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

[Asurastrike]

As I hit level 21, I got this quest "life, materia and everything" which requires me to have a lvl19 crafting skill to proceed. I've never been a big fan of crafting in any game and was obliged to level up"weaver". I pretty much lost the majority of my interest to continue at this point, and when I finally got it to level 10 after two days, I was shocked to find that I needed a gathering skill to get cotten balls, which is needed for crafting. I was reluctant when I had to level up crafting and now I really really REALLY don't want to level up gathering. I'm so stuck and lost the urge to play. I hope the dev will remove this quest in the future.

[Yoona]

This is f'd beyond believe despite all else of garbage I've seen on this game since ARR.

This is the new generation of players. I can't be bothered to spend a few minutes of effort to find out/learn about anything. I can't request melds. I can't just buy materials. Nope, I can't do no nothing unless people hand it all to me. I got stuck at the very beginning of the game and I'm going to whine to the community about it. The devs need to change the game all for me.

Are you real?

[Asurastrike]

This is the new generation of players. I can't be bothered to spend a few minutes of effort to find out/learn about anything. I can't request melds. I can't just buy materials. Nope, I can't do no nothing unless people hand it all to me. I got stuck at the very beginning of the game and I'm going to whine to the community about it. The devs need to change the game all for me.

Are you real?

Why so angry? After all the purpose of playing is to enjoy. Why do something that I simply don't enjoy? And I don't even have the right to rant? Are you the forum admin?
I'm quite the opposite of "new generation". I played warcraft 3, starcraft and WoW competitively and professionally. I've been the most geared, rated and wealthiest player and now I just want to take a break from competitive and serious gaming. What's wrong with that? If you got bullied at school, I'm sorry but you should keep the anger to yourself.

[Darexius]

I played warcraft 3, starcraft and WoW competitively and professionally.

I played in the OGL and CPL w/ Counter Strike in the day. I rocked Battlenet pretty hard with Starcraft. I made money. Nothing to write home about, but... a few extra thousand a year at events.


To this day I don't see how WoW can be a profession. At all.

[Mhaeric]

As I hit level 21, I got this quest "life, materia and everything" which requires me to have a lvl19 crafting skill to proceed. I've never been a big fan of crafting in any game and was obliged to level up"weaver". I pretty much lost the majority of my interest to continue at this point, and when I finally got it to level 10 after two days, I was shocked to find that I needed a gathering skill to get cotten balls, which is needed for crafting. I was reluctant when I had to level up crafting and now I really really REALLY don't want to level up gathering. I'm so stuck and lost the urge to play. I hope the dev will remove this quest in the future.

There isn't a quest that requires a level 19 crafting class in order to progress the story. There is a quest about creating materia that requires a level 19 combat class. The materia attaching quest you are referring to that is located next to the one you need is entirely optional.

[Krazarian]

You don't have to level any crafting to proceed in story or lvling in this game.

Only if want to meld materia you can do that quest, but if not you can have any crafter meld items for you. Probably won't want to do that till get to 50 and get lvl 70 gear crafted.

[Asurastrike]

You don't have to level any crafting to proceed in story or lvling in this game.

Only if want to meld materia you can do that quest, but if not you can have any crafter meld items for you. Probably won't want to do that till get to 50 and get lvl 70 gear crafted.

How? The quest has that story icon and appears mandatory?

[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.