Artisan's Mettle and Spark of Ingenuity Guide for Dragonflight
On this page, you will discover what the critical crafting spark reagents and
Artisan's Mettle reagents do, and how to farm more of them for your end game
crafts.
Spark of Awakening Purpose and Farming in Dragonflight
The Spark of Awakening is a rare reagent which serves as a time gate to
Season 4 combat crafting gear in Dragonflight. You can get them
by doing the open world weekly quest given by Therazal at the center of Valdrakken.
By default, items created with the Spark can go up to 502 item level, but you
can add the optional reagents Enchanted Wyrm's Awakened Crest or
Enchanted Aspect's Awakened Crest, crafted with Enchanting, in
order to make them go up to 515 or 525 item level at maximum quality!
There is also Enchanted Whelpling's Awakened Crest, which can be used on
basic gear crafts such as
Band of New Beginnings without a spark in order
to get the gear to up to 486 item level.
To summarize:
Crest | Enchanted Crest | Source | Item Level Range |
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LFR Awakened Raids and World Content | 473 to 486 |
No Crest | ![]() |
Weekly Valdrakken emissary world quest | 489 to 502 |
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Heroic Awakened Raids, M+ up to 5 | 502 to 515 |
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Mythic Awakened Raids, M+ 6 or higher | 512 to 525 |
Spark of Dreams, while rare, are easy to obtain. You will be able to create
one right away in the first week from the starter quests and can obtain one
Splintered Spark of Dreams every week from there on, allowing you to have
a new spark ready for crafting every other week!
Spark of Ingenuity Purpose and Farming in Dragonflight
The Spark of Ingenuity is a rare reagent that enabled players to
craft Season 1 combat crafting gear in Dragonflight with
item levels up to 421 for maximum quality
Concentrated Primal Infusion
infused items. While this gear is old now, it can still serve as a catch-up
or, more importantly, as a way to get skill points for your own professions by
enabling orange skill 50 to 100 gear crafts.
Spark of Shadowflame Purpose and Farming in Dragonflight
Spark of Shadowflame are rare reagents that enabled players to
craft Season 2 combat crafting gear in Dragonflight with
item levels up to 447 for maximum quality
Enchanted Aspect's Shadowflame Crest
infused items. While this gear is old now, it can still serve as a catch-up or,
more importantly, as a way to get skill points for your own professions by enabling
orange skill 50 to 100 gear crafts.
Spark of Dreams Purpose and Farming in Dragonflight
The Spark of Dreams was a rare reagent which served as a time gate to
Season 3 combat crafting gear in Dragonflight with item levels
up to 463 item level by default and 476 or 486 item level with an
Enchanted Wyrm's Dreaming Crest
or
Enchanted Aspect's Dreaming Crest. While this gear is old now, it can
still serve as a catch-up or, more importantly, as a way to get skill points for
your own professions by enabling orange skill 50 to 100 gear crafts.
Artisan's Mettle Purpose and Farming in Dragonflight
Artisan's Mettle is a rare reagent used for Recrafting and
for high-end profession crafts, most notably in the profession best in slot gear
crafts, which require over 200 Mettle per craft!
If you are a crafter, you can get some for free from Thomas Bright in The ArtisanĀ“s Market area of the capital of the Dragon Isles, in Valdrakken, after you complete the short introduction quest to crafting in Dragonflight.
This handout is repeatable once per week and will reward increasing amounts
of Artisan's Mettle as your reputation with the Artisan's Consortium
increases, up to 110 Mettle at rank 4 and 150 at the final rank 5.
The rest must be obtained from gaining profession knowledge points (5
Mettle per point gained) and First Craft bonuses, which are awarded
every time you craft an item you have never crafted before. These will award a
variable amount of Artisan's Mettle, going up to 10 depending on the
item's rarity and recipe difficulty.
![First Craft Bonus](http://static.icy-veins.com/images/wow/dragonflight/professions/firstcraft.jpg)
Changelog
- 18 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Corrected all item levels and clarified Whelpling crest text.
- 04 Nov. 2023: Added new spark of dreams and relevant info related to acquisition and new item levels.
- 04 Sep. 2022: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 02 May 2023: Small text fixes.
- 30 Apr. 2023: Added details on the Spark of Shadowflame for Dragonflight Season 2.
- 27 Nov. 2022: Page added.
This guide has been written by Seksi, member of Arctic Avengers and healing aficionado. You can find him answering questions and discussing Restoration Shaman gameplay on the Ancestral Guidance and Earthshrine Discords.
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