good game, but can't proceed without leveling crafting :<

[Enkidoh]

Aurastrike, don't let it get to you - sadly there's a lot of trolling on this forum which is better of just being ignored.

As for your original post, as has been said you don't actually need to level crafting classes to proceed in the game, that quest just requires you to learn about materia, but not actually meld any. I can't remember where the main story picks up from after that, but that quest is basically a whole heap of dialogue and some tutorial windows explaining about how to make materia. Once it's done that's it. The storyline continues with another quest, which doesn't require crafting to do.

[Reiterpallasch]

sadly there's a lot of trolling on this forum

The OP being one of them, though sadly I didn't realize this until after the fact and I made my last response.

What startling revelation did I come to in order to realize this? Well for starters they posted on an alt character that only has a single level 1 (so as not to give away who they really are):
They claim it took two days to get weaver to level 10 (it doesn't by a long shot)
They claim the quest has the main story icon (it doesn't).
They claim to need botanist for cotton balls (They're like 10g from a vendor)
They claim "I played warcraft 3, starcraft and WoW competitively and professionally", yet anyone like that would easily be smart enough to figure out how vendors and questing works.

It's a troll post through and through.

[Asurastrike]

They claim it took two days to get weaver to level 10 (it doesn't by a long shot)

Crafting was dreadfully boring to me so I just didn't have the urge to play continuously. I logged in and out for the past 3 days since I got the quest.

They claim the quest has the main story icon (it doesn't).

it does. I just double checked again and it does have the story icon next to the quest name.

They claim to need botanist for cotton balls (They're like 10g from a vendor)

I wasn't able to find cotton balls from vendors, at least not from the tradecraft vendor in ul'dah. I didn't check the other cities but figured they would be more or less the same.

[Asurastrike]

They claim "I played warcraft 3, starcraft and WoW competitively and professionally", yet anyone like that would easily be smart enough to figure out how vendors and questing works.

who said i didn't know how questing/vendors work? I just didn't realize that the dagger was ALREADY materia-enchanted. I thought the NPC wanted me to enchant first(requires lv19), and then hand it to him. I thought this because the NPC had the red incomplete mark on his head not the green one.