Destiny 2: Dawning 2023 Guide - All Recipes, Upgrades, And The Best Dawning Weapon Rolls

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• What Is The Dawning?

• The Dawning Quest Guide

• Eva's Holiday Oven

• All Dawning 2023 Recipes

• Dawning Spirit And Event Upgrades

• Dawning Event Card Challenges

• Best Dawning Weapon Rolls

Destiny 2's winter event is here. The Dawning infuses some festive cheer into Destiny 2's various PvE and PvP activities, adding snowball throwable items and a suite of currency items you can exchange for gift bags. If you're looking for a good source of Masterwork materials or weapons, the Dawning is the perfect time to jump in.

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This event has seen some minor changes this year, notably the introduction of Dawning Engrams and focusing options at Eva Levante. For both New Lights and veteran Guardians, this guide will cover everything you need to know about this year's Dawning winter event.

What Is The Dawning?

The Dawning is a holiday event that runs from December 12 to January 2. Guardians get to spread festive cheer by turning slain enemies into delicious treats. Gift these treats to your favorite NPC, and you'll be handsomely rewarded with Dawning Gift bundles which contain Masterwork materials, event currencies, and exclusive Dawning Engrams.

Unlike most quarterly holiday events, the Dawning doesn't impose any loadout restrictions to receive rewards. You don't need to equip a mask or specific class item to receive new rewards. Simply kill enemies, bake treats, and earn rewards. It's effectively a bonus loot event with some unique weapons to chase. This year's Dawning also added a new Dawning Memento you can earn.

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The Dawning Quest Guide

When you first login during the Dawning, head to the Tower and speak with Eva Levante. She serves as your main contact for this event and is where you'll purchase most Dawning items from. She will give you "The Dawning" quest to start the event, asking you to bake some Gjallardoodle cookies for Zavala. The quest steps are quite straightforward:

1. Speak with Eva to acquire an oven.
2. Open the oven interface.
   1. Quests menu -> Quests subtab -> Eva's Holiday Oven 2.1
3. Insert the Ether Cane and Delicious Explosion ingredients into the oven.
4. Speak to Commander Zavala in the Tower.

If done correctly, Zavala will give you a Dawning Gift when you next speak with him. You can find and open your Dawning Gifts from the Inventory tab. These bags grant Masterwork Materials, gear from the world loot pool, and Dawning Engrams.

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 you Dawning Spirit as 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.

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Eva's Holiday Oven

All of this year's Dawning goodies are earned through Eva's Holiday Oven, a crafting interface accessed from the "Quests" tab of the Director menu. Selecting the oven will showcase all of your current holiday ingredients and known treat recipes. You'll need Dawning ingredients and Essence of Dawning to make treats. You'll get a handful of supplies at the start of the event after speaking with Eva Levante.

Once you have some materials, inspect the oven to open the baking interface. From here, you'll be able to insert two ingredient types to craft treats. Combining two compatible ingredients will make a new treat, saving the recipe for future use. You can then bring the treat to the designated NPC in the treat's description to earn a gift bag. Each NPC awards the same gift bag; there's no best NPC to gift.

Masterworking Eva's Holiday Oven

Unlocking every recipe will Masterwork Eva's Holiday Oven, reducing the Essence of Dawning cost of all recipes from 15 to 10.

If you unlocked every recipe last year, you can Masterwork the oven immediately after acquiring it from Eva.

How To Earn Dawning Ingredients

Dawning ingredients are earned by killing enemies. The enemy type and method you use to eliminate them will determine which ingredients they can drop. For example, Fallen enemies can drop Ether Cane when slain, but if you kill the Fallen enemy with a Sword, they can also drop the Sharp Flavor ingredient. 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.

Cabal Oil

Cabal enemies

Chitin Powder

Hive enemies

Dark Ether Cane

Scorn enemies

Dark Frosting

Stasis kills

Delicious Explosion

AoE kills (grenades, grenade launchers, rocket launchers)

Electric Flavor

Arc kills

Ether Cane

Fallen enemies

Finishing Touch

Finisher kills

Flash of Inspiration

Generate Orbs of Power

Impossible Heat

Solar kills

Multifaceted Flavors

Multikills

Null Taste

Void kills

Perfect Taste

Precision kills

Personal Touch

Melee kills

Pinch of Light

Collect Orbs of Power

Sharp Flavor

Sword and Glaive kills

Superb Texture

Super kills

Taken Butter

Taken enemies

Vex Milk

Vex enemies

How To Earn Essence Of Dawning

Essence of Dawning is earned by completing activities during the Dawning. Longer activities typically award more Essence, but this isn't always the case (notably raids). Generally, your best sources of Essence include weekly campaign missions, dungeons, and ritual activities—Vanguard Ops, Crucible, and Gambit.

