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D-backs GM Towers: Having Gregorius is 'very comforting'
In fact, he is not going to point to the trade that sent Trevor Bauer to Cleveland and brought Didi Gregorius to the desert when people bring up Justin Upton.
However, that does not mean he's not excited about what the 23-year-old shortstop has done in five games with the big league club.
"Didi Gregorius has been outstanding; I mean, just the base running, the heads-up play," Towers told Arizona Sports 620's Doug and Wolf Wednesday. "We saw it the other night, we saw it again [Wednesday]. Just big, big plays. Good defender, and a kid that hopefully is going to be here for a long, long time."
Gregorius is hitting .400 with two home runs as a Diamondback, and has displayed the elite defense that attracted the team to him in the first place. The fast start has led many to wondering if a player who figured to still need a bit more seasoning in the minors is now ready for a full-time gig in the majors.
"We knew that he was ready defensively to be an everyday shortstop, and we knew that the bat wasn't that far away," Towers said, noting the team will have some tough decisions once Willie Bloomquist is healthy enough to play again. "It would be pretty hard to probably send the kid down, the way he's playing right now.
"He's probably come a little bit quicker than we thought, and we're excited to have him."
Towers, who also said it's tough to find middle infielders of Gregorius' caliber, said the player is "fun to watch," and it's tough to argue with that statement.
Of course, at some point Gregorius will go through a slump, but the GM is confident he'll be able to push through it and emerge a better player.
"He's got holes, like most big league players do, but he's a smart enough kid that I think he'll make the necessary adjustments," he said, comparing him to what Paul Goldschmidt has done in his big league career. "Hopefully it's a little bit shorter of a learning curve of hitting in the National League than most, but to have control of a good, young middle infielder is something we haven't had in a while, probably since Stephen Drew when he was a young player.
"It's very comforting."
Adam Green, Web Content Editor - ArizonaSports.com
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Entitlement reform means giving the urban "poor" food, clothing and shelter, period. Let the government set up food stores where the poor can use their EBT card to buy real as opposed to junk food, just like the food allowed in the WIC program. If they don´t want it let them starve. Give them money for clothes without designer labels and shoes with whatever Wal-Mart´s store brand name is. Build more projects and let them either take care of their living space or not.
Agreed, as long as all the other wasteful government programs are subject to commensurate cuts.
That certainly will include Congresses salaries, life long retirement checks and medical, right? RIGHT!?
@#2: A govn food store would stock only the best food our tax dollars could buy. Since the taxpayers would foot the bill the prices would be exorbitant and the quality 2nd to none. Anything less would illicit cries of racism against the poor minorities.
The GOP will do themselves a great deal of harm by negotiating any changes to what the Democrats put in place to start Jan 1, 2012. They know what a disaster it will be and they know that they can sucker the GOP into negotiating a compromise in which they will blame all the bad consequences on the GOP. Tax increases on the poor and cuts in entitlement programs are pure poison for the Dems.
# 4 is onto something.You go first Congress. Let´s start with your benefits and perks.How about ValJar downsizing her security ?
Nothing much will change until the aged Capitol Dome collapses and packs of wolves roam the city devouring the last few politicians and bureaucrats.From inside, in Washington, all seems well. Who there need care about the woes elsewhere in the nation?After all, they pass plenty of laws and regulations, what more can we ask of them?


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Sean Penn directed this tense drama of loyalty, honor, and obsession, based on a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) is a veteran police detective who lives and works in a small Nevada town. On the day of his retirement, it falls to Jerry to handle an especially unpleasant… More Sean Penn directed this tense drama of loyalty, honor, and obsession, based on a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) is a veteran police detective who lives and works in a small Nevada town. On the day of his retirement, it falls to Jerry to handle an especially unpleasant assignment -- a seven-year-old girl has been brutally murdered, and Jerry has to check out the crime scene, and then tell the girl's parents the awful news. The girl's mother (Patricia Clarkson), understandably distraught, demands to know if the killer will be brought to justice, and Jerry promises her that he will personally see to it, "on my soul's salvation." A younger detective also on the case, Stan Krolak (Aaron Eckhart), thinks he's traced the crime to Toby Jay Wadeneh (Benicio Del Toro), a mentally retarded man who confesses to the murder shortly before killing himself. Stan considers the case closed, but Jerry can't shake his belief that Toby Jay wasn't actually the murderer, and Jerry begins to investigate the case on his own time, over the objections of his former boss, Eric Pollack (Sam Shepard), who reminds Jerry that he's no longer an official member of the police force. Before long, Jerry's personal investigation has taken over his life, and he uncovers evidence that suggests the girl's murder was just one in a series of killings involving young girls and a mysterious man called "the Wizard." When Jerry becomes close to a young single mother, Lori (Robin Wright-Penn), he feels he has reason to believe the murderer may be targeting her eight-year-old daughter, and finds himself using her as a decoy in order to bring the killer to justice. The Pledge marked Jack Nicholson's second starring role in a film directed by Sean Penn following 1995's The Crossing Guard; The Pledge's stellar supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, Helen Mirren, Harry Dean Stanton, and Mickey Rourke. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Mystery-thriller buffs, promise yourselves that you'll see The Pledge. And while you're at it, be sure to invite along Jack Nicholson fans and anyone who saw the first two movies that Sean Penn directed.
