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

[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.

[Alise]

^
lol, as all answers over there, everything has solution that you couldn't see, but then you chose to just "make a thread for rant" instead of "making a thread ask for solution"

Want to do main story quest ?
>> never need crafter/gatherer to begin with, you can just trade material melded by key item. it written on your journey in english.

Want to get cotton ball ?
>> it is really cheap from NPC vender, cheaper than the worth of time for a gatherer to find it. As level 50 gatherer myself, I always purchase it from NPC too.

[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.

[Dark_Legacy]

yes, just trade in the dagger and take it back to minfila the rest is optional.

[Asurastrike]

yes, just trade in the dagger and take it back to minfila the rest is optional.

I will try that tomorrow. I still don't know why the NPC had the red mark on his head though.

[Syamic]

I will try that tomorrow. I still don't know why the NPC had the red mark on his head though.

That's probably because you have to have a level 19 crafter to get his quest to *Learn* how to meld item's.
It has nothing to do with the quest your talking about.
If you dont want to level crafting just ignore it.

[jabbywocks]

I will try that tomorrow. I still don't know why the NPC had the red mark on his head though.

Probably because your level wasn't the right requirement to complete the next step. You might have needed to gain a level or two to move on. That's common.

[gadzi_h]

Don't worry to much about crafting. I did the quest then finished the story before starting any crafts the only advantage to taking a crafting class to 20 is melding your own gear. Taking it to 30 is producing your own dye for modifying your clothing. If you took that long to level your crafting you might not know about "basic touch" adding to EXP gained from each craft. As quality goes up so does your EXP earned. Crafting is not for everyone and I understand if you don't want to level it, but as everyone has said you don't have to level them, but if you do I would recommend levelling your DoL with your DoH, it saves you a lot of gil.

[Mhaeric]

I will try that tomorrow. I still don't know why the NPC had the red mark on his head though.

Right clicking on an NPC with a red mark will bring up the quest dialogue as normal, except it is greyed out and it lists what things you need to meet eligibility. It can be anything from your level, to missing the requested item.

Make sure it is not the quest Waking the Spirit from the NPC F'hobhas (http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Waking_the_Spirit) as that is the optional quest requiring a level 19 crafting job that you do not need to do. This quest is from a different NPC, although the goblin does suggest talking to them during the storyline quest. It is just that, however, a suggestion. Not a requirement.