Did anyone else not use Black Magic?

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I am trying to think back to when I played XII and the more I think about it, the more I am pretty sure I never used much black magic, I mostly used white and kicked ass with combat. Did anyone else have an approach that used very little black magic?
 
First play through, I rarely used magic at all other than haste/protect/cure. Saying that, I'm not really using it much this playthrough either, unless Im forced by a disabled attack command, even then Ive just left my guys to it, waiting for the anti attack field or whatever it is to lift. I use it just not often. Ihave telekenisis andf ranged weapons for flyers, so I rarely use black magic at all
 
I found myself using Black Magic a lot, especially with Penelo. It got rid of lots of enemies quickly, and Penelo was dealing twice the amount with a Black Magic spell than Basch was with his sword.
 
Actually thinking about it now i hardly used black magic at all. I always had my gambits set for spells like haste and protect but never really for anything offensive. Ive always favoured weapons and strength over magic anyway but in XII i cant remember using much in the way of black magic at all.
 
I used it, but probably not as much as in other FF games.

The one thing that annoyed me with it is the way it can overload, so you end up having to wait longer for the spell to actually be casted. Fighting the Behemoth King was the worse for it, attack barrier came up, switched to using Scathe and it'd take ages for just ONE person to cast it, while the Behemoth King is happily hacking away at me.
 
I used black magic only when I had to. There were certain enemies that physical strength simply didn't do as well against as magic did. At those times I did use black magic. The rest of the time, I simply hit hard and fast.
 
To not get bored I always experiment on different ways of defeating thy enemy :gasp:

So, i guess i used Black Magic a lot and a find myself to use Holy and Flare a lots. Including the Elemental attacks for quick anihilation to those who are weak to certain ones ;)
 
I used black magic on flying beasties but besides that I only used bio on bosses or marks or when there was a group of powerful enemies grouped together. The battle system didn't lend itself well to using magic, also the game wasn't hard, there weren't many things that you couldn't kill by just bashing away at them.
The only magic I used often was faith/bravery/curaga or curaja.
 
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I used black magic on flying beasties but besides that I onlu sed bio on bosses or marks or when there was a group of powerful enemies grouped together..

Oh, that Bio :inlove:

This game unfortunately is from the few ones that all the Status Changing Magic worked fine!
Grr.,... i still have my memory back on Lost Odyssey where those Magics were useless in your hands....
 
I'm the same here. I rarely used black magic at all, only on a few instances. White magic however I did use a lot, along with buff spells like Bravery, Haste and Protect. It was much more effective to just hack away with physical strength.
 
I didn't really use black magic either, the I only times I would use black magic were against flying enemies and if I had to get rid of a lot of enemies quickly (and even then, I didn't always use black magic). I used a lot of white magic and green magic though.
 
I used a lot in battles that required me to use it, like, against monsters that were super weak against a certain element. But in the end, I guess I just liked to hack and slash more xD
 
I guess seeing some responses I probably used some on flying enemies but I may have even just changed everyone's weapons to range, cannot remember for sure...I think it was probably a mixture of both black magic and range combat
 
I never even use magic at all, save from the cure magics. I play through most games like that unless it's poorly made and magic is actually better.
 
Well I actually gave all the black magic to Ashe because she was really good at magic. I will admit that white magic is much more useful though. I have some strong black magic spells.
 
I find myself using a lot of black magicks just to kill a few enemys at once or to have some fun with lower level monsters.
 
A bit more effort, please. ^

I rarely ever used any black magic. It was more effort than I was willing to expend, it used up MP valuable for Espers and Quickenings, it wasn't terribly strong, it had a charge time, there was the sticky queue issue...

On top of that, I'm more a fan of a physical attacks than magical, anyway.
 
I normally use black magic mainly as it's my personal preference. xD
Although I wll admit that in this game I very rarely used black magic, my gambits were prioritised on healing, then attacking.
I had no gambits set to any black magic whatsoever. I think the only time I did that was for Slyt at the pharos, I cast oil on him, reflect on each of my party members, then I cast firaga on my team, thus reflecting it to him.
I could've done it normally, but it was fun watching his health deplete at such an absurd rate. xD
 
I saved most of my magic and MP for healing if anything in this game. I used Black Magic here and there against bosses and certain enemies that were magic-weak in a particular area.

Otherwise though, it wasn't my main form of attack or even close to it.
 
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