STOP STEALING ARTIFACTS! 🛑💎 There’s a way to farm 100+ Abyss Artifacts in MINUTES and it’s actually legal!

Still wasting time pickpocketing nobles for a single artifact? You’re playing in the stone age! 🤡 We just discovered the Tashkal Guard Farm—the absolute fastest way to max out your artifacts by “refilling” your XP gauge. Every time that yellow bar fills up, you get a free artifact, and nothing gives more XP than the elite Tomaso Guards in the Crimson Desert. 🏜️⚔️

Forget the Wildlife Park farm where guards tackle you into jail—in Tashkal, they only want blood, and dying is actually your “Exit Strategy” to clear your bounty for free! 💸✨ From using the Blinding Flash skill to control the crowd, to stacking 90% Aptitude XP gears to double your earnings, we’ve got the full blueprint to turn you into an artifact millionaire.

Want to know the “East-West Pit” rotation that respawns guards instantly? Or why switching to Damian or Una is the secret to bypassing the 100-artifact limit? 😱 Check the full farm guide below! 👇🔥

In the lawless corners of the Crimson Desert, a new kind of “gold rush” is underway. But the currency isn’t silver or gold—it’s Abyss Artifacts. While the common mercenary is still trying to pickpocket nobles for these precious items, the elite player base has moved on to a far more violent and efficient method: the systematic “XP Harvesting” of town guards.

According to viral combat guides from Dombucha Gaming, the town of Tashkal has become the epicenter of this trend, offering the highest concentration of high-XP enemies in Pywel.

The Yellow Gauge Secret: XP Equals Artifacts

The foundation of this farm is the yellow gauge at the bottom left of the screen—the XP bar. In Crimson Desert, every time this bar fills completely, the player is rewarded with one Abyss Artifact [00:11].

While killing civilians yields zero XP as they simply flee, town guards “fight back,” and the Tomaso Guards of Tashkal are reportedly “out of the league” of average players in terms of the experience they provide [00:42]. One elite guard kill can fill a “huge chunk” of the bar instantly.

The ‘East-West Pit’ Rotation

The farm utilizes two specific locations within Tashkal: the East and West Fighting Pits [01:04]. By donning a mask and clearing out the guards in the West Pit, then traveling to the East Pit (via horse or flight), players trigger a respawn mechanic.

“The distance between the two pits is just far enough to reload the NPCs,” experts say [05:08]. “You don’t need loading screens; you just need a fast mount and a sharp blade.”

The Gear Meta: 90% XP Bonuses

To maximize efficiency, veterans are stacking Aptitude Abyss Gears on their armor. These gears provide a direct percentage bonus to XP gain, with some players reaching a staggering 90% to 100% bonus [03:51]. This effectively doubles the number of artifacts earned per hour.

Crowd control is handled through the Blinding Flash finisher skill, which pushes enemies away and allows players to focus on the “Tassel Guards”—the elite variants wearing golden leather armor with long red tassels on their helmets [02:06].

The ‘Jail’ Exit Strategy

Perhaps the most “tabloid” aspect of the farm is how players handle their bounties. In Pywel, the bounty for murder is capped at a surprisingly low 100 silver, regardless of the body count [05:41].

More interestingly, players are using death as a shortcut. Instead of finding a priest to clear their name, players let the guards eventually kill them. Dying in town sends the player to jail, which automatically removes the bounty and resets their status, allowing them to start the next farming session in peace [07:34].

The 100-Artifact Limit

There is, however, a catch: each character has a “soft cap” of 100 artifacts earned via the XP gauge [03:27]. But the community has already found a workaround. By switching from Kliff to Damian or Una, players can farm another 100 artifacts per character, bringing the total “Nuclear Farm” potential to 300 artifacts before the limit resets or hits a hard wall.

The Verdict: Violence Over Stealth

The message from the Crimson Desert underground is clear: stealing is for amateurs. If you want to max out your Hwando and your gear before the next major patch, it’s time to put on your mask, head to Tashkal, and start the most lucrative bloodbath in the game’s history.