I originally played on a busy shard and was heavily involved in factions. I buit a faction thief, on the template given me. The template included remove trap. I moved shards and no longer am involved in factions. So, I never used my thief. I also never used the remove trap skill except when training. I actually bought pinks and ate the last 32.0 skill points, because it is the most boring skill to raise!!!!! I stoned off the skill.
Ok, scene set.
With the new Exodus dungeon a group of us have been getting keys and killing Exodus every evening. I thought it would be fun to actually use my thief to get the keys. I was right. I highly recommend it. I found that your spidey senses tingle when you are within a six or eight (never really measured) tile space containing the box. So I find the middle, detect hidden, there is the box.
My original (and current method) is pick lock, back away, cast telekinisis on box , cast invis, cast telekenisis on box, cast invis, hide, loot box. There are always two traps on the chests; poison and dart. The poison from the poison trap often cannot be cured with potion, petal, or arch cure. I have protection on as their are many spell casters that will disrupt you. Also, I find that the immediate hide after the invis does two things.
1. You are hidden, not invised (duh), so there is no invis timer. What a surprise the first time, cause I forgot.
2. Casters will still cast on you after you are invised and after you are hidden. Although the graphics show you are hit, and sometimes you take damage, you are not revealed.
BTW, I get two to three times the keys that my cohorts get.
Sometimes the box is located on stairs and you cannot see the box to cast telekinisis. So, how to open? I went to my soul stones and put remove trap back on. I tried remove trap on approximately 20 chests. I successfully removed the trap once. I often fail with the message that I was lucky and did not set the trap off. But, 19 of 20 times I eventually set off the trap.
So, Is remove trap ever a good skill to use?