A triple 15 Quickening chain enabled me to defeat the White Flan thing at level 15, thereby enabling Fran to use the Yoichi Bow LOOOOONG before she should be allowed weapons that good. Kinda like how Quickenings killed the first Demon Wall, enabling me to get a few Demonsbanes, which were only replaced at that refugee camp mountain thing. Quickenings are life-savers when you're up against an enemy that is way out of your league. Just difficult enemies should be taken on using buffs and debuffs. Like Wolf Kanno said, FF12 is the ONLY FF I've played that I frequently use buffs and debuffs. Thank you Gambits.