Dune Awakening Starter Class: How To Choose The Best Class To Start Your Desert Adventure?

Dune Awakening will be officially released on June 10, 2025, so are you ready to survive in this open world surrounded by sandworms?

In this massively multiplayer survival game, simply surviving is not enough, you also need to build fortresses, become powerful, and challenge the rights of Arrakis Empire. And the success or failure of all this will be based on your starting class choice.

During your adventure on the planet Arrakis, you will be able to unlock all class skill trees and use any class skills according to your preferences. Skill trees will be unlocked at different stages of the game, so choosing the best starting class is crucial.

Best Starter Class - Bene Gesserit

For now, the best starting class in Dune: Awakening is Bene Gesserit, because she has two skills that make melee combat a breeze and can easily cross open sand on foot, with extremely high survivability.

Compel

The first skill is Compel, which forces the target to move to your location, but also makes it immobile for a few seconds, unable to defend itself. This can make it easy to defeat a target, especially against shielded enemies that have area attacks on you in melee range.

Later in the game, you will face pairs or more enemies. You can quickly take out one enemy with your rifle, and then use Compel skill to deal with the second enemy.

Bindu Sprint

The second skill is Bindu Sprint. This skill allows you to run forward at an incredible speed across open sandy areas. With it, you no longer have to worry about being eaten by sandworms, and you don’t have to worry about losing your hard-earned Dune Awakening Solari and loot.

Note that Bindu Sprint skill consumes your character’s stamina, so the higher your moisture meter and stamina are, the farther you can run. Once you master these two skills, you can explore the world and find other class trainers.

Class Skill Tree

Now that we have determined that we have chosen Bene Gesserit as our starting class, we need to understand how the class skill tree works.

Each class tree has 3 skills, each with a different shape. Skills are marked on the side in a square or diamond shape.

Initially, each class only has 2 skills, but after completing four Fremen’s trials, you will be able to have 3 skills.

These skills are marked with an Octagon shape and provide powerful bonuses. However, you can only have 3 skills active at a time.

Finally, passive skills are marked with a circle and are always passive bonuses. As long as you invest skill points, you can have as many passive skills as you want.

It is worth noting that the skill points you invest are not permanent. You can reallocate skill trees once every 48 hours. This operation will return all your skill points and allow you to reallocate your abilities, skills, and passive skills.

Trooper Class

As mentioned before, you will eventually be able to unlock all class skill trees. To do this, you need to find class trainers around the world.

The first class we can find is Trooper, but it does not mean that the first class is inferior to the other classes. In fact, his performance is absolutely outstanding in the early game. After completing the short Trooper Trainer mission, you can unlock his skill tree and gain access to two powerful skills: Shigawire Cable and Explosive Grenade.

Don’t underestimate them, both skills are very useful when you are searching for intel on the enemy base. Just occupy the high ground and use the rocks as cover to easily suppress the enemy without any damage. After eliminating all enemies, continue to search for intel and start the next adventure.

Understanding the class system is the basis for us to get off to a good start in Dune Awakening. So, choose the best starting class and go deep into the desert to build your fortress and finally take power.