Infinite Arrows Build

Overview

The Infinite Arrows Build is widely considered the most powerful bow build in Crimson Desert. By combining two specific Abyss Gears, the build achieves a 100% chance to never consume arrows on any shot. This means you only need a single explosive arrow in your inventory to fire it endlessly, turning one of the most expensive ammunition types in the game into a free, unlimited resource.

The build revolves around two Abyss Gears slotted into your bow: Infinite Arrows II (40% chance to not consume arrows) and Infinite Arrows III (60% chance to not consume arrows). Together, they add up to 100%, which guarantees that every arrow you fire is free. This applies to all arrow types, including explosive arrows, poison arrows, and regular arrows.

On top of the infinite ammunition, the build pairs Evasive Shot spam for safe, sustained damage with a devastating imbued focus charge shot burst combo capable of one-shotting many bosses. The combination of high damage output, extreme safety during combat, and zero resource cost makes this the premier boss-killing setup in the game.

How Infinite Arrows Works

There is an Abyss Gear called Greater Infinite Arrows that provides 100% arrow conservation in a single gear slot. However, this gear has durability and breaks after roughly 100 shots, making it far from truly infinite. The workaround is to use two smaller gears instead: Infinite Arrows II provides 40% and Infinite Arrows III provides 60%. When multiple chance-based Abyss Gears stack to 100%, you never consume an arrow. Unlike Greater Infinite Arrows, the smaller tiers have no durability, so they truly last forever.

To verify the effect is working, equip a small number of special arrows (such as five explosive arrows) and fire well beyond that count. If your arrow count stays the same, you have reached the 100% threshold.

Combat Techniques

The build uses two primary combat techniques for different situations. The burst combo is used when you can safely stand still for a few seconds to unleash massive damage, while the evasive shot spam is the go-to approach for difficult bosses where safety is the priority.

Burst Combo: Imbued Focus Charge Shot

This is the build's signature damage technique, capable of one-shotting many bosses when fully set up. The combo chains together Focus, multi-shot targeting, charge shot, and Imbue Element into a single devastating volley.

1. Aim your bow by holding the aim button.

2. Enter Focus mode to slow time and enable target painting.

3. Spam light attack on the target to paint it multiple times. Each press marks another arrow, up to the limit your Spirit bar allows.

4. Press heavy attack before releasing. This converts every marked shot into a charge shot.

5. Release to fire all arrows at once. Because you have Imbue Element rank 2, every charge shot is automatically imbued with your active element, triggering your imbue gears on each arrow.

This combo chews through your Spirit bar extremely fast, but the resulting burst damage is the highest in the game for a single volley. With fire element imbue and gears like Volcanic Eruption, every arrow triggers additional fire damage on top of the base arrow and explosive arrow damage.

Evasive Shot Spam

The Evasive Shot technique is the build's bread and butter for sustained damage against dangerous bosses. It lets you deal consistent damage while being nearly impossible to hit.

1. Roll in any direction to initiate a dodge.

2. Aim your bow while still in the roll animation to enter evasive shot stance.

3. Hold aim and spam the dodge button repeatedly. You will continue performing rapid evasive shots, each one automatically targeting the nearest enemy to your crosshair.

4. Repeat after your Stamina depletes. Wait for it to regenerate, then start the combo again.

At Evasive Shot rank 3, each evasive shot fires two arrows instead of one. With explosive arrows, this means two explosions per dodge. Because evasive shots have built-in auto-aim, you do not need to keep your crosshair precisely on the boss. The build prioritizes Stamina regeneration in gear because the combo lasts only as long as your Stamina does.

Skill Tree

The following skills are required or strongly recommended for this build. Many of them unlock key interactions that make the combos work. Without the correct skill ranks, the burst combo and evasive shot chain will not function properly.

Beyond these core skills, invest in anything that increases your Stamina and Spirit pools. Both resources are consumed heavily by this build, and larger pools translate directly into more damage per combo cycle.

Equipment Setup

Bow

There are three bow archetypes in the game: pure attack, critical rate (lower base attack), and attack speed (lower base attack). The pure attack archetype scales best with refinement levels over time, so the strongest long-term choice is actually a pure attack bow. You can run this entire build on the starter bow if you want.

The Golden Knotted Ancestral Bow is an alternative that starts at refinement level 3 with critical rate built in. The Divine Echoes Bow is another strong option with five Abyss Gear sockets. Ultimately, the bow matters less than the gears you slot into it.

Bow Abyss Gear Configuration

The recovery from Stamina Siphon and Spirit Siphon is not enormous, but this build burns through both resources at an extreme rate. The comfort of steady regeneration outweighs the marginal damage increase you would get from slotting pure attack gears in those positions. If you prefer raw damage over comfort, you can swap the siphon gears for additional attack or critical rate gears instead.

Arrows

This build works with every arrow type in the game, but explosive arrows are the best choice for most situations. They deal significantly more damage than regular arrows and create area-of-effect explosions. You can purchase explosive arrows from the Back Alley Shop in Demeniss from a fence vendor named Breck. He stocks two explosive arrows per restock cycle (once per in-game day). Because the build has 100% arrow conservation, you only need to buy a single explosive arrow and it will last forever.

