It’s that festive time of year again; The Dawning has returned to the Tower in Destiny 2 to close out the 2023 calendar year, filling the game’s central hubs with decorations and bringing back the timeless holiday backing event.
Yes, the familiar gameplay mechanic of baking treats to give out to characters spread across the system is back, with plenty of holiday rewards to earn while doing so. To bake these treats, players will need to acquire and use Eva Levante’s Holiday Oven 2.1. Owners of the upgraded The Dawning event card can also acquire some instantly unlockable Exotic cosmetics, and earn a ton of rewards by completing various baking challenges.
How to find Eva’s Holiday Oven in Destiny 2
To get Eva’s Holiday Oven during The Dawning 2023 event, speak to Eva Levante in the center of the main Tower area during the event to start The Dawning questline, which can be tracked in your Quests menu.
Like with previous years, your first task will be to use Eva’s Holiday Oven to bake a gift for Commander Zavala: his favorite Gjallardoodles. Players will be able to access Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.1 from the quest menu, on the main Quests page that’s underneath the Featured Quests page. Once you’ve opened the Oven, hover over the Discovered Recipes square to view all the recipes.
How to use Eva’s Holiday Oven in Destiny 2 The Dawning 2023
For the starting quest, you should have the ingredients to make Gjallardoodles already. Once they’re made, deliver them to Zavala who will reward you with a Dawning Delivery gift. Then, go back to the quests menu and go to The Dawning challenges page to claim your first reward. Return to Eva to receive some Dawning Spirit, then purchase the Merrymaker upgrade from her. This will finally unlock the Cookie Delivery Helper quest and unlock new recipes.
All recipes require a mix of uncommon and rare ingredients. Even if a recipe is undiscovered, you can still hover over it to view what ingredients are needed and who it’s for. Once the treat is made for the first time, it will become discovered, and players can earn Masterwork after discovering all the recipes, which reduces the cost of all recipes. It appears, though, that if you previously discovered all recipes in previous years, you can instantly Masterwork your oven right away.
The Ingredients section of the Oven will tell you precisely how to acquire each ingredient. In general, uncommon ingredients require you to defeat a specific faction of enemies (Hive, Taken, Cabal, etc.), and rare ingredients require you to use a certain weapon type, damage type, or other method to defeat enemies.
Delivering treats will reward you with gift packages as well as Dawning Spirit, which is used to unlock upgrades from Eva. Baking and delivering treats will also progress bounties you can acquire from Eva. You should always talk to Eva before you start baking that day to maximize bounty completion and rewards.
