There are countless ways to customize your experience Crimson Desert, including choosing your preferred weapons to match your play style. If you want to master the most important combat techniques and easily defeat the toughest enemies in the Crimson Desert, then dual-wielding is a great way to stack damage.
You can choose to dual-wield at any time – in or out of combat – to keep your enemies on their toes. Here's how to dual-wield the weapons and master their powerful movesets as you collect multiple powerful single-handed items throughout the story.
How to dual wield weapons
To dual wield weapons in Crimson Desert, enter the menu and go to the tab Inventory section. Then follow these steps:
- Release your shield in your shield slot for right page.
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Equip a one-handed weapon in left slot.
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Equip the other one-handed weapon in right slot where your shield was originally.
With your two slot weapons, you can make sure they are equipped with their choice from the weapon menu wheel:
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Open your weapon wheel by holding the left d-pad button.
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Make sure you are in Armed struggle table
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Hover your mouse over yours shield slit, then use RT/R2 or LT/L2 to change gears, choosing another one-handed weapon.
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Release left on the d-pad finish equipping your second weapon, dual wield it.
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Which weapons can you dual wield?
You can select any one-handed weapon to dual-wield, opens up a plethora of combinations and move sets.
Browse through different weapons and combine your options, as you will have a lot of flexibility between the main characters to equip them with two powerful swords for dual wielding.
you have to use one-handed weapons for dual control. Kliff, Oongka, or Damiane cannot dual-wield two-handed weapons.
Powerful, one-handed weapons such as Tauria Curved Sword and Melted Ambition are excellent dual-wielding choices, as they offer special effects that can be combined to great effect, allowing you to deal significant damage to groups of enemies.
Overall, there are no major downsides to dual controls, except slightly reduced blocking abilities.
However, you may enjoy the following Advantages of dual-wielding weapons:
- Unique moves and attack patterns which make you an attacking juggernaut.
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You can combine powerful Abyss Gear like Shadow Claw with your dual-wielding weapons. a deadly combination.
- Spam attack is the best way mix up punch combinations and keep your enemies on their heels.
- Blocking and deflecting are excellent ways to create openings when enemies attack with waves of their own.
- Increase your damage potential with two weapons, creating more opportunities to add Abyss Gears or upgrade your gear.
While you can now manually hide the shield on your back, dual wielding is another reason in the game to ditch the shield and enjoy the aesthetic of two blades for full attack.
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