Before you have access to explosive arrows, the build still functions perfectly well with regular arrows. You can also swap to poison arrows for enemies that are weak to poison.

Armor and Abyss Gears

For the element imbue gears, fire element is the strongest default choice because of the raw power of Volcanic Eruption. However, ideally you should match your imbue element to whatever element a boss is weak to, since element weakness multipliers are often a significant damage factor. The reason fire is so commonly recommended is that Volcanic Eruption's base damage is high enough to outperform matched elements in many cases.

Volcanic Eruption comes from a pair of gloves found in a waterfall cave (check the Delesia region on your map). Flames of Judgment drops during Chapter 8 of the main story.

Accessories

An important note about accessories: critical rate from accessories appears to count double on the stat screen. For example, 2 crit from a necklace and 1 crit from a ring shows as 6 total crit rate in your stats. When the bow is equipped, you also gain crit rate from the bow itself. With a crit necklace at full refinement (4 crit, counting as 8) and a crit ring, plus 3 crit on the bow, you can reach 13 total critical rate with your bow drawn.

How to Get Infinite Arrows II

There is one guaranteed source of Infinite Arrows II: the Queen of the Skies faction quest in Pailune. This quest becomes available after you complete Chapter 7 of the main story and finish the first quest of Chapter 8, which unlocks the Pailune Militia faction quest chain.

The quest chain leading to Queen of the Skies follows this order:

1. Complete Pailune Militia introductory quests.

2. Complete Dark Shadows Engulfing the Past.

3. Complete the Crossroads of Succession chain (nine quests involving clearing outposts and defeating a couple of bosses).

4. Complete Bloodied Path (a single boss encounter).

5. Hand in Bloodied Path to unlock Queen of the Skies.

6. Complete Queen of the Skies (a harpy boss fight on a mountain). The reward includes Infinite Arrows II, giving you the guaranteed 40% chance to not consume arrows.

How to Get Infinite Arrows III

Unlike Infinite Arrows II, there is no guaranteed quest reward for Infinite Arrows III. The only known method to obtain it is through special synthesis (random Abyss Gear crafting) at witch locations throughout the world.

Special Synthesis Process

Special synthesis requires two Abyss Gears of the same tier. You place them in the crafting interface and the witch randomly generates a new gear. There is a chance the result will be a gear of the tier above what you used as input. The farming process works like this:

1. Collect pairs of Tier 1 Abyss Gears from exploration, drops, and vendors.

2. Gamble Tier 1 pairs at a witch. Occasionally, a craft will produce a Tier 2 gear instead of a Tier 1.

3. Accumulate Tier 2 pairs and gamble those. Some will produce Tier 3 gears.

4. Gamble Tier 3 pairs until you receive Infinite Arrows III.

Save Scumming

Because special synthesis is purely random, many players use save scumming to speed up the process. Before crafting, create a manual save. If the results are not what you want, reload the save and try again. Your materials are preserved on reload, so you lose nothing. Try to stockpile several pairs of gears before each save so you can batch multiple attempts per reload cycle, saving significant time.

Without save scumming, getting Infinite Arrows III through natural play is entirely possible but will take considerably longer due to the random nature of synthesis.

Why You Need a Shield

Always equip a shield in your offhand slot rather than dual-wielding swords. Even though you will always have your bow drawn in combat, the shield's defense value is applied passively as long as it is equipped in your inventory. This is a free defensive boost with no downside. Slot defensive Abyss Gears like Fortification into the shield for additional passive defense.

Build Progression

You do not need every piece of this build to start benefiting from it. The build comes online in stages:

1. Early game: Invest in Marksmanship and Evasive Shot. Even without infinite arrows, the evasive shot playstyle is effective and safe.

2. Mid game (Chapter 7+): Complete the Pailune Militia quest chain to get Infinite Arrows II. At 40% arrow conservation, you will notice a meaningful reduction in arrow consumption.

3. Full build: Farm Infinite Arrows III through special synthesis. Once you have both gears equipped, buy one explosive arrow from Back Alley Shop and enjoy unlimited explosive shots for the rest of the game.

4. Optimization: Refine your bow and accessories, acquire Volcanic Eruption and Flames of Judgment for fire imbue, stack crit rate and attack speed across all gear slots, and unlock Focus Shot rank 3 for the burst combo.

Disarming Method: Farming Abyss Gears

An alternative way to obtain Infinite Arrows abyss gears is through the disarming method at Ice Watch Altar, located near the Spire of Frost in the northern part of the map.

How to Disarm Enemies

After clearing the ranged enemies (those carrying bows and frost guns) in the area, approach the remaining melee enemies. You must equip a sword and small shield for this technique to work. No other weapon type or large shield will trigger the disarm.

