Completing the Bene Gesserit Guide – Dune: Awakening

The Bene Gesserit is one of the four starting classes in Dune: Awakening. You’ll unlock the Bene Gesserit trainer last among the classes, so if you want to delve into the unique skills of this faction, it’s a good idea to choose this class from the beginning.

A major advantage of the Bene Gesserit is their impressive mobility and abilities that can neutralize strong enemies, helping you breeze through early dungeons. Below is a detailed outline of a starting ability build for a Bene Gesserit.

Level 20 Bene Gesserit Build

This build serves as a starting point for your Bene Gesserit as you conquer initial camps and Testing Stations in Dune: Awakening.

Abilities

Trooper

Shigawire Claw

This versatile tool grants you swift mobility, enabling you to scale cliffs and hills. Paired with the Bene Gesserit sprint, it offers some of the best early-game movement options, especially before unlocking the Sandbike.

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Bindu Sprint

This ability gives you a quick speed boost, making it especially useful when traversing on foot in the early stages. It can even help you cross large desert stretches without attracting a sandworm.

Compel

This skill lets you use your voice to draw NPCs towards you, also delivering a brief stun effect. Combine this with quick strikes to efficiently take down foes while isolating them from groups.

Techniques

Manipulate Instability

This technique allows you to inflict bonus damage on enemies that are stunned or knocked back.

Prana-Bindu Stability

This reduces the impacts of staggering effects.

Trauma Recovery

This enhances your healing rate.

Passives

Trooper

Ranged Damage

This straightforward passive boosts your damage with ranged weapons.

Planetologist

The passives in this category focus on resources, crafting, and mining. You can skip these if you prefer to have more offensive options early on.

Cutteray Mining

This enhances your Cutteray yield.

Deep Analysis

This improves your resource yields.

Overcharge

This gives you more power for your energy packs.

Rerouting

This increases the generation rate of your power packs.

Bene Gesserit

Short Blade Damage

This boosts your short blade damage.

Blade Damage

This enhances damage for both short and long blades.

Vitality

This increases your overall health.

Recovery

This enhances your health regeneration.

Self-Healing

This improves your healing effectiveness and boosts health recovery per tick.

Sun Tolerance

This reduces your chances of sunstroke.

Best Starting Weapons for the Bene Gesserit

In Dune: Awakening, a balanced approach to melee and ranged combat is essential to handling dungeons and defeating NPC enemies. Your first significant challenge will be the Imperial Testing Stations; entering without proper preparation can make these encounters daunting.

To simplify your journey, here are some of the top weapons for the Bene Gesserit to start with:

• Pseudo Pulse Sword – Discover this weapon in Rare Containers within the Imperial Testing Stations.
  • This is the ideal starting sword for the Bene Gesserit. While it’s Iron tier, it boasts a higher damage per second (DPS) compared to the standard Steel-tier Artisan sword.
  • Keep in mind, this is a blueprint item, requiring you to locate the blueprint to craft it.

If the Pseudo Pulse Sword eludes you, opt for an Iron tier Sword initially, then upgrade to an Artisan Sword as you advance in levels.