PickPocketTimer

PickPocketTimer is a lightweight Rogue addon with two focused tools:

• Track previously pickpocketed NPCs during outdoor farming.
• Manage locked and unlocked Junkboxes and Lockboxes from one simple helper window.

Actively Maintained

Developed and actively maintained by a current Retail WoW player who plays every class and regularly uses the addon for farming.

Pick Pocket Tracking

When you successfully use Pick Pocket on an NPC, PickPocketTimer starts a conservative 10-minute timer for that specific NPC.

Repeated casts on an NPC that is already tracked do not reset or extend its active timer.

While you are stealthed and out of normal combat, hostile NPC nameplates display:

• [Locked - M:SS] in red while the recorded timer is active.
• [READY] in green when no active timer is recorded.

Hovering a hostile NPC also displays its status in the tooltip:

• Pickpocket Status: NOT READY (Remaining: Xm Ys)
• Pickpocket Status: READY TO LOOT

Pick Pocket Features

• Persistent timers that survive reloads and relogs.
• Ready and locked status shown directly on hostile nameplates.
• Tooltip status integration.
• Stealth-only display to keep your screen clean.
• Adjustable nameplate font size, opacity, and text position.
• Automatic cleanup of expired timers.

Ready Status Note

World of Warcraft does not provide addons with a reliable way to identify every NPC that can be pickpocketed.

[READY] means that PickPocketTimer has no active recorded lockout for that hostile NPC. It does not guarantee that the NPC supports Pick Pocket or currently contains loot.

Lockbox Helper

The built-in Lockbox Helper scans your bags and separates supported Junkboxes and Lockboxes into two queues:

• Locked — shows the next box ready for Pick Lock.
• Unlocked — shows the next box ready to open.

Each side displays the current box’s icon, name, and total amount available.

• Click PICK LOCK to pick the next locked box.
• Click OPEN LOCKBOX to open the next unlocked box.
• Every lockpick and opening action requires one physical click or keypress.
• Rapid-input protection prevents a newly unlocked box from being opened accidentally.
• A session counter tracks how many boxes you have opened.
• Reset the session counter at any time from the helper window.

Lockbox Helper Features

• Supports multiple Junkbox and Lockbox types in the same bags.
• Includes a draggable minimap button, enabled by default.
• Open the helper with /ppt or /pptlockbox.
• The older /pptjunkbox command remains supported.
• Adjustable helper scale from 70% to 120%.
• Adjustable helper font size from 10 px to 18 px.
• Clean black-and-gold two-panel layout.

Keybindings

Three Lockbox Helper actions can be assigned:

• Pick Lock
• Open Lockbox
• Pick Lock → Open Lockbox

The combined binding uses one keypress to pick a lock. The next keypress opens that same box.

Keybindings work even while the Lockbox Helper window is closed.

You can configure them from:

• The Keybinds button inside the Lockbox Helper.
• Options → Keybindings → PickPocketTimer

Both interfaces use the same bindings and remain synchronized.

Instance Compatibility

Modern Retail WoW restricts addon access to hostile NPC identity inside protected instances such as dungeons and raids.

To avoid errors or misleading information, per-NPC Pick Pocket tracking is available for outdoor and world farming but is disabled inside restricted instances.

The Lockbox Helper remains available everywhere.

Cooldown Note

World of Warcraft does not provide a reliable public API or definitive source for every NPC’s Pick Pocket refresh time.

PickPocketTimer uses a conservative 10-minute timer as a safe farming baseline. Some NPCs may become available again sooner.

The timer is designed to reduce wasted repeat attempts. It does not claim that every NPC always has the same exact cooldown.