Riding Cloak

Overview

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.

Stats

Refinement

At Refinement Level 0, this item provides the following stats:

The recorded Defense remains 5 at every listed refinement level; higher refinement is not a documented Defense increase for this cloak. Check the actual item before spending materials solely for that purpose.

How to Obtain

This item can be found as loot in the open world or obtained through specific quests and encounters.

Notes

• 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.

See Also

• Cloth Armor - All cloth armor pieces

• Armor - Overview of all armor types

• Refinement System - How to upgrade equipment

• Equipment - Full equipment guide

Riding Cloak Source

Recorded wearers are Kliff and Oongka. The current item record names Sumore at Saddle Black Market and lists Defense 5 at every level, Ice Resistance Lv.3, Stamina Cost -10% and Horse EXP Gain +1. It does not independently settle Sunmore-versus-Sumore spelling, the older 76.88 Silver quote, Garnet count, exact Trust gate, ore respawn timer or shop migration conditions. The multiple Noruta/Pailune/Saddlewind location paragraphs below remain conflicting historical reports; the separate +1 Horse EXP effect does not prove a horse-Trust formula.

The Riding Cloak is the cloak slot of the larger equestrian riding set, but the earlier quest-only speculation is superseded by a named Sumore at Saddle Black Market vendor record. That seller reference does not independently settle the exact first-stock gate or all older location and price reports below.

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.

Place in the Riding Attire Set

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. The cloak records +1 Horse EXP Gain. Treat the older trust-XP terminology and additive stacking formula as unverified interactions rather than synonyms for that explicit effect.

Expected Stacking Effect

Earlier build reports expected adding the cloak to the gloves, boots, chest and hat to shorten horse leveling to under a minute for level 1 to 2, versus a five-to-six-times longer default ride. Those timings and stacking arithmetic are not established by the recorded +1 Horse EXP Gain effect; do not read the five-piece recommendation as a verified multiplier.

Related Pages

Riding Attire, Master Trainer's Touch, Riding Boots, Leather Riding Hat, Horse Leveling.

Patch 1.04 Availability

Earlier Patch 1.04 availability reports placed the Riding Cloak among additions to a Back Alley Shop vendor. The primary notice confirms additional shop outfits generally, but does not name this cloak or establish the older missing-at-launch narrative, rotating stock or universal Trust threshold.

An older, internally corrected location report named the Hills of Noruta area near Hernand. The correction later in this article rejects that location. Keep it as a superseded report rather than following it as a current route; check the exact seller and actual stock list instead.

The cloak records +1 Horse Leveling effect and Ice Resistance Lv.3, plus Stamina Cost -10%. The record does not independently date when those effects or the shop route were added.

How to Purchase

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 Hernand.

• 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 Farming Tips

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.

Related Back Alley Shop Gear

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 Acquisition

A second older Patch 1.04 report named a back-alley shop in Pailune. It conflicts with the Saddlewind Ranch correction below; the item record names Sumore at Saddle Black Market but does not verify the earlier Pailune route, universal Trust 100 gate or current currency price.

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.

Recommended Post-1.04 Path: Full Riding Set

An older four-piece recommendation uses the cloak plus the chest piece (Riding Attire), the Riding Boots, and the Leather Riding Hat. It omits Master Trainer's Touch from the five-piece list above. Treat those as different loadout recommendations, not proof of an exhaustive set count or a Patch 1.04 rewrite of every tooltip.

The cloak record explicitly lists Horse EXP Gain +1 but not the Horse Taming Difficulty line attributed to every piece in the older table. Check each item's current tooltip; the older table and universal set-identity rule are not independently confirmed, and the Pailune vendor report remains inconsistent with the later correction.

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.

Correction (2026-04-29)

Earlier sections of this article reference 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.

Verified Vendor Details

Disregard the earlier paragraphs that name 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.