How to use Abyss Gears in Crimson Desert

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Crimson Desert Abyss Gears are mods that alters equipment and enhances it with new stats and abilities, if you can find witches to do it for you. However, it's easy to get them and have no idea how to actually put them them in your equipment. While a day 1 patch made the process easier in Crimson Desert, I'll explain how to use Abyss Gears, and where to find the Witches needed to make the most out of them.

How to embed Abyss Gears in Crimson Desert

You can't embed Abyss Gears in equipment yourself, you need to find a Witch around Pywel to do it.

These witches are special merchants who mainly deal in functions relating to Abyss Gears: they'll install them, remove them, make sockets in your equipment to add more Gears, and sell you recipes to craft your own. Installing and extracting the Gears is actually a free service, though making new sockets to plant them in is not (if you're struggling for cash, try our Crimson Desert money farm).

Crimson Desert Abyss Gears — (Image credit: Pearl Abyss)

It's a service worth putting the effort into, as some Abyss Gears are incredibly powerful if you implant the right ones in the right Crimson Desert weapons. Legendary or unique weapons even come with unique Gears, that you can leave in, or extract to implant elsewhere.

Where to find Witches in Crimson Desert

The easiest Witch to find in Crimson Desert is Sylvia, found North of Hernand at the spot shown on the map above.

However, better Witches with new options are introduced in Chapter 5. Midway through this chapter, you'll be introduced to the first Witch in the game, Elowen, and her lair in The Witchwoods, West of the Hernand Highlands. Not only that, this quest will open up the chance to meet more - we found another Witch in the Serpent Marsh, South of Demeniss.

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