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Riding Cloak is a Boss Cloth Armor cloak piece in Crimson Desert. A cloak worn by nobles during equestrian competitions. Each piece of armor with a similar effect increases the growth rate of the horse.
Stat | Value |
|---|---|
Grade | |
Armor Type | |
Slot | Cloak |
Price | 3,844 Silver |
At Refinement Level 0, this item provides the following stats:
Stat | Value |
|---|---|
2 |
Higher refinement levels increase these stats further. Visit a Blacksmith to refine this equipment.
This item can be found as loot in the open world or obtained through specific quests and encounters.
Cloth armor provides lighter protection compared to Leather Armor, Chain Mail, and Plate Armor, but typically offers better mobility stats.
Equipment can be improved through the Refinement System at a Blacksmith.
Cloth Armor - All cloth armor pieces
Armor - Overview of all armor types
Refinement System - How to upgrade equipment
Equipment - Full equipment guide
The Riding Cloak is confirmed to exist as the cloak slot of the larger horse-trust riding set, but its exact unlock source has not been documented in available community guides. Based on how the rest of the set is gated, the cloak is most likely tied to a specific quest reward rather than to a saddler storefront. If you locate the exact mission, please update this article.
Until the source is verified, treat any in-game listing as the authority. Check Demeniss questgivers tied to House Byron and the Horse Track Arena first, since the rest of the set roots there, and cross-reference any cloak found in your inventory with the matched-set visuals before assuming it is the correct piece.
The Riding Cloak is the cloak slot of the same matched set that includes Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, the Riding Attire chest piece, and the Leather Riding Hat. Every confirmed piece of the set adds to your horse's trust-XP growth rate, and the effects stack additively across slots.
Adding the cloak on top of the gloves, boots, chest, and hat is expected to push the horse-leveling speed even higher than the already large boost provided by the four other pieces. With the rest of the set equipped, a level-1 horse can reach level 2 in under a minute on a normal ride, versus the five-to-six-times longer distance needed when wearing default gear. The cloak is the final slot that closes out the matched set bonus.
Riding Attire, Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, Leather Riding Hat, Horse Leveling.
Before Patch 1.04 the Riding Cloak was the missing piece of the riding set. Players tracked down the gloves, boots, chest, and hat but never surfaced the cloak, and it was widely suspected that the slot had simply been left out of the shipped game. Patch 1.04 resolved the gap by adding the cloak, along with several other gear pieces, to the inventory of a specific Back Alley Shop vendor. The cloak now sits in that vendor's stock alongside the shop's usual rotating wares, so it is no longer a quest-chain reward or a boss drop. Any character who meets the Trust requirement can purchase it directly.
The vendor in question is the one located just right of the Hills of Noruta area, off the right shoulder of Heidel. If you are approaching from the main road you want the shop tucked into the back alley on that side rather than the other back-alley vendors scattered around the map. Confirming the right vendor is straightforward: speak to the merchant and check whether the cloak appears in their for-sale list. If it does, you are at the correct shop; if it does not, you are looking at a different back-alley vendor who sells one of the other gears added in the same patch.
The cloak itself still grants the same stack bonus to Horse Leveling and contributes Ice Resistance Level 3 to your defensive profile, so the Patch 1.04 change is purely about availability rather than any adjustment to the cloak's effect.
The cloak is gated behind a Trust check. When you first speak to the vendor the cloak will display in their for-sale list, but the purchase option is blocked until Trust reaches the required threshold. This is the standard back-alley-vendor gate and works the same way it does for the region-guard outfits and other Trust-locked inventory in Patch 1.04.
The fastest way to build Trust with this merchant is to gift Garnet gems. Each gift raises Trust by a fixed amount, and 10 Garnet gems is enough to reach the threshold the cloak sits behind. Other gems may work as acceptable gifts as well, but Garnet is the confirmed gem type for this vendor and is the safer choice if you only want to make one round of gifting.
Step-by-step:
Travel to the back-alley shop just right of the Hills of Noruta, off the right shoulder of Heidel.
Open the gift menu with the vendor and hand over Garnet gems one at a time. Each gift ticks Trust upward.
After 10 Garnets the merchant will let you purchase the cloak. If the buy option is still greyed out, gift one or two more gems and try again (individual Trust increments can vary slightly).
Buy the Riding Cloak and equip it in the cloak slot to complete the full matched set with the gloves, boots, chest piece, and hat.
Trust built with this vendor persists between visits, so if you run out of Garnet partway through, you can return later without losing progress. The shop will also show you what inventory unlocks at max Trust once you hover over the vendor's sale list, which is a Patch 1.04 quality-of-life update that applies to all back-alley merchants.
