Iron Giant gripe

[Kensagaku]

Ironclads aren't all that hard to proc. Greyellow can be a pain sometimes, but the best trick I've found for that is to kite them. If you can keep people out of their kite path and keep a fair distance ahead, they won't swing, meaning they're not blocking procs. Red and blue can easily be timed on them while straight-tanking, so if you can't get that, it's more your problem than with the ICs. D:

I like the concept behind them, though I'm personally a little disappointed that they didn't get Mighty Guard like previous games. Partially because that was where you got it for BLUs, mostly. >_>; CURSE YOU SHINRYU!

[Ophannus]

Mighty Guard was from Behemoths in FF8 and from some squid thing in FF7.

[Zatias]

Hrosshvalur is really a dick to proc. That's all there is to say!

Karkadaan is the same with melee = tp. It can be annoying when it binds and gravity with melee then proceeds to Lightning Spear and amnesia you, making it take even longer to proc blue.

Iron Giants haven't annoyed me more than these two XD At least they can be kited for yellow proc and are much easier to time your weaponskills on.

Does this make any of them harder to fight though? Nah, just annoying and more time consuming.

[MojoJojo]

Pity you can't just mindlessly fire off spells/ws's on every mob, and get 100% drops everytime.......

[xbobx]

When you have some jobs where 2 of the 3 mobs for their seals are iron giants, its not really game balance. You think SE would realize this since they like spouting that phrase.

[Zagen]

When you have some jobs where 2 of the 3 mobs for their seals are iron giants, its not really game balance. You think SE would realize this since they like spouting that phrase.

Dunno both BST and DNC have alternatives which are easy to kill and at least on Bismarck constantly see shouts for those NMs (VNM not so much but those camping it are after color change and give away the seals most of the time)

Though Ironclad Sunderer is a joke, Tank + WHM can take it down (this is how I got my plates, well THF/RDM/WHM because I wanted to test RDM), heck it can even be soloed by BLM/RDM/BLU/SCH. Only annoying part is timing Yellow !! on BLU since the other spells can easily be landed while the NM is kited to avoid attacks interrupting proc attempts as someone else mentioned.

[Rearden]

Getting a 60% 2 plate drop is more luck than TH.

[Shiyo]

ITT: FFXI is hard.

[Vortex]

Procing on iron giants is only hard if you are stupid,

[Arcon]

Procing on iron giants is only hard if you are stupid,

So is your face.