Destiny 2: Dawning 2021 guide — Dawning Spirit, bounties, and rewards

Destiny 2 The Dawning 2021 event guide – Starting out and meeting Eva Levante

The first order of business is to meet up with Eva Levante in the Tower. This leads to a couple of notable quests once she gives you the Holiday Oven.

Here are the steps:

• Bake a gift for Commander Zavala. The recipe requires 1x Ether Cane, 1x Delicious Explosion, and 15x Essence of Dawning. These are automatically provided.
• Bring the Gjallardoodles to Zavala.
• Return to Eva. She’ll hand you 40x Dawning Spirit, the event currency.
• You can then purchase the Merrymaker upgrade from her wares. You’ll receive a Boon of Friendship each daily reset from Eva.
• Upon completion, you’ll receive two quests – The Pigeon Provides and Rite of Dawning.

Eva’s bounties

Weekly bounties:

• The Spirit of Giving – Deliver 5x gifts.
• Snowball Fight – Defeat 50x enemies with snowballs. Snowballs can be found near public events, in Europa’s lost sectors, and the strike that corresponds to the weekly Nightfall.
• Weekly bounties reward XP, Bright Dust, 30x Essence of Dawning, and 10x Dawning Spirit.

Daily bounties:

• Hive Handler – Defeat 50x Hive; receive Chitin Powder.
• Scorn Slayer – Defeat 50x Scorn; receive Dark Ether Cane.
• Take ‘Em Out – Defeat 50x Taken; receive Taken Butter.
• Dawning Spark – Defeat enemies with Arc damage; receive Electric Flavor.
• Apart from ingredients, daily bounties also reward XP and 2x Dawning Spirit.

Dawning Spirit and upgrades

You can earn Dawning Spirit in Destiny 2 by completing bounties, claiming achievements, activating Boons of Friendship, and delivering cookies. These are required to unlock account-wide upgrades from Eva. The reward boosts require 40x Dawning Spirit each. Meanwhile, the Snowball upgrades require 20x Dawning Spirit each, but they need to be unlocked in order.

• Merrymaker – You’ll receive a Boon of Friendship each daily reset from Eva. This is automatically obtained during the early stages of the event.
  • The Boon of Friendship is a consumable that can grant additional Dawning rewards for your fireteam when it’s used during an activity.
• Bountiful Harvest – Dawning bounties reward an additional ingredient.
• Essential Harvest – Dawning bounties grant a small amount of Dawning Essence.
• Perky Presents – Dawning weapons have a chance to drop with an additional perk in the left column.
• Perkier Presents (requires Perky Presents) – Dawning weapons have a chance to drop with an additional perk in the right column.
• Long Winter – Increases the duration of slowing effects applied by snowballs.
• Longer Winter – Further increases the slowing effects.
• Longest Winter – Snowballs instantly freeze enemies.
• Stay Frosty – Snowballs leave a Stasis mine on impact.
• Gift That Keeps On Giving – Shattering frozen enemies causes them to drop snowballs.

Gift Exchanges: Weapons and Rides

Finally, Eva has various rewards and gift packages that you can acquire:

• Unity Gift Exchange (requires Rite of Dawning completion) – Receive either the Glacioclasm fusion rifle or Avalanche machine gun; costs 5x Dawning Spirit and 1x A Gift In Return.
• Edgy Gift Exchange (requires The Pigeon Provides completion) – Receive either the Zephyr sword or Cold Front submachine gun.
• Zephyr sword (requires The Pigeon Provides completion) – Unlocks the Zephyr sword as a possible reward for A Gift In Return packages.
• Vapoorwill Spin (requires Rite of Dawning and The Pigeon Provides completion) – Grants you the Dawning 2021’s exotic ship.

Note: Now that we’ve covered what Eva has, let’s move on to the other stuff in the Dawning 2021 event in Destiny 2. You can refer to our other guides regarding the Holiday Oven Recipes, The Pigeon Provides quest, and the Rite of Dawning quest.

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