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Dune: Awakening
Duelist Swordmaster PvP Build
Duelist Swordmaster excels in overpowering and outlasting enemies in melee combat with continuous swings and slashes. Check out the Duelist Swordmaster build, skills, loadouts and playstyle in this guide!
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Duelist Swordmaster Build Guide
Build Summary
| Build Summary | ||
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 Duelist SwordmasterNEW |
The Duelist Swordmaster focuses on isolating and stunning enemies in one on one combat. It takes advantage of high stamina to relentlessly pursue enemies, making it difficult for them to create distance. Focus: Mobile, 1v1 Combat, High Stamina |
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| Abilities | ||
Knee Charge Knee Charge You propel yourself forward into battle with a terrific knee charge into the enemy. Deals damage and severely staggers your opponent but costs stamina.
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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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Eye of the Storm Eye of the Storm 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.
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| Techniques | ||
Thrive on Danger Thrive on Danger When you are low on health, you regenerate health faster, receive less poise damage, and reduce all stamina costs for actions.
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Disciplined Breathing Disciplined Breathing When you focus on your technique and breathing, you can recuperate your stamina reserves more quickly.
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Manipulate Instability Manipulate Instability Once an enemy is stunned, staggered, or knocked back, you strike in vulnerable nerve endings to cause more damage.
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 Highly durable thanks to passive abilities Strong against shielded enemies Very Strong in Melee Range Relies on melee attacks |
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This build excels in melee combat, combining relentless slashes with mobility to quickly close gaps and cut down any enemy.
| Date | Changes |
|---|---|
| 06/30/25 | ・Build Created |
Best Skills
| Class | Skill Trees |
|---|---|
| Swordmaster |
Skill Tree:
The Blade
Blade Damage (Swordmaster) Blade Damage (Swordmaster) You've learned the difference between a cut and a slice, a point and an edge. You do more damage with bladed weapons.
(3/3)┗
Dance of Blades Dance of Blades 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.
(1/3) ┗
Long Blade Damage Long Blade Damage You training with long blades such as swords and rapiers gives you increased damage with those weapons.
(3/3) ┗
Eye of the Storm Eye of the Storm 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.
(3/3) ┗
Precise Parry Precise Parry 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.
(3/3) |
Skill Tree:
The Will
Deflection Deflection You enter a defensive stance, deflecting darts that are fired at you. This ability lasts as long as your stamina holds out.
(1/1)┗
Bleed Tolerance Bleed Tolerance You have become harder to bleed due to a combination of training and resistance. Bleeding status takes a longer time to build on you.
(3/3) ┗
Solid Stance Solid Stance As your training increases, you have learned to avoid being knocked around by enemy attacks. You can take more poise damage before being staggered.
(3/3) ┗
Thrive on Danger Thrive on Danger When you are low on health, you regenerate health faster, receive less poise damage, and reduce all stamina costs for actions.
(1/1) ┗
Confidence Confidence Every time you attempt a difficult attack like a sprint attack or a slow blade, you gain increased confidence, which reflects as damage mitigation.
(3/3) |
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Skill Tree:
The Way
Knee Charge Knee Charge You propel yourself forward into battle with a terrific knee charge into the enemy. Deals damage and severely staggers your opponent but costs stamina.
(3/3)┗
Field Medicine Field Medicine You recover more health immediately when using healkits due to your excellent conditioning.
(3/3) ┗
Optimized Hydration Optimized Hydration Your body knows how to make optimal use of water, so you have additional stamina reserves when well-hydrated.
(3/3) ┗
Disciplined Breathing Disciplined Breathing When you focus on your technique and breathing, you can recuperate your stamina reserves more quickly.
(3/3) ┗
General Conditioning General Conditioning Your extensive physical training has increased your maximum stamina.
(3/3) ┗
Desert Conditioning Desert Conditioning You have trained yourself to deal with the rigors of the deserts, decreasing your max stamina loss while dehydrated.
(3/3) ┗
Prescient Strike Prescient Strike 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.
(1/1) |
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| Trooper |
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.
