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Dune: Awakening
Trooper Class Guide
The Trooper is one of five playable classes in Dune: Awakening that focuses on offense and demolition. Learn more about the Trooper, their skills and mechanics, and whether to start with this class!
| All Trooper Guides | |
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| Shotgun Trooper Build | Trooper Class Guide |
Trooper Overview
Starting Ability, Focus, and Description
| Trooper | |
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| Starting Ability | Shigawire Claw |
| Focus | Offense & Demolition |
| Skill Trees | |
| Gunnery | Focuses on improving the damage and utility of ranged weapons |
| Suspensor Training | Provides buffs towards mobility and crowd control through your Suspensor and gravity devices |
| Tactical Tech | Provides mainly support-oriented skills and passives such as shorter cooldowns and grenade utility |
Every Great House of the Landsraad fields its own standing army or House Guard, and the backone of these formations are career soldiers known as troopers.
All Trooper Skills
Gunnery Skill Tree
| Gunnery | Suspensor Training | Tactical Tech |
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| 1 |
Ranged Damage (Trooper)
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Your time spent practicing your aim leads to bonus damage using all ranged weapons.
Lv. 1: Ranged Damage 5% Lv. 2: Ranged Damage 10% Lv. 3: Ranged Damage 15% |
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| 2 |
Disruptor Damage
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Using steady hands you are able to guide the disruptor's rapid fire darts more effectively to their target, thus increasing your damage.
Lv. 1: Disruptor Damage 10% Lv. 2: Disruptor Damage 15% Lv. 3: Disruptor Damage 20% |
| 3 |
Center of Mass
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You've been taught to shoot where you are most likely to hit and you do it by instinct - increasing damage that hits the body, but reducing your damage via headshots.
Lv. 1: ・ Body Damage 20% ・ Headshot Damage -15% Lv. 2: ・ Body Damage 25% ・ Headshot Damage -15% Lv. 3: ・ Body Damage 30% ・ Headshot Damage -15% |
| 4 |
Underslung Agility
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You have trained yourself to move faster while using heavy weapons such as the Flamethrower, Lasgun, or Vulcan GAU-92.
Lv. 1: Movement Penalty Reduced to 60% Lv. 2: Movement Penalty Reduced to 40% Lv. 3: Movement Penalty Reduced to 25% |
| 5 |
Scattergun Damage
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You have mastered the spread patterns of the pellet firing GRDA 44 and Drillshot FK7 scatterguns, thus improving your damage with these weapons.
Lv. 1: Scattergun Damage Lv. 2: Scattergun Damage 15% Lv. 3: Scattergun Damage 20% |
| 6 |
Field Maintenance
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You know how to strip down and clean your weaponry, slowing the durability cost of firing weapons and tools in hostile environments.
Lv. 1: Reduce Durability Loss 15% Lv. 2: Reduce Durability Loss 20% Lv. 3: Reduce Durability Loss 25% |
| 7 |
Heavy Weapon Damage
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The bigger the gun, the bigger the mess. Your skill with heavy weapons such as the Flamethrower, Lasgun and Vulcan GAU-92 leads to more damage when you use them.
Lv. 1: Heavy Weapon Damage 10% Lv. 2: Heavy Weapon Damage 15% Lv. 3: Heavy Weapon Damage 20% |
| 8 |
Gunsmith
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Your are skilled in the repair of weapons and tools, reducing the maximum durability cost of each repair.
Lv. 1: Reduce Max Durability Loss 15% Lv. 2: Reduce Max Durability Loss 20% Lv. 3: Reduce Max Durability Loss 25% |
| 9 |
Energy Capsule
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You pop an energy capsule, which fills you with concoction of neurostimulants and pain dampeners. You become detached, allowing better targeting and ranged damage.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 25 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Duration 10 ・ Ranged Damage 50% |
Gunnery Skill Tree and How to Unlock
Suspensor Training Skill Tree
| Gunnery | Suspensor Training | Tactical Tech |
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| 1 |
Anti-Gravity Field
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This device, when thrown, uses a modified secondary phase Holtzman field to negate the effect of gravity in a spherical area. You can use the sphere to lift enemies or prevent fall damage during traversal.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 25 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Duration 12 |
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| 2 |
Suspensor Dash
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Your training with suspensors allows you to manipulate your flow of movement. Press the Dash button while suspended to perform a mid-air dash.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 2 ・ Suspensor Power Drain 75 |
| 3 |
Gravity Field
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This device, when thrown, uses a modified secondary phase Holtzman field to amplify the effect of gravity in a spherical area. You can use the sphere to slow enemies and drain their power or decrease the speed of projectiles.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 30 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Duration 8 ・ Power Drain 2% |
| 4 |
Suspensor Efficiency
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Your practice with the suspensor has taught you how to position yourself in the air to remain aerodynamic - reducing the power drain on your suspensor belts.
Lv. 1: Suspensor Power Drain -10% Lv. 2: Suspensor Power Drain -15% Lv. 3: Suspensor Power Drain -20% |
| 5 |
Death From Above
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While you are suspended in the air, any attacks using weapons will have a damage bonus.
