True Confessions of a Frost Mage

[Concillian]

I think it'd be good to focus on this.  I can't commit to earlier than 8:30 (although MOST of the time I am on around 7 or 7:30), but I can commit to doing better about being totally ready to begin at 8:30.
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Unfortunately I'm not sure how much better I can do. 8:30 server is 7:30 my time, and with Friday traffic and dinner, it's already pretty tight.

I know last week I was behind on questing up for BRD, and I felt bad about that. About all I can do is log out near where we will be going if I know well enough in advance what 'my toon' is slated for.

I'm willing to have the group start in with 4 without me if I'm not on time, though with my typical role as either MT or MH, that might be an issue in certain situations. If it can be arranged for my group to have my role more 'expendable' to account for potential tardiness, like have a shaman in my group who can MT or MH the early stuff or my group with warlock/hunter so offtanking can take the place of MT in the early going, then this is fine by me, but that would complicate group planning, and that's already pretty complicated.

Anyway I'll do what I can, but like I said, between work, traffic, and dinner, I don't know how much better I can do.

Perhaps instead we work towards a stopping point after such and such a time where we fold two groups into one. If we do a bit better research on the instances, we can have a clear goal of not necessarily completing the instance, but maybe completing a specific portion of it (like for last week's BRD we could have had a goal for the key, Incendius and Bael'whatever, which would have been achievable in a reasonable amount of time if we knew what we were doing.) This can help provide a distinct, agreed upon acceptable jumping off time for those on central time / the pumpkins. Such that after a certain time we agree to stop after the next boss or next convenient stopping place in the instance if we are not within sight of completion.

I will likely always be in for the long haul just because I'm a late night person + I'm on Pacific time, but I fully understand that others are not.

As for other days, I too am likely in Bonemage's situation where there is probably not an acceptable second time at this point. Most available time is probably weeknights at a time too late for others.