If you venture into Crimson Desert into the southeastern forests of Hernand, you will quickly get knocked out. How you can still get to the hidden village and what awaits you there, you will find out here.

What kind of village is this? If you travel into the forests in southeastern Hernand, you will quickly realize that you won’t get far. Because at some point, some Shai children will appear, knock you out, and drag you out of the forest.

But accessing their village called Pororin is definitely worthwhile, and it’s not hard to do once you know how. Therefore, we’ll show you how to get into the hidden village and why it’s worth pursuing.

In the vicinity of the region, you will also find the legendary horse Rokade:

How to gain access to the village Pororin and the forests

How do you get in? Even though it sounds strange at first: To get the quest, you have to endure getting knocked out and dragged a few times. Eventually, a Shai girl named Arkin will appear, who gives you a quest – in return, she ensures that you can enter the forest and the village Pororin without hindrance.

For the quest, Arkin will take you to the Wind Forest Spirit Offin, who is wearing a relic on his head. Climb onto the running tree from behind and retrieve the relic for Arkin. She will thank you, and from then on you can enter the area in the forest and the village Pororin undisturbed.

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Pet Armor, Research Institute, and Recipe for Powerfist Herb Candies – Why the Quest is Worth It

Why is the village worthwhile? In the village, there are several things that make completing the quest worthwhile. Because in and around Pororin, you can find some useful merchants and facilities that you should not miss.

Research Institute & Recipe for Powerfist Herb Candies

Particularly worthwhile is the research lab in the southern area of the Pororin settlement. There you can unlock new recipes and upgrades. This includes the powerful recipe for Powerfist Herb Candies, which allow you to revive yourself on the spot of death.

To research the corresponding points, you need to gather knowledge about the Shai and the village Pororin by completing the side quests there. Once you have met the requirements, you can commission the corresponding research for the required resources.

Pet Armors

In the northeast of the village, you will find a merchant with a paw symbol. There you can buy cosmetic armors and outfits for your dogs and cats.

However, they have no stats or benefits and are purely cosmetic. However, you can only get them there, which is why the village is essential for fashion enthusiasts.

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Crimson Desert is a game that doesn’t exactly hold your hand. Much is explained little or not at all. While this encourages experimentation and puzzling, it can also quickly lead to frustration. If you’re stuck or need help, check out our guide overview or leave us a comment if you can’t find what you’re looking for: Crimson Desert: All guides, tips, and lists at a glance

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In Crimson Desert there are some mounts, but one of the most coveted is the dragon. We will show you how to unlock this flying wyvern and why you can’t do it right at the beginning of your journey.

When can I unlock the dragon? This is the Blackstar Dragon. You can only unlock this gigantic dragon starting from Chapter 11 during a specific main quest – before that, you have no chance to get the mount.

Apart from the fact that the dragon looks cool and powerful, it also plays that way and can instill fear in your enemies. If you want to unlock it but don’t know how, feel free to follow our guide. We will now explain all the necessary steps for the unlocking.

Apart from mounts, there are also pets in Crimson Desert that you can use to your advantage:

Here’s how to unlock the dragon step by step 

You should have completed the following things:

• Complete Chapters 1 – 10
• Reach the quest “Foreboding Shadow: Truth and Reality”
• Reach level 5 or higher in your stamina
  • This is necessary to even be able to ride the dragon

In total, you can expect a time investment of about 50 hours, and that if you focus only on the main quest – expect more if you tackle side quests and other distractions.

To unlock the dragon, you need to follow these steps:

1. Continue through Chapter 11 until you activate the quest “Foreboding Shadow: Truth and Reality”
2. Follow the quest until it takes you to the place “Nest of Valor,” a location you also visited in Chapter 9
3. Defeat the boss at the end of the quest
   • When the boss’s health bar is empty, the dragon will appear in a cutscene to assist you in battle.
4. Visit the place “Nest of Valor” again to call the dragon your own after another cutscene.

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How do I summon the dragon? On PC, hold the “H” key, while on the controller, you need to hold down your D-Pad. This opens your mount window, and then select the dragon.

How should I best use the dragon? The dragon can be summoned at any time to assist you in battle. It is active for 15 minutes. After that, a cooldown period of 50 minutes will occur – both time indications refer to real-world minutes, not game world minutes.

The duration may sound like a significant drawback, but it has to be that way, as this is one of the most powerful mounts in the game. It can assist you in battle with various attacks like fireballs or its fire breath, heating things up for your enemies. Of course, you can also fly with it. So don’t use it for trivial quests and keep it ready when a tough battle is about to come.

