Master the Trooper class in Dune: Awakening with this complete breakdown of all verified skills, passives, techniques, and unlockable abilities. Learn how to build your Trooper using real in-game effects, scaling bonuses, and class-specific tech from the Schools of the Imperium.
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1. Trooper Class Overview and How It Works in Dune: Awakening
Trooper Skill Trees
The Trooper is a weapon-based archetype in Dune: Awakening that focuses on ranged combat, explosives, and suspensor-based traversal. Unlike mystical or stealth classes, Troopers rely on precision firepower, anti-gravity tools, and battlefield engineering to outlast enemies. It’s ideal for players who want aggressive offense, explosive area denial, and tactical utility in both PvP and PvE.
You can select Trooper as your starting class during character creation or unlock it later by completing the Trooper mentor quest at Griffin’s Reach Tradepost from the NPC Ghavouri.
2. How to Unlock the Trooper Skill Tree
Ghavouri – Trooper Class Trainer
Trooper Class Trainer: Ghavouri
- Location: Griffin’s Reach Tradepost, northwest of your spawn zone in Hagga Basin South
- NPC Name: Ghavouri
- Quest Objective: Defeat 3 targets to prove your combat capability
Once you complete Ghavouri’s objective, the Trooper skill tree becomes fully accessible. You’ll be able to spend points across its three branches: Gunnery, Suspensor Training, and Tactical Tech.
Tip: If you didn’t start the game as a Trooper, this is the fastest way to gain access to core abilities like Shigawire Claw and Collapse Grenade, which greatly improve your early traversal and crowd control.
3. Should You Pick Trooper as a Starting Class?
Trooper is one of the easiest classes to unlock early at Griffin’s Reach, so it’s not essential to start with it. However, picking it at character creation gives you immediate access to Shigawire Claw and early traversal tools. If you want fast movement, early crowd control, or plan to solo content, it’s a strong and forgiving pick.
4. Best Starting Trooper Skills for Beginners
If you unlock Trooper early, prioritize these for survival and mobility:
- Shigawire Claw – Use for fast traversal and repositioning. Also staggers enemies.
- Anti-Gravity Field – Negates fall damage and lifts enemies. Combo with claw for vertical mobility.
- Scattergun Damage – Buffs the first effective close-range weapon you’ll use.
- Center of Mass – Grants safer body-shot play if your aim isn’t precise yet.
5. List of All Trooper Skills
- Gunnery Skills – Boost Your Ranged Weapon Damage: This section enhances your firepower with specific bonuses for weapon types and maintenance efficiency.
- Suspensor Training Skills – Mobility and Aerial Control: Suspensor Training improves your ability to traverse vertical terrain and manipulate gravity using specialized belts and grenades.
- Tactical Tech Skills – Grenades, Utility Drones, and Battlefield Control: Tactical Tech grants explosive power and utility through deployables, seeker drones, and advanced battlefield effects.
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| Skill | Skill Tree | Type | School (Class) | Skill Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-gravity Field | Suspensor Training | Ability | Trooper | 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.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Collapse Grenade | Suspensor Training | Ability | Trooper | This device, when thrown, uses a modified secondary phase Holtzman field to attract anybody within a spherical area. Those inside the sphere are drawn together and temporarily stunned, leaving them open to your area of effect attacks.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Death from Above | Suspensor Training | Technique | Trooper | While you are suspended in the air, any attacks using weapons will have a damage bonus.Techniques only take effect when equipped. |
| Gravity Field | Suspensor Training | Ability | Trooper | 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.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Suspensor Blast | Suspensor Training | Ability | Trooper | You manipulate the suspensor field generated by your suspensor belt - forcing it to explode around you with extreme force, pushing enemies back, damaging them, and impairing their movement for a short time. You can hold the ability to increase the damage dealt and time the blast release.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Suspensor Dash | Suspensor Training | Technique | Trooper | Your training with suspensors allows you to manipulate your flow of movement. Press the Dash button while suspended to perform a mid-air dash.Techniques only take effect when equipped. |
| Suspensor Efficiency | Suspensor Training | Passive | Trooper | 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. |
| Skill | Skill Tree | Type | School (Class) | Skill Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assault Seeker | Tactical Tech | Ability | Trooper | A modified hunter seeker that will fly in a direct line and explode upon contact with anything. Can be triggered to explode with a second activation. Useful for situations where a thrown grenade is not precise enough.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Attractor Field | Tactical Tech | Ability | Trooper | Originally used as a training device to offset poor aim, the Attractor Field uses a modified Holtzman field to draw attacks towards it’s center. Attach it to an enemy and any shot fired into the field will redirect into their center of mass.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Battle Hardened | Tactical Tech | Technique | Trooper | The inexperienced and untrained will 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.Techniques only take effect when equipped. |
