Warlords of Draenor Prep - Let's Get Down To Business

We have just about four weeks until Warlords of Draenor drops, and it's time we all got serious about our pre-expansion preparations.  Here in the Katthouse, that extends to polishing my streaming technique, getting videos up and running on YouTube, freshening up the over-all appearance of the images I've got on everything, and trying to figure out how to actually get people to click the magical donate button.  It's a lot to figure out how to squish into the hours of free time I get after work, especially since every time I decide to write here or work on videos, I have this overwhelming feeling of "I should be streaming right now instead."  That's probably a good thing, ultimately, but with things like my housework, this blog, and my kitteh faction suffering...  Something I need to learn to ignore.

So first off: WoW ingame shit!  I'm still thirty-odd thousand gold away from my 100k patchday goal.  I have three resets left between now and then, which means (given that I haven't run any retro raids yet) I can make maybe another 15k-ish off of those.  I've been actually raiding on Roxtoberfest (the monk), so I'm budgeting about 1500 a week for expenses.  That leaves me with 20k to make on my own.  I have a few things I could do for that, including selling off my Cursed Birman for 250k (the current asking price for the new Halloween event kitties on my server), but I kind of like those pets.  They're cute, and ghosty.

Freya's balls, I sound like Cookie now.

I've also apparently got some legwork to do with my tanking.  Yesterday morning, Cookie and I ran some UBRS with me tanking and her healing me on her undergeared priest and shaman, and we discovered that I'm apparently hard to heal, while our DK tank in guild is not.  (You can watch the videos here, here, and
here.)  After some trial and error with other healers, looking over my meters, and talking with said DK, we came up with three probable culprits:

• Shuffle Uptime: Mine was sitting at about 85%.  I need to up that at least 10%, seeing as it's a major class mitigation thing.
• Elusive Brew use: I'm notorious for NOT using elusive brew.  I think I looked at it once, went "this is only good against physical attacks" and said fuck it.  Now that I'm actually HAVING to use it, my fingers aren't used to hitting that hotkey.  Definitely my focus for improvement right now.
• Dodge sucks for aoe: The more mobs I pull, the more checks per second I'm getting against my dodge rolls.  Brewmasters are meant to get hit infrequently, but hit hard when something gets through.  The more fatassing and not interrupting/killing banners that happens, the more I'm going to get punched in the dick.  Plain and simple.

Honestly, it was one of the more constructive screaming matches I've had with Cookie in a long time.  Now if only we could keep people who don't know what the FUCK they're talking about from interjecting..

Stream shit abrupt segue!  I need to really focus on my game/bullshit balance.  As Cookie pointed out, some days I'm really game oriented and some days I just ramble about whatever is going on in chat.  This is great, except it makes it hard to define the stream, and since people go to certain streams looking for certain qualities...  It makes it hard to develop the community and gain loyal followers.  As in the people who will hopefully sub once I get partnered on Twitch.  I've also got to work on how I interact with my viewers, because so far I've had a hard time keeping my "safe space" policy from creating dramaz.  (Which is to say I've had problems with it once, and it was implosive.)  If you're a viewer, or you've been thinking about checking it out, now's a good time if you want to help me crystallize my identity.

And... Brand shit!  I'm going to be working on some new graphics in my off hours, hopefully cleaning things up and making it a little less...crazy cat lady.  Also, I don't like that blue and yellow color scheme.  I'm not sure what I'm moving to yet, but hopefully I'll have that done before Draenor.

Anyway, be sure to check out the totally AMAZEBALLS Kleptokatt Youtube Channel!  And the stream!  And follow me on Twitter!  And...like... donate!  The more y'all help with ads and donations, the more I can focus on bringing you totally sweet content.  (Like properly edited videos and graphics that aren't made in MSPaint.)

Catch y'all on the Stream!