Destiny 2’s annual Dawning event is currently live, allowing Guardians to bake delicious treats for their favorite NPC vendors in exchange for festive-themed weapons and cosmetics. This year’s Dawning came with a few new surprises, one of which being a new title. The Star Baker title is available to those who are dedicated to baking treats and killing enemies with snowballs.
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Bake holiday treats to earn exclusive rewards during this year’s Dawning event.
As far as titles go, Star Baker is quite easy to obtain. Besides the snowball and Dawning Spirit Triumphs, this title is easy to obtain and doesn’t have many niche Triumph objectives. This guide will show every Triumph tied to the Star Baker title and how best to complete them, providing tips and tricks that should make this title much easier to earn.
Updated December 28, 2024, by Charles Burgar: The Dawning has made some small Triumph changes since we last updated this article. We’ve added all new Triumph challenges and updated formatting for this year’s Star Baker title requirements.
Dawn Of The Dawning
Complete the Dawning introduction quests, “Bake a Cookie” and “Give a Gift to Zavala.”
Upon logging in, you’ll be greeted by Eva Levante the first time you visit the Tower. Collect Eva’s Holiday Oven from her, bake a set of Gjallardoodles, then deliver the gift to Commander Zavala to finish this Triumph. You should have this done already if you’ve been playing since the Dawning began.
Ice Cold Combat
Defeat combatants with snowballs anywhere in the system.
You must defeat 100 combatants with snowballs in any playlist to finish this Triumph. We recommend strikes. Lower the enemy’s HP, grab a snowball, aim directly at the target, and repeat. This might take a few runs to complete, especially if you’re matchmaking with other players. The snowball must land the killing blow to count.
Bake-stravaganza
Bake cookies in the Dawning Oven.
You’ll need to bake 50 treats to finish this Triumph. Seeing as you need to bake 20 cookies to complete “Expert Baker” and its associated Triumphs, this shouldn’t take too much effort. We recommend waiting until you Masterwork Eva’s Oven before attempting this to reduce the Dawning Essence cost of baking each treat.
If you’re short on materials, we recommend farming Altars of Sorrow on the Moon. You’ll fight hundreds of Hive enemies in each run, making it quite easy to stock up on Chitin Powder and elemental ingredients.
Baking Triumphs
(Amateur, Adept, Expert) Baker: Bake 6/13/20 types of cookies in the Dawning Oven.
This title has three baking Triumphs for you to complete, requiring you to bake every type of holiday treat in Eva’s Oven. You’ll need a large stockpile of ingredients and Dawning Essence to make all of these cookies, so we recommend you focus on other Triumphs first before attempting this one. As for the recipes themselves, check out our
Dawning 2024 guide
for a full list of all cookie recipes.
As for farming the resources required for this Triumph, we recommend completing Eva bounties and farming Vanguard Ops or Heist Battlegrounds. Focus on completing activities, and you should have a large supply of Dawning Essence in no time.
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Purchase all 12 Dawning upgrades from Eva with Dawning Spirit.
You’ll need a total of 380 Dawning Spirit to purchase all 12 upgrades from Eva Levante. You can acquire Dawning Spirit by completing bounties from Eva and triumphs tied to the Star Baker title. Assuming you completed every bounty from Eva on all three of your characters, you’re looking at earning 24 Dawning Spirit per day (dailies only) and 60 from weeklies alone.
Repeatable bounties grant a single Dawning Spirit each, so constantly stock up on bounties as you chase this title. Giving treats to NPCs will also grant three Dawning Spirit each, so we highly recommend you bake and gift as many cookies as possible.
If you’ve played this event in previous years, be sure to equip the Starfarer 7M ship, found in the collections tab under Season 12. This ship has an Exotic perk that grants a chance of earning Dawning Spirit whenever you earn Dawning ingredients. Ingredients are absurdly common during this event, so this ship saves you many hours of bounty grinding.
Deep Freeze
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Stasis weapons or abilities.
Stasis weapons are your best bet here. Ager’s Scepter is a fantastic option for clearing out hordes of enemies. If you don’t want to use an Exotic, consider farming for the Prolonged Engagement SMG from Vanguard Ops, a Veist SMG that deals Stasis damage.
Yarn Maker
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Strand.
As with Deep Freeze, this Triumph requires you to defeat 100 enemies with Strand damage. This includes Strand weapons and abilities. If you don’t own the Lightfall expansion, a Strand weapon will work just fine.
Thundersnow
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Arc weapons or abilities.
Equip an Arc subclass, your favorite Arc weapon, and play any Destiny 2 content you enjoy. It’s as simple as that. We recommend equipping Legendary weapons with Voltshot or the Trinity Ghoul Exotic to easily land PvE kills. As for activities, we recommend farming Vanguard Ops, Altars of Sorrow on the Moon, or the opening encounter in the Grasp of Avarice dungeon.
Snowmelt
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Solar weapons or abilities.
All Solar subclasses have absurdly powerful abilities you can use. Hunters can use Caliban’s Hand to easily trigger Ignites in ritual content. Warlocks can use Incinerating Snap with Sunbracers to throw infinite grenades. As for Titans, consider speccing around the Consecration Aspect or the Ashen Wake Exotic. Throwing Hammer with Synthoceps is a good option as well.
They Call It sNOw
Defeat combatants or Guardians with Void weapons or abilities.
Void has some powerful weapons and abilities for PvE content. We recommend using Funnelweb, Graviton Lance, Wavesplitter, or your favorite Void Legendary to get this done quickly. Consider using the Echo of Instability Fragment to give your Void weapons Volatile Rounds, drastically improving your DPS against tougher foes.
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Vanguard Eternity
Complete Vanguard Ops or Dares of Eternity activities.
You’ll need to complete six Vanguard Ops or Dares of Eternity games to finish this Triumph. Focus on getting snowball kills for the “Snowball Ops” and “Snowball Dares” Triumphs before worrying about this one. You should have more than enough clears by the time you get the snowball Triumphs completed. If not, run a few Vanguard Ops to finish the Triumph.
Competitive Spirit
Complete Crucible or Gambit matches.
Complete ten PvP or Gambit matches to finish this Triumph. We find Crucible matches go slightly faster than Gambit games but pick your favorite. Rotating PvP playlists like Mayhem and Team Scorched are absurdly fast and a solid source of Dawning Essence, something you’ll need to bake all treats for some of this title’s Triumphs. If you prefer playing Gambit, we highly recommend getting a fireteam together to make your games a little easier.
Snowstruck
Spawn snowballs by defeating combatants with weapons or abilities in valid activities.
This challenge requires you to spawn snowballs in non-endgame PvE content. This includes Vanguard Ops, seasonal content, Onslaught, and patrol spaces. Eva Levante’s snowball upgrades allow you to generate them from Stasis shatters and kills. Spawn some snowballs, get some kills, and repeat until the Triumph is complete.