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Penn can't be faulted for his work with the actors. Most of the featured players have only a scene or two, but they're indelible.
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Ultimately, the payoffs just aren't there, either psychologically or dramatically.
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This is one of Nicholson's finest performances and that's saying one hell of a lot.
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Nov 15, 2012
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Good evening I'm Chris Wallace -- for -- fair.
Lawmakers on capitol held today got to ask administration officials some tough questions about the -- terror attack.
And many did more than that they showed anger and frustration at the depth of four Americans and the White House response.
Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge tells us what happened.
The arrogance and dishonesty reflected in all of this.
Is a little bit breathtaking.
Asking questions of who is responsible.
In this camp.
For what happened.
-- if you want to know always responsible.
In this town.
Buy yourself a mirror on Capitol Hill political divisions of Irving Ghazi relayed -- an open hearing -- -- unfair.
Tax on -- on the ambassador Susan Rice are simply wrong.
She had to rely on the intelligence that was provided.
I sat here while Colin Powell provided the intelligence that he had.
Regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Also Fox News is told behind closed doors that there were heated exchanges in the classified sessions over the so called they Ghazi talking points used by the administration and ambassador Susan Rice for the Sunday talk shows September 16.
Fox -- is told that -- the Director of National Intelligence -- the acting director of the CIA knew finalize the talking points.
And they could not explain whether talking points minimize the role of al-Qaeda.
When there was evidence of the terror group's involvement.
Acting CIA director Mike -- was pushed to explain why on September 14 Petraeus told lawmakers the attack was like a flash -- prompted by the anti Islam video.
Morales said he wasn't -- Petraeus is briefing and had nothing further to add.
In public Republicans question what drove the State Department to deny repeated requests for security.
After ambassador Chris Stevens and his team more the consulate could not defend against a coordinated attack I'm appalled that the.
Administration could not anticipate escalating violence and then failed -- step up security measures to protect our diplomats.
Furthermore we've -- blunder after blunder as the administration board's responsibility and accountability.
The delay tactics are unacceptable.
Democrats cautioned -- colleagues about jumping to conclusions Barack Obama was no more responsible.
What happened in Ben -- then George Bush was the September 11.
As -- the decision not to notify congressional leaders the CIA director was facing an FBI investigation over his alleged affair with his biographer Paul abroad well.
The attorney general said it was his call.
There was not a threat to national security.
Had we made the determination that a threat to national security insisted we would of course have made -- known to league president.
And they'll also to be appropriate members hold on to -- Some Democrats said the sessions were constructive and put to rest reports including comments by broad well in late October.
-- CIA enix in Ben Ghazi was attacked a free detainees.
You don't -- his status is false information I have no.
Information that idea that occurred whatsoever.
And there -- people being held the it's more the former CIA director David Petraeus will testify before closed classified sessions.
The house and Senate Intelligence Committees separately Fox News has confirmed that the CIA has launched.
A preliminary investigation into the former directors conduct crest.
Catherine -- on Capitol Hill.
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1:00pm Monday 10th September 2012 in News By Helen Morton
A BASINGSTOKE charity is looking for fundraisers with nerves of steel to walk across burning coals for a good cause.
Anna's Challenges is looking for 50 people to walk over 600 degrees Celsius coals to raise money for the charity, set up by Rachel Marke to fund equipment for her four-year-old daughter Anna, who has cystic fibrosis (CF), and other local sufferers.
The condition is one of the UK's most commonly inherited life-threatening diseases, and sufferers have a tough daily regime, including medication and physiotherapy.
Rachel and her husband Paul, 39, will be holding the firewalk at Basingstoke Rugby Football Club on Saturday, February 23, 2013, and they hope people will sign up to hot foot it for the charity.
