The holiday season is right around the corner, and its joy has already made it to Destiny 2 with the Dawning event. Our favorite space grandma is back with her Holiday Oven, so we can bake treats and farm multiple materials, including Dawning Spirit, to exchange for rewards.
Dawning Spirit is a currency you need to focus Festive Engrams and individual Dawning weapons at Eva Levante. These weapons and the Dawning Memento are the main reasons to play the holiday event, so you want to get as much Dawning Spirit as possible.
Here’s everything you need to know to get Dawning Spirit in Destiny 2.
How to get Dawning Spirit in Destiny 2
Deliver baked treats
The main thing to do during the Dawning is to bake and deliver treats to different characters. Delivering a gift grants Strange Coins and Dawning Spirit and has a chance to net you A Gift In Return. As you play the game during the event, you’ll naturally acquire ingredients for different treats.
Make sure to bake whichever treats you can and deliver them to the corresponding character in the game. To make your life easier, bake every cookie in the game to unlock the ability to masterwork the oven. The masterwork reduces the Essence of Dawning cost for all recipes, allowing you to make more treats and earn more Dawning Spirit.
Complete Eva’s bounties
During the Dawning, Eva Levante offers weekly, daily, and repeatable bounties that you can pick up and complete to earn Dawning Spirit. Weekly bounties reward 10 Dawning Spirit and 30 Essence of Dawning. Daily bounties reward two Dawning Spirit and an ingredient.
Repeatable bounties require you to deliver a specific treat, so they may not be the best way to farm Dawning Spirit if you’re focusing on only one recipe.
Complete event card challenges
The Dawning event card features 16 challenges you can complete to get the Star Baker title, a copy of every weapon, including the Mistral Lift Linear Fusion Rifle, and some extra Dawning Spirit. Each challenge grants five Dawning Spirit alongside other rewards.
Equip the Starfarer 7M ship
The best thing you can do for a passive income of Dawning Spirit is to equip the Starfarer 7M Exotic ship (from season 12). The ship comes with the Spirit of the Season trait that grants a chance to generate Dawning Spirit whenever you get a Dawning ingredient, like Null Taste.
The chance is quite generous, too. When farming Expert Lost Sectors, I got Dawning Spirit every other time I got a Dawning ingredient.
If you don’t have the ship, head to Eva Levante in the Tower. You can buy Starfarer 7M and other rewards from past seasons in the Gifts of Dawning Past tab.
Use Boons of Friendship
One last thing you can do is use Boons of Friendship. During the introductory Dawning quest, you must unlock the Merrymaker upgrade at Eva Levante. With this upgrade, you can get a daily consumable from Eva to get extra Dawning Spirit for completing a ritual activity.
The Boon of Friendship is a consumable that goes into your inventory. Remember to manually activate it before jumping into the activity.