1. Hold the left bumper (LB / L1) to raise your shield.

2. Use the right trigger (RT / R2) to perform a delayed parry-disarm attack.

3. If timed correctly, the enemy's weapon flies out of their hands and lands on the ground nearby.

Pick up the disarmed weapons. After clearing the area, leave until the red zone indicator disappears from the minimap, then return. The enemies respawn with fresh weapons, allowing you to repeat the process indefinitely.

Extracting Infinite Arrows Gears

Take the disarmed weapons to the Witch Woods and remove the abyss gears from them. The extracted gears can then be used in special fusions to create higher-tier Infinite Arrows gears.

To achieve true 100% arrow conservation, you need a level 3 Infinite Arrows gear combined with a level 2 Infinite Arrows gear (60% + 40% = 100%). Use save scumming during the fusion process to target the specific Infinite Arrows result you need, since special fusion outcomes are randomized.

Tips and Tricks

• The burst combo is best used against bosses that give you a safe window to stand still. For aggressive bosses that attack constantly, rely on the evasive shot spam instead.

• Prioritize Stamina regeneration in every gear slot that allows it. More Stamina regen means shorter downtime between evasive shot chains, which translates to more total damage per fight.

• Spirit is consumed rapidly during the burst combo. If you run out of Spirit mid-combo, the imbue effect stops applying to remaining arrows. Consider eating food that boosts Spirit before major boss encounters.

• Attack speed from gloves and boots is a global stat that affects all weapons, not just the one you have drawn. This makes it the best offensive stat to stack in those slots regardless of your build.

• Evasive shots have built-in auto-aim. You do not need to keep your crosshair precisely on the boss. The arrows will target the nearest enemy to your reticle automatically.

• At Evasive Shot rank 3, each shot fires two arrows. With explosive arrows, this means two explosions per dodge, effectively doubling your damage output from this combo.

• While evasive shot spam is active, most bosses cannot land hits on you because you are constantly dodging. This makes the build exceptionally safe for learning new boss patterns.

• Keep a shield equipped at all times. The defense bonus is passive and applies even while your bow is out.

• This build may receive balance changes in future patches due to its extreme power level. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Stacking Infinite Arrows II and III

The standard infinite arrows build pairs Infinite Arrows II (40% chance to refund an arrow) with Infinite Arrows III (60% chance) for a combined 100% refund rate across two Abyss Gear slots. This replaces the single-slot Greater Infinite Arrows gear, which technically hits 100% by itself but carries durability and breaks over time. Two slots at 100% without durability wear is the practical optimum.

Infinite Arrows Farm at Spire of Frost

To farm Abyss Gear materials for Special Synthesis, skydive from the sky island near the Spire of Frost down into either the Frost Hold Cave or the Icewatch Altar camp. Both work only if you have not already cleared the surrounding quests, because enemies there do not respawn once the area is pacified.

Equip a sword plus a small shield (a tower shield will not work). Tap an enemy to get their attention, hold L1 to block, and press R1 immediately after they connect a hit. The parry disarms them, popping off their mace and shield. Summon your pet from the inventory so it can help pick up the dropped weapons.

Collect roughly 20 shields and 20 maces, then visit the Hernand Witch and extract the abyss gears from each weapon one by one. Head to Create Abyss Gear, tab to Special Synthesis, and synthesize the gears together to chase Infinite Arrows II and Infinite Arrows III rolls. Save before each synthesis if you plan to save-scum for a better roll, and keep any infinite arrows gears out of the synthesis pool so they are not consumed.

Replenishing Alternative

If you want an infinite-like effect without chasing abyss-gear rolls, unlock Replenishing Arrows at the Pororin Research Institute. Research Nature's Harmony first to unlock the skill, then Palmar Leaf Research and Plant Combination Research to raise the maximum capacity. Replenishing arrows cap at 50 and regenerate over time, which covers most sustained shooting without consuming a single Abyss Gear slot.

Which Arrow Type to Pair

Infinite-refund builds shine most with expensive arrow types: Explosive Arrows are the strongest example because each shot would otherwise cost 12 in-game hours of a 3-arrow dispatch, but Poison Arrows and Sleep Arrows also benefit heavily. Regular arrows are so plentiful from donations and dispatches that infinite arrows are almost wasted on them.

Hybrid Bow Swap for Combat God Gauntlet Build

Even players running the Combat God Gauntlets variant of the Kliff Unarmed Build keep this bow loadout fully intact in the carried-bow slot. The two Infinite Arrows 2 + 3 gears stay socketed alongside two crit rate 3 gears and one destruction gear, so explosive arrow spam mode is one weapon swap away at any moment. The bow contributes the two crit rate 3 gears that, together with +7 crit rate from Necklace of Lightning and Kuku Flame-Resistant Armor (post-patch values), bring the build to the internal crit rate cap of 15. The bow remains the most reliable single-target burst tool in the kit; the gauntlets handle stagger control and crowd disruption, and the Infinite Arrows loadout handles distance and softening.

Treat the bow as a separate gear page that does not need rebalancing for the unarmed build. Swap to bow when explosive arrow spam is the right tool for the encounter, then swap back to fists for the lightning-stun rotation when the boss closes the gap.