Rachel, 34, said: "This is the first fundraising event that we've organised and we're very excited. Hopefully, a lot of people will join in.
"It's a great opportunity to do something different and daring. The money raised will go a long way to helping children with CF and their families in the local area."
The goal is to raise £5,000 through the fire walk. The event will be led by Scott Bell, twice Guinness World Record holder for the longest fire walk, and participants will receive an hour of training before crossing the burning coals at about 6pm.
After the challenge, there will be food, drink and a raffle in aid of Anna's Challenges at the rugby club. Registration costs £35 and participants are asked to pledge to raise a minimum of £100 in aid of Anna's Challenges.
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Doug Holtz-eakin, Aaron Chatterji
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Less than seven weeks ago now until the election the race for the White House enters a critical phase and after a brief.
The campaign messaging returns to a critical issue the economy.
Let's get into it with Douglas Holtz -- a former director of the Congressional Budget Office he's now president of American action Foreman.
-- I should say.
-- strategy is -- -- economic advisor for the Obama campaign and a former White House economist.
There's so of the tail on the tapes is front and center this week.
We have governor Romney are caught on tape and a fund raisers saying that 47%.
Of the American people those who pay no income taxes essentially are never going to be in his camp.
And then you have a tape of -- a state Senator Obama saying that he likes government redistribution.
Of wealth would you agree -- And that those two tapes sort of illustrate the choices in this campaign.
Well thank you for having me and John yeah there are two very different visions at work here in this presidential campaign.
President Obama believes in an economy it -- from the middle out where anyone who wants to work -- we'll have an opportunity to succeed.
And that's why you invest in education in innovation infrastructure and our manufacturing sectors we're gonna move forward we make these investments -- we -- together.
If you look at this -- behind closed door fund raiser the governor Romney had.
You know for a campaign that's been surprisingly light on specifics he was very specific about the percentage of Americans.
That he doesn't have to worry -- And we're talking here about a senior who's worked all their lives in the got a fixed income.
A college student who's working two jobs -- line on federal loans to stay in school.
And military veteran who's come home and receiving services at the VA alright folks are dependent because he pencils and victims they're not looking for hand out.
They're friends they're family they're neighbors they're Americans and those votes on those sea where Vietnam and divide us -- -- 53% vs 47%.
This presidential campaign is about a 100% of the country.
Where we're getting into the talking points -- and I appreciate the effort there but the point is I mean do these two tapes Douglas -- try would you do they really illustrate the differences between these campaigns in the choice of the American people have.
I think there are very important issues to divide tapes I think -- better right John -- for solve -- that the president's remarks reveal his instincts as an economic policymakers.
Our first and foremost do you look at -- try to take some peace from someone.
And give it to another person instead of trying to make that high grow and if you look at the administration's record over the past four years.
It has been a very poor record of growth because they don't drop the ball -- and spend more time on social policy like health care former.
Environmental policies and EPA or labor union policy at the -- of things like that.
Romney reflects the American people and their correct concern that the government overreach violates the principles that have made this company this country so successful.
And it interfered with the ability of small businesses lost terms and are.
Our private sector Kennedy took to grow the economy and and those are the -- -- one we've seen for four years we've experienced that growth -- other ways we use for 200 years became the largest -- plan.
-- and -- the cubs got.
-- -- -- -- I have to disagree with we've -- and that's I think if you if you watch the video that you're referring to.
President's actually talking about how to make government more effective and efficient he specifically cites government agencies that you think could be you these could be improved in his home city of Chicago.
I think by bringing up this tape from fourteen years ago to try to counterbalance the tape they came out in May -- was from may.
It's just an attempt to change the subject let's look at what he plans are -- Obama has a plan to grow the economy well.
Not about my parents did all the things that we've been we've defect defect could -- and I didn't I didn't listen to the president very closely since 2007 and if it's not industry whether he can talk the issue is what will he do.
-- he is -- do more of the same in his second term there's not been one new idea and we have seen the results in the first term and and those are facts on the ground.
So I think his eloquence -- -- ever been in dispute.
From this -- rounder this week created or point six million jobs for thirty straight months in the private sector.
I was in Charlotte for the Democrat -- -- -- and the president outlined very specific ideas on manufacturing.
On small business and improving our domestic energy supply so if there's specific ideas and a record to build up there and all that on that point the president often talked about four point 34 point six million jobs created isn't that essentially what you need to create jobs to keep up with population growth over thirty months.
So the unemployment rates come down one percentage points in this time last year was the big decline.
