Quote Originally Posted by Teraluna View Post
What players are experiencing now is a significant deterioration from the norm. Maybe it is connected to the world transfer outage SE recently had. Whilst this has been resumed, SE admitted they couldn't replicate the issue so their fix was a blind action.
It's because of patch 5.5. New rewards for upgrading tomestone gear from 520 to 530 were added in exchange for hunting. Because of that, a lot more people want to show up to hunts and that means larger queues and more congestion at hunts. It always happens after a major patch.

All of the things you mentioned were even happening after every other major patch this expansion.

Even before world visit, these new rewards would cause an S rank to die in seconds when it would normally take several minutes.