Welcome to the best guide on How to Unlock Trooper Trainers and Locations in Dune Awakening.  The Trooper Trainer locations will be shown on the maps below.  If your starting class is a Trooper, you will skip to the Advanced Trooper Trainer quest.  Otherwise, you will begin with the Basic Unlock Trainer for Trooper.

Basic Trooper Trainer Quest:

Advanced Trooper Trainer Quests:

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Unlock Basic Trooper Trainer Location

The Trooper Trainer is Ghavouri who is located at Griffin’s Reach Tradepost in Hagga Basin South.  He is just inside to the left and accessible very early on in Dune Awakening.

Proving Grounds – Quest 1

(1)Travel to Griffin’s Reach Outpost and speak with Ghavouri for Trooper training.  We will naturally be sent here very early in the game with the opening quest to purchase a Literjon. He will issue a quest for vengeance requiring you to assassinate 3 targets for him.

Location of Trooper Trainer in Dune Awakening

(2)Your next task will be heading East and killing Aatu Golven at Kaleff’s Stand. He will be alone in a cave. (3)Next, you will kill Kirsi Tol in Shamal Tunnel to the NorthEast. (4)Finally, you will then go South to kill Cardanus Ulun in Edgeway Cavern. These 3 targets can be easily dispatched in the early game. Afterwards you will return to Ghavouri and report you’ve completed his vengeance.

This will now unlock the Trooper Skill tree.

 

Unlock Advanced Trooper Trainer Location

The Trooper Advanced Trainer is Kara Valk who is located in Arrakeen along the hallway upstairs.  We can travel to Arrakeen for free once we acquire an Ornithopter or pay 2500 Solaris to fly there from a Tradepost. I would HIGHLY recommend waiting until you have an ornithopter as all of the activities will take you much longer without one.

Seeking Control – Quest 2

Once you arrive in Arrakeen, you will need to go upstairs and look for a former Trooper named Kara Valk (2). You will have to choose “Come on, trooper. It can’t be as bad as all that.” to activate the conversation to open this quest up. After a bit of conversation, you’ll be issued a quest, Seeking Control.

Kara Valk will send you back to track down some Intel in The Sweep. The Sweep is located just north of Eastern Vermillius in Jabal Eifrit Al-gharb. At the top of this outpost, The Sweep, you will find a book on a table you must interact with to locate the intel.

When you interact with the crate, two heavies with shields ambush you from both sides of the room.  Evade this ambush and dispatch the 2 enemies and make sure you loot the Transmitters on both of them. Once you have both Transmitters, you can return to Arrakeen and speak with Kara Valk again.

This will earn Kara Valk’s trust, though you won’t gain any Trooper levels on this quest.

 

Regaining Control – Quest 3

NOTE: You’ll need a handheld scanner for this step whether to complete.

After returning the Transmitters Kara will tell you they didn’t work. Speak with her a few times and you will get the next quest, Regaining Control. This will first send you to meet Hannivar, the black market trader at Harko Village. After traveling to the black market and seeing the trader is not there, you must go to the bar and tell them “I’d like a Kirana Brandy with a cidrit twist.”

The bartender will ask you to read a dead-drop ledger in the back room and report back. Repeat the cidrit twist phrase and then report the ledger and you’ll be given the location of Tuco’s stash in Jabal Eifrit.

Tuco’s Stash is located in the middle of an area surrounded by quick sand. With no sign of Tuco’s Stash, you’ll scan and find footprints leading you to the North towards CHOAM Mineral Extraction Facility #6.

To reach this you will need to dive into the ravine. Once you enter the facility, above to the right will be irradiated area with Tuco’s Remains. Search for his body hanging in front of a bike and loot what remains. Now we will report back to Kara in Arrakeen.

This will Unlock Skills at Advanced Trooper Trainer to 2, allowing you to put up to 2 points in all but your non-Capstone skills.

 

A Shot at Improving – Quest 4

This quest line will unlock Advanced Trooper Level 3 Skills. Kara Valk will send us to Harko Village again for a back alley Suk doctor, Kamari.

She will send us to Annoushka the bartender to first do a favor for Doctor Kumari.

We will be returning to the bartender and using the same line to interface and receive a quest to clear out Taqwa’s Watch located Far West in The O’odham. These are higher level enemies if you are doing this quest earlier on so take your time engaging until you’ve killed Maas Kharet, a specific target inside here.

Afterwards, we will return to Harko Village and speak with the Bartender again. Now we can go upstairs in Harko Village and speak with Doctor Kamari to retrieve the Medicine. Return the Medicine back to Kara Valk in Arrakeen.

This will Unlock Skills at Advanced Trooper Trainer to 3, allowing you to put up to 3 points in all but your non-Capstone skills.

 

Master of Weapons – Quest 5

Kara Valk will send you on a quest to test your weapons and skills on enemies. In reality, you can just fly into the zoneline of Hagga Basin and use your skills at the zone line. You’ll need to use Assault Seekers, Attractor Fields, and Gravity Fields 3 times each.

Once you’ve used all of them 3 times and they’ve been completed, fly back over to Harko Village and pick up some more Medicine for Kara Valk from the Suk doctor, Kamari. Kamari will demand 1000 Solaris for stims. Return the stims to Kara and complete the quest.

This will Unlock Skills at Advanced Trooper Trainer to 4, allowing you to gain access to the Suspensor Blast skill.

 

Surgical Strike – Quest 6

Kara will send you to Khidr’s Shadow next to kill all the slavers within. This is located is the Southeast side of Jabil Eifrit, just above the Eastern Vermillius Gap. When you arrive, you will have to kill four random slavers until it triggers a completion, at which point it will ask you to ‘Find the shipping manifest’. Read the manifest, then return to Kara in Arrakeen.

This will Unlock Skills at Advanced Trooper Trainer to 5, allowing you access to the Reflexive Reload skill.

 

The Cleansing of Kara Valk – Quest 7

In our final quest, Kara Valk will next request you arrange her transportation to Harko Village. Just downstairs below her you will speak to Campos Demari. He will request 4000 Solaris for this request. We will then return to Kara once more before being sent to find a Dead Drop of the Smuggler location.

Next, we will fly to Jabal Eifrit, where a Dead Drop crate hides near the top of a spire.  Activate this and you will be sent to Khidr’s Shadow again where you will find a few slavers and a boss who is a melee fighter at the top.

Kill them all and retrieve the package to take to Doctor Kamari in Harko Village. Lastly, you’ll return to Arrakeen bar and speak with Kara Valk once more to receive your final reward. Along with unlocking all the Trooper skills, you will also receive a unique rifle, Mendek’s Rattle.

This will Unlock Skills at Advanced Trooper Trainer to 6, allowing you access to the Energy Capsule skill.