The president and everyone else realizes that we need to move faster and that's why -- propose a very specific plan to congress.
Now we just need to break the stalemate I think the calculation for some of the folks in the house was that it was better to work against the president and -- with him to somebody the president had -- -- to -- -- -- -- -- -- to.
-- definitely on the return if we could return to the facts the unemployment rates falling because they have labor force participation rate at the lowest since 1980 want.
The tragedy of the population that is currently hold on -- here hold on the question is the -- is -- wanna call that success when people give up.
And stopped even trying to look for an -- -- false and that doesn't look like success to most people.
And you know here's your that obviously having a creator -- workers who've given up looking is that this is down last month and down over the previous years and that's.
That's not being labeled before -- -- -- -- it's always a great year since 1981.
Right right -- we're gonna continue to follow these numbers.
But again.
The choice is out in front of the American people will make it seven weeks or a little bit less from today -- chatter -- Douglas Holtz Aiken thank you both.
Thank you.
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By Elliott Abrams The latest move in China's ongoing anti-religion campaign is as subtle as a sledgehammer. Literally. In the eastern province of Zhejiang, officials boast that they have destroyed, confiscated or shut down 450 Roman Catholic and Protestant churches and Taoist and Buddhist temples. A Hong Kong-based human rights observer puts the number at nearer 3,000. Some have been blown up; others demolished with sledgehammers. The targets of this demolition derby are congregations that have operated openly for years but refuse to register with the authorities, lest they be forced to join the state's puppet religious organizations. To do so means, among other things, turning over membership lists to the authorities and accepting state-dictated theology and censorship of sermons. Catholics, for example, are forced to deny the authority of the pope, a step most refuse to take. "In order to maintain social stability, the local government demolished underground [unregistered] churches and temples and other illegal places," a spokesman for the Wenzhou city foreign affairs office helpfully explained to Agence France-Presse. The destruction of houses of worship is part of Beijing's comprehensive and intensifying crackdown on independent religious expression, which began in earnest in July 1999 with the banning of the Falun Gong spiritual movement and several mainstream Protestant Christian groups as "evil cults." Consider the following reports:
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Well, it's been quite a year in Bangs World. I moved back to England at the end of '09 after six years of galavanting in various cities around the world and wasn't quite sure what lay ahead. Then 2010 started and my luck took a crazy turn. As the year rolled on, something more and more mind blowing would happen each month. I couldn't quite take it all in myself. But I sure have had some great times and as always, documented them here on this blog.
Well the universe must have been listening, because in February, I won a competition to have Idris Elba call me on Valentine's Day. It was a joyous, momentous occasion and I stand by my theory that Idris totally wants me. I made this video, which I was later told, he watched. Mortification!
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In April, I got some Jimmy Choos and was oh so happy about it.
In May, I shared probably one of the more personal posts I've ever done on this here blog, where I talked about my struggle to come to terms with my looks. It sparked some great discussion and yes, reading the comments made me cry, multiple times. I still get emails about that post and am so moved that it touched other people the way it did.
In June, one of my readers questioned whether I hate women – how could I not respond to that one?! I flung maxi dresses into a category with Uggs boots and Crocs – an opinion which lead to someone who had been very keen to work with me refusing to do business with me at all. Seriously. So very professional. The Sex in the City 2 movie came out. I was unimpressed.
In July, I wrote an open letter to parents, letting them know that the sun does not actually shine out of their child's ass. Surprisingly, parenting groups didn't call for my beheading. A group of bloggers got together to write about the shambolic Mac/Rodarte collection which lead to the line being scrapped – blogger victory! Then I stirred up a bunch 'o shit by writing a post called Woman Law: Being a Lady - behold the hate it garnered!
In August, I got fed up with people asking me to write for them for free. I got up on my soap box, wrote a post called Blogsploitation and it turned into a kind of protest march with bloggers from all corners coming out saying they felt the same – some really great comments that show how much of a solid community bloggers are.
I had quite a few requests from my American readers who thought it'd be funny to hear me rap and so, in September, I debuted Bangs Goes Rap with my pretty epic rendition of Jay Z's 99 Problems. I am waiting to a) become a YouTube sensation and b) get a record contract. I was also nominated by my beautiful readers for a Cosmo Blog Award and came runner up in my category, which was totally amazeballs.
October was a landmark month for me. After being approached back in May to run a half marathon, D-Day arrived on 10th October when I actually ran 13 miles and didn't die. Hands down one of the most amazing moments of my life. I then wrote about the drama I had going on behind the scenes with the PR company who'd asked me to do the half mara and caused a bit of an internet shit storm.
