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Crimson Desert Duels Guide: How to Bankrupt Pywel's Fighting Pits
Tearing through a hundred bandits is easy, but Pywel's one on one duel tournaments will mercilessly expose your bad habits. Here is how to exploit the rules and bankrupt the local champions.
Crimson Desert Crash Guide: How to Fix Black Screens, Frame Gen, and Driver Failures
Pywel is a beautiful continent, assuming your PC does not violently power cycle before you get past the main menu.
Crimson Desert 100% Achievement Guide and Platinum Roadmap
Getting 100% completion in Pywel requires avoiding a massive tracking trap that can erase dozens of hours of your hard work.
Crimson Desert Fishing Guide: How to Catch Fish and Get Rich
Fishing in Pywel is surprisingly lucrative, assuming you do not snap your line or get ambushed by bandits in the process.
Crimson Desert Gambling Guide: How to Win Duo and Five-Card
Honest labor is for peasants. Here is exactly how to exploit the local gambling dens, rig the deck, and completely bankrupt the citizens of Pywel.
Crimson Desert Respec Guide: How to Reset Your Skill Tree
Committing to a terrible character build is not a permanent death sentence in Pywel, provided you know how to manipulate the artifact system.
Crimson Desert Research Guide: How to Break Level Caps and Craft Endgame Gear
Throwing silver at academics is the only way to break your attribute level caps and build the heaviest weaponry in Pywel.
Crimson Desert Reputation Guide: How Contribution Works and Best Rewards
Playing the hero in Pywel is an exhausting grind, but the exclusive armor sets and crowns they hand out make it entirely worth the effort.
Crimson Desert Pet Guide: How to Tame Animal Companions
Manually looting thirty dead bandits is a miserable chore, which is exactly why you need to bribe a stray animal to do it for you.
Crimson Desert Mounts Guide: Horses, Mechs, and the Blackstar Dragon
Walking across Pywel is a miserable death sentence, so here is exactly how to hijack a mech, tame wild horses, and ride a fire breathing dragon.
Crimson Desert Character Guide: How to Unlock Damiane and Oongka
Kliff is great, but surviving Pywel is much easier when you can call in a heavily armed orc with a jetpack.
Crimson Desert Map Guide: How to Fast Travel and Clear the Fog
Stop walking across Pywel like a peasant and learn how to actually see the map.
Crimson Desert Healing Guide: Cooking Food and Finding Palmar Pills
Bosses in Pywel do not care about your health bar. Here is how to cook massive amounts of food and find the recipe for the only item that will bring you back from the dead.
Crimson Desert Resource Gathering Guide: Where to Find Iron, Copper, and Timber
Mining rocks and chopping wood might sound boring, but it is the exact thing standing between you and a brutal death in Pywel.
Crimson Desert Crafting Guide: How to Upgrade & Refine Gear
Bosses in Pywel will shatter your default swords into splinters. Here is how to navigate the smithy, refine your gear, and avoid fighting literal monsters with dull metal.
Crimson Desert Crime Guide: How to Steal, Rob Banks, and Clear Bounties
Playing the hero gets exhausting, so here is exactly how to rob a bank, fence stolen goods, and pay off the church to clear your murder bounties.
Crimson Desert Skills Guide: The Best Early Abilities to Unlock
Spend your Abyss Artifacts wisely or prepare to be brutalized by the very first boss that crosses your path.
Crimson Desert Inventory Guide: How to Get More Space and Fake a Stash
Your pockets are tiny and everything you find is essential. Here is how to upgrade your carrying capacity and fake a storage stash so you never have to leave epic loot behind.
Crimson Desert Money Guide: How to Farm Silver Fast and Stop Being Broke
Being broke in Pywel is a death sentence. Here is how to line your pockets with silver before the local wildlife files for your bankruptcy.
Crimson Desert Beginner's Guide: 12 Crucial Tips the Game Doesn't Tell You
Pywel is a beautiful nightmare that will absolutely crush you if you walk in blind, so here are the survival tactics you actually need.