[Garuda] Humie

[Dazusu]

We had Humie apply to DR earlier today, Aegis Paladin from Garuda has been in the following Linkshells: oceanids(sea LS, sac), nitefall(dynamis) and censhura(kings) nautilus(enherjar & salvage, leader)

Any comments on his skill/attitude/potential drama would help us in making our decision.

Thanks for your time!

[Lyn]

I've heard some good and some bad things skill-wise. The only time I saw his skill first hand was during a pick up Bahamut run. He tanked extremely well, especially considering the doubts I had. A lot of the bad things I heard were from a long time ago. He's probably gained some experience throughout the years. I don't remember hearing anything drama related. He did pretty good leading that Bahamut run, too. Organizing retards can be a pain.

I'd say give him a try. Good luck~

[Reub]

I used to be in Censhura with Humie for a very very long time. He was always a courteous player, and although when he first joined the shell without an aegis, he wasnt the best paladin but he progressed quickly and ever since he's recieved his aegis his tanking has been quite excellent. One of the nicer members of Censhura, and he is very humble about having an aegis. ( i.e. won't get upset if you ask him to come another job to events other than pld. ) It'd be dumb not to give him a chance. I'd definitely say yes to Humie hands down, only good will come from having him in your shell!

[bigpapi]

A walking aegis with a pretty below average player behind it. In Censhura when he tanked never had hate and when he did get hate he died(maybe a different story now that he has aegis), instead of getting better he made excuses for his poor tanking skills.

Below average / filler player in my book

[BardonGaruda]

Iwas in Oceanids with Humie for about a year or so. I was the tank party WHM so got to see Humie's tanking up close. He was good back then and he's even better now.

He's also very knowledgable, doesn't start drama and doesn't mind taking on responsibility.

I would definitely give him a shot if I were you.

[Overburn]

If you're looking at them because you think they're good due to Aegis, you'll probably be disappointed. For their gear, they are pretty mediocre. If you just need a tank that can tank semi-reliably, they should be fine. I just wouldn't really trust them to do things like solo tanking unless it was an emergency.

[Humie]

bigpapi does have a point taken in the correct context like reub pointed out when I first joined censhura I had little kings experience and did lose hate and die on a few my first few dark ixions (shortly after papi transfered servers) as I was not used to the very mobile type of tanking needed for dark ixion, but I learnt alot from zhi tanking wise and greatly improved.

err as far as overburns comment idk what to say I didnt even know he still played and havnt been in the same LS as him for a good 4 years

[ZhiGaruda]

Well, pretty much as everyone else said.

Goldo(bigpapi) is right - when he joined Censhura, first time doing HNMs, yeah, he was kind of shit! But I let him know that, and it didn't deter him. He just asked all the right questions, and practicepracticepratice, he got better and better.

I haven't been able to tank very often with him as of late, but when I do, he's solid now. He's just looking for a shell that is more centered around his playtime, and being that your shell is EU, I'm sure you'll see him at most events.

[Thorny]

decent person, god-fucking-disgustingly-awful pld, people saying he's decent must have terrible standards the guy fulltimed ancile while he had it and and had no gear macros at all

[ZhiGaruda]

decent person, god-fucking-disgustingly-awful pld, people saying he's decent must have terrible standards the guy fulltimed ancile while he had it and and had no gear macros at all

Right, and you haven't been around in the last few months. As I stated, he has improved dramatically.

[Humie]

wow i dont know why thorny has posted these blatent lies and refuse to rise to his taunts but i never used ancile while fighting and shal respond with just my flash macro

input /equip head "Bahamut's Mask";
input /equip neck "Ritter gorget";
input /equip hands "Homam Manopolas";
input /equip waist "Swift belt";
input /equip legs "Homam cosciales";
input /equip feet "Iron ram greaves";
input /equip ring1 "Hercules' ring";
input /equip ring2 "Sattva ring";
input /equip body "Nuevo coselete";
input /equip back "Cerberus mantle";
input /equip ear2 "Loquac. earring";
input /ma "Flash" <t>

[Thorny]

wow i dont know why thorny has posted these blatent lies and refuse to rise to his taunts but i never used ancile while fighting and shal respond with just my flash macro

input /equip head "Bahamut's Mask";
input /equip neck "Ritter gorget";
input /equip hands "Homam Manopolas";
input /equip waist "Swift belt";
input /equip legs "Homam cosciales";
input /equip feet "Iron ram greaves";
input /equip ring1 "Hercules' ring";
input /equip ring2 "Sattva ring";
input /equip body "Nuevo coselete";
input /equip back "Cerberus mantle";
input /equip ear2 "Loquac. earring";
input /ma "Flash" <t>

Your dynamis shell disagrees. If you've improved, cool.. i'm not the only person calling you below average as a player though.