In November and totally stepped out of my comfort zone and wrote about my acne and my lovely commenters surrounded me with love and support like never before. I celebrated three years of the blog and wrote a Beginner's Guide to Blogging to help out anyone who might be thinking of taking that step into the blogosphere. I also signed up for the Paris Half Marathon. I put a call out on Twitter to see if anyone wanted to do it with me and overnight, I had 19 girls signed up. Team Bangs on the Run was born!
Rounding the year out, in December, I gave you a guide to X Factor and warned you about Bitchy Boys all while making embarrassing videos of myself training for the Paris Half Mara.
It has been one helluva a year, but it would've been nothing without the support, encouragement and love I've received from you, my readers, my lovely blog family. Thank you so much for laughing with me, crying with me and sharing my joy. It really does mean the world to me.
I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see what 2011 has in store!
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Holy crap. I really tried to watch, but i couldn't get past the 5 min mark.
I can't believe what i just saw.
White guy chanting about slavery and black women, and theres like no black people there..
Clearly all those people are southerners tho, didnt watch the whole thing, im sure there are a few skinheads hiding there.
Seriously, watch the whole thing. It's worth it.
yea ill do it when i get home, dont wana cap the internet at work :p i love how he asks people about the signs they are holding up and they like "err.."
Best thing about the whole clip is the guy carrying the cross. I'm sure that if Jesus had existed he wasn't given the option of a pillow under the cross to make it more comfortable. It kinda makes the whole message redundant doesn't it? Only half suffering.
Whoa, Americans make me sad.
Only a few mins in, but when they questioned they don't even know why they are there. They are like sheep, they just follow each other without even knowing the real reason they are doing these things. Bored people are bored...
Last edited by MonGooS; 16-09-2009 at 02:53 PM.
I was laughing through my tears throughout that video.
"I'm not supporting Joe Wilson for president." [Queue poster]
"Obama is a Muslim."
"What are you protesting?"
"The Health Care Bill."
"What does this bill entail?"
"Communism, fascism, socialism... they're all intertwined."
Last edited by Domanskip; 16-09-2009 at 03:28 PM.
And those damned csars!
This was really painful to watch, that little guy protesting tax, like he even pays taxes. :/
The sad reality is, those people are all there because they were told to be there by their Local Extremists, who all drink religiously from the cups of Hannidy and Fox News.
Before I lived here, I couldn't understand why some Americans acted like this. Now that I've seen Fox news and their shock-jocks and talking heads, as well as radio host Limbaugh, I totally get it.
Those people in the video do not live in the same reality as the rest of us, they literally exist in a fictional, constructed reality that they believe is fact, because Fox news tells them it is.
The more you try to explain to them what's going on, they more they take it as "proof" that they're right, because people are trying to "dissuade them from the true path". Certain religions use the same memetic catch-all, you may have noticed it before.
The truth is, it's a vocal minority that believes they're an under-represented majority, that's being oppressed by the liberal minorities.
@ Miktar -Would I be correct in saying that this group hails mostly from the South and the Mid-West?
I kinda feel that a lot of people are protesting just because they want to protest, about something, anything. So they don't really care what it is, they just want to get in a group, march around a bit, shout some stuff, make a few friends and pick up chicks.
Or maybe they are just stupid and indoctrinated, which I am sure is a large part of the truth, but I still think wanting to just protest is an influence in producing this bizarre behavior.
Sorry, I tend to generalize.
@Battlemoose. Exactly, they are just doing it cause everyone else is doing it, and on some level they find it appealing. They look like they are trying more to have fun then prove a point or to have something changed. I wonder if they honestly think they are gonna change anything by walking around with signs and sitting on their asses.


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Class: Flagwielder
Race: Human
Stat Primary: Strength
Base HP: 620
Base MP: 245
Base Movespeed: 305
Attack Range: Melee
Attack Speed: Slow
Base Armor: 3
Base Damage: 60-67
Str: 24 + 3
Agi: 14 + 1.6
Int: 16 + 1.8
Belongs to: Neutral
Born under the star sign of Fate, Kularak was seen as an inspiration among his fellow men. He was deemed to be destined for greatness by the village elders, and as he grew older his body grew much taller and stronger than that of his fellow man. He was brought into training as a child to be a herald bearer, but quickly ascended through the ranks after crushing many a skull with the herald itself. Eventually after much yelling and shouting he found that he had quite a knack for leading a warband into battle, and so he started not only leading the charges, but planning them as well. Eventually he felt like he needed something 'more' for his services, possibly a monetary reward of sorts and started to sell his leadership to the highest bidder. He was quickly kicked out of his village for his greed, but he soon found a new job...
