[Nubben]

This definitely is a bug. I've never played a bard to that level, but I have always been under the impression that when you put a point into a new skill that you haven't trained yet, it automatically increases your skill to your current level. Since bards get pick lock at 40, putting a single point in should boost you right up to 40 shouldn't it?

In any case, that door in Qeynos should not exist (if it even does) because the first door in Befallen which requires 11 skill was always the lowest required skill check. This led many people to think the skill was bugged at first, since rogues got the skill at level 6 meaning they started with a skill of 6, but 6 wasn't high enough to work on any existing locked doors.