Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
I rode the train to 11 today, but I still cant do any of the quests because I haven't got the protean crystal drop. I now have 300 Anemos crystals but cant convert them. To the Devs, please remove the blocks on the first quests, yes we know players are not running the content the way you intended but its happened and I hope you can adjust it so people who are struggling to level up can do the content.
I got my Protean Crystal drop when was already lvl 15 but it didn't stop me from doing any quests or leveling.
First time you need this specific crystal is on the lvl 17 quest, when you have to insert one Protean and a bunch of Anemos to make some mechanism working. And only after this quest I was able to start to convert Anemos -> Protean.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I wasn't able to talk to Geralt before finishing that lvl 17 quest.