Looks: A tall human with a stout build, missing an arm (result of one of his battles, instead in the socket is a chain linked to his banner), wearing heavy chainmail armor and wielding a flail in his left hand.
Raise your arms, men!
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Duration: 20 seconds
Manacost: 90/100/110/120
Radius: 500
Ability type: On-Use AoE buff
When things seem grim, and the foe is surrounding you, claws itching to rip you from shred to shred, their eyes crazed and burning with delight, you must fight back! Never give up, and you shall win!
When cast, this spell creates a small DPS increase in a 500 radius around the hero for 20 seconds, and any character below 50% of their life is slightly healed..
Level1: +5 DPS, restores 1% of their maximum HP
Level 2: +10DPS, restores 2.5%
Level 3: +15 DPS, restores 4%
Level 4: +20 DPS, restores 6%
With ultimate:
For each morale charge used, add in another 1.25% HP and +4 DPS.
Cooldown: 20 seconds
Manacost: 100/115/130/145
Radius: 300 (hits in a 180 degree arc directly in front of the hero, from the left side)
Ability type: Targetted Attack
I don't need any real weapons to take you down! My flag is enough to destroy my enemies!
When used, the Flagwielder will swing out his flag in an arc in front of him, dealing the most damage to the first foe it hits and progressively less as the swing continues.
Level 1: Deals 100 damage. Causes 120% damage to the first target it hits, then 100%, then 80%, etc
Level 2: Deals 150 damage
Level 3: Deals 200 damage
Level 4: Deals 250 damage
With ultimate:
Each charge used increases the initial amount of damage that this attack does by 15% and knocks each target back by 20/40/60/80 distance per charge.
A small demonstration of how this ability would work:
The O is you, and the X is roughly the swing radius. The target first hit to the left of him will take the full amount of damage (300 damage at max level with no charges), and then it will keep swinging to the right. Knockback would work in the direction of the swing, so a target hit directly in the middle of the swing would go flying to the right, while a target hit with the backswing would go behind Kurlarak. So!
For example, here would be a target hit in the middle of the swing. Arrows point towards where knockback would send him.
Throw Standard
Cooldown: 20 seconds
Duration: 20 seconds
Manacost: 100/110/120/130 Reel also costs 50/40/30/20 mana.
Radius: 300/325/350/400, aura has a 600 radius
Range: 700
Ability type: Targetted AoE aura and damage
Ha! You think you can run away from me? I have the strength of five men, and with this one throw I can end your life!
The Flagwielder proceeds to grab his standard from his back and throw it at target location, dealing a large amount of damage where it lands and planting the standard there, where it offers a small armor/movespeed increase buff to his allies. The standard is on a chain hooked to Kurlarak's back, and you can cast the skill again to drag the Standard back to you. If you get 1200 range away from the flag, it rips from the ground and automatically reels back to your body. Even while dragged the standard aura still is in effect. Time taken for Standard to be dragged back depends on range.
(NOTE: While using this ability he is unable to use his Flagslam ability. He can run and pick up his standard to be able to use it again, or he can wait for the duration to end, where it will then automatically appear on his back once more.)
Level 1: Deals 40 damage to foes in a 300 radius, gives +2 armor and +20 movespeed. Aura has a 600 radius base.
Level 2: Deals 80 damage, 325 radius, +4 armor and +30 movespeed
Level 3: 120 damage, 350 radius, +6 armor, +40 movespeed
Level 4: 160 damage, 400radius, +8 armor, +50 movespeed
With ultimate:
Each charge adds an additional 10/15/20/25 points of damage to this attack and will add 0.5 of a morale charge per unit killed. Additionally, at five charges or greater this will cause a 1.5 second stun.
Ultimate: Tides of Battle (Passive)
Ability type: Passive charge
Even in the darkest of hours or brightest of days, Kularak can stand stalwart! As long as Kularak is in combat, he will slowly gain morale charges just from the sheer bloodlust! Additionally, he has a chance on attack to cause an Inspired Attack, which generates a charge and deals 130% of normal damage. Charges will also go up faster if he is around allied heroes.
While alone, he will generate 1 charge every fifteen seconds, provided he is in combat. He loses one charge every 15 seconds when not engaged in combat. Being engaged in combat requires you to be around units that are actively fighting, although you do not have to fight yourself.
