Best Rifles in Dune Awakening
Best rifles in Dune Awakening: what to take for PvE and PvP, what to avoid, and the stats: damage, fire rate, magazine, range and schematics.
Rifles are the main weapon at medium and long range. Here are the ones really worth crafting and why, with all the stats below.
What to pick
- All-round pick:
6Regis Tripleshot Repeating Rifle — Fires three poisoned darts in a horizontal spread and has an enlarged magazine: the most reliable mid-range rifle for camps and players alike. - All-round pick: 6Blind Fury — A spitdart rifle without a scope, but it holds 5 darts and fires and reloads faster than scoped snipers.
- For PvP: 6Dunewatcher — A scoped sniper whose poison keeps hurting through a Holtzman shield. Good for pressuring and finishing players at long range in the Deep Desert.
- To break a shield:
6Experimental Lightning Gun — Runs on power instead of darts, and its EMP blasts break shields. Use it to strip a shield and finish with another weapon — its health damage is low. - Early game:
5Fivefinger's Tripleshot Rifle — The same poison tripleshot, one tier lower; a solid choice until you get the Regis version.
What to avoid
- 6Salusan Vengeance — Fires explosive darts that splash back on you up close and burns through ammo faster than a normal rifle. The poison rifles do the same job better.
Tips
- A Holtzman shield stops plain fast darts, but poison and fire hurt through it — that is why poison rifles are the PvP choice.
- The automatic Karpov 38 is fine for leveling and unshielded enemies but nearly useless against a shielded player.
- With a 2–5 dart magazine every shot counts: aim for the head and reload behind cover.
Ranking
Each group lists the best options from best to worst: what each one is for and its in-game numbers. If something isn’t listed, it isn’t worth taking.
Top
- 1
- DPS
- 239
- Damage
- 119.5
- Fire rate, shots/min
- 120
- Magazine
- 9
- Reload, s
- 1.8
- Range, m
- 68
This Unique non-scoped Spitdart Rifle was developed with increased magazine capacity and fires poison-coated darts in a horizontal tripleshot pattern.
Blueprints → - 26Blind Fury ★All-round
- DPS
- 517
- Damage
- 325.9
- Fire rate, shots/min
- 95
- Magazine
- 5
- Reload, s
- 1.9
- Range, m
- 88
This Unique rifle sacrifices its scope for slightly faster reload, slightly faster rate of fire, and holds 5 ammo.
Blueprints → - 3
- DPS
- 450
- Damage
- 346.1
- Fire rate, shots/min
- 78
- Magazine
- 2
- Reload, s
- 2
- Range, m
- 75
Fremen warriors modified these Unique rifles and used them in their relentless guerilla campaign against the Harkonnen.
Blueprints → - 46Experimental Lightning Gun ★Break shields
- DPS
- 156
- Damage
- 48.4
- Fire rate, shots/min
- 194
- Reload, s
- 1.7
- Range, m
- 50
This Unique rifle, a byproduct of those experiments, uses electrical power rather than standard ammunition. The EMP blasts disrupt shields.
Blueprints → - 56Regis JABAL SpitdartAlternative
- DPS
- 306
- Damage
- 235.6
- Fire rate, shots/min
- 78
- Magazine
- 3
- Reload, s
- 2
- Range, m
- 75
- 65Fivefinger's Tripleshot Rifle ★Early game
- DPS
- 181
- Damage
- 90.5
- Fire rate, shots/min
- 120
- Magazine
- 9
- Reload, s
- 1.8
- Range, m
- 68
He disappeared from public eye for a long time — then returned with this Unique tripleshot rifle to wreak vengeance on those who had left him maimed.
Blueprints → - 7
4Long Shot ★Early game- DPS
- 272
- Damage
- 209.3
- Fire rate, shots/min
- 78
- Magazine
- 2
- Reload, s
- 2
- Range, m
- 75
This Unique rifle was named for an assassin who was paid a huge sum by the Atreides to take down the Beast Rabban.
Blueprints →
Damage per second is the damage of one shot or hit multiplied by the fire rate. Reloading isn't counted here, so for a long fight watch the magazine too.
★ marks a unique item. Unique blueprints often turn up in the Deep Desert — see what's where this week on the Deep Desert this week page.
The calculator will work out how many resources a craft needs.
What is the best rifle in Dune Awakening?
The best all-round rifles are the Regis Tripleshot Repeating Rifle and Blind Fury; for long-range PvP take Dunewatcher, and to break shields use the Experimental Lightning Gun.