Garnet drops from ore deposits scattered across the world, and any decent mining loop will eventually produce the 10 gems you need. If you already have a farming circuit you like, stay with it. If not, the most time-efficient approach is to find a cave or cavern with a high density of ore nodes, unlock the nearest fast-travel point, and run the loop on a schedule. Ore deposits respawn on a fixed cycle that works out to roughly 7 in-game days, so one full clear plus a short wait is usually enough to refill the cave for a second pass.
You do not need pristine-grade Garnet for gifting purposes. Any Garnet from an ordinary ore node is accepted as a Trust-raising gift, so there is no reason to hold out for rare drops or skill-gated gathering. A light mining session is almost always faster than scraping together the same 10 gems from random world loot.
Patch 1.04 reshaped the back-alley circuit in general, not just the Noruta vendor that sells the Riding Cloak. Other back-alley merchants around Pywel carry gear pieces that share the same Trust-gate purchase flow, and knowing the full list is useful if you are already doing the rounds to farm Garnet for this cloak. Sweeping every vendor once per visit is the simplest way to see what is on offer.
Other confirmed back-alley gear worth checking on the same circuit includes Matana Leather Armor, Wind Slash, Orbs of Lightning, Wound of Darkness, Karmic Pulse, and Order From Above. Each has its own Trust requirement with its own host vendor, so plan your gifting stacks accordingly if you are trying to unlock more than one in a single trip.
Patch 1.04 added a dedicated storefront for the Riding Cloak at the back-alley shop in Pailune. The cloak does not appear on the vendor's sale list until the player reaches trust level 100 with that specific merchant, the same hard gate that guards the rest of the shop's high-tier inventory. Once the bar fills, the cloak is a straightforward silver purchase with no further quest chain or boss fight attached.
Why this vendor matters. Before the patch, the cloak slot of the riding set was the one piece that the community had never confidently sourced. Adding it to the Pailune back-alley rotation closes the set and makes the cloak reliably farmable on any save file that has reached the Pailune region. If you are building a horse-focused loadout from scratch post-1.04, Pailune is the destination worth prioritizing even over the Mounts storefront circuit you may already be running.
With the cloak slot now fillable, the recommended approach after Patch 1.04 is to wear the full four-piece Riding Set rather than mixing pieces from other armor lines. The full set is the cloak plus the chest piece (Riding Attire), the Riding Boots, and the Leather Riding Hat. Each piece's tooltip was rewritten in Patch 1.04 so that two stats now appear in plain text on every item, making set-building straightforward even without an external guide.
Tooltip Stat | What It Affects |
|---|---|
Horse Taming Difficulty | Applies when you mount an untamed wild horse and begin the How to Tame Horses minigame. Higher values from stacked Riding Set pieces reduce how aggressively the horse bucks and how tightly you have to follow its cues to keep the taming bar rising. |
Horse XP Gain | Applies while you are riding any mount you already own. Higher values speed up Horse Leveling and accelerate Companion Trust growth with that mount, so every ride moves the horse closer to its level and trust caps faster than default gear allows. |
Because both stats display on every individual piece, you can verify the bonus visually before you commit to a purchase. Hover the cloak in the Pailune merchant's menu, confirm both numbers appear, and compare them against the same numbers on the other three pieces you already own. Every piece of the set reads consistently; any item that omits the two riding stats is not part of the set. This makes it harder to confuse the Riding Cloak with the other cloth cloaks that share visual design cues from the same noble-equestrian wardrobe.
Prioritizing the full set is also the cleanest option for players working through the Horse Guide or chasing entries on the Best Horses list, since the stacked Horse XP Gain bonus compounds across long training rides and the Horse Taming Difficulty reduction is the same bonus whether you are taming a common horse or one of the legendary mounts. If you plan to spend any meaningful time on Mounted Combat after taming, the set stays useful throughout that work because Horse XP Gain continues ticking up while you fight from the saddle.
Earlier sections of this article reference Heidel and the Hills of Noruta when describing the back-alley vendor that sells the Riding Cloak. Those locations belong to a different Pearl Abyss game and do not exist in Crimson Desert. The verified Crimson Desert vendor is the Back Alley Shop at Saddlewind Ranch, east of the Hill of No Return. The cloak is sold by Sunmore once the player reaches +100 Trust with that NPC.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Vendor | Sunmore |
Shop type | |
Location | Saddlewind Ranch, east of the Hill of No Return |
Trust requirement | +100 with Sunmore |
Price | 76.88 Silver Coins |
Trust gift item | Garnet (about 10 are typically enough); Episode, Diamonds, and Azurite also accepted |
Disregard the earlier paragraphs that name Heidel or the Hills of Noruta. The Pailune back-alley vendor mentioned in older sections also does not stock the Riding Cloak; the Saddlewind Ranch vendor is the only confirmed source.
