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Depends on your definition of "good enough". I agree on your statement that a subset of 12 (lowercase) characters should be more than sufficient and that anything more can be overkill. As long as it's not something that is in a rainbow table, it should be sufficient, hence why I said 12 characters is fine as long as it's a mix of characters.
However, you can't deny that the more characters used, the longer it takes to bruteforce as per the sample below.
a through z => 26 characters. On a 12 character password, this is 95428956661682176 possibilities.
Add A through Z and special characters => 93 characters. On a 12 character password, this is 418596297479370673535601 possibilities.