Overview
Order From Above 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. Order from Above: Spears of light rain down from the sky, damaging nearby enemies.
Properties
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Type | Unique Abyss Gear |
Price | 1,587 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
This item can be obtained through the following sources:
Sold by Skeint
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
Order From Above Overview
Order From Above is a Finisher Abyss Gear that calls down a downward strike on the target you are executing. It is a more consistent option than Arrow Rain, landing on the locked target most of the time, but the damage range sits in the 15 to 20 percent ballpark of the target's health bar, which is underwhelming for a one-time execute payoff. It lands in C tier on the community Best Abyss Gears Guide.
The gear is honest in what it does. It hits the spot you tell it to hit, the animation reads cleanly, and there is no awkward aiming or follow-up to manage. The problem is that it does not bring anything unique to a finisher slot. There is no stagger payoff, no AoE around the target, and no special interaction with elemental builds. It is fine, and that is the entire ceiling.
Order From Above Proc Condition
Like every finisher gear, Order From Above only triggers during the finisher execute window. You weaken a target through normal Combo Attacks or a Parrying string, the finisher prompt appears over the broken enemy, and committing to the prompt plays both the execute animation and the gear's strike. You do not need to aim manually because the trigger automatically targets the enemy you are finishing.
Damage Profile
Community testing pegged the damage at roughly 15 to 20 percent of a standard enemy's health bar. That is enough to feel useful when the finisher itself does not finish the target, but it falls well short of Warden of Darkness, which can chunk for around 70 percent in the same window. Order From Above does not scale especially well into harder content because boss-tier enemies have far larger health pools than the gear was tuned around.
Community Tier List Rating: Order From Above
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: 13/30
Damage: 5/10
Usability: 4/10
Utility: 4/10
Community Tier: C Tier
C tier means the gear is usable but underwhelming. There is almost always a better A or S option in the same slot for the same playstyle.
Community testing called Order From Above consistent but underwhelming. It does not miss the way Arrow Rain does, but it also does not deliver the chunky payoff a finisher slot demands.
Proc Reminder: Triggers only inside the finisher execute window. Lands consistently on the locked target, but the damage and utility numbers are unremarkable.
Typical Use
Order From Above is a reasonable placeholder while you are still hunting better finisher recipes. If you have it unlocked but have not yet found Warden of Darkness from a dispatch drop, slot Order From Above so the finisher slot is at least doing something. Swap it out the moment a stronger finisher arrives. It pairs well with builds that already deal heavy damage from Combo Attacks and treat the finisher as a clean-up rather than the main damage source.
Patch 1.04 Back-Alley Source
Patch 1.04 confirmed a purchasable second source for Order From Above through the regional Back Alley Shop network. The specific vendor that stocks it is hidden in a sneaky back corner of Avania, following the standard back-alley placement pattern: off the main merchant route, tucked into a narrow alley, and easy to walk past on a first visit because the storefront does not call attention to itself.
Before this patch, the only route to Order From Above was the Sword of Greed boss weapon, which is itself a drop associated with the Vessel of Darkness encounter. Many players skipped or struggled with that sanctum in the early game and ended up without this gear until much later in the story. The Avania shop gives everyone a reliable fallback purchase, so the gear no longer sits locked behind a single optional boss.
Patch 1.04 shop visibility change: Back-alley vendors now display their full inventory up front instead of hiding items the player is not yet eligible to buy. Any locked item is tagged with its unlock requirement so players know what to work toward. Order From Above surfaces on the shop list directly, but the change also exposes neighboring items gated behind Trust, Knowledge, or Prestige requirements, which helps with planning side objectives on the same trip to Avania.
Dual-Loadout Application
Because Order From Above now has two independent sources, it is possible to obtain the gear twice in a single playthrough: once as the socketed Abyss Gear attached to the Sword of Greed, and a second copy through the Avania back-alley purchase. Two copies mean the gear can be socketed onto a one-handed weapon for a dual-wield loadout and simultaneously onto a two-handed weapon for a heavy-hitter loadout, without having to unsocket and resocket between playstyles.
Practical setup: Keep the boss-weapon copy on the two-handed weapon (where finishers tend to land harder and trigger the laser rain more often in tough fights), and slot the back-alley copy onto a one-handed weapon in the dual-wield set for faster finisher chains on mobile enemies. Swapping weapon sets does not cost you the gear uptime on either build.
Build Synergies
Order From Above trades raw finisher damage for wide vertical coverage: every finisher rains laser beams from the sky onto nearby targets. That pattern layers well with other rain-style or finisher-trigger abyss gears, producing stacked burst windows rather than a single spike. The strongest pairings are gears that either proc on the same finisher event or blanket the same area with falling projectiles.
Wind Slash, sold by the Hernand back-alley vendor. Another action-triggered gear that fires on the same follow-up inputs, letting finishers stack wind damage into the laser rain.
Orbs of Lightning, sold by the Pailune back-alley vendor. Slots into a lightning build and overlaps nicely with the raining lasers during longer engagements.
Wound of Darkness, sold by the Delazear back-alley vendor. Binds to the spinning slash and opens enemies up for the finisher that triggers Order From Above.
Karmic Pulse, sold by the Tash Corp back-alley vendor. A gloves-slot gear that fits into unarmed-focused finisher chains.
Abyssal Rage, sold by the Daminis back-alley vendor. Spawns blips that fire lasers at nearby targets after certain actions, layering a second AoE pattern on top of the laser rain.
Build recap: Run Order From Above on a finisher-centric loadout, pair with at least one action-triggered rain or AoE abyss gear, and pick weapons whose finisher animation lands cleanly in the middle of a group so the laser rain catches as many nearby targets as possible. Treat the gear as a crowd multiplier rather than a single-target execute: it shines when there is more than one enemy inside the rain radius when a finisher lands.