| Explosive Grenade | Tactical Tech | Ability | Trooper | You throw a grenade with an explosive core that detonates in spray of shrapnel, damaging anybody within the radius. Though the shrapnel is incapable of penetrating a shield, the shockwave of the blast can still stagger a shielded enemy.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Reflexive Reload | Tactical Tech | Passive | Trooper | When your blood is saturated with the melange, the actions that you have performed a thousand times become effortless. Whenever you throw a grenade or drop a mine, you instantly reload your current weapon – your hands moving before your mind can even think. |
| Shigawire Claw | Tactical Tech | Ability | Trooper | 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.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Skill | Skill Tree | Type | School (Class) | Skill Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center of Mass | Gunnery | Technique | Trooper | 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.Techniques only take effect when equipped. |
| Disruptor Damage | Gunnery | Passive | Trooper | Using steady hands you are able to guide the disruptor\\\'s rapid fire darts more effectively to their target, thus increasing your damage. |
| Energy Capsule | Gunnery | Ability | Trooper | You pop an energy capsule, which fills you with concoction of neurostimulants and pain dampeners. You become detached allowing better targeting and ranged damage.Abilities must be equipped and activated from the ability bar. |
| Field Maintenance | Gunnery | Passive | Trooper | You know how to strip down and clean your weaponry, slowing the durability cost of firing weapons and tools in hostile environments. |
| Gunsmith | Gunnery | Passive | Trooper | You are skilled in the repair of weapons and tools reducing the maximum durability cost of each repair. |
| Heavy Weapon Damage | Gunnery | Passive | Trooper | The bigger the gun, the bigger the mess. Your skill with heavy weapons such as the Flamethrower, Lasgun and Vulcan GAU-92 leads to more damage when you use them. |
| Ranged Damage | Gunnery | Passive | Trooper | Your time spent practicing your aim leads to bonus damage using all ranged weapons. |
| Scattergun Damage | Gunnery | Passive | Trooper | You have mastered the spread patterns of the pellet firing GRDA 44 and Drillshot FK7 scatterguns, thus improving your damage with these weapons. |
| Underslung Agility | Gunnery | Technique | Trooper | You have trained yourself to move faster while using heavy weapons such as the Flamethrower, Lasgun or Vulcan GAU-92.Techniques only take effect when equipped. |
6. How to Play Trooper Effectively (PvE and PvP Roles)
The Trooper class adapts well to both solo exploration and team-based combat. Understanding how to optimize your skill setup for each mode can make a major difference in survivability and DPS.
6.1 Solo PvE
- Shigawire Claw provides stagger and movement control for crowd encounters.
- Collapse Grenade pulls enemies together for AoE bursts with Scattergun.
- Combine Anti-Gravity Field with elevation tactics to minimize melee threats.
6.2 PvP Skirmishes
- Initiate fights with Suspensor Dash and Collapse Grenade for fast control.
- Use Reflexive Reload under Spice Prescience to chain attacks without reloading manually.
- Battle Hardened ensures your combat loop stays fast-paced with reduced cooldowns.
7. Best Weapons for Trooper Builds
Each Trooper weapon benefits from specific passives and techniques. Here are the best-performing choices based on synergy and scaling:
- Adept GRDA 44 – Wide cone damage with fast stagger output. Pairs perfectly with Scattergun Damage and Center of Mass.
- Adept Drillshot FK7 – Flexible PvE option with manageable spread and reload. Benefits from Field Maintenance.
- Adept Disruptor M11 — Enhanced by the Disruptor Damage and effective against agile targets or swarming enemies. High rate of fire which supports aggressive play and mobility-based builds.
- Adept Vulcan GAU-92 – Heavy suppression weapon with devastating area damage. Equip Underslung Agility to move while firing.
- Arhun K-28 Lasgun – High-precision ranged weapon. Best when used alongside Attractor Field or Spice Prescience.
8. Trooper Synergy and Combo Tips
The Trooper class rewards aggressive, mobile play. Some effective combinations include:
- Use Scattergun to stagger enemies, then follow up with Shigawire Claw for knockdown.
- Throw Collapse Grenade, then activate Assault Seeker or Energy Capsule for burst damage.
- Equip Battle Hardened with Suspensor Dash and Suspensor Blast to keep pressure high in PvP.
9. How to Respec and Combine Trooper With Other Classes
Swordmaster Skill Trees
Dune: Awakening features a flexible class system where players can respec their skill points and combine abilities from multiple archetypes. This allows you to start as a Trooper and later integrate skills from other classes like Swordmaster, Mentat, Planetologist, or Bene Gesserit.
9.1 How the Respec System Works
The game allows players to reset and reassign their skill points, but with specific constraints to encourage thoughtful planning. You have a cooldown period, where you can only respec once every 48 real-time hours.
Respeccing gives you the flexibility to test different class synergies or adapt to new challenges as you progress through the open world or PvP zones.
9.2 How to Combine Trooper Skills With Other Classes
After unlocking additional class trees, you can freely mix Trooper abilities with any others you’ve gained. Here are a few powerful combinations:
- Trooper + Swordmaster – Combine Collapse Grenade with Slow Blade or Perfect Block for a tanky melee DPS hybrid.
- Trooper + Planetologist – Adds PvE utility like Wormsign Detection, Resource Scanning, and survival buffs without weakening your DPS core.
- Trooper + Mentat – Enhances ranged build with crowd control skills like Neuroblast and adds stealth-based repositioning.
These hybrid builds allow you to play aggressively at range while using mobility, stealth, or utility perks from other classes.
