Final Fantasy XII

[Raditzu]

I found the map to actually be really good at telling you where to go.

So far as I've seen, a Pole (might have been a spear, but I'm guessing Pole) has some massive multi-hit capabilities. I got hit 6 times from one guy.

Daggers have been working out pretty well for me so far. Especially since you can use shields with them. Picking up a couple Shield Block augments really helps, too. A few things I found useful for speeding up attacks:
-switch to daggers (they're the fastest of the weapons you can get toward the beginning of the game, and pretty even in power compared to swords)
-get the first couple Heavy Armor Liscences (for some reason, one of the heavy armor Chest pieces gives you a speed bonus)
-make a bee-line for the "Swiftness" augment (its a couple rows down and many columns left of steal; it decreases the time it takes to make an action by 10% and I'm positive you can get more than one).

One thing to remember about Swiftness and Speed, though, if that they won't effect the delay from using an item, since all of that is "recharge" time, and not "casting" time.