If you're looking to farm Essence quickly, you have three options:

Prerequisites

Strategy

Essence Earned

Fireteam Required

Farm the final checkpoint in the "First Contact" Lightfall mission.

17 Essence every 30 seconds.

Fireteam Required

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.

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All Dawning 2023 Recipes

There are 22 recipes in this year's Dawning, the same as last year. No new recipes were added, so you can immediately Masterwork your oven if you completed this grind last year. Use the ingredient combinations below to create specific recipes. Creating a new treat will save its recipe. Unlock all 22 recipes to Masterwork your oven, reducing the Essence cost of all recipes from 15 to 10.

Recipe

Vendor

Ingredients

Gjallardoodles

Zavala (Tower)

• Etheric Cane
• Delicious Explosion

Traveler Donut Holes

Ikora Rey (Tower)

• Cabal Oil
• Flash of Inspiration

Chocolate Ship Cookies

Amanda Holliday (Tower)

• Cabal Oil
• Null Taste

Telemetry Tapioca

Banshee-44 (Tower)

• Vex Milk
• Bullet Spray

Eliksni Birdseed

Hawthorne (Tower)

• Ether Cane
• Personal Touch

Gentleman's Shortbread

Devrim Kay (EDZ)

• Ether Cane
• Perfect Taste

Infinite Forest Cake

Failsafe (Nessus)

• Vex Milk
• Impossible Heat

Vanilla Blades

Shaxx (Tower)

• Cabal Oil
• Sharp Flavor

Dark Chocolate Motes

Drifter (Tower)

• Taken Butter
• Null Taste

Candy Dead Ghosts

Spider (Eliksni Quarter)

• Dark Ether Cane
• Flash of Inspiration

Ill-Fortune Cookies

Petra Venj (Dreaming City)

• Dark Ether Cane
• Impossible Heat

Strange Cookies

Xur (Treasure Hoard)

• Taken Butter
• Electric Flavor

Lavender Ribbon Cookies

Saint-14 (Tower)

• Vex Milk
• Personal Touch

Hot Crossfire Buns

Ada-1 (Tower)

• Ether Cane
• Balanced Flavors

Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Eris Morn (Moon)

• Chitin Powder
• Finishing Touch

Etheric Coldsnaps

Variks (Europa)

• Chitin Powder
• Electric Flavor

Blueberry Crumbles

Shaw Han (Cosmodrome)

• Ether Cane
• Bullet Spray

Bittersweet Biscotti

Crow (H.E.L.M.)

• Dark Ether Cane
• Balanced Flavors

Bright-Dusted Snowballs

Tess Everis (Tower)

• Chitin Powder
• Multifaceted Flavors

Classic Butter Cookies

Eva Levante (Tower)

• Taken Butter
• Superb Texture

Starwort Thins

Exo Stranger (Europa)

• Dark Ether Cane
• Dark Frosting

Lucent Crunch

Fynch (Savathun's Throne World)

• Chitin Powder
• Perfect Taste

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Dawning Spirit And Event Upgrades

Eva Levante has some ideas on how to spread holiday cheer, but she'll first need Dawning Spirit. This is an event currency earned by delivering treats and completing Dawning bounties. Once you have enough Dawning Spirit, speak with Eva Levante to browse your Dawning upgrade options. These range from unlocking Dawning Engram focusing options to buffing snowballs found in ritual content.

Free Dawning Spirit

If you played The Dawning in 2020, you can use the Starfarer 7M ship to generate Dawning Spirit whenever you find Dawning ingredients. This makes farming for Dawning Spirit much easier.

You can find this ship in Collections -> Equipment -> Ships -> Season 12.

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.

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Dawning Event Card Challenges

There are a total of 16 challenges in this year's Dawning, most of which require you to bake treats and defeat enemies with certain elemental damage types. You do not need to purchase the Event Card to complete these challenges. Each challenge you complete will award Gifts, Glimmer, and Dawning Essence. Complete all 16 challenges to earn the Star Baker title.

Dawn of the Dawning

Complete the Dawning introduction quests, "Bake a Cookie" and "Give a Gift to Zavala."

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.

Amateur Baker

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.

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Best Dawning Weapon Rolls

Six weapons are up for grabs in this year's Dawning event. Unlike previous years, these weapons are now acquired through Dawning Engram Focusing. As you unwrap Dawning Gifts, you will earn Dawning Engrams which can be decrypted into one of these six weapons. And thanks to certain Dawning upgrades, you can target-farm the exact weapon you want through this system.

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. Nevertheless, this weapon does have some solid perk combinations for Glaive enthusiasts, although it doesn't push the envelope for what Glaives are capable of.

Beacon Rounds and Close to Melee is an interesting perk combination. Kill an enemy with your Glaive, and your projectiles will begin to track targets. These projectiles will then proc Close to Melee, increasing your melee damage. Grave Robber and Demolitionist is a solid alternative if you want to auto-load this weapon, but otherwise, Albedo Wing is outclassed by other Glaives.