That was all the important information about the dragon and how to unlock it. Besides the dragon, there is also a legendary mount that you should also indulge in. It is the horse Rokade. You can learn how to get that here: Crimson Desert: Legendary Mount – How to get Rokade early and ride on Black Beauty

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In the first city of Crimson Desert, you can obtain a powerful katana. MeinMMO will tell you where to find the Hwando two-handed sword.

What is the katana worth? The Hwando is a strong longsword that gives you 19 attack (a bit of bonus attack provides a socketed Abyss equipment) and some critical hit chance right from the start. Maxed out, it can do even 44 attack.

In addition, there is an exciting effect from another Abyss equipment: The weapon restores some stamina on attacks. Since the katana has two empty slots, you can fit a total of 5 Abyss equipment effects into the blade.

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Where can I find the katana? In the northwest of Hernand is the Lion’s Mane estate. However, you do not enter the main building, but the smaller side house with the blue roof. Since the doors are guarded by guards, approach from the side and enter the first floor through a window.

Attention: A guard with a spear strolls around the estate and could observe you during the climbing section.

Once you have opened the wooden window and entered the house, go through the door immediately to the right – you will need a key for this. In the room, you will find a sparkling chest from which you can obtain the Hwando and an Improved Powerfist Herb Paste.

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A small puzzle, like with other hidden items in the city, will not need to be solved. Enjoy your new weapon! Crimson Desert is full of secrets and rewards like this. What great items have you found in Hernand or other regions of the game world? Share in the comments! If you are looking for more tips and tricks, check out our guide overview for Crimson Desert!

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In Crimson Desert you can fully experience your power fantasy as an overpowered warrior, stomping giant hordes of enemies and tough bosses into the ground. How? We will reveal that in this guide.

How do I become overwhelmingly strong in Crimson Desert? It is important that you

• avoid mistakes that harm your build rather than your enemies
• make good use of the Abyss gear feature
• acquire gear and weapons that allow you to socket enough Abyss gear
• also consider the important little things

Let’s take a closer look at each point below – you can jump to the relevant topics via the table of contents.

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These mistakes harm your build

Error number 1: If you have attack power or other offensive values on your gloves or boots, they only apply to punches or kicks. This is great for unarmed builds. When fighting with a weapon in hand, these bonuses do not count toward your weapon damage.

So avoid putting Abyss gear in your glove or boot slots that increase attack power, critical hit rate, and similar values. Better to use Abyss gear that increases your movement speed or reduces incoming damage.

Error number 2: Just because you are fighting with a two-handed weapon or two one-handed weapons doesn’t mean you should swap Kliff’s shield for a tool, for example. Kliff benefits from the defense value of the shield even if he doesn’t hold it in hand, but has it equipped in the selection menu. Accordingly, use a shield that provides you with decent defense.

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Error number 3: Accessories such as necklaces, rings, and earrings may not seem like the big values at first. However, upgrading these at the blacksmith eventually grants exciting (and progressively increasing) bonuses like more attack power, critical hit rate, attack speed, spirit regeneration, and more. It’s worth upgrading accessories that fit your playstyle.

Error number 4: Do not overlook the special key items in your inventory that you receive as rewards from certain quests. These usable items grant you permanent bonuses to certain values, which become immediately noticeable – for example, increasing your spirit maximum by 20 points in one hit or your stamina maximum by 40 points.

How to get the most out of Abyss gear

How do I unlock Abyss gear? In order to use Abyss gear, you first need to unlock the feature through the witches. At the release, you had to play the main campaign up to Act 5 for that. However, by now you should have already received a notification from a white carrier pigeon guiding you to the first witch in the north of Hernand City.

Once the unlocking has occurred, you need the following:

• Weapons and pieces of equipment with as many socketed slots as possible
• Abyss gear
• Enough silver for socketing, unlocking socket slots, and unsocketing – you can quickly get 500 silver with this tip

How do I farm Abyss gear the best way? On one hand, you can farm the Abyss creatures in the game world. They are fully overgrown with grass on their backs and drop Abyss spheres (for crafting Abyss gear) and Abyss gear upon their death.

A good farming spot can be found in Hernand, west of your camp and northwest of the Witchwoods. Tip: With your power strike, you can take out the small versions of the creatures in one hit. Tip 2: If you let the last enemy defeat you, you will respawn nearby and can immediately launch back into a full respawn.

