Bene Gesserit

Bene Gesserit is a specialization in Dune Awakening focused on mental control, stealth, and precision combat. You start with the Voice: Compel ability and an automatically unlocked skill tree. This class excels at manipulating enemies, precise strikes, and survival in the harsh conditions of Arrakis. Although it has a steeper learning curve, it provides a satisfying gameplay experience once mastered.

What is Bene Gesserit in Dune Awakening?

Bene Gesserit is one of the specializations (Schools of the Imperium) that you can choose during character creation in Dune Awakening. This class starts with a focus on Physical Mastery & Manipulation, with the Bene Gesserit Skill Tree automatically unlocked for your character. Additionally, you gain Voice: Compel as your starting ability.

You might be wondering: Why choose Bene Gesserit? This specialization offers a unique combination of mental control, stealth, and precision combat, allowing you to adapt to various situations and avoid conflicts or control them on your terms.

In the Dune universe, the Bene Gesserit are a shadowy all-female order with a deliberately obscure agenda. Adepts of the Sisterhood are prized by the nobility and feared by the rest of the Imperium. In the game, players of any gender can play as Bene Gesserit.

Specialization Paths and Skills 🧠

The Bene Gesserit skill tree is divided into three main branches:

1. The Voice 🗣️

Focuses on:

• Mental domination
• Crowd control
• Enemy perception manipulation

2. Weirding Way 🌪️

Enhances:

• Movement and agility
• Rapid strikes
• Tactical positioning

3. Body Control 🧘

Specializes in:

• Surviving harsh conditions
• Resistance to poisons and injuries
• Healing and regeneration

Voice Abilities and Manipulation 📢

Bene Gesserit excel at manipulating others:

✓ Compel - Forces targets to move to your position
✓ Ignore - Makes enemies temporarily ignore your presence
✓ Stop - Freezes enemies, preventing any actions
✓ Rapid Register - Reduces the time needed to "register" opponents
✓ Voice Training - Reduces cooldowns on voice abilities

💡 Pro tip: Voice abilities require a short period of "registering" an opponent before they can be used effectively. The Rapid Register skill is key to utilizing these abilities efficiently in combat.

Combat & Movement Skills ⚔️

Bene Gesserit combine speed and precision:

1. Prana-Bindu Strikes - Delivers rapid, staggering attacks
2. Weirding Step - Combines stealth and movement to position behind enemies
3. Bindu Sprint - Allows for incredible bursts of speed
4. Blade Damage and Short Blade Damage - Enhance precision with bladed weapons
5. Screech - Causes nearby enemies to stagger when voice abilities are used

Survival Abilities 🛡️

Survival on Arrakis is crucial:

Utility & Support Skills 🔋

Bene Gesserit provide useful support abilities:

• Vitality - Increases maximum health
• Recovery - Improves health regeneration limits
• Poison Tolerance - Reduces effectiveness of poisons against you
• Trauma Recovery - Improves healing from catastrophic damage
• Manipulate Instability - Boosts damage against stunned or staggered enemies

❌ A common mistake is relying solely on voice abilities. While powerful, their use requires "registering" enemies, which may take too long in fast-paced combat situations. Always have physical combat skills available as well.

Playstyle and Tips for Bene Gesserit 🎮

Bene Gesserit are best played with a focus on:

✓ Controlling the battlefield through voice commands
✓ Leveraging stealth and mobility to avoid or dictate combat terms
✓ Using precise strikes rather than brute force
✓ Surviving harsh conditions through internal bodily control
✓ Supporting allies by disabling threats and boosting team survivability

Strategies for Bene Gesserit

1. Master The Voice - Use voice commands strategically to control the battlefield and isolate targets.
2. Leverage Your Prana-Bindu Skills - Your physical training provides surprising combat effectiveness when needed.
3. Utilize Stealth - Your abilities to manipulate perception make you excellent at avoiding unwanted conflicts.
4. Weirding Way Path - This specialization offers the most utility for solo play and survival situations.