The first allied hero reduces that interval to 3 seconds, the second to 2, the third to 1.75 and the forth to 1.5.
Level 1: Can hold a maximum of four charges, radius for charges to accumulate is 300. 5% chance on attack for a charge.
Level 2: Can hold a maximum of five charges, radius is 450. 10% chance.
Level 3: Can hold a maximum of six charges, radius is 600. 15% chance.
To expand upon this, each of his abilities gets stronger with each new charge. However, each ability also burns charges as well, making it so you must play your charges carefully. Since you need to be in combat constantly, it can be very dangerous if you don't watch yourself. Being around enemy units alone will slowly generate a charge, but you can also generate a charge on attack.
Flagslam and Throw Standard would be used as a way to curb runners. While you can't use Flagslam while in the middle of Throw Standard, if timed right you could drag the standard along with you at the end of the cooldown as you chase a foe and then Flagslam him or her to the side. Or if you already have a stun on them, you could run behind them and Flagslam them, and then throw the standard for the stun and aura, allowing for a group to gank said person.
Throw Standard and Raise your Arms, Men! Both give extremely good buffs and early game this could be the decider in ganks. The additional damage and the movespeed would allow you to finish off foes that are running or surround a foe before he has a chance to run.
Ideally he would work well with any hero, but would perform best with disablers who could benefit from the movespeed. The DPS increase in Arms would make you a very wanted man for lane duos since you could boost an agility heroe's damage pretty high.
Frostfield Plate: Allows that much needed slow that would send a chill through the spine of your foes that try to escape from Throw Standard.
Hack (and Slash): Additional movespeed and a slow to boot? Combine with Frostfield and you got yourself a hell of a guy to escape from.
Vladimirs: Naturally as a support hero, pretty much any and all auras are welcome. Boost not only your own power, but the power of your allies as well to a fairly strong level.
Phase Boots: Even though the +10 to stat on Steamboots might seem more appealing, the ability to run through creeps could be a life saver if you want to try and catch up to a running foe.
(Apologizes to any names I missed. I don't have all of the new item names memorized, and so I will refer to them using the DoTA terms.
Extra skills
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Duration: Permanent (on creeps) 20 seconds (on hero)
Mana Cost: 130/120/110/100
Range: 500
Ability type: Targetted unit buff/control
Son, you have done well on the field of battle! For this, I award you a promotion!
Kurlarak, being a captain of war, has the ability to promote units, granting them certain buffs and, if a creep, will cause them to come under his control. He can have a maximum of one promoted unit under his control at any time, and the death of that unit will cause Kularak to be silenced for 15 seconds. He can also cast promote on his controlled unit again to bring it up to the highest rank of the spell. If at the highest rank, he'll be treated as a hero and be granted the hero buffs.
Level 1: Promotes a unit to a Lieutenant, grants +10 damage, +2 armor and +1 hp/s to heroes
Level 2: Promote a unit to Major, grants +20 damage, +4 armor and +2.5 hp/s
Level 3: Promote a unit to Colonel, grants +30 damage, +6 armor, +4 hp/s
Level 4. Promote a unit to General, grant +40 damage, +8 armor, +6 hp/s
You can promote either a melee creep or a ranged creep, and you will get a different result. Melee creeps will gain more health and armor with some slight damage increases. At level 3 melee creeps gain the ability to Defend, which diverts 25% of all damage from target unit to him, and at level 4 they gain Smash, which stuns a unit in melee range for 1 second.
Ranged units will gain more health and damage, with slight armor increases. They also gain more movespeed than their melee counterpart. At level 3 they gain the ability to stealth, dealing 200 damage on the first attack they make on a long cooldown. At level 4 they can cast Called Shot, which deals damage equal to the target's movespeed/2 and slows by 20%.
Design PlanIdeally, I want this hero to be a major supporter early on, but be able to hold his own later on once he becomes able to use his charges. His abilities may seem strong at first, but you have to realize that the charges need time to build up, and that they fully drain whenever he uses one of his abilities. This forces him to decide when is the best time to use his abilities or not, and what he should do. If played well, Rallycaller could be used to completely stop enemy heroes from escaping (using Throw Standard to stun and increase movespeed) and help his allies escape (utilizing the heal and the standard to increase their speed.)
Kularak 1.1: Added manacosts, range for Standard, changed ultimate to be more focused on attacks triggering morale charges, but it still goes up slowly around units.
Kularak 1.2: Formatting changes, various smaller changes to abilities (see lower posts)
Last edited by FZeroRacer; 07-09-2009 at 08:56 PM.
