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Dune: Awakening
Shotgun Trooper Build
This Shotgun Trooper build excels at single target damage for swift kills and offers excellent mobility, allowing you to engage enemies from any angle. Check out the Shotgun Trooper build, skills, loadouts and playstyle in this guide!
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This build is made for late-game Hagga Basin. Stay tuned for Deep Desert build updates! |
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List of Contents
Shotgun Trooper Build Guide
Build Summary
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 Shotgun TrooperUP |
A mobile Trooper build optimized with suspensors for agile traversal and equipped with long range weaponrs to swiftly eliminate enemies. Focus: Mobile, Multi-Target |
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Shigawire Claw Shigawire Claw 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.
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Collapse Grenade Collapse Grenade 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.
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Energy Capsule 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.
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Battle Hardened Battle Hardened 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.
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Suspensor Dash Suspensor Dash Your training with suspensors allows you to manipulate your flow of movement. Press the Dash button while suspended to perform a mid-air dash.
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Death From Above Death From Above While you are suspended in the air, any attacks using weapons will have a damage bonus.
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 High mobility Can reach elevated areas quickly Highly effective in early game PvE Weak against shielded enemies Requires Utility Belt to work properly |
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This Shotgun Trooper build excels in vertical mobility and single target damage, allowing you to pick off unsuspecting enemies from a distance. Your ability to engage from any angle makes it one of the strongest early game options while exploring Hagga Basin South.
| Date | Changes |
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| 06/06/25 | ・Build Created |
| 06/14/25 | ・Added House Burst Drillshot, Piter's Disruptor, and Kharet Viper for late-game build ・Replaced Slaver Heavy Armor set with Acheronian Set ・Replaced The Emperor’s Wings Mk1 with Full Suspensor Belt ・Renamed Mobile Trooper to Shotgun Trooper |
Best Skills
| Class | Skill Trees |
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Skill Tree:
Gunnery
Ranged Damage (Trooper) Ranged Damage (Trooper) Your time spent practicing your aim leads to bonus damage using all ranged weapons.
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Center of Mass 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.
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Field Maintenance Field Maintenance You know how to strip down and clean your weaponry, slowing the durability cost of firing weapons and tools in hostile environments.
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Gunsmith Gunsmith Your are skilled in the repair of weapons and tools, reducing the maximum durability cost of each repair.
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Disruptor Damage 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.
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Scattergun Damage 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.
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Energy Capsule 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.
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Skill Tree:
Suspensor Training
Anti-Gravity Field Anti-Gravity Field 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.
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Suspensor Dash Suspensor Dash Your training with suspensors allows you to manipulate your flow of movement. Press the Dash button while suspended to perform a mid-air dash.
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Suspensor Efficiency Suspensor Efficiency 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.
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Death From Above Death From Above While you are suspended in the air, any attacks using weapons will have a damage bonus.
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Skill Tree:
Tactical Tech
Shigawire Claw Shigawire Claw 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.
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Battle Hardened Battle Hardened 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.
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| Planetologist |
Skill Tree:
Explorer
Suspensor Pad Suspensor Pad Drop a suspensor device that launches yourself (and targets) into the air. Useful for navigation and traversal.
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Skill Tree:
Scientist
Cutteray Mining Cutteray Mining Your understanding of structural and mineral composition leads to an increase in the resource yield when using a cutteray.
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Rerouting Rerouting Tinkering with your power pack allows you to increase the recharge rate.
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Overcharge Overcharge You have learned to push your power pack beyond its limits, allowing you to increase the maximum power capacity.
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| Mentat |
Skill Tree:
Mental Calculus
The Sentinel The Sentinel You deploy a suspensor buoyed dart projector that uses motion detection to cover a field of fire. Trigger a second time to activate.
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Ranged Damage (Mentat) Ranged Damage (Mentat) You use your considerable mental prowess to calculate the most impactful trajectories for your darts - increasing your damage with all ranged weapons.
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Pistol Damage Pistol Damage 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.
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Rifle Damage Rifle Damage 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.
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Garment Keeper Garment Keeper 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.
