Dune Awakening: Great Convention II

Great Convention Part II, Act 4 is a chain of arena fights in Neo Carthag with two field missions in the middle. If you show up prepared, it isn’t a hard quest. If you don’t, it’s a slog, because half the content depends on gear you can’t craft on the spot.

Don’t start without this

Item	What it’s for
Cutteray	several doors along the route, including the Downed Ship
Radiation suit	the passage at the Wreck of Hephaestus
Hand scanner	tracking clues in the Deep Desert
Mk5–Mk6 weapons	arena bosses
Healkits, lots of them	you enter the arena with whatever health you have

Requirement: you need to have finished Great Convention Part I, specifically Noctua’s Return, otherwise Call to Arms won’t appear at all.

Call To Arms: how to get in

Head to Harko Village and find Elara Tuek in the back room of the bar. She sends you to a contact at the north exit, who takes you to the Neo Carthag Arena.

First tier: Scavengers and Brute the Scrapper

You start the fights by talking to Maksim Dubrov at the arena gate. First come roughly eight Mk4-level Scavengers; with Mk6 gear they go down in one hit.

Heal up beforehand. There’s a vendor behind you on the right, and you enter the arena with your current health; you can’t top up once you’re inside.

Brute the Scrapper is the first real fight: three phases, roughly Mk5 level.

• At the start of each phase, two unshielded melee enemies spawn. Take them out first.
• Break his shield right away; it doesn’t regenerate.
• Ranged combat works better, because in melee he’s almost impossible to stagger.

Secrets of the Exile: the trip to Sheol

Maksim sends you after a missing courier. This is where you need the radiation suit and the cutteray.

1. Head to northwest Sheol and find the downed ornithopter. Inspect the body near the wreck and loot the metal container.
2. Continue south to the Wreck of the Ourea and open the Downed Ship door with the cutteray.
3. Inside is the Radiation Core, and you have to seal it by interacting with the machine in the room behind it. This is exactly the step people miss.
4. On the way out, three enemies ambush you. Whether you kill them or run past them makes no difference to the quest.

Second tier: Kirab waves and Aren the Exile

Back in the arena, three waves of Mk5-level Kirabs arrive. By this point it’s routine.

Aren the Exile follows the same structure as Brute and summons helpers in every phase, but he’s easy to stagger. A chain of slow blade attacks keeps him under control and he never gets going.

Breaking the Chains: the hunt in the Deep Desert

This is where you need the scanner. Maksim sends you after an elacca shipment in the Deep Desert, sector A9; enter from the northeast point.

1. At the downed ornithopter, scan to the left in the direction of the testing station. Tracks appear that lead to Testing Station 217.
2. Inside is one lockable room with three enemies, all around Mk5.
3. The quest item is down the stairs behind the locked room.
4. Collect three elacca crates around the station. Atreides soldiers spawn at each one, so clear some space before the last one.

Third tier

The final arena round sends in drugged fighters and slavers, and only then comes the Master of Chains. The same rule applies to both waves: kill the shooters first and circle around shielded melee enemies rather than trading blows with them. After clearing the arena, treat yourself to the fan-made Dune: Awakening merch at the GamersTogether shop – t-shirts, posters and mugs.

FAQ

Information verified as of 7 September 2026. The quest structure and gear requirements are fixed; enemy levels may change with balancing. More guides are in the Dune: Awakening section: Chapter 2 walkthrough, all 25 Houses, augments and testing stations 152 and 89.