You can also obtain a lot of Abyss gear by keeping an eye out for hidden chests in the game world or in the Abyss. For example, there is a hidden cave behind almost every waterfall in Pywel that contains a chest with a piece of equipment. There is also such a chest concealed in every ruin you need to cleanse for the witches.

By defeating the many bosses of Crimson Desert, you can earn countless additional weapons and outfits with exciting Abyss gear. So it is worth facing the challenges.

While the Abyss creatures usually drop Abyss gear with simple value improvements, many of the hidden pieces of equipment and boss loot often provide Abyss gear with special effects and activatable abilities.

Since you can extract each Abyss gear from an item at a witch, you can also combine several actively usable skills of the small spheres into a single weapon. A two-handed sword that provides you with 5 activatable skills? That’s no problem!

Tip: Skills that you trigger with keys you frequently use in battle work best here. Through the quest line “Lunar Judgment” from House Elemore in Demeniss, you receive 3 spears with different Abyss gear that you can activate with simple strikes. With these effects in your weapons, you can deal lightning, fire, and frost damage at the push of a button, so you won’t have to worry about the resistances of enemies anymore.

Can Abyss gear be upgraded? Almost. You can use synthesis to combine several versions of an Abyss gear to create a variant with a higher level. For example, two units that grant critical hit rate level 1 yield one unit that provides critical hit rate level 2. The higher the level of the Abyss gear in your items, the better.

Important: You can only upgrade Abyss gear through synthesis once you have purchased and learned the respective blueprint. Each witch sells different blueprints. It is worth visiting all the witches in the game world. An interactive map of Pywel can help you with that.

Tip: Through special synthesis, you can craft even better Abyss gear at witches, but the chance here is only 4 percent. Invest the resources only if you have more than enough of the normal Abyss gear units or if you don’t need them at all. Such a “Greater” variant truly provides more, such as critical hit rate at level 10 instead of level 3.

How to choose the right gear for you

Which weapon to choose? In general, the weapon type should match your preferred playstyle. Whether a spear or a two-handed sword is better depends on other factors:

• Does the weapon provide only attack power or a mix of values like attack power, critical hit rate, or attack speed?
• How much Abyss gear can I socket into the weapon?

Weapons that focus only on attack have a higher attack value at maximum level than weapons with mixed values, but they lack critical damage and increased attack speed.

However, we recommend this value mix for weapons. The reason: Attack power can also be increased through other sources. Furthermore, values like critical damage and attack speed scale more efficiently with your increasingly better equipment and the extremely strong effects of Abyss gear.

By the way: The more Abyss gear you can socket into your weapon, the better. Two-handed weapons with 5 slots or two one-handed weapons with 3 slots each are an excellent choice.

Below you will find our previous guides for recommended gear:

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How to prepare for strong bosses

The following steps will make every boss fight easier:

• Increase your health, stamina, and spirit as high as possible through the talent tree. At a certain point, you must conduct the corresponding research to further raise the maximum of the 3 values. You will find the research at the Scholastein Institute (Health), in Pororin (Spirit), and at the Great Gate of Urdavah in Crimson Desert (Stamina).
• Before a fight, visit a whetstone (for more attack power) and an anvil (for more defense). It’s worth it!
• Keep equipment pieces that provide fire, lightning, or frost resistance in your collection so you can switch to them if needed. Enemies that focus on a particular element can often be easily tackled with corresponding resistance gear and suitable food. By the way, this article is about 2 armor sets that provide a lot of fire and frost resistance.
• Before a fight, stock up not only on good healing items but also on resurrection pills. You can find the recipe for the normal pills with the witch north of Hernand City (you need water and herbs for crafting). The improved resurrection pills can be found in the caves behind the waterfalls, for example.
• Anyone who has trouble reliably countering enemy attacks can use the focus talent Concentration – Insight to significantly slow down time, making countering much easier.
• Another helpful talent is Storm Strike in the blue tree. By reflecting your weapon, you can also briefly interrupt many bosses. After learning Storm Strike, you go directly into the attack.

If you want to invest much more in your character’s strength, you can unlock the prerequisites for the elemental powers of the red talent tree in the Abyss through long chains of puzzles. It starts at the Abyss access in the Scholastein Institute. The further path is so elaborate that we will address this topic in another guide. By the way: You can find more help for Crimson Desert in our extensive guide overview.

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