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Gunnery Skill Tree and How to Unlock

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This guide lists all available skills for the Gunnery Skill Tree in Dune: Awakening. Learn more about Gunnery skills, their effects, and how many skill points you’ll need to max out the entire tree!

List of Gunnery Skills

All 9 Skills

1 Ranged Damage (Trooper) Icon Ranged Damage (Trooper) 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%
2 Disruptor Damage Icon Disruptor Damage 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 Icon Center of Mass 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 Icon Underslung Agility 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 Icon Scattergun Damage 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 Icon Field Maintenance 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 Icon Heavy Weapon Damage 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 Icon Gunsmith 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 Icon Energy Capsule 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%

It would take 50 Skill Points in total to fully max out the Gunnery Skill Tree.

How to Unlock Gunnery Skill Tree

Complete the Trooper Quest

If you did not choose this class during Character Creation, talk to the Trooper Trainer and complete their related quest. The Gunnery Skill Tree can be unlocked by allotting a skill point in the Ranged Damage (Trooper) Skill.

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