Destiny 2 Dawning 2022 ingredients, gifts, and recipes guide

Nov 28, 2023

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Grab the new Stay Frosty pulse rifle to celebrate the holiday

The time for cookies is upon us once again, as Destiny 2's Dawning holiday event has rolled into town. Eva Levante, space grandma and Guardians’ favorite holiday vendor, is back in the tower and ready to set you on your baking quest. This year even comes with some new goodies, including a new weapon.

In this Destiny 2 Dawning 2022 guide, we’ll help you finish all of Eva Levante's recipes and complete her Challenges so you can unlock the new Star Baker title.

In order to bake cookies for NPCs — the main thrust of The Dawning — you’ll need some special ingredients.

Eva Levante will give you some bounties that have certain ingredients as rewards, which is an easy way to guarantee a drop of what you need. You actually don't need to do bounties if you know how to farm each ingredient individually, but you will need to do bounties to get the Dawning Spirit resource, which we’ll discuss later.

As of The Dawning 2021, you can now open your Oven 2.1 to see exactly how to get each ingredient. We’ve also listed their sources below.

Despite their name, these uncommon ingredients are easy to find, and they will pop into your inventory randomly when killing certain enemy types.

You’ll earn these ingredients — rarely — by killing enemies in very specific ways. There are quite a few of these, so you’ll need to change up your playstyle to get a surplus of everything.

Each recipe will consist of an uncommon ingredient, a rare ingredient and 15 Essence of Dawning — which you get from completing any activity around the world or from bounties. The longer or more difficult the activity, the more Essence you earn.

To bake, open your Quest menu and interact with Eva's Holiday Oven 2.1. Combine two ingredients and some Essence of Dawning to bake a treat. As of 2021, you’ll be able to see all of the recipes, regardless of whether you’ve baked that treat before.

There is one new recipe and a few returning favorites in 2022. Here's a complete list of cookies and their recipes:

Once you’ve baked each recipe, you can masterwork your oven to reduce the Essence of Dawning cost to 10 per treat. You should prioritize cooking every cookie at least once over completing quests for Eva.

The Dawning 2022 has gotten the new holiday treatment that we also saw Bungie implemented with this year's Festival of the Lost and Solstice. There are now event Challenges to earn, as well as a Title to claim and eventually gild. There are also, of course, upgrades for Eva that will help make your Dawning event that much more efficient and profitable.

The Dawning Spirit currency is back from 2021. Spirit comes from bounties, Challenges, and giving gifts. Eva will teach you about the system in her introductory quest. Then she’ll ask you to bake a cookie for each of the game's NPCs.

You can use Dawning Spirit to upgrade Eva with some new perks, which we’ve listed below. The seven upgrades cost 40 Dawning Spirit each, while the snowball updates cost 20 Dawning Spirit each:

The Stay Frosty Stasis pulse rifle is the new hotness this year. It's a Lightweight Frame Stasis pulse rifle that's also part of the Omolon family. You’ll get the first one of these by completing Eva's Dawn of Dawning Challenge, which acts as the tutorial for this year's holiday event.

Like previous years, you can get more Stay Frostys — as well as old Dawning weapons like Cold Front, Avalanche, and Glacioclasm — by turning cookies in to NPCs.

The new Holiday Challenges are packed with activities you might expect, like throwing snowballs at people and baking cookies. But they also come with some great rewards, and you’ll need to complete almost all of them if you want to become "Star Baker" with the new title.

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