Haft

Magazine

Trait 1

Trait 2

Masterwork

PvE Roll

Auxiliary Reserves

Accurized Rounds

Beacon Rounds

Close to Melee

Range

PvP Roll

Auxiliary Reserves

Accurized Rounds

Grave Robber

Demolitionist

Range

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Avalanche God Roll

Avalanche is a great Machine Gun for newcomers and returning players alike. This 450 RPM Solar MG has a solid perk pool for slaying adds and majors alike. Subsistence and Incandescent is a fan-favorite perk for clearing adds, causing targets to explode on death while partially refilling your magazine. For more DPS against Champions and majors, Rewind Roundsand Target Lock are also great options.

PvP players should use Grenade Launchers or Rocket Launchers instead, but Avalanche can get the job done. Dynamic Sway Reduction and Vorpal Weapon will make this weapon feel consistent across all ranges.

Barrel

Magazine

Trait 1

Trait 2

Masterwork

PvE Roll

Arrowhead Brake

Accurized Rounds

Subsistence

Incandescent

Range

PvP Roll

Arrowhead Brake

Accurized Rounds

Dynamic Sway Reduction

Vorpal Weapon

Range

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Cold Front God Roll

Cold Front's garbage stats yet again ruin an otherwise solid SMG. This weapon has a shockingly bad 7 stability, the worst in its class, and a middling 40 range. Stats for All, One for All, and Frenzy are the only perks worth considering in PvE, as each perk directly fixes some issue Cold Comfort has.

For PvP, forget it. Perpetual Motion and Rampage is as good as you'll get, but that isn't anywhere near good enough to warrant farming for Cold Front specifically. If you love SMGs, look elsewhere.

Barrel

Magazine

Trait 1

Trait 2

Masterwork

PvE Roll

Smallbore

Steady Rounds

Stats for All

One for All

Range

PvP Roll

Smallbore

Steady Rounds

Perpetual Motion

Rampage

Range

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Glacioclasm God Roll

Glacioclasm is a High-Impact Fusion Rifle that deals Void damage. This weapon was notorious for cross-mapping players in the Crucible back in Forsaken, and it was technically possible last year thanks to Kickstart and Liquid Coils, but that playstyle has finally been put to rest.

While you can't get Kickstart on Glacioclasm anymore, this weapon can get Slideshot and Successful Warm-Up. With the right perks, Slideshot will max your range stat and greatly increase your stability, making this gun a straight laser. 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.

PvE players can also find success with Glacioclasm. Subsistence and Reservoir Burst returns from last year, allowing you to repeatedly proc Reservoir Burst if you can keep killing enemies. If you care more about boss DPS, Overflow and Controlled Burst can also roll on Glacioclasm this year, making this a great alternative to The Eremite and Cartesian Coordinate.

Barrel

Magazine

Trait 1

Trait 2

Masterwork

PvE Roll

Smallbore

Accelerated Coils

Overflow

Controlled Burst

Charge Time

PvP Roll

Smallbore

Projection Fuse

Slideshot

Successful Warm-Up

Charge Time

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Stay Frosty God Roll

Fans of Lightweight Pulse Rifles should keep Stay Frosty on their radar. This Stasis Pulse Rifle has some great perk combinations this year that highly bias PvP play. PvE players can use Enlightened Action and Headstone for a solid workhorse Primary in ritual content. Headstone's crystal detonation can proc Enlightened Action, greatly improving your reload speed and handling after a Headstone shatter.

Crucible players will need a 5/5 roll, but this gun is quite strong if you manage to get the right perks. Encore and Kill Clip is our recommendation, greatly enhancing your range, stability, accuracy, and optimal TTK after a kill. 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, give Desperado a try instead. Your optimal TTK will slightly decrease, but Stay Frosty will be far more forgiving.

Barrel

Magazine

Trait 1

Trait 2

Masterwork

PvE Roll

Smallbore

Accurized Rounds

Enlightened Action

Headstone

Range

PvP Roll

Arrowhead Brake

Accurized Rounds

Encore

Kill Clip OR Desperado

Range

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Zephyr God Roll

Zephyr is the only Stasis Sword in Destiny 2 currently, which makes it the only weapon that can roll with Cold Steel. This makes your blade inflict Slow stacks with each strike, capable of freezing targets outright with consecutive hits. Pair it with Tireless Blade for a solid utility weapon. You can also opt for Chain Reaction if you don't care for Cold Steel, but at that rate, you might as well use a different Sword.

Blade

Guard

Trait 1

Trait 2

Masterwork

PvE Roll

Hungry Edge

Tactical Mag

Tireless Blade

Cold Steel

Impact

PvP Roll

Enduring Blade

Accurized Rounds

Tireless Blade

Cold Steel

Impact

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