Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You do not need to level up your weapons, period. I beat the game, took down my first Gui, and 5-starred all the missions with using Tier-1 weapons. Just note that if you increase the tier value of your weapons, the target time for the fights decreases because you're essentially increasing your stats if you equip a higher tier weapon (this is important to note when you're doing the missions and if you want to get the trophy for it).Since I can't find the OT for the game, I'll just ask here.
I got to the Archelyte Steppes for the first time and looking at a guide, I can appaerntly grind on the Behemoths but I need to upgrade my weapons first? The guide tells me to get Lightning's Axis Blade to an Enkindler, get Vanille a Malborro Wand, and etc,. However, I have no idea how to upgrade weapons to another tier; could someone explain? All my weapons are still at level 1.
Just level up your Crystarium with the fodder around Vallis Media (where you ran around to find the injured Hope; it's where you came from before your party appeared on the Steppe), and then if you feel strong enough, try out the fodder enemies like the wolves and flans, and also go into the northwest area of the Steppe to get to the path near the cave (it's where the two monsters are fighting). You can avoid those two monsters (though they're easy to fight since you'll always, always get a preemptive strike on them--just attack the Behemoth first, get rid of it and go for the other monster), but if you run into them and don't feel prepared, you can just hit pause, retry, and try to avoid the battle and run into the cave area.
In the cave area, you'll come at a crossroads, where you can either go up or straight. Go up and keep running through that area fighting the bombs and robots. You'll earn a lot of CP, and the respawn rate of the enemies is really fast, so if you want to grind over there, do it.