[Dazusu]

One thing we keep in mind when doing background checks is that the majority of bad comments come from disgruntled people or those with a grudge. I'm not saying there aren't legitimate bad comments, obviously there are... (not making accusations here either, I don't know any of you who are posting)

What I'm trying to say is, we take background checks with a pinch of salt and look at the bigger picture. If the majority of comments were bad, then there would be some cause for concern but all the nice comments seem to carry the weight in this instance.

As far as gauging skill - that's what a 14 day trial is for. If you apply to a Linkshell above your standard, then you find yourself without a Linkshell after too long.

Thanks for taking the time to reply to this thread, it has helped us a great deal.

[ZhiGaruda]

Agreed. Being the leader of his current shell, if anyone should have any bad comments to say, it would be me. "Blah blah, he's leaving us, here's why he sucks!"

I'm the only one who has posted thus far who has seen him in action in the last ~3-4 months.

[Aesica]

Well, its clear from reading the above that nothing will bring out the handbags like an Aegis PLD.

Tl;dr: Humie earnt, and deserves, his shield. He paid for it honestly, over many years, and his experiences exceeds that of most of the LS leaders who turned others over for their Aegis’. he's honest, exempt from the horrible kind of ego that some bad kids will show after 2-3 weeks past their trials, and committed.

I did have a bit of a rant against Thorny to write, but its not relevant so I've erased a lot of it. Zhi will confirm he spent less than 2 weeks in the same shell as Humie, afaik he spent about the same time on the same server.

I don't like Thorny and I don't like people like him, but thats irrelevant to Humie's app. people reading can see for themselves what kind of person he is. i'd say anybody in nitefall could instantly disprove what Thorny says, so speak to them.....

and lets be realistic, who doesn't use macros? who could even play PLD without using a macro?? bizarre accusation...

anyway:

*****

firstly, some background. humie was somebody who i met on CoP 2-5 in about 2002-03. very very competent at everything he did. I've known him 5-6 years in ffxi.

we worked together for about 5 years, he was a founder member of oceanids, which developed from a CoP shell, and hasn't really hit the radar despite still being very active in all other endgame areas, due to it never hitting the kings/botting scene and therefore never engendering any drama.

humie often was in charge of sea, sky, dynamis, ksnm99, salvage and einherjar during this time. he was main tank with me on countless things and i never saw any ineptitude. he also ran many events solo while i was offline, innumerable times, and no complaints arose.

@overburn, humie solo tanked ksnm99 wyrm, baha v1 and 2, and more gods, jailers etc than i can count, so you're just spouting.....thanks for your input, mouthpiece.

So: don't listen to overburn, he seems to have a habit of chipping in despite to my knowledge never having contributed anything to anything.

And papi? not entirely sure what you're going on about man.

a) you left censhura just after humie joined and b) he didn't have the aegis then. i can count on the fingers of one hand events the two of you were at together.

i remember him dying once when tanking events. and i've seen evok, icon, aiolias, oro, skenton, all the censhura PLDs except zhi die, and raised em. i even have logs of it all, it happens. DI was a shift for all tanks when it came out, get over it.

and as for hate? getting hate off zhi is a job in itself, he’s one of the best paladins in the game, and i would say Humie held up very very well against him, not to mention the innumerable hero BLMs in the LS's we were in together....

onto the real deal with humie.

"a walking aegis" - utter rubbish. humie worked for 4-5 years to get his shield, never buying gil, never ripping off an LS bank, in fact, what he did was get up twice a week at 2am british time and go to dynamis with nitefall, craft, BCNM, and ENM. that alone speaks volumes. i love loot, but i wouldn’t wreck my sleep to make an event for anybody.....if you want a recommendation, then speak to somebody from nitefall.

humie got his aegis very recently and as i hope we can all agree, its a nice item, but it doesn’t suddenly make a bad tank into a good tank. he was a good tank already. his aegis doesn’t define him, he earnt it mate.

he has fire builds, thunder builds, ice builds, etc etc, probably 20-30m at 2007 prices and gil aside, he makes sure he is geared and works to get the rare craft items. fuck, if he's missing anything, he can have mine.

moreso, it was the culmination of a lot of work for him, which i think shows commitment. he even declined AFv2 RDM hat from nitefall because he'd decided at that time that RDM was not going to be his main 75. with the points he had (shadow mantle, ring) he could have taken that and let it go to waste.

to not do so speaks volumes to his character. the ethic he put into getting his aegis is the ethic he'd put into your LS.

