Artisan's Mettle and Spark of Ingenuity Guide for 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
Whelpling's Awakened Crest	Enchanted Whelpling's Awakened Crest	LFR Awakened Raids and World Content	473 to 486
No Crest	Spark of Awakening alone	Weekly Valdrakken emissary world quest	489 to 502
Wyrm's Awakened Crest	Enchanted Wyrm's Awakened Crest	Heroic Awakened Raids, M+ up to 5	502 to 515
Aspect's Awakened Crest	Enchanted Aspect's Awakened Crest	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!

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 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.

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 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 Artisan´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.