We’ll explain how to get the consumable items, Dragon Claw Horn and Narima’s Horn, that either reduce or outright reset the cooldown on calling in Blackstar in Crimson Desert.
You first meet Blackstar the Dragon during Chapter IX: The Sage of the Desert, but you don’t unlock the ability to summon him until the end of Chapter XI: Truth and Reality.
The dragon is super powerful, enabling you to wipe out entire Forts in a matter of minutes, but he disappears 10 minutes after you summoned him, regardless of whether he has remaining health or you were actually flying with him.
Once he despawns, Blackstar goes on cooldown for 70 minutes, again, regardless of his remaining health.
Thankfully, there are 2 consumable items you can use to reduce or completely reset the cooldown on using the dragon in Crimson Desert.
Dragon Claw Horn
Dragon Claw HornThe Dragon Claw Horn reduces the active cooldown on summoning Blackstar by 10 minutes, so it takes 7 Dragon Claw Horns to reset the cooldown on summoning the dragon.
You can send out 8 of your fellow Greymanes on a Crafting Mission to Tinkerton Dig Site in the center of Delesyia to get you 3 Dragon Claw Horns.
The mission requires 8 workers including one with the Crafting skill, takes 24 in-game hours to complete and costs the following Camp Currencies:
- 1,200 Weapons
- 1,000 Stone
- 3,200 Timber
- 14,000 Food
- 17,000 Copper
Dragon Claw Horns also have a chance to drop as the reward from Medium Bags once you have the maximum 240 inventory slots. You always receive a Medium Bag as a reward for any of the region’s Commission side quests, like Merchant Requests that get put up on signboards.
If you really love flying around and immolating Pywel with Blackstar, you might consider saving up a bunch Medium Bags and save scumming until you get what you want.
Save scumming is the practice of saving right before doing something that has a random chance to occur or unknown outcomes of consequence, like a random loot drop or dialogue choice.
Employing this strategy to get more Dragon Claw Horns is time consuming for limited gain, so we don’t recommend it.
Narima’s Horn
Narima’s HornNarima’s Horn is a consumable that completely resets the cooldown on summoning the dragon, and it’s craftable! Unfortunately, there isn’t a surefire way to get the recipe.
You can’t Improvise like you can with Cooking or Alchemy, either, because you’ll need to enlist the help of a Witch to craft Narima’s Horn. I guess they aren’t interested in performing magical experiments with witchcraft at the behest of mortals…
Be sure to build up a stockpile of Dragon Claw Horns using the Dragon Claw Horn Production Mission. You’ll need them to craft Narima’s Horns, which requires the following ingredients:
- Dragon Claw Horn x3
- Stalactite x1
- Feather x2
Each time your Greymanes complete an Exploration Mission, there is a small chance that they come back with a random Crafting Blueprint that you don’t have, and one of those can be for Narima’s Horn.
Exploration Missions are expensive, labor-intensive, time-consuming missions that yield specific, rare rewards. They’re only practical to repeat when you have a solid grasp on missions or have built a bunch of Grey-0 Mechs at Marni’s Mechworks.
Send your crew out on as many Exploration Missions as possible to maximize your chances.
You can try Save Scumming by saving right before the task is set to complete and reloading until you get the Blueprint, but this is a time-intensive process. If you’re on PC, you’re better off just downloading a mod that removes the cooldown outright.
It’s possible that Pearl Abyss could change how you acquire the Blueprint for Narima’s Horn in the future because it’s problematic to have it (and so many Abyss Gear Blueprints) so randomly inaccessible like this, but I doubt they’ll eliminate the cooldown entirely.
