That was the fastest way to pull out combos and the most common used strategy. But if you had high enough speed + combo count, you could pull of insane combos even with high health. 

Heck, i've seen solo's of Yiazmat at full health doing 12 combos constantly XD

Me, I rather play it safe and do a full HP strategy :P Mainly because I always had bad luck with Cyclone. Even with the Wind reduction light armour (I think it was called Windcatcher), he would hit me for 3000-4000 with it when I was at low health >_>

@Hero_time88

It's possible to do at 170 hours, just like i've seen people getting the platinum on FFXIII at 140/150 hours. It all boogles down to the individual person, so time to complete isn't a fair measuring stick for any FF, or RPG for that matter.

People will be offended because the most silly reasons are being found to downplay FFXIII. Those same reasons were used to downplay FFXII by the time it came out. I still remember some friends of mine calling FFXII short because in order to fully complete and master FFX, with all Dark Aeons, 255 stats, Penance, monster arena complete, Nemesis defeated, it could take you well over 200 hours.

No matter how you look at it, someone will always say that X FF is better than Y FF and give the same excuses that were used since SNES days. It's getting pretty old by now.

It isn't scientific at all, but I'm absolutely sure that it takes more time get the ingame archievements in FFXII than the all trophies
 in FFXIII. Two Japanese in my friendlist did get platinum trophie before they reached the 100 hours mark, and they didn't use a strategy guide at all unlike me and appearently lestatdark who where both using a strategy guide for XII, and for months I have been talking talking about FFXIII with them, and practicly everyone agrees that XII is the bigger game.

Edit:

I don't hate FFXIII at all unlike the FFXII haters. I just think it's the worst of the PlayStation FFs, and no where near as good as FFXII.

fair point, just depends on how you play i suppose, like with FFX im on 300+ hours and i havent finished all the dark aeons or arena, i have maxed all stats for a few characters (except the Luck stat as that is a pain). FFXII wasnt a bad game definitely not just not a great FF, was enjoyable though.

Maaaaan

That changes everything. Now I want to look up the mechanics of how that works. Does Haste take one's speed over 99? Is Speed over 99 factored into the combo count?

I gotta tell my wife this stuff. Maybe I'll replay FFXII soon.

Ignoring all the FFXII off-topic loving going on, the one thing that annoys me is the death system.

I mean, if you're controlling the character that dies, game over!? Gah!

I don't have it, but that looks annoying. Can you even switch characters mid-battle?

As a topic dealing with FFXII and FFXIII, it's really hard for conversation about FFXII to be off-topic.

no you cant switch characters mid battle, i dont think only up to chapter 7. 

and if you do get Game Over you can retry from the last notable event, such as opening a chest or last victory.

I thought it was how FFXII pales in comparison to FFXIII.

I guess explaining how complex and in-depth its battle system is makes it better though.

Ask me about FFXII when you're older.

I wasn't asking about it!