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Destiny 2is celebrating this holiday season with its winter-themed Dawning event.
Turn your enemies into delicious treats, gift them to your favorite characters, and earn some exclusive rewards.
Reach the 2,020 Power cap quickly with this complete guide.
What Is The Dawning?
It’s a fairly passive event that doesn’t require you to grind certain playlists to reap the rewards.
Fortunately, Eva Levante has plenty to spare.
you’ve got the option to find her in theTower Courtyardright next to spawn.
From this menu, you’ll be able to check through your current list of holiday recipes and ingredients.
Each recipe requires three ingredients:
How To Earn Dawning Ingredients
Uncommoningredients drop from slain PvE enemies.
The faction you kill determines what bang out of uncommon ingredient they drop.
For example, Fallen can drop Ether Cane, while Vex units drop Vex Milk.
Bear in mind that no uncommon ingredient exists for the Dread.
Rareingredients drop when you eliminate enemies with a certain punch in of weapon or damage punch in.
Sword and Glaive kills grant Sharp Flavor, Void kills grant Null Taste, and so on.
Earning Essence Of Dawning
Finally, all treats require 15Essence of Dawningto bake.
You’ll earn Essence of Dawning by completing activities during the Dawning.
The longer and more difficult the activity, the more Essence you’ll typically earn.
This lasts until the end of the event.
Recipes carry over between events.
If you Masterworked your oven last year, you only need to bake Neomun-Pie to upgrade it this year.
Bullet Spray
Auto Rifle, SMG, and Machine Gun kills.
Bungie added a new recipe calledNeomun-Pie for Nimbus, but otherwise it’s the same as before.
Free Dawning Spirit
For Dawning 2020 players, reclaim theStarfarer 7Mship from your Collections tab.
This will passively generate Dawning Spirit as you earn ingredients during the event.
This ship can be found in the “Equipment” section of your Collections tab.
Check the “Season 12” tab of your ship collection.
All Dawning 2024 upgrades can be found 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.
Dawning Rewards
This year’s Dawning has six weapons up for grabs and an exclusive Memento.
