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Riding Attire - Version 13 vs Version 14
Jun 9, 2026, 01:02 AM
Removed duplicate in-body wikilinks
Oct 29, 2026, 10:31 AM
Separate recorded horse-taming and Horse EXP effects from older patch/timing claims, and correct the false doubling arithmetic.
11Overview22Riding Attire is a Boss Leather Armor body armor piece in Crimson Desert. Whip (active skill) Reduces Horse Taming Difficulty Practical riding gear worn by professional equestrians. It is crafted from soft materials that offer excellent mobility and minimize physical strain even during intense riding. Increases horse taming speed when equipped.66Stats88The Riding Attire record lists Defense 5 at +0 to 31 at +10, Lightning Resistance Lv.1 and reduced horse-taming difficulty. Equip it from the armor Quick Slot; wearing it lets you tame wild horses more quickly. Sumore at Saddle Black Market is a recorded seller, with first-unlock and current-price conditions not established here. The older championship route below remains a separate acquisition account.10+StatValueGradeBossArmor TypeLeather ArmorSlotBodyDefense5Price3,987 Silver1012Refinement1113At Refinement Level 0, this item provides the following stats:1315StatValueDefense51517Higher refinement levels increase these stats further. Visit a Blacksmith to refine this equipment.1618How to Obtain1820This item can be found as loot in the open world or obtained through specific quests and encounters.2022Notes2224Leather armor provides a balance between protection and mobility, sitting between Cloth Armor and Chain Mail in terms of defensive capability and weight.Equipment can be improved through the Refinement System at a Blacksmith.2426See Also2628Leather Armor - All leather armor piecesArmor - Overview of all armor typesRefinement System - How to upgrade equipmentEquipment - Full equipment guide2830Winning the Riding Attire From the Demeniss Championship3032The Riding Attire chest piece is awarded for winning the championship horse-race series at the Horse Track Arena in Demeniss. The championship is a four-race bracket. Talk to the host in the middle of the arena to start the first race, then win all three qualifying races to face the championship leader in the fourth and final match. Beating the champion delivers the Riding Attire as the championship reward.3234During each race, do not spam your sprint button down the straights. The AI competitors compensate with a sprint boost of their own, which means burning your stamina early just throws away your edge. Hold sprint for the curves at the two ends of the arena and for the final approach to the finish line. That stamina-banking pattern is enough to take all four races even on a modestly leveled horse.3436Whip Skill and Combat Utility3638The direct item record describes the quicker-taming effect. It does not independently verify the older whip attack, its two-to-three-hit damage example or the claim that no other armor has that skill. Those combat observations are retained separately from the documented taming benefit.40+Equipping the Riding Attire grants the whip skill, a unique ability that is not available from any other armor in the game. The whip deals respectable damage and can defeat low-tier enemies in two or three hits. It is not a build-defining ability, but it is one of the few examples in Crimson Desert of an armor piece carrying its own combat skill rather than a passive stat block.3842Taming Benefit and Stacking with the Riding Set4044The Riding Attire's standout effect is a sharp reduction in horse-taming difficulty. With the chest equipped, the How to Tame Horses minigame becomes dramatically easier. This is what makes the Riding Attire one of the most-recommended pieces of gear for any player chasing legendary horses such as Roiler, Rokaid, or Kamora, because the difficulty drop is large enough to remove most of the failure pressure from the encounter.4246The chest is also a core piece of the larger trust-XP growth set, which includes Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, the Leather Riding Hat, and the Riding Cloak. The growth-rate effects stack, so wearing the full set together compresses leveling a horse from level 1 to level 2 down to a sub-minute ride.47+The older full-outfit training observation combines this chest with Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, the Leather Riding Hat, and the Riding Cloak. Its sub-minute level-one-to-two result is an older test of the whole outfit, not a verified conversion from an individual item's Horse EXP label to Companion Trust or a guaranteed time for every mount.4448Related Pages4650Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, Leather Riding Hat, Riding Cloak, Horse Leveling, Legendary Horses.4852Patch 1.04 Stat Display Update53+Older Patch 1.04 tooltip report5054Patch 1.04 rewrote the tooltip text on every piece of the Riding Set so that two specific stats are now displayed in plain view on each item's item card. The change is purely a tooltip update: the numbers behind the scenes already existed on most pieces, but before the patch only the Riding Attire chest piece displayed its Horse Taming Difficulty bonus explicitly. The other three pieces carried their contributions silently, which made it