Crimson Desert: Adjust Diffuculty - Here are your options

The difficulty in Crimson Desert is high. So, it is no shame, but even desired, that you sometimes struggle with bosses. What you can do when you get stuck, we will explain to you.

Crimson Desert offers you no option to adjust the difficulty in the settings. But the boss fights and sieges can be tough – sometimes too tough. Are you constantly getting hit and can’t take down the opponent before they send you to the afterlife?

Don’t worry, because the game also provides various ways to ease challenging encounters, even without an adjustable difficulty level. Here is our list of things you should do when you fail in battles:

You can also access detailed tips and explanations for each point through the list.

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Pack as much healing through food as possible

If an opponent seems difficult at first glance, more healing items are the easiest way to overcome them. The key when facing difficulties is to optimize your healing management. Pay attention to the following points:

Collect and buy primarily one type of meat to avoid cluttering your inventory
→ Get as much of it as you can and whenever you can
Always cook the best possible dishes at the cooking pot that fully heal you, to better concentrate on the fight and not have to keep replenishing every few seconds
Don’t hesitate to buy dishes from merchants and other vendors. Money will become less of a concern in the long run
Use healing early on to avoid dying while stuck in the opponent’s combos

If you pay attention to these points, you have already achieved a lot. The more healing you bring into the fight, the more mistakes you can afford, and you can simply take damage if you know you can withstand it.

Upgrade equipment at the blacksmith

The second major factor you should address when you’re stuck is your equipment. If there is no significantly better equipment available somewhere, it is worth regularly upgrading it at the blacksmith. The best place for this is the blacksmith in Hernand, as he is very centrally located – alternatively, you can of course also access the blacksmith in your camp if you have progressed that far.

For this, you need to gather the respective resources that the blacksmith specifies. Most of these you can gather yourself in the immediate surroundings at the beginning, such as ores or types of wood. However, some items must be obtained from merchants or enemies, such as fabric scraps.

In this way, you can specifically increase your stats and create a buffer. Once you find resources, they are marked on your map so you can quickly return and continue farming. This costs time, but it is immensely worthwhile when you’re stuck.

Collect Abyss artifacts & upgrade abilities

This point is somewhat more complex than the other two – but it can provide you with decisive advantages if you cannot proceed with the quicker methods. If you cannot advance beyond healing and your equipment, you need to upgrade your abilities.

You do this best by collecting artifact points. You need to complete main quests, defeat bosses, explore the map, solve Abyss puzzles, and master the tasks of the Sealed Abyss artifacts.

Additionally, by defeating enemies, you fill the yellow bar next to your minimap. When it is full, you receive another upgrade point for your abilities. Focus especially on your health points (the large red area), your stamina (the large blue area), and attacks (the smaller blue ones), which support your play style.

If you have trouble finding the Abyss puzzles, look for high points and check for hints with your reflection. Alternatively, a larger area will be marked with a question mark if you have already explored the region but have not yet found the border stone or nexus there.

Maintain patience and prefer to play passively rather than recklessly

This tip may sound trivial, but in the heat of battle, it can still help to remind yourself of it. Crimson Desert relies on you learning the movesets of the enemies and finding suitable windows for your abilities.

In fights where you get stuck, it can help to play more calmly and prefer to dodge and maintain distance rather than trying to deal damage at all costs. This might make fights take longer, but ideally, you won’t have to repeat them more often.

Many bosses have combos after which they pause – your moment to deal as much damage as possible and then pull back. Prepare powerful combos with your preferred character and weapon combination for these phases, with which you can strike quickly and hard.

Additionally, it is worth experimenting and regularly using reflection to reveal the opponent’s weaknesses and focus on them. For this, a more passive play style is also suitable until you get a hang of it.

Bonus: Expand your camp early

Not a direct aid for performing better against bosses, but a major relief in the long run: Expand your camp with the Greymanes as early as possible. The more you do this, the more points of contact you have gathered there, saving you long walks.

This way, you can ensure that you have a cook, a blacksmith, and other service facilities available that will assist you in your preparations for tough battles. Because once you’ve activated the teleporter at your camp, you only need to return there in case of difficulties and can equip yourself with everything needed for the respective boss or siege fight without having to travel further.

To expand your camp, you need to complete all the side quests for the Greymanes. Always accept them when the Greymanes symbol appears on the map.