(1/1)┗
Gravity Field Gravity Field This device, when thrown, uses a modified secondary phase Holtzman field to amplify the effect of gravity in a spherical area. You can use the sphere to slow enemies and drain their power or decrease the speed of projectiles.
(1/1) ┗
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.
(3/3) |
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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.
(3/3) |
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| Planetologist |
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.
(1/3)┗
Rerouting Rerouting Tinkering with your power pack allows you to increase the recharge rate.
(3/3) ┗
Overcharge Overcharge You have learned to push your power pack beyond its limits, allowing you to increase the maximum power capacity.
(3/3) |
| Bene Gesserit |
Skill Tree:
Weirding Way
Bindu Sprint Bindu Sprint You override your nervous system and musculature with an immense surge of activity, allowing you to run forward at an incredible speed.
(1/3)┗
Manipulate Instability Manipulate Instability Once an enemy is stunned, staggered, or knocked back, you strike in vulnerable nerve endings to cause more damage.
(3/3) ┗
Blade Damage (Bene Gesserit) Blade Damage (Bene Gesserit) You know exactly where and how to strike with a blade to cause additional damage.
(3/3) |
Skill Tree:
Body Control
Recovery Recovery You are able to heal your body more effectively after suffering catastrophic injury - regenerating your health to a higher threshold than normal.
(3/3)┗
Sun Tolerance Sun Tolerance You are able to slow the effects of direct sun exposure on Arrakis by altering minor chemical reactions orruring in the layers of your own skin, thereby reduing the rate of Sunstroke buildup.
(3/3) ┗
Self-Healing Self-Healing You are strongly in touch with your own nervous and immune systems and are able to boost any healing that you perform yourself.
(3/3) ┗
Trauma Recovery Trauma Recovery You can use your own body to effectively heal catastrophic damage - improving both the rate at which healing occurs and the amount.
(1/3) ┗
Vitality Vitality Through careful tuning of your internal enzyme balance and musculature,you can increase your overall health.
(3/3) |
It wiil take a total of 199 Skill Points to complete the skill trees above. This build revolves around maximizing long blade damage while balancing survivability. Knee Charge and Shigawire Claw are going to be your main initiating abilities, while Eye of the Storm Skill Effect can be used when surrounded. Lastly, Disciplined Breathing is particularly important for outlasting your enemies in combat.
Best Weapons
| Type | Weapons |
|---|---|
| Guns | Penetrator |
| Melee | Replica Pulse-sword |
The Replica Pulse-sword is the best long blade for this build, as it encourages a parry-heavy playstyle and is incredibly effective in outlasting any enemy in melee combat. As a precaution, you can use a Penetrator scattergun to deal with multiple shielded enemies.
Best Armor and Tools
| Type | Equipment |
|---|---|
| Head | Pincushion Helmet |
| Chest | Pincushion Chestpiece |
| Arms | Pincushion Gauntlets |
| Pants | Pincushion Pants |
| Feet | Pincushion Boots |
| Shield | Adaptive Holtzman Shield |
| Power Pack |  Power Pack Mk6 Power Pack Mk6 The first generation of power packs were quite unstable and had a unfortunate habit of blowing its user to smithereens. The design has since been improved to ensure this happens quite rarely now.
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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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Equipping Light Armor such as the Pincushion Light Armor Set is ideal for melee builds since it can reduce stamina consumption. The Pincushion set also has the benefit of additional dart damage mitigation, which is helpful when dealing with ranged enemies.
How to Play Duelist Swordmaster
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Initiating Combo
Initiate fights quickly overwhelm enemies with the following combo:
- Initiate fights with Knee Charge.
- Do one heavy attack while enemy is stunned to maximize damage.
- Follow up with light attacks and use Shigawire Claw to stun again.
- You can use Eye of the Storm as a final attack if the enemy is within range.
Isolate Fights
This build focuses on reliably winning 1v1s, but it can struggle when fighting multiple enemies. Approach fights strategically and isolate fights when possible. It is important to recognize when a fight is not worth it and retreat when needed!
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