Quest "To Valdrakken" locked?

I’m a new player. After doing the intro tutorial stuff, the game took me to Org and led me towards starting DF (at lvl 11, mind you), so naturally that’s where I started. I made it through all the way to right after the Blue Dragonflight main quests, and am currently level 34 on the Shaman I’ve been questing on. I should note, I have ONLY been doing the main story quests, skipping side quests for now as I am neither interested in them, nor was under the impression that I needed to do them as everything was sync’d due to DF not being the current expac.

The issue is, Kalecgos now has a grey main story quest marker with a lock on it above his head. I looked into it a bit and found that the quest is called “To Valdrakken”. This is the first time a main story quest has been locked for me, and I am currently without a single quest in my log. I can’t seem to find any info on why this is happening, and am assuming it’s level locked. However, I can’t find anything about what level this quest is supposed to unlock at…

This leaves a bad taste. If this is indeed level locked, then why would they push new players to start questing in DF in the first place? Am I supposed to be questing elsewhere? Should I have started DF at a later level? I just wanted to play the game, and I’m not really interested in leveling in previous expacs as I’ve heard nothing but negativity surrounding them. If anyone has any info regarding this (what appears to be) level lock, please enlighten this noob. Also, any suggestions on how to continue leveling would be welcomed!

sorry to hear this they seem to have a lot of phasing issues right now

Ran into this today, wondering if you had found a fix or what you had to do to make it work lmk please

Hey I don’t know if you were able to fix the issue on your end, but the only “fix” I found was getting at least one char to lvl 40 and making it past that quest. After that, every alt I made was able to proceed even when below lvl 40. Kind of terrible design imo, but it is what it is I suppose.