that reply wasnt for you its was for ForestOwl so it is always better to have as much hp as possible, I find it silly that people say its not nessisary when in my post i have an excelent reason why it IS nessisary. I dont know about you but I for one do not want to be reviveing every turn as when you die all your good status will go away, if everyone (say for instance Rikku, Yuna and Tidus all have Curaga and they take a couple of turns to heal up everything will go back to square one and as to your surgestion of useing aeons as a shield, I ask you why waste your aeons when they should be for attacking, the only time when I died faceing bahamut was when he did his Impulse and then hit me, his Limit break did in the region of 35k (remember this is with all my good status' and max stats excpt Luck).