Lv. 1: Damage While Suspended 25% Lv. 2: Damage While Suspended 32% Lv. 3: Damage While Suspended 40% |
| 6 |
Collapse Grenade
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This device, when thrown, uses a modified secondary phase Holtzman field to attract anybody in a spherical area. Those inside the sphere area drawn together and temporarily stunned, leaving them open to your area of effect attacks.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 35 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Duration 1 |
| 7 |
Suspensor Blast
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You manipulate the suspensor field generated by your suspensor belt - forcing it to explode around you with extreme force, pushing enemies back, damaging them, and impairing their movement for a short time. You can hold the ability to increase the damage dealt and time the blast release.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 20 ・ Damage 35 ・ Duration 6 |
Suspensor Training Skill Tree and How to Unlock
Tactical Tech Skill Tree
| Gunnery | Suspensor Training | Tactical Tech |
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| 1 |
Shigawire Claw
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You use a wrist-mounted launcher to fire off a claw attached to a cable of shigawire. The extreme tensile strength of shigawire launches you in the direction of the cable. It can also be used to stagger opponents during combat.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown (Terrain) 8 ・ Cooldown (Enemy) 25 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Range 1.800 Lv. 2: ・ Cooldown (Terrain) 8 ・ Cooldown (Enemy) 25 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Range 2.160 Lv. 3: ・ Cooldown (Terrain) 8 ・ Cooldown (Enemy) 25 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Range 2.520 |
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| 2 |
Explosive Grenade
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You throw a grenade with an explosive core that detonates in spray of shrapnel, damaging anybody within the radius. Though the shrapnel is incapable of penetrating a shield, the shockwave of the blast can still stagger a shielded enemy.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 20 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 75 Lv. 2: ・ Cooldown 18 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 240 Lv. 3: ・ Cooldown 16 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 490 |
| 3 |
Battle Hardened
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The inexperienced and untrained with flinch in the heat of battle, panicked and unable to remember their basic training. Trooper training prepares you for the realities of combat and allows you to use your abilities more often.
Lv. 1: Ability Cooldowns -20% Lv. 2: Ability Cooldowns -25% Lv. 3: Ability Cooldowns -30% |
| 4 |
Assault Seeker
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A modified hunter seeker that will fly in a direct line and explode upon impact with anything. Can be triggered to explode with a second activation. Useful for situations where a thrown grenade is not precise enough.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 22 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 80 ・ Range 2.000 Lv. 2: ・ Cooldown 20 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 250 ・ Range 2.500 Lv. 3: ・ Cooldown 18 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 550 ・ Range 3.000 |
| 5 |
Attractor Field
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Originally used as a training device to offset poor aim, the Attractor Field uses a modified Holtzman field to draw attacks towards it's center. Attach it to an enemy and any shot fired into the field will redirect into their center of mass.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 25 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Duration 8 |
| 6 |
Reflexive Reload
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When your blood is saturated with the melange, the actions that you have performed a thousand times become effortless. Whenever you throw a grenade or drop a mine, you instantly reload your current weapon - your hands moving before your mind can even think. |
Tactical Tech Skill Tree and How to Unlock
Trooper Gameplay
Mobile Gunplay
The Trooper’s Skill Trees focus on dynamic movement and gunplay. Pairing your movement with rapid-fire ranged weapons or shotguns allow you to take on multiple enemies in close range.
Additionally, you gain access to various grenades and deployable machinery designed to disrupt enemy movement and control the battlefield.
Trooper Tips
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Movement Is Your Best Weapon
The Trooper thrives most when leveraging your movement to defeat enemies. Use your Shigawire Claw to outmaneuver enemies and swiftly navigate the map, gaining quick access to strategic positions.
It can also be paired with other movement abilities such as the Swordmaster's Knee Charge and Planetologist's Suspensor Pad to further improve mobility.
Collect Salvaged Metal For Light Darts
The Trooper can go through ammunition quickly. Make sure to collect all the Salvaged Metal you can, especially in the early game, to make sure you can always craft more darts.
You Can Go Up Close
Unlike your ranged counterpart, the Mentat, Troopers can use a run-and-gun playstyle wherein you charge into battle, guns blazing.
Explore Different Guns
The Trooper has access to a variety of weapons that can aid in close-ranged gunfights. Explore different types of weapons and stick to what works best for you!
Should You Start with Trooper?
Great Starting Class for Beginners
This class has a fairly straightforward playstyle. It is a great starting class for beginners, providing a solid foundation to build on other classes. Its run-and-gun archetype also gives beginners a decent margin of error, as the class can specifically boost body shot damage with ranged weapons. The starting skill, Shigawire Claw, is a great mobility tool to initiate or escape fights.
While the starting skill offers great utility early on, the quest to unlock the Trooper Skill Trees becomes available fairly early in the game. Thus, you will not miss out on much if you choose another starting class that better suits your preferred playstyle.
Dune: Awakening Related Guides
List of All Classes
 Bene Gesserit |
 Mentat |
 Planetologist |
 Swordmaster |
| Trooper |
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