First you are going to want to masterwork your oven. This will lower the amount of ingredients needed to bake treats.
Next make sure you buy bountiful harvest and essential harvest from Eva. They return random ingredients and essence of dawnings when completing Eva’s bounties. They cost 40 dawning spirits each to purchase.
Do not bake anything unless you have a bounty that tells you to. Always get a repeatable bounty then bake the treat it asks you to bake.
Here’s why.
The repeatable bounties from Eva that cost 3,000 glimmer will only tell you to bake treats.
If you have the second and third upgrades purchased from Eva you will get XP, 10 bright dust, 1 essence of dawning and some random ingredients.
Which is more than what you will get if you bake treats with out a bounty and even though the rewards don’t sound like much they add up fast.
For every 10 bounties completed you will get 10 free essence of dawning that can go towards the completion of another bounty.
I recommend gathering essence of dawning and ingredients from activities and then you can just keep doing the repeatable bounties at the end of the day or week until you run out of materials needed.
I did this last night. I had a little over 1,000 essence of dawnings (from the actives I did during the week) and kept doing the repeatable bounties until I ran out. It costed me around 300,000 glimmer (had to visit Spider once to get more glimmer) and when I was done I was rewarded with,
• 1,160 bright dust
• 500,000 xp (from rank 312 to 317) +5 levels.
• +1 Power bonus.
If I had just baked treats simply because I had the materials to do so and didn’t do the repeatable bounties I wouldn’t of gotten 1,160 bright dust or increased my season pass level by 5 ranks.
Best of all if you have the companion app you can just sit in orbit and do them.
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I find the vanguard repeatables way better for bright dust, in most cases can be done in the opening section of any nightfall. With cookies you spend half your time going from destination to destination which really isn't that efficient. Yeah you can abandon some to try and at least get mostly tower ones but that's 3000 glimmer wasted each time.