Overview
Crescent Moon Slash is an Abyss Gear in Crimson Desert. Grants a variety of effects when embedded in an equipment socket. Witches found in each region have the power to embed or remove Abyss gears. Crescent Moon Slash: Unleashes a moon-shaped blade of energy forward, dealing additional damage.
Properties
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Type | Unique Abyss Gear |
Price | 1,567 Silver |
Usage
This is a unique Abyss Gear with a specific combat effect. It can be embedded into equipment sockets by visiting a Witch found in each region. Unique Abyss Gears provide powerful, specialized bonuses that can significantly alter combat dynamics.
How to Obtain
Abyss Gears can be obtained from Abyss-related activities, purchased from specialized merchants, or found as drops from enemies.
Notes
Abyss Gears are socketable items that can be embedded into equipment to provide various bonuses.
Visit a Witch in any region to embed or remove Abyss Gears from equipment sockets.
See Also
Abyss Gear - Overview of all Abyss Gears
Utility Items - All utility items in Crimson Desert
Equipment - Full equipment guide
Crescent Moon Slash Overview
Crescent Moon Slash is a Combo Attacks Abyss Gear that releases a curved arc of energy as part of a normal weapon string. It has decent area of effect and a forgiving proc window, which makes it easy to land. On its own the damage is average, but the gear is designed to be one of three moon-themed slashes that feed into a synergy chain. It sits in B tier on the community Best Abyss Gears Guide.
The crescent shape of the slash favors crowd encounters over single-target boss play. Multiple enemies inside the arc all take the gear's tick, which is a nice quality-of-life bonus when you are wading through clustered abyss adds. Solo a boss with this gear and the AoE goes mostly wasted, which is the main reason it does not climb higher than B.
Crescent Moon Slash Proc Condition
Crescent Moon Slash triggers as a normal Combo Attack proc, identical in trigger pattern to Wind Slash, Half Moon Slash, and the wider Combo Attack family. There is no charge, no parry requirement, and no need to land a finisher. Run a normal weapon swing string and the gear fires automatically inside the chain at the configured proc point.
Damage Profile and Moon Combos
On its own the per-hit damage is in the middle of the Combo Attack pack: enough to add chip damage to a clear, not enough to swing a fight by itself. The gear is meaningfully stronger when slotted alongside the other moon-themed Combo Attacks, because the three moon slashes are tuned to synergise. Builds that stack Crescent Moon Slash with Half Moon Slash and the lightning-flavored Full Moon Slash see the AoE coverage and effective damage climb noticeably. Single-moon builds that try to carry one of the slashes solo end up underwhelmed.
Community Tier List Rating: Crescent Moon Slash
A community ranking video titled All Abyss Gears Tier List (Best to Worst Ranked) scores every Abyss Gear out of 30 across three categories: damage, usability, and utility. Each category is worth 10 points, and the totals are bucketed so that 25 to 30 is S tier, 20 to 24 is A tier, 15 to 19 is B tier, 10 to 14 is C tier, 5 to 9 is D tier, and anything below that lands in F tier. Treat the numbers below as one experienced player's testing rather than a hard rulebook, but the overall ranking lines up with what most Best Abyss Gears Guide tier lists are converging on.
Overall Score: 18/30
Damage: 5/10
Usability: 6/10
Utility: 7/10
Community Tier: B Tier
B tier covers gears that work, but only in specific situations or builds. Most of the time you can do better, yet they are not actively bad to slot in if a build leans into their niche.
Good AoE and easy to trigger, but nothing standout when run alone. The community rating jumps a tier when the gear is part of a moon-slash combo build that stacks all three moon Combo Attacks together.
Proc Reminder: Combo Attack proc that fires inside a normal weapon string. No timing or aim required.
If you are building around moon synergy, slot Crescent Moon Slash next to Half Moon Slash and run any third moon-themed gear you can unlock. If you are not committing to that theme, Wind Slash is a stronger general-purpose Combo Attack pick.
Typical Use
Crescent Moon Slash earns its slot in two contexts. The first is a moon-themed build that intentionally stacks the moon-flavored Combo Attacks for layered AoE coverage. The second is general-purpose mob clearing, where the wide arc is more useful than a tight, hard-hitting projectile. Skip it for boss-only setups and prefer Abyssal Rays when you need raw burst damage from a Combo Attack proc instead.