Spitdart Rifles
Spitdarts are a type of rifle weapon in Dune Awakening. They receive bonuses alongside all other rifles and ranged damage bonuses. Spitdarts are the games main form of sniper rifle doing a large amount of upfront damage to unshielded enemies and applying a potent poison debuff as well that can bypass shields. They are often scoped and generally have the longest range of any weapon. There rate of fire is lower then battle rifles, disruptors, but faster then drillshots and shotguns. Unique versions do change this behavior in both scopeless and fire pattern changes. You will encounter enemy snipers using spitdarts as soon as you reach slaver enemies in the game. After this point sniper variant enemy types wielding spit darts become a common enemy in open areas.
Standard
Standard variant of spitdart first appears in the Steel tier (Artisan) weapons. The Artisan JABAL Spitdart starts at 57.0 damage and standard variants top damage is in Regis JABAL Spitdart at 235.6 damage. All versions of the standard Variant spitdart apply a potent poison effect on enemies.
Unique
Unique versions of the spitdart commonly come in two variants. The most common is just a standard version buff where it still operates like a standard JABAL spitdart but with more upfront damage. However, the damage to a shielded enemy is comparable to a standard version. The buff only applies for the unique sniper variant if you hit the target unshielded.
Notable Sniper Variant Uniques:
- Tier 3 Assassin's Rifle
- Tier 4 Long Shot
- Tier 5 Thufir's Best
- Tier 6 Dunewatcher
The other unique variant of the Spitdart is a tripleshot rifle you can obtain as early as Tier 5 (House). All tripleshot variant spitdarts fire in a horizontal firing pattern, apply the same potent poison, and are scopeless.
Notable Unique Tripleshot Variants: