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Dune: Awakening
The Blade Skill Tree and How to Unlock
This guide lists all available skills for The Blade Skill Tree in Dune: Awakening. Learn more about The Blade skills, their effects, and how many skill points you’ll need to max out the entire tree!
List of Contents
List of The Blade Skills
All 7 Skills
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| 1 |
Blade Damage (Swordmaster)
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You've learned the difference between a cut and a slice, a point and an edge. You do more damage with bladed weapons.
Lv. 1: Blade Damage 5% Lv. 2: Blade Damage 10% Lv. 3: Blade Damage 15% |
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| 2 |
Dance of Blades
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Defeating an enemy with a blade empowers your next attack with the blade for a brief period. The skilled swordmaster dances between opponents, keeping their damage high.
Lv. 1: ・ Damage Boost 30% ・ Duration 4 Lv. 2: ・ Damage Boost 40% ・ Duration 4 Lv. 3: ・ Damage Boost 50% ・ Duration 4 |
| 3 |
Retaliate
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You enter a heightened state of awareness and when next attacked in melee, you parry and counterattack with a savage riposte that bleeds and damages your enemy.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 12 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Weapon Damage 120% ・ Bleed 4 ・ Duration 6 |
| 4 |
Long Blade Damage
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You training with long blades such as swords and rapiers gives you increased damage with those weapons.
Lv. 1: Long Blade Damage 10% Lv. 2: Long Blade Damage 15% Lv. 3: Long Blade Damage 20% |
| 5 |
Eye of the Storm
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You pirouette with your blade, becoming a whirlwind of piercing damage that cuts everything around you. While seemingly chaotic, the swordmaster maintains calm - the eye at the heart of the storm.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 20 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 20 Lv. 2: ・ Cooldown 18 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 65 Lv. 3: ・ Cooldown 16 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 140 |
| 6 |
Foil
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You enter a heightened state of awareness and when next attacked in melee, you parry and counterattack with a precise strike that damages their arm and numbs them. For a short period of time, their damage output is reduced.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 12 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Weapon Damage 120% ・ Enemy Damage -50% ・ Duration 10 |
| 7 |
Precise Parry
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When your blood is infused with melange, your parries expose additional weaknesses in the defense of your enemies. Their ability to mitigate damage is decreased.
Lv. 1: Damage Mitigation -25% Lv. 2: Damage Mitigation -35% Lv. 3: Damage Mitigation -40% |
It would take 34 Skill Points in total to fully max out The Blade Skill Tree.
How to Unlock The Blade Skill Tree
Complete the Swordmaster Quest
If you did not choose this class during Character Creation, talk to the Swordmaster Trainer and complete their related quest. The Blade Skill Tree can be unlocked by allotting a skill point in the Blade Damage Skill.
Swordmaster 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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