Complete List of Bene Gesserit Skills

Passive Skills

• Bindu Dodge - When enough spice permeates your bloodstream, you become able to combine your prana-bindu training with your limited ability to see the future. After a successful parry, dart and blade attacks pass through you.
• Blade Damage - You know exactly where and how to strike with a blade to cause additional damage.
• Poison Tolerance - You have tuned your immune system to fight off toxins more effectively. Whenever you are poisoned it takes longer to reach damaging levels.
• Recovery - You are able to heal your body more effectively after suffering catastrophic injury - regenerating your health to a higher threshold than normal.
• Screech - When enough spice permeates your bloodstream, your Voice becomes more powerful, causing those around your registered target to stagger under the force of your commands.
• 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.
• Short Blade Damage - You've been trained in the use of concealed blades such as daggers and slip-tips. You know precisely where to place these blades for maximum damage.
• Sun Tolerance - You are able to slow the effects of direct sun exposure on Arrakis, by altering minor chemical reactions occurring in the layers of your own skin, thereby reducing the rate of Sunstroke buildup.
• Vitality - Through careful tuning of your internal enzyme balance and musculature, you can increase your overall health.
• Voice Training - Your rigorous training with the Voice allows you to reduce the time between uses.

Active Skills

• Bindu Sprint - You override your nervous system and musculature with an immense surge of activity, allowing you to run forward at an incredible speed.
• Compel - You use the Voice to force a target to your position from afar. Voice abilities require a short period for you to "register" your opponent before they can be used.
• Ignore - You use the Voice to force your target to ignore you. For a short while, they will act as if you are completely invisible. Voice abilities require a short period for you to "register" your opponent before they can be used.
• Litany Against Fear - Reciting this litany aloud will instantly hearten any allies nearby, as well as providing you with the strength to push through almost any attacks. You and your allies will have boosted damage mitigation and stagger resistance for the duration.
• Prana-Bindu Strikes - You tap into your training to deliver a rapid series of powerful, painful strikes to enemies. This attack leaves them temporarily staggered.
• Stop - You use the Voice to stop your enemy from performing any actions for a brief period. Voice abilities require a short period for you to "register" your opponent before they can be used.
• Weirding Step - Combining the Voice and a limited form of Bindu Sprint - you force a single enemy to ignore you while moving with superhuman speed behind them.

Techniques

• Manipulate Instability - Once an enemy is stunned, staggered or knocked back, you strike in vulnerable nerve endings to cause more damage.
• Metabolize Poison - You have developed your internal systems to the extent that any poison you take can quickly be catalyzed and removed from your system. Furthermore, attempts to poison you will not succeed - provided that you have enough stamina to fuel the process.
• Prana-Bindu Stability - Through a combined focus of your nerves and muscles, you are able to resist being staggered by reducing all incoming poise damage.
• Rapid Register - The Voice only works on targets who have been "registered". This technique allows you to focus on registering opponents more quickly, in order to use the Voice faster.
• Trauma Recovery - You can use your own body to effectively heal catastrophic damage - improving both the rate at which healing occurs, and the amount.

Final Summary

The Bene Gesserit specialization offers a unique gameplay style focused on enemy manipulation and precision combat. While it may have a steeper initial learning curve, once mastered it provides a satisfying gameplay experience full of tactical options.

Recommendations:

• The Bene Gesserit class can be selected during the Character Creation section of the game.
• While the Bene Gesserit are an all-female order in the lore, players of any gender can select this class in Dune Awakening.
• Voice abilities require a short period of "registering" an opponent before they can be used effectively.
• The class excels at controlling individual targets and creating advantages in combat situations through manipulation rather than brute force.
• When enough spice permeates your bloodstream, certain abilities like Screech and Bindu Dodge become even more powerful.

FAQ

Q: Can I combine the Bene Gesserit specialization with other classes?
A: Yes, while you start with Bene Gesserit skills, Dune Awakening's flexible progression system allows you to learn abilities from other classes by training with various NPCs.

Q: Is the Bene Gesserit useful for PvP?
A: Definitely. The control and manipulation abilities that Bene Gesserit offers can be very effective in PvP encounters, especially if you manage to isolate individual targets.

Q: Which branch of the Bene Gesserit specialization is most useful?
A: It depends on your playstyle, but most players consider the Weirding Way path to be the most useful for solo play, while The Voice excels in team play.

Q: How does "registering" opponents for voice abilities work?
A: Before using voice abilities, you must "register" an opponent by focusing on them for a short period. The Rapid Register skill reduces this time.

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