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Tailoring Tailoring Your skills with a needle are legendary. Every time you repair a garment, you reduce the maximum durability damage the repair would cause.
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For this build, invest your skill points in the Suspensor Training Skill Tree, unlocking both Suspensor Dash and Death from Above. These provide enhanced mobility and bonus damage while airborne. Pair this with damage passives from the Gunnery Skill Tree and Mental Calculus Skill Tree to increase your damage output.
Your second ability should be the Planetologist's Suspensor Pad from the Explorer Skill Tree, which will be your main ability when launching yourself into combat or hard-to-reach areas. Pair this with your starting ability, Shigawire Claw, to easily navigate the map. Continue building the Scientist Skill Tree to improve your power pack, increasing suspensor belt use.
Once you have your third skill slot after completing The Fourth Trial of Aql, complete the quest related to the Advanced Trooper Trainer so you can unlock Energy Capsule.
When engaging in fights, you can swap out Suspensor Pad with Collapse Grenade to clump enemies together. This is especially useful when paired with Scrubber, a rifle that provides AoE damage upon impact.
Best Weapons
| Type | Weapons |
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| Guns |  Adept Burst Drillshot Adept Burst Drillshot Damage: 87.1 per shot
Rate of Fire: 68 RPM Clip Size: 4 Effective Range: 54m Accuracy: 0.32 Stability: 2.2
Scrubber Scrubber Damage: 68.5 per shot
Rate of Fire: 307 RPM Clip Size: 45 Effective Range: 52m Accuracy: 0.40 Stability: 1.4 |
| Melee |  Kharet Viper Kharet Viper Damage:
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This build takes a scattergun-focused approach, using the Scrubber for ranged AoE damage and the Adept Burst Drillshot to deal with shielded enemies. If you run out of darts, use a Kharet Viper to penetrate shields and inflict poison damage to all enemies in your way.
You can use a Standard Karpov 38 and Legion Tattoo in the early game as you progress and level up. For melee options, you can use a Standard Sword to get used to melee combat.
Best Armor and Tools
| Type | Equipment |
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| Head |  Mendek’s Helmet Mendek’s Helmet Armor Value:
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| Chest | Advanced Suspensor Jacket |
| Arms |  Mendek’s Gauntlets Mendek’s Gauntlets Armor Value: 213
Heat Protection: 0.0 |
| Pants |  Mendek’s Pants Mendek’s Pants Armor Value: 283
Heat Protection: 0 |
| Feet |  Mendek’s Boots Mendek’s Boots Armor Value:
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| Shield |  Holtzman Shield Mk5 Holtzman Shield Mk5 Old Imperial origin. Deflects projectiles when active. Melee circumvents shields. Deflections drain shield energy. Activate by holding the shield input for a bit. Can be recharged with a power pack.
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| Belt |  Full Suspensor Belt Full Suspensor Belt Removes gravity’s influence on the user while active, allowing for extending traversal in any vertical direction. Depletes power from a Power Pack when in use. Old Imperial origin.
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These Unique Heavy Armor pieces all boost your Suspensor Belt use, along with Light and Heavy Dart damage mitigation. The Blade Mitigation light armor provides will not be as significant since you must be able to be mobile enough not to get hit.
In the early game, your best option is to craft the Slaver Heavy Armor Set as you progress through the map.
How to Play Shotgun Trooper
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Attack Aggressively
This build allows you to consistently attack from any direction, gunning down any enemy in sight. Take full advantage of your shotgun's damage by utilizing your mobility and making sure enemies are within range.
Use Your Abilities for Mobility
By combining the Shigawire Claw and Suspensor Pad, you can navigate the desert quickly and efficiently. Be sure to use these abilities not just in combat, but also to explore hard to reach areas and traverse terrain with ease.
Eliminate Enemies Mid-Air
With this unique belt and your abilities, you will be able to glide slowly through the air and pick off enemies from a distance. This gives you the freedom to engage scavenger camps from any direction.
- Use your Suspensor Pad to engage enemies.
- Activate your belt and glide slowly toward the enemy while firing from mid-air.
- Reposition with the Shigawire Claw to retreat or find a better angle once you have engaged.
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