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Dune: Awakening
The Way Skill Tree and How to Unlock
This guide lists all available skills for The Way Skill Tree in Dune: Awakening. Learn more about The Way skills, their effects, and how many skill points you’ll need to max out the entire tree!
List of Contents
List of The Way Skills
All 9 Skills
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| 1 |
Knee Charge
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You propel yourself forward into battle with a terrific knee charge into the enemy. Deals damage and severely staggers your opponent but costs stamina.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 15 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 50 ・ Poise Damage 100 Lv. 2: ・ Cooldown 12 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 160 ・ Poise Damage 130 Lv. 3: ・ Cooldown 10 ・ Stamina Cost 30 ・ Damage 325 ・ Poise Damage 160 |
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| 2 |
Field Medicine
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You recover more health immediately when using healkits due to your excellent conditioning.
Lv. 1: Healkit Instant Restoration Bonus 10% Lv. 2: Healkit Instant Restoration Bonus 15% Lv. 3: Healkit Instant Restoration Bonus 20% |
| 3 |
Optimized Hydration
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Your body knows how to make optimal use of water, so you have additional stamina reserves when well-hydrated.
Lv. 1: Hydrated Stamina Bonus 15% Lv. 2: Hydrated Stamina Bonus 20% Lv. 3: Hydrated Stamina Bonus 25% |
| 4 |
Crippling Strike
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You move in, striking at a low angle to cut your enemies below the knees. For a while after being hit, your enemies are slowed and their dashes require more stamina. While not the most honorable of attacks, the swordmaster understands that there is a difference between a duel and a war.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 20 ・ Stamina Cost 37.5 ・ Damage 50 ・ Dash Cost Multiplier 2 ・ Duration 7 |
| 5 |
Disciplined Breathing
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When you focus on your technique and breathing, you can recuperate your stamina reserves more quickly.
Lv. 1: Stamina Recovery Rate 10% Lv. 2: Stamina Recovery Rate 15% Lv. 3: Stamina Recovery Rate 20% |
| 6 |
Inspiration
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You inspire yourself and your companions to greater heights, increasing the damage of your melee attacks.
Lv. 1: ・ Cooldown 30 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Duration 14 ・ Blade Damage 25% Lv. 2: ・ Cooldown 25 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Duration 18 ・ Blade Damage 30% Lv. 3: ・ Cooldown 20 ・ Stamina Cost 15 ・ Duration 23 ・ Blade Damage 35% |
| 7 |
General Conditioning
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Your extensive physical training has increased your maximum stamina.
Lv. 1: Max Stamina 15 Lv. 2: Max Stamina 20 Lv. 3: Max Stamina 25 |
| 8 |
Desert Conditioning
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You have trained yourself to deal with the rigors of the deserts, decreasing your max stamina loss while dehydrated.
Lv. 1: Dehydrated Stamina Limit 15% Lv. 2: Dehydrated Stamina Limit 25% Lv. 3: Dehydrated Stamina Limit 35% |
| 9 |
Prescient Strike
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When your blood is saturated with melange, you see multiple ways in which to damage your enemies. After using any swordmaster ability, your next strike will strike twice, reflecting two possible versions of the future converging in a single spacetime. |
It would take 46 Skill Points in total to fully max out The Way Skill Tree.
How to Unlock The Way 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 The Way Skill Tree can be unlocked by allotting a skill point in the Knee Charge 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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