is.

Here's the breakdown on the experience gain;
http://www.mooncalfstudios.com/pathofth ... Experience

Tracking and Speechcraft also help with B&E. (guards)

Yeah the wording should really be different. Something like "important loot" or whatever.