Artisan's Mettle and Spark of Ingenuity Guide for Dragonflight
On this page, you will discover what the critical Spark of Shadowflame
and
Artisan's Mettle reagents do, and how to farm more of them for your
end game crafts.
Spark of Shadowflame Purpose and Farming in Dragonflight
The Spark of Shadowflame is a rare reagent which serves as a time
gate to Season 2 combat crafting gear in Dragonflight.
By default, items created with the Spark can go up to 424 item level, but you
can add the optional reagents Enchanted Wyrm's Shadowflame Crest or
Enchanted Aspect's Shadowflame Crest, crafted with Enchanting, in
order to make them go up to 437 or 447 item level at maximum quality!
There is also a new basic crest type, Whelpling's Shadowflame 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 408 item level.
To summarize:
Crest | Enchanted Crest | Source | Item Level Range |
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LFR Aberrus, M+ 2 to 5, World Content | 395 to 408 |
No Crest | ![]() |
2x weekly quests per each | 411 to 424 |
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Heroic Aberrus, M+ 11 to 15 | 424 to 437 |
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Mythic Aberrus, M+ 16 or higher | 434 to 447 |
Spark of Shadowflame, 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 Shadowflame every week from there on, allowing you
to have a spark in weeks 1, 3, 5, and so on until Season 3, presumably.
Spark of Ingenuity Purpose and Farming in Dragonflight
The Spark of Ingenuity is a rare reagent that enables players to
craft Season 1 combat crafting gear in Dragonflight with
item levels up to 418 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.
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 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.

Changelog
- 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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