Quote Originally Posted by SeeDRankLou View Post
You do have to beat Trema. However, if you go through the whole game, doing everything you are suppose to do, and maybe save the Via Infinito for last, by the time you get all the way down to Trema you should be fine level-wise.

Besides, you characters are reset to level 1 in a new game+ (though abilities are saved), so you have to get to high levels in one playthrough.
No, you don't. If you joined the Youth League, the only thing you have to do is get to level 60 and watched the dropped Spheres. That should push you to 100.2 (maybe 100.4). There's a total of 4.something (I know the ones place is a four) extra points in the game. 2 are in the Yevon group (99 max), and the rest are in the Youth League.

You should be able to powerlevel in the Cave where you fight the Machina Crawler. The Machina only perform Thunder and physical attacks. Takes at most 4 hours.

I do believe that this thread title is exactly the sound I made when I logged into DII for the first time in months and half of my characters nearly expired. Way to watch my account, SRL.