The Bene Gesserit is one of four foundational disciplines in Dune: Awakening, and while they’re not unlocked last when completing your initial training quests, this enigmatic and manipulative order has some of the game’s most distinctive tools, particularly for those seeking to excel at control, mobility, and surgical kills.
Combining agility, mental control, and enhanced regeneration, the Bene Gesserit is perfect for solo players in difficult camps, last finishing Testing Stations, or diving headfirst into early trials. Their kit doesn’t rely on sheer strength but accuracy, finesse, and timed strikes. Below is how to develop your Bene Gesserit character to dominate Arrakis’ early areas.
Core Overview: Why Play the Bene Gesserit?
- High Mobility: With moves like Bindu Sprint and Shigawire Claw, you’ll enjoy excellent early-game mobility without a Sandbike.
- Crowd Control: Compel allows you to immobilize and stun foes, giving you control during mad rushes.
- Durability: With strong passive healing and vitality increases, the Bene Gesserit can survive most encounters without burning through many consumables.
This application is designed to help you overcome initial hurdles like Testing Stations and Trial quests. In order to get access to all of the necessary parts, you will need to complete training for the Trooper and Planetologist classes in the Hagga Basin region.
Skills
Shigawire Claw
A very versatile weapon with great mobility and fighting skills.
- Traversal: Runs along cliffs, ledges, and outcroppings of rock, enabling you to navigate terrain that would otherwise slow you down.
- Combat Utility: Stunning when used in offense, allowing you to immediately chain together fast melee combos.
Bindu Sprint
Your go-to mobility skill.
A short but furious burst of speed, ideal for dodging attacks, getting out of trouble, or quickly traversing worm-ridden areas. Early game, it’s worth its weight in gold until you acquire Sandbike.
Compel
- Tap into the mythical “Voice” of the Bene Gesserit.
- Suctions an NPC towards you and stuns them momentarily.
- Ideal for sucking enemies out of groups or putting high-priority targets down.
- Pairs extremely well with Shigawire Claw and short-blade skills.
Techniques
- Manipulate Instability: Increases your damage against stunned or staggered enemies. A flawless synergy with Compel and Shigawire Claw, a treat for precise play.
- Prana-Bindu Stability: Removes the impact of stagger effects put on your character. Lets you remain mobile and in control when in crazy fights.
- Trauma Recovery: Boosts normal healing rate, seeing you through fights longer without needing to constantly activate healing items.
Passives
From the Trooper Tree: Ranged Damage – Caps all damage from ranged weapons, handy when it comes time to switch to guns for tougher fights.
From the Planetologist Tree: (These are utility-focused and may be replaced by damage boosts if desired.)
- Cutteray Mining: Boosts return from a Cutteray.
- Deep Analysis: Refines the output of crafting/resource analysis.
- Overcharge: Increases power pack efficiency.
- Rerouting: Increases power regeneration for your pack.
From the Bene Gesserit Tree:
- Short Blade Damage: Primary damage boost for short blade weapons.
- Blade Damage: Overall bonus for all blades (short + long).
- Vitality: Increases your maximum health pool.
- Recovery: Accelerates health regeneration over time.
- Self-Healing: Increases healing efficiency, with more healing per tick.
- Sun Tolerance: Prevents sunstroke risk, perfect for extended desert treks.
Top Start Guns for the Bene Gesserit
The Bene Gesserit is supported by a hybrid playstyle—don’t be solely a melee or ranged specialist. Being versatile matters for Dune: Awakening, especially while dungeon soloing.
Pseudo Pulse Sword
- How to Get: Rare containers found in Imperial Testing Stations.
- Why It’s Great: Being an item of Iron tier but carrying higher DPS than the Steel-tier Artisan Sword makes it great.
(Note: It’s a blueprinted item, so you’ll have to find the blueprint in advance to make it.)
Fallback Options:
- Iron Tier Sword: Fall-back early weapon if the Pulse Sword is unavailable.
- Artisan Sword: Upgrade when you change a tier, if you haven’t found the blueprint yet.
The Bene Gesserit excels at control, agility, and survivability. While they aren’t brute-force powerhouses, they make up for it with precision, regeneration, and clever battlefield manipulation. If you’re a player who prefers strategic skirmishing, environmental traversal, and outlasting enemies through smart play and discipline, this class is your ideal starting point.
Once you unlock further class trees using training quests, alternation of Trooper passives for ranged or Planetologist benefits for resource missions is best. Bene Gesserit’s versatility makes them such a wonderful backbone for any late-game hybrid build.
