Your ticket — er, token — for free gear upgrades
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Crimson Desert’s refinement tokens are useful items when you’re just starting out or get some shiny new gear. But if you weren’t paying attention to patch notes, you might have a bunch of them and not even know what they’re for (or how to get more). While refinement tokens are definitely a nice way to save on resources, you should hold onto them for a little while and not spend them right away.
Below, we explain how to get refinement tokens in Crimson Desert and what to use them for.
How to get refinement tokens in Crimson Desert
In our experience, you’ll earn refinement tokens by completing these quests:
- Awestruck (Chapter 2)
- Cheers Echoing from the Edge (Chapter 2)
- Demenissian Delegation (Chapter 5)
If you played Crimson Desert in the week following its March 19 release, but haven’t picked it up since then, you’ll automatically get tokens you would’ve earned after finishing the quests.
What to use refinement tokens for in Crimson Desert
Refinement tokens let you refine a weapon, tool, or piece of armor without having to spend refinement materials. Visit the smithy, opt to refine something like normal, and then select a piece of gear you want to improve. In our experience, refinement tokens work for any piece of equipment that you can improve, so there are, seemingly, no limitations on what you can use them for. Each refinement process costs one token, no matter what level your piece of gear is at.
Refinement tokens only work up to refinement level five (that’s five little bars filled in the refinement meter). After that, you can’t use them and have to fork over refinement materials like copper and other ore. Since refinement costs are comparatively low for the first few levels, we recommend not spending your tokens until you’re ready to take a piece of gear from refinement level 3 to level 4 or from level 4 to 5. That way, you’ll get to conserve more of your materials and still get the same final result.
Crimson Desert will default to using refinement tokens as payment if you have them, so if you don’t want to spend them, check carefully to make sure you’re handing over materials and not tokens.
For more help in Crimson Desert, check out our Dragon Stone Chamber puzzle solution guide, along with how to clear the fog from Crimson Desert’s map. We’ve also got tips for tracking down the Blix bounty and Bianca bounty, if you’re struggling with those.
