How to get Personal Touch in Destiny 2’s Dawning event

Destiny 2’s holiday event is upon the Last City. As part of the Dawning event, guardians have to take down countless enemies and gain ingredients to bake cookies for their favorite NPCs, with the possibility of earning seasonal loot on the way.

What determines the ingredients you might receive in the Dawning is the enemy type you’ve defeated and how you defeated it. Taken enemies have a chance of dropping Taken Butter, for instance, but killing a Taken enemy with a sword might actually give you Sharp Flavor instead.

If you’re looking to bake goodies for Saint-14 or Suraya Hawthorne or just want to get through the intro quest, you’ll need to get your hands on some Personal Touch (don’t confuse it with Finishing Touch, though, since they have different drop sources). Here’s how you can get your hands on this Dawning ingredient.

How to find Personal Touch in the Dawning in Destiny 2

Personal Touch drops by killing enemies with melee abilities, though we’ve also obtained it from glaive kills. If you’re looking to gather loads of Personal Touch quickly, melee-oriented builds and weapons with Pugilist or Wellspring might help you on your task.

Hunters have a simple melee synergy with their dodge, which got even better after the Ophidia Spathe changes in Season of the Wish. Titans can use Heart of Inmost Light, Synthoceps, Wormgod’s Caress, or their favorite bonk build with the Hammer Throw in Solar 3.0 (though the season 23 changes hurt Throwing Hammers quite a bit). Warlocks can lean into the easily regenerated Arc melee abilities.

If you want to double down on Melee generation, the Monte Carlo Exotic auto rifle has a chance of refilling your melee energy on a weapon kill, allowing you to go all-out in melee ability kills and score some Personal Touch without much of a hassle.

Personal Touch is just a third of the recipe, though, and you’ll also need some Dawning Essence and a different ingredient. Here’s what you can bake with Personal Touch during the Dawning.

Why is Personal Touch not dropping in Destiny 2?

Personal Touch has become one of the most elusive resources in this year’s Dawning. Several players, including content creator TrueVanguard, reported that this ingredient wasn’t as easy to find as it should be and could have its drop rate bugged.

While Bungie hasn’t acknowledged any bugs with Personal Touch yet, there seems to be something amiss with the ingredient this year. If you’re struggling to get Personal Touch to drop, though, you can use a glaive, as suggested by a Reddit user. Using a glaive gave us more consistent drops than spamming Throwing Knives with Ophidia Spathe, though the drop rate is still somewhat scarce compared to other ingredients.

Personal Touch recipes in Destiny 2

Personal Touch is an ingredient in two Dawning Recipes: Lavender Ribbon Cookies and Eliksni Birdseed. These two appear early in the 2023 event quest, meaning you’ll need to gather some Personal Touch if you want to progress through them.

• Lavender Ribbon Cookies (Saint-14): Personal Touch, Vex Milk
• Eliksni Birdseed (Suraya Hawthorne): Personal Touch, Ether Cane

In addition to Personal Touch, you’ll need to find both Vex Milk and Ether Cane. Those two ingredients have a chance of dropping based on the enemy type defeated: Vex Milk has a chance of dropping from Vex, while Ether Canes can drop by taking down Fallen. Once you have both (and some Dawning essence), you can bake goodies for the NPCs and advance the quest.