The Riding Set is the five-piece riding outfit in Crimson Desert that grants stacked Horse XP Gain and Horse Taming Difficulty bonuses for players focused on raising and taming horses. The set is equippable by Kliff only and consists of five non-upgradeable pieces:
Leather Riding Hat (head)
Riding Attire (chest)
Master Trainer's Touch (gloves)
Riding Boots (boots)
Riding Cloak (cloak)
Set Pieces
Slot | Piece | How to Obtain | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Head | Purchased from Fiona at the Saddlery in Demeniss for 37.18 Silver Coins; requires +100 Trust with Fiona. | +1 Horse XP Gain (added in Patch 1.04.00) | ||
Chest | Reward for completing the Darkhorse Grand Prix race at the Golden Plains in Demeniss. | +1 Horse XP Gain; reduces Horse Taming Difficulty (Whip active skill) | ||
Gloves | Reward for completing the Race in Hernand faction quest for House Serkis. | +1 Horse XP Gain | ||
Boots | Reward for completing the Horse Fair Races faction quest for House Byron in Demeniss. | +1 Horse XP Gain | ||
Cloak | Purchased from the Back Alley Shop at Saddlewind Ranch (east of the Hill of No Return) for 76.88 Silver Coins; requires +100 Trust with Sunmore. | +1 Horse XP Gain; Ice Resistance Lv 3 |
Why Run the Full Set
Each piece carries Horse Taming Difficulty and Horse XP Gain modifiers, both surfaced explicitly on tooltips after Patch 1.04.00. With all five pieces equipped, the +1 Horse XP Gain bonuses stack additively for a +5 total, which noticeably shortens the in-game time required to reach full trust with a horse and to level a horse's skill set.
Stacked Horse XP Gain. The +5 from the full set is the single most cost-effective horse-progression buff currently in the game.
Reduced taming difficulty. The Riding Attire chest piece's Whip active skill plus the set's combined Horse Taming Difficulty modifiers make initial taming attempts more forgiving, especially for the high-tier wild horses found in late-game regions.
Cosmetic cohesion. The five pieces share a visual style; players who care about outfit silhouettes get a clean look without mixing armor families.
Patch 1.04.00 Tooltip Update
Before Patch 1.04.00 only the Riding Attire chest piece displayed its Horse Taming Difficulty bonus explicitly; the other pieces carried their contributions silently. The patch rewrote tooltips on every piece so that two stats now appear in plain view on each item card:
Horse Taming Difficulty, applied during the taming minigame on any untamed wild horse.
Horse XP Gain, applied while riding any mount the player already owns; drives Horse Leveling and Companion Trust progress.
The patch also added +1 Horse XP Gain to the Leather Riding Hat tooltip. Prior to the patch the hat carried no Horse XP Gain value at all, so the set's effective total came only from the cloak, attire chest, gloves, and boots. With the hat update, the full set total moved from +4 to +5 Horse XP Gain.
See Also
Leather Riding Hat - head slot, updated in 1.04.
Riding Attire - chest slot.
Master Trainer's Touch - gloves slot.
Riding Cloak - cloak slot.
Riding Boots - boots slot.
Horse Guide - horse system overview.
Patch 1.04.00 - patch that completed the bonus across all five pieces.