Get Ready to Bake and Blast: Your Ultimate Guide to Destiny 2’s Dawning Event
The snow falls. Guardians hum festive tunes. Eva Levante is back in the Tower with her Holiday Oven. It is Dawning time again in Destiny 2! If you wonder what this event is about, or you want to optimize your cookie delivery routes, you are in the right place. This is your guide to the Dawning event.
Dawning Event: The Frosty Fundamentals
What is this Dawning thing? It is Destiny 2’s annual holiday bash. Instead of awkward office parties, we have intergalactic baking and gift-giving. Dust off Eva’s Holiday Oven 3.0 to whip up delicious treats. Spread cheer across the solar system. Bake gifts with gathered ingredients and deliver them to NPCs.
Expect this festive frenzy to last for three weeks. It’s time to earn that sweet loot and enjoy virtual gingerbread.
Ingredient Intel: Stocking Your Dawning Pantry
Let’s talk ingredients. You cannot bake without them. In Dawning, you will engage with enemies and complete activities to gather baking essentials. It is space-age grocery shopping with more explosions.
For efficient Guardians, Eva offers a “Bountiful Harvest” upgrade. Bounty completions will yield an extra random ingredient. It is like finding a bonus coupon in your cereal box. Instead of sugary goodness, you get Vex Milk.
Common Culinary Components
These are the baking staples, the flour and sugar of the Dawning kitchen. Gather these:
- Vex Milk: Not appetizing, but crucial. Source? Vex enemies. Defeat them and scoop up the milk.
- Ether Cane: Your source for Ether Cane is Fallen foes. Hunt these scavengers across the system.
- Cabal Oil: Less mysterious than Vex Milk but crucial. Defeat Cabal enemies to collect their oil. Don’t dwell on the implications.
Rare and Refined Flavors
Now for fancier stuff! These flavors add oomph to your Dawning delights. Pay attention:
- Dark Frosting: Get this with Stasis or Strand ability kills.
- Delicious Explosions: Grenade ability kills and heavy weapon kills provide this flavor.
- Electric Flavor: Arc kills unlock this ingredient.
- Multifaceted Flavors: Chain kills yield this flavor.
- Sharp Flavor: Acquire this through sword melee kills.
Essence of Dawning: The Magical Binding Agent
Finally, get the Essence of Dawning. This is the glue for your creations. Acquire it by doing activities. Crucible and Strikes are efficient. Play the game to get Essence.
Dawning Delights: Rewards and Riches
So, you are baking up a storm. What’s in it for you? Plenty, Guardian. The Dawning brings loot, from sentimental mementos to shiny new weapons.
Memento Magic
Want a keepsake? The Dawning Memento is your ticket. Head to enemy zones like Nessus or the Dreaming City and start snowball fights. Complete the “Winter Night” quest step, then return to Eva for your Dawning Memento.
Emblem Extravaganza
Show off your Dawning spirit with exclusive Emblems! Earn these randomly by opening “A Gift In Return” packages. Get packages by delivering your baked treats.
Weaponry Wonderland
Ah, weapons. The Dawning delivers. You will get a curated roll of a Pulse Rifle after completing “The Dawning” quest. But there is more. Earn festive firearms like the Avalanche Machine Gun and more. Expand your arsenal with winter-themed weapons!
Dawning Spirit: Currency of Cheer
Dawning Spirit is the currency of the event. Collect Dawning Spirit and exchange it with Eva for rewards and upgrades. Spend wisely, Guardian!
Recipes and Tonics: The Baker’s Handbook
Back to baking basics. Eva’s Holiday Oven is your hub for recipes. Unlocking recipes is straightforward. Progress in the Dawning Prologue and experiment with ingredients. Combine different ones or craft recipes multiple times.
Pro-tip! Craft *every* recipe. Mastering your oven makes every recipe cost only 10 Essence of Dawning. It increases efficiency when baking.
Next, tonics are the secret sauces of the Dawning. Unlock them by buying lower-tier Tonics. Crafting five uncommon Tonics unlocks a rare Tonic, and crafting four rare Tonics unlocks a legendary Tonic.
Farming Frenzy: Ingredient Hotspots and Strategies
Time to optimize your ingredient gathering. Efficiency is vital, Guardians. Let’s pinpoint prime farming locations and strategies.
Essence of Dawning Farms
Activities yield the best Essence of Dawning. Crucible and Vanguard Strikes efficiently rack up Essence. Choose your playlist and grind!
Lost Sector Loot-a-thon
Need ingredients fast? Lost Sector farming is your answer. Check daily for the “expert” Lost Sector. Clear these quickly for a good ingredient drop rate.
Shirochi’s Haven: The Infinite Enemy Spawner
Dedicated farmers can find a prime location here.
The Infinite Enemy Spawner
Repeatedly engage enemies to maximize gains! Farming ingredients is key. Make use of event features.
Shirochi in the Leviathan raid is a great place to farm. You can use a checkpoint trick or the Wish Wall. Load into Shirochi solo. Waves of enemies will spawn. This is ideal for collecting common and rare ingredients. Bring your add-clearing weapons.
Bonus Bites: Dawning-Adjacent Goodies
There are some items to note during this festive season. They are not strictly related to Dawning.
Main Ingredient (Fusion Rifle)
The “Main Ingredient” Fusion Rifle adds spice to your loadout. Get it by finishing Strikes and retrieving rank-up packages from Commander Zavala. Keep at those Strikes for a chance at this weapon. It may also drop from other activities.
Liturgy (Weapon)
Consider the Liturgy weapon. You can get it by completing Onslaught: Salvation waves, or finishing Revenant Act 1 story quests. If you are crafty, craft a Liturgy Enriching tonic. More weapon choices are good for every Guardian.
This is your guide to the Dawning event in Destiny 2, Guardians! Go bake cookies, spread cheer, and maybe cause some chaos. Enjoy the rewards of the festive season. Happy Dawning!
