Crimson Desert’s Next Major Patch Adds a Much Requested Feature That Will Help Players Max Out Their Gear

The Crimson Desert patches continue, this time with a major update due out in the next few days.

Without providing detailed patch notes, developer Pearl Abyss said Crimson Desert’s next patch will add new special mounts and an extraction feature that will allow you to recover materials used in equipment refinement. Oh, and expect plenty more, too.

The addition of new special mounts is straightforward, but what’s this new extraction feature about? It sounds like a huge time saver, as it will let players get the materials they’ve used to refine their equipment back from the equipment itself. A lot of players who’ve reached the Crimson Desert endgame fuss over refining items to improve their stats, and at later levels, many of the materials required are hard to get. Based on the wording here, that grind towards maxing your gear will soon get a little less grindy.

Refining items in Crimson Desert is important because your character’s stats only really increase from your equipped gear. So, upgrading your equipment through the refinement system is a must as you take on tougher challenges, particularly the harder bosses.

But the wording here from Pearl Abyss is vague. Will players get their precious Abyss Cores back, for example, or just basic materials such as ores? Abyss Cores are essential for equipment customization, as opposed to refinement, and are socketed to equipment, but do they count as materials in this case? We’ll know more when the update and its patch notes are released.