presumably he had the gall to speak out against goldo, an opinionated man, (and rightly so, he’s very knowledgable) and perhaps dsfargeg, causing the boot to be put in. i can't see any other reason for those particular outbursts. they are certainly undeserved as zhi says.

and as far as making excuses? lord sake. there was nothing to make excuses for, we've all been privy to the outbursts of the ladies with handbags in censhura now and again, and i'd stake my life he was defending himself against some kid with a vendetta and an insecurity issue, some tiresome argument ensued, etc etc - don’t hold it against him.

i’d encourage you to accept him. he worked for that aegis tirelessly without cheating once. given the current backstabbing, gilbuying, botting ethos of ffxi (thanks japan!) that makes him reliable as **** in my book. and fwiw, i rate him. hell, hit youtube. theres plenty of tanking videos of humie, and he didn’t post a single one himself.

as reub says, he’d happily come COR or RDM to each and every one of your events. so forget tanking, he is a well-rounded addition to a linkshell.

no ego, no cheating, bahamuts mask, homam 4/5, aegis, all the afv2, and the AH toys - make no mistake, he is geared.

i think he needs a hauteclaire and a homam body and he is done. you’ve got no risk of him splitting on you once he has those items. he’s been talking about dryroot for time, an EU LS that is on the ball is just what he needs, so for me, its a perfect fit.

anybody dissing Humie is almost certainly jealous of his ffxi achievements, was displaced by him as main tank (god save us, find something else to define yourself with) or tried to have a game of one-up-man-ship and he shot them down. This is not to say Humie is argumentative, far from it. he stands up for himself when faced with the idiots who constantly seek approval from ls members by denigrating others. it doesn’t sound to me like dryroot is made up of such people, so i’d say, he is your man.

check the posters' above history. zhi, reub, bardon, speak the truth. idk whats got into goldo here. and thorny, just discount.

[Thorny]

I was in nitefall for a couple months, bro. During that time, he exclusively subbed WAR in dynamis, used only ancile, and was not seen using a single gear macro. I have no reason to be jealous of humie's 'achievements' as mine far outnumber his, in the few months I had doing events with him I saw him as a far below average player wasting relic sponsorship. I have nothing against him as a person(and I even said above he was a decent person), isn't the point of these checks to post what you know about the player to help inform the shell? Just because you like someone doesn't mean everyone else does, likewise for you thinking they're a good player. Most of the people defending him say he was pretty poor as a player somewhat recently, which was when I was in his shell. A nobody saying to discount 2 people's opinions because they disagree is pretty stupid, just saying.

[Aesica]

Well, way to prove my point.

I'm a "stupid nobody" saying to "discount 2 peoples opinions". Well, I also said to count 5 people's opinions. You do the math. You're nobody to me, I'm nobody to you. Not really an insult either way, just the way it is.

I've known Humie for 5 years, Zhi & Reub known him for I guess 9-12 months, Bardon for 4-5 years, yet you were Nitefall with him for 2 months, you say. Well you were in Censhura for 2,3 weeks max, thats all I have to go on.

Humie "didn't use a single gear macro". Um, well.

Hopefully my post went a bit further than just saying "I like Humie so take him". The point of these *is* to post what you know. But I feel like you posted untruths, and I just don't know what Goldo is saying, he quit just after Humie joined and the shell was in severe flux, so I don't quite know where he got that opinion. I feel sometimes that one mistake ends up being kicked around a bit too much, and exaggerated into a trend. Its my right to speak up for somebody just as much as its your right to denigrate them.

I'm sure Humie's made mistakes I wasn't privy to, but I was present for many of his successes, so I'll state my case.

Up to you Dazusu from here on in I guess. I'd hazard a lot of the NA players sometimes don't realize how hard it is for EU players to excel in NA shells. Perhaps he missed a macro at 4am, fell asleep, or got into a late night argument. Humie's commitment over the years to Nitefall and Oceanids (commitment being years, not months) will hopefully speak for itself. It would be nice if somebody came forward from Nitefall.

I simply refuse to believe Humie "didn't use a single gear macro".

Grats on your achievements and outnumbering him and so on. Guess that makes you a real "somebody". There are other definitions of achievement though.

Hopefully Dazusu will give him a trial and if so, please do come back here and post in 3 weeks cos I don't like seeing somebodys name dragged through the mud on a basis that seems like unjustified falsehood from where I sit.

Put Humie in an EU shell and he'll be set.

[Robian]

Well, way to prove my point.

I'm a "stupid nobody" saying to "discount 2 peoples opinions". Well, I also said to count 5 people's opinions. You do the math. You're nobody to me, I'm nobody to you. Not really an insult either way, just the way it is.