easy to mistake the set for a partial or inconsistent bonus group.55+Older notes attributed a tooltip rewrite to Patch 1.04 across the Riding Set and described previously hidden effects. That exact date and universal before/after behavior are not independently established by the item records used here. The Riding Attire record explicitly lists reduced horse-taming difficulty and quicker wild-horse taming; the separate hat, boots, cloak and gloves records describe their own effects.5256The two stats now shown on every piece: Horse Taming Difficulty, which applies during the How to Tame Horses minigame on any untamed wild horse, and Horse XP Gain, which applies to every ride on any mount you already own and drives Horse Leveling plus Companion Trust progress.57+Keep the two concepts separate: Horse Taming Difficulty applies to the How to Tame Horses minigame, while Horse EXP Gain is a separate label. The earlier notes connected Horse Leveling with Companion Trust, but the item records do not independently establish that these are the same progression meter or use the same multiplier.5458Riding Hat Now Grants +1 Horse XP Gain59+Horse EXP item records and older claims5660The biggest mechanical change bundled with the tooltip rewrite is that the Leather Riding Hat now contributes +1 Horse XP Gain. Prior to Patch 1.04, the hat had no Horse XP Gain value at all, which meant the set's total XP Gain stat came only from the cloak, the attire chest piece, and the boots. The hat's contribution was treated as a cosmetic-style fourth slot that you wore for the matched-set look rather than for any measured effect.61+The separate +10 card for Leather Riding Hat lists Horse EXP Gain +2, rather than the earlier post-patch +1 claim in the table below. The Riding Boots card also lists +2, Riding Cloak lists +1 and Master Trainer's Touch lists +2. These item references do not independently establish a uniform +1-per-piece history or a complete stacking formula.5862Adding the hat to the active XP roster pushes the full-set total from +3 Horse XP Gain up to +4 Horse XP Gain, which is more than double the previous effective total if you count only the pieces that were actually contributing under the old tooltip rules. The old three-piece contribution was functionally +3 (cloak +1, attire +1, boots +1), so the new four-piece total of +4 is the mathematical improvement you feel in-game when leveling any horse.63+The older table compares a claimed +3 total with +4 Horse XP Gain, a one-point increase within that table, not more than double. Those older values remain unverified against the separate item cards, and this arithmetic does not establish an actual XP multiplier or training-time reduction.6064Riding Set PieceHorse XP Gain (Pre-1.04)Horse XP Gain (Post-1.04)Riding Cloak+1+1Riding Attire (chest)+1+1Riding Boots+1+1Leather Riding Hat0+1Full Riding Set+3+465+Riding Set PieceEarlier pre-1.04 claim (unverified)Earlier post-1.04 claim (unverified)Riding Cloak+1+1Riding Attire (chest)+1+1Riding Boots+1+1Leather Riding Hat0+1Full Riding Set+3+462-Halved Time to Max Trust66+Older full-set timing observations6367In practical terms, wearing the full five-piece Riding Set (Leather Riding Hat, Riding Attire, Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, and Riding Cloak) roughly halves the time needed to max out trust with any horse companion. The +4 Horse XP Gain stacks multiplicatively with the speed you would see in default gear, so a riding loop that previously took two sessions to take a mount from low-trust to maxed-trust now completes in roughly one session of the same length.68+The earlier full-outfit test used Leather Riding Hat, Riding Attire, Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, and Riding Cloak and reported roughly halving its own training time. Treat that result as an older combined-outfit observation, not proof that the unverified +4 label is a multiplicative bonus or that every horse reaches maximum Companion Trust in half the time.6569This matters most when you are chasing the late-game entries on the Best Horses list, since those horses require the full trust bar before you can access their higher stat ceilings and advanced riding behaviors. It also compounds well with the longer training rides described in the Horse Guide. If you are working a new tame through its first several trust tiers, swap the full Riding Set on before the ride begins; the difference is visible within a single in-game day of riding.6771The full-set bonus applies equally to every mount you own, not just the horse currently being tamed, so players who rotate between several companions from the Mounts list get the same multiplier each time they remount. There is no need to swap out of the set between rides, and any time you spend in Mounted Combat also ticks the XP Gain stat, so combat sessions count toward trust progress alongside plain travel.72+The older account extended its timing result to every owned mount. Its comparisons of companions from the Mounts list have not been independently established by the Horse EXP item records. The same is true for its claim that all Mounted Combat time advances Companion Trust identically to ordinary riding; check the actual progression meter rather than applying one universal multiplier.