Dawning Event 2024 in Destiny 2: All Dawning Ingredients And How To Get Them
Key Takeaways
- Master the art of cookie baking with detailed guides on gathering ingredients and crafting recipes for your favourite NPCs.
- Maximize efficiency by learning the best farming methods for both uncommon and rare ingredients.
- Discover all the exciting rewards, including the new Mistral Lift Linear Fusion Rifle, Dawning Memento, and festive cosmetics.
The Dawning Event Returns: Celebrate in Style
Destiny 2’s beloved holiday event, The Dawning, is back, bringing festive cheer and challenges to close out 2024. Guardians are tasked with crafting cookies for the game’s iconic NPCs by farming ingredients and baking in Eva Levante’s holiday oven. Whether you’re aiming for festive fun or exclusive rewards, this guide will help you dominate The Dawning 2024.
Ingredients in Destiny 2’s The Dawning
To craft cookies, you need two main ingredient types: uncommon enemy ingredients and rare kill ingredients. Each has specific farming methods. Here’s a breakdown:
Uncommon Enemy Ingredients
These drop randomly from defeating specific enemy types.
| Ingredient | How to Obtain | Best Farming Locations |
| Cabal Oil | Kill Cabal enemies | EDZ, Nessus, Neomuna |
| Chitin Powder | Kill Hive enemies | Moon, Cosmodrome, Savathun’s Throne World |
| Dark Ether Cane | Kill Scorn enemies | Dreaming City, Savathun’s Throne World |
| Ether Cane | Kill Fallen enemies | Cosmodrome, Nessus, EDZ, Europa |
| Taken Butter | Kill Taken enemies | Dreaming City |
| Vex Milk | Kill Vex enemies | Nessus, Neomuna, Europa |
Rare Kill Ingredients
These drop based on specific weapon types, abilities, or kill methods. Their rarity means some patience is required.
| Ingredient | How to Obtain |
| Balanced Flavors | Bow, sniper rifle, scout rifle, or pulse rifle kills |
| Bullet Spray | Heavy machine gun, auto rifle, or SMG kills |
| Dark Frosting | Stasis or Strand abilities or weapon kills |
| Delicious Explosions | Grenade launcher, rocket launcher, or class grenade kills |
| Electric Flavor | Arc abilities or weapon kills |
| Finishing Touch | Finisher kills |
| Flash of Inspiration | Generate Orbs of Power with Supers or Mods |
| Impossible Heat | Solar abilities or weapon kills |
| Multifaceted Flavors | Multi-kills with any weapon or ability |
| Null Taste | Void abilities or weapon kills |
| Perfect Taste | Precision kills |
| Personal Touch | Melee kills |
| Sharp Flavor | Sword kills |
| Superb Texture | Super kills |
Baking Cookies in The Dawning
With ingredients in hand, it’s time to bake. Head to Eva Levante’s holiday oven, marked on your map, to create cookies for your favourite NPCs. Each recipe needs an uncommon ingredient, a rare kill ingredient, and Essence of Dawning, which you earn from completing activities like Dungeons, Rituals, and Legend Lost Sectors.
All Cookie Recipes and Their Recipients
| Cookie Name | NPC | Ingredients Required |
| Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin | Eris Morn | Chitin Powder, Finishing Touch |
| Blueberry Crumbles | Shaw Han | Ether Cane, Bullet Spray |
| Bright-Dusted Snowballs | Tess Everis | Chitin Powder, Multifaceted Flavors |
| Classic Butter Cookies | Eva Levante | Taken Butter, Superb Texture |
| Dark Chocolate Motes | The Drifter | Taken Butter, Null Taste |
| Eliksni Birdseed | Hawthorne | Ether Cane, Personal Touch |
| Etheric Coldsnaps | Variks | Chitin Powder, Electric Flavor |
| Gentleman’s Shortbread | Devrim Kay | Ether Cane, Perfect Taste |
| Gjallardoodles | Commander Zavala | Ether Cane, Delicious Explosions |
| Hot Crossfire Buns | Ada-1 | Ether Cane, Balanced Flavors |
| Ill-Fortune Cookies | Petra Venj | Dark Ether Cane, Impossible Heat |
| Infinite Forest Cake | Failsafe | Vex Milk, Impossible Heat |
| Lavender Ribbon Cookies | Saint-14 | Vex Milk, Personal Touch |
| Lucent Crunch | Fynch | Chitin Powder, Perfect Taste |
| Neomun-Pie | Nimbus | Vex Milk, Dark Frosting |
| Starwort Thins | Exo Stranger | Dark Ether Cane, Dark Frosting |
| Strange Cookies | Xur | Taken Butter, Electric Flavor |
| Telemetry Tapioca | Banshee-44 | Vex Milk, Bullet Spray |
| Traveler Donut Holes | Ikora | Cabal Oil, Flash of Inspiration |
| Vanilla Blades | Lord Shaxx | Cabal Oil, Sharp Flavor |
How to Optimize Essence of Dawning Farming
Each cookie requires 10-15 Essence of Dawning. Masterworking Eva’s holiday oven reduces this cost to 10 per cookie. Activities like Vanguard Strikes, Gambit, and PvP matches are great ways to farm Essence.
Exclusive Rewards in The Dawning 2024
The Dawning event offers more than cookies. Check out these seasonal goodies:
- Mistral Lift Linear Fusion Rifle: A new weapon with icy visuals and unique perks.
- Dawning Memento: Transform your weapons with frosty effects.
- Stasis Snowballs: Spawnable snowballs for fun and combat.
- Winter-Themed Cosmetics: Available via Eververse or the Challenge Card.
- Stasis Dragon-Themed Armor: Earnable through gameplay or Bright Dust/Silver.
- New Vanguard Emblems: Part of a community event.
- Dawning Title: Earn and gild this title for additional prestige.
FAQs
Q1: What is the best way to farm uncommon ingredients?
Defeat enemies in specific regions where they are most concentrated. For example, farm Cabal Oil in the EDZ or Hive enemies on the Moon.
Q2: How can I efficiently gather rare kill ingredients?
Use weapons and abilities that match the required criteria. For example, use swords to farm Sharp Flavour or generate Orbs of Power for Flash of Inspiration.
Q3: How do I reduce the Essence of Dawning cost?
Masterwork Eva’s oven by baking each recipe once, reducing the Essence cost from 15 to 10.
Q4: What rewards can I get from The Dawning?
Rewards include exclusive weapons like the Mistral Lift, winter-themed cosmetics, community emblems, and the Dawning Title.
Q5: How long does The Dawning last?
The Dawning event typically spans three weeks in December, closing just before the New Year.
