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Destiny 2’swinter event is here.
What Is The Dawning?
Unlike most quarterly holiday events, the Dawning doesn’t impose any loadout restrictions to receive rewards.
This year’s Dawning also addeda new Dawning Mementoyou can earn.
Decrypting Dawning Engrams has a small chance of dropping a Dawning Memento.
Now that you’ve spread some holiday cheer, it’s time to speak with Eva once more.
She will give youDawning Spiritas thanks.
This is a currency used to purchase new upgrades from Eva, enhancing your baking and snowball-making skills.
Purchase the first upgrade, Merrymaker, to finish the quest.
when you obtain some materials, inspect the oven to launch the baking interface.
Each NPC awards the same gift bag; there’s no best NPC to gift.
How To Earn Dawning Ingredients
Dawning ingredients are earned by killing enemies.
The enemy jot down and method you use to eliminate them will determine which ingredients they can drop.
Mix up your loadout throughout the event to earn an even spread of ingredients.
An exact list of ingredient acquisition sources can be found below.
Ingredient
Drop Source
Balanced Flavors
Bow, Scout Rifle, Sniper Rifle, and Pulse Rifle kills.
Bullet Spray
Auto Rifle, SMG, and Machine Gun kills.
Longer activities typically award more Essence, but this isn’t always the case (notably raids).
17 Essence every 30 seconds.
Farm the Dul Incaru encounter in the Shattered Throne dungeon.
20+ Essence every 45 seconds.
Solo Friendly
Farm Legend Lost Sectors.
17 Essence per 3-5 minutes.
Complete Season of the Wish’s core activity to earn new Awoken weapons and more.
Use the ingredient combinations below to create specific recipes.Creating a new treat will save its recipe.
when you’ve got enough Dawning Spirit, speak with Eva Levante to browse your Dawning upgrade options.
These range from unlocking DawningEngram focusing optionsto buffing snowballs found in ritual content.
This makes farming for Dawning Spirit much easier.
All Dawning 2023 upgrades can be found in the table below.
Dawning Upgrades
(35 Dawning Spirit Each)
Merrymaker
Receive a Boon of Friendship each day from Eva Levante.
Bountiful Harvest
Dawning bounties reward an additional random ingredient.
Essential Harvest
Dawning bounties reward a small amount of Dawning Essence.
Giftwrapped Exchange Ticket
Unlocks access to the Dawning Engram focusing option.
Limited Exchange Ticket
Unlocks access to the Limited Gift Exchange focusing options.
Perky Presents
Dawning weapons have a chance to drop with an additional perk in the left column.
Perkier Presents
Dawning weapons have a chance to drop with an additional perk in the right column.
Snowball Upgrades
(20 Dawning Spirit Each)
Long Winter
Increases the duration of slow effects applied by snowballs.
Longer Winter
Increases the slow stacks applied to combatants damaged by snowballs.
Longest Winter
Snowballs instantly freeze combatants damaged by them.
Stay Frosty
Snowballs leave a Stasis mine on impact.
Gift That Keeps On Giving
Shattering frozen combatants causes them to drop snowballs.
Complete these challenges to unlock focusing options, guaranteed red border drops, and more.
Complete all 16 challenges toearn the Star Baker title.
Ice Cold Comfort
Defeat 100 combatants with snowballs anywhere in the system.
Amateur Baker
Bake 6 types of cookies in the Dawning Oven.
Bake-stravaganza
Bake 50 cookies in the Dawning Oven.
Shopping Spree
Purchase all 12 Dawning upgrades from Eva with Dawning Spirit.
Bake 13 types of cookies in the Dawning Oven.
Expert Baker
Bake 20 types of cookies in the Dawning Oven.
Deep Freeze
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Stasis weapons or abilities.
Yarn Maker
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Strand.
Thundersnow
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Arc weapons or abilities.
Snowmelt
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Solar weapons or abilities.
They Call It sNOw
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Void weapons or abilities.
Vanguard Eternity
Complete Vanguard Ops or Dares of Eternity activities.
Competitive Spirit
Complete Crucible or Gambit matches.
Snowtruck
Spawn snowballs by defeating combatants with weapons or abilities in valid activities.
Star Baker
Earn the Dawning 2023 Seal.
Best Dawning Weapon Rolls
Six weapons are up for grabs in this year’s Dawning event.
Albedo Wing God Roll
Albedo Wing is a missed opportunity.
Bungie unfortunately made this weapon an Arc Glaive instead of the Stasis Glaive many were anticipating.
Beacon RoundsandClose to Meleeis an interesting perk combination.
Kill an enemy with your Glaive, and your projectiles will begin to track targets.
For more DPS against Champions and majors,Rewind RoundsandTarget Lockare also great options.
If you love SMGs, look elsewhere.
Successful Warm-Up will then morph it into a Rapid-Fire Fusion for a few seconds after you land a kill.
So long as you have ammo, this gun is a straight monster in PvP.
This Stasis Pulse Rifle has some great perk combinations this year that highly bias PvP play.
PvE players can useEnlightened ActionandHeadstonefor a solid workhorse Primary in ritual content.
Kill Clip will dorp the gun’s TTK to 0.53s against T9 Guardians and under.
If you hate Resilience gates or tend to miss your shots, giveDesperadoa try instead.
Your optimal TTK will slightly decrease, but Stay Frosty will be far more forgiving.
Pair it withTireless Bladefor a solid utility weapon.
