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Dune: Awakening
Mental Calculus Skill Tree and How to Unlock
This guide lists all available skills for the Mental Calculus Skill Tree in Dune: Awakening. Learn more about Mental Calculus skills, their effects, and how many skill points you’ll need to max out the entire tree!
List of Contents
List of Mental Calculus Skills
All 9 Skills
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| 1 |
The Sentinel
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You deploy a suspensor buoyed dart projector that uses motion detection to cover a field of fire. Trigger a second time to activate.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 30 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Duration 15 ・ Damage 25 Lv. 2: ・ Cooldown 25 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Duration 20 ・ Damage 55 Lv. 3: ・ Cooldown 20 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Duration 25 ・ Damage 150 |
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| 2 |
Garment Keeper
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You are able to spot the flaws in any garment and see where it is most likely to tear first. This allows you to reinforce it, preventing wear and tear. Your garments maintain their durability for longer.
Lv. 1: Reduce Durability Loss 15% Lv. 2: Reduce Durability Loss 20% Lv. 3: Reduce Durability Loss 25% |
| 3 |
Ranged Damage (Mentat)
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You use your considerable mental prowess to calculate the most impactful trajectories for your darts - increasing your damage with all ranged weapons.
Lv. 1: Ranged Damage 5% Lv. 2: Ranged Damage 10% Lv. 3: Ranged Damage 15% |
| 4 |
Tailoring
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Your skills with a needle are legendary. Every time you repair a garment, you reduce the maximum durability damage the repair would cause.
Lv. 1: Reduce Max Durability Loss 15% Lv. 2: Reduce Max Durability Loss 20% Lv. 3: Reduce Max Durability Loss 25% |
| 5 |
Marksman
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You are an expert at focusing on the most vulnerable part of the human body, the head. However, your training to hit smaller targets has actually made you worse at putting darts into the center of gravity. Your headshot damage is increased but your body shot damage is decreased.
Lv. 1: ・ Headshot Damage 20% ・ Body Damage -15% Lv. 2: ・ Headshot Damage 25% ・ Body Damage -15% Lv. 3: ・ 30% Headshot Damage ・ -15% Body Damage |
| 6 |
Pistol Damage
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Handfired weapons are usually less lethal the further away they are, but you have used your mental training to optimize your shots. All damage with pistol style weapons such as the Maula Pistol and Rafiq Subnose is increased.
Lv. 1: Pistol Damage 10% Lv. 2: Pistol Damage 15% Lv. 3: Pistol Damage 20% |
| 7 |
Exploit Weakness
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You have learned to observe your enemies and predict their weaknesses based on a thousand minutiae. When you damage an unshielded enemy with a ranged weapon, the hit location becomes a weak point which you can target to increase the damage of subsequent attacks. Only one weak point may be visible at a time.
Lv. 1: ・ Duration 10 ・ Ranged Damage 50% |
| 8 |
Rifle Damage
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Learning to overcome the drop in trajectory that occurs when firing rifles at long range, you have increased your lethality with rifles such as the Karpov 38 and JABAL Spitdart. All damage with these weapons is increased.
Lv. 1: Rifle Damage 10% Lv. 2: Rifle Damage 15% Lv. 3: Rifle Damage 20% |
| 9 |
Shield Overcharge
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When your blood is saturated with the melange, any ranged attack on a shield will reveal a vulnerability in the Holtzman shield. Continual attacks against this vulnerability will overcharge the enemy shield, causing it to drain their power pack more quickly.
Lv. 1: Duration 10 |
It would take 46 Skill Points in total to fully max out the Mental Calculus Skill Tree.
How to Unlock Mental Calculus Skill Tree
Complete the Mentat Quest
If you did not choose this class during Character Creation, talk to the Mentat Trainer and complete their related quest. The Tactical Tech Skill Tree can be unlocked by allotting a skill point in The Sentinel Skill.
Mentat Trainer Locations
Dune: Awakening Related Guides
All Skills by Class
| Class | Skill Trees |
|---|---|
| Bene Gesserit | • Weirding Way
• The Voice • Body Control |
| Mentat | • Mental Calculus
• Assassination • Tactician |
| Planetologist | • Scientist
• Explorer • Mechanic |
| Swordmaster | • The Blade
• The Will • The Way |
| Trooper | • Gunnery
• Suspensor Training • Tactical Tech |
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