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Order From Above
April 17, 2026 at 01:44 AM
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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.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Type | Unique Abyss Gear |
Price | 1,587 Silver |
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.
This item can be obtained through the following sources:
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.