Well designed and thought out. I'd suggest that he has a chain added to his flag. When he uses battle standard and throws the flag out, he can cast the ability again to reel it in allowing him to use the flag swipe.
For his ultimate, he should also get charges when he attacks, or have a chance on attack to generate a charge. 30/45/60 perhaps. I don't see a very big improvement in his ultimate as far as leveling it goes unless the charges get generated significantly faster.
This hero can only support in the middle game and on. Most of his skills seem rather gimp without his ultimate.Ideally, I want this hero to be a major supporter early on
Last edited by Frozenhelfir; 06-29-2009 at 03:03 AM.
Fair enough. A chain seems like a great idea, and I think a chance to get charges on attack seems like a good idea as well.
As far as middle game support, I see what you're saying. He'll still be able to provide some early game support (in the form of flagthrow or raise your arms), but he'll be a bit stronger once he gets his ultimate out.
I really like the idea of this hero a passive pressure increase and active release system for the charges is a nice touch. I can think of a few nasty combo's item wise already
My only gripe is with your use of numbers for Flagslam; why say 100dmg * 1.2 to first target and not just 120 dmg? just seems a bit silly
Overall definitately a thumbs up!
I really like this idea. HoN needs some more heroes that are different, but aren't too complex in nature. No complaints, and I'd like to see it implemented. : )
i would suggest something mutant but NO ORKS AND NO ELVES IN NEWERTH!!! NEVER!!!
I think it's a cool idea with a few proposed changes:
1. Raise your Arms should probably give less bonus % to health with his ulti (1% instead of 2%) and instead of adding DPS just add plain damage.
2. I don't think that reeling the flag back in should reduce cooldown. 10 seconds is far too short of a cooldown for what seems to be his key skill. I also think that instead of a stun it should be a slow for balance purposes.
3. I think the inspired strike should be removed, and just let the charges slowly accumulate based on how many heroes are around him. The higher the level of ult, the faster the rate. He's meant to be a primarily support hero, not a combatant.
4. I think some of the numbers need to be toned down to avoid him being overpowered (e.g. %s and dmg amounts), but that's the easiest thing to fix. The ideas are the hardest part!
Nice idea. I'd put this hero on my team.
Regardling your changes:
1. Yeah, this seems good. I had originally thought of doing that, but also thought that it might be a bit weak just adding additional DPS. I think tweaking the healing done and changing damage to DPS will give him more of a support role though. Good idea.
2. Ideally, it would take 2-3 seconds to reel in the flag, depending on distance. If you were at max range for example, it would probably take about five seconds for the flag to reach you. As far as removing the cooldown cutter, looking back on it I really don't see much of a need for it now. So i'll definitely go back and get rid of that. I think that a small stun is needed for this ability too,that way he can throw it and catch up to a group of enemies quickly. Plus it gives him a spell interrupt, which is something he'll need going against spellcasters.
3. True, but this is also tricky to balance. He'd be very weak without any other heroes around him considering how much his skills rely on his ultimate, and the faster heroes could leave him in the dust and ruin his aquisition rate. It's also tricky to find the right balance between number of heroes and charge rate. If I make it too slow with just one hero he's still ultimately weak, but if I make it too fast then he becomes incredibly strong because he'll be at full charge all the time.
I really want the player to use his charges sparingly and decide when is the best time to use X ability and if he should save for full charges or use them now.
I think that lowering the inspired strikes to (5/10/15% chance) and adding a diminishing effect to the ultimate might work out well. When alone in combat (against enemy units or heroes) he'll gain about 1 charge every 5 seconds, the first hero reduces it to 3 seconds, second to 2, third to 1.75, fourth to 1.5 etc.
4. Yeah, balancing is certainly the hardest part. With each piece of feedback I think I am getting closer to a balanced hero though, and I appreciate everyone responding here.
Last edited by FZeroRacer; 06-30-2009 at 04:29 PM.
Added some more to the OP including potential synergies and better formatting. So far what do you think of the abilities? Should I remove any, tone any down or up etc?
I'd love more feedback here.
i have to read through it again but the concept looks nice, since its not a halfork anymore (he was right? ) sorry i didnt read him when you first postet him i realy like the Idea of it. I dont like generic Characters, and yours isnt. The skills look fun especialy in team battles.
Lovely hero. I hope he makes it in the game.
But one change is required... Rallycaller sounds stupid. Rename him to Iconbearer.
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- Camcorders
- Touchscreen Tablets
- MP3s
- Cellular Phones