I've known Humie for 5 years, Zhi & Reub known him for I guess 9-12 months, Bardon for 4-5 years, yet you were Nitefall with him for 2 months, you say. Well you were in Censhura for 2,3 weeks max, thats all I have to go on.

Humie "didn't use a single gear macro". Um, well.

Hopefully my post went a bit further than just saying "I like Humie so take him". The point of these *is* to post what you know. But I feel like you posted untruths, and I just don't know what Goldo is saying, he quit just after Humie joined and the shell was in severe flux, so I don't quite know where he got that opinion. I feel sometimes that one mistake ends up being kicked around a bit too much, and exaggerated into a trend. Its my right to speak up for somebody just as much as its your right to denigrate them.

I'm sure Humie's made mistakes I wasn't privy to, but I was present for many of his successes, so I'll state my case.

Up to you Dazusu from here on in I guess. I'd hazard a lot of the NA players sometimes don't realize how hard it is for EU players to excel in NA shells. Perhaps he missed a macro at 4am, fell asleep, or got into a late night argument. Humie's commitment over the years to Nitefall and Oceanids (commitment being years, not months) will hopefully speak for itself. It would be nice if somebody came forward from Nitefall.

I simply refuse to believe Humie "didn't use a single gear macro".

Grats on your achievements and outnumbering him and so on. Guess that makes you a real "somebody". There are other definitions of achievement though.

Hopefully Dazusu will give him a trial and if so, please do come back here and post in 3 weeks cos I don't like seeing somebodys name dragged through the mud on a basis that seems like unjustified falsehood from where I sit.

Put Humie in an EU shell and he'll be set.

You're attacking him for observations he took the time to post here. Regardless if you feel they aren't true, he has no reason to lie regarding what he saw. You're coming off as pretty butthurt, almost to the point where you're desperate for this guy to get accepted. Two people posted their honest opinions, don't attack them or try to sway them the other way, just leave them the fuck alone. Besides, who is more likely to give an honest opinion regarding someone: A friend of 5 years or someone that had no relation with them and just observed for a month?

[Thorny]

I'm a "stupid nobody" saying to "discount 2 peoples opinions". Well, I also said to count 5 people's opinions. You do the math. You're nobody to me, I'm nobody to you. Not really an insult either way, just the way it is.

On BG, you're a nobody. This isn't my opinion of you, you have 5 posts none of which were the least bit informative about anything. It doesn't change the weight of what you have to say, but it makes you look stupid to bash older posters that have a history of knowing what's going on and have contributed more to the community.

I've known Humie for 5 years, Zhi & Reub known him for I guess 9-12 months, Bardon for 4-5 years, yet you were Nitefall with him for 2 months, you say. Well you were in Censhura for 2,3 weeks max, thats all I have to go on.

I didn't say I was around him for ages, I said my experience with him. Other posters(the ones in favor of him, even!) said that he was a poor player just months ago(which was when I knew him, omg?), so I'm not quite sure why you're accusing me of lying.

Humie "didn't use a single gear macro". Um, well.

Neither him nor Reaunan used gear macros for the duration of my time in Nitefall. My friend and I laughed at it pretty often(as well as the fact they actually use PLD in dynamis, but that's another story entirely), I have no reason to lie about it.

But I feel like you posted untruths, and I just don't know what Goldo is saying, he quit just after Humie joined and the shell was in severe flux, so I don't quite know where he got that opinion. I feel sometimes that one mistake ends up being kicked around a bit too much, and exaggerated into a trend. Its my right to speak up for somebody just as much as its your right to denigrate them.

It is your right, but someone with 0 reputation coming in and saying to disregard the people speaking poorly of your friend while singing praises of the ones who spoke highly of it seems a bit biased.

Grats on your achievements and outnumbering him and so on. Guess that makes you a real "somebody". There are other definitions of achievement though.

I'm not bragging, you suggested that Goldo and I were jealous of him.. both of us far outrank him as far as FFXI goes and I felt a need to state that.

Hopefully Dazusu will give him a trial and if so, please do come back here and post in 3 weeks cos I don't like seeing somebodys name dragged through the mud on a basis that seems like unjustified falsehood from where I sit.

I couldn't care less if he gets accepted or not. Different shells have different standards, again, I was just posting what I knew of him.

[Vlorsutes]

I was in nitefall for a couple months, bro. During that time, he exclusively subbed WAR in dynamis, used only ancile, and was not seen using a single gear macro. I

Not only this, but he would pick and choose what runs he went to just cause it'd work to benefit his Aegis, and would go as far as warp out if for some reason we weren't going to do something in Beaucedine or Xarcabard to help him (if we weren't going for fragments or attestations). Then, right after we finally help him get his fragment, he ups and leaves without any further contact to anyone in the shell.