NPC/Zoning load times are awful

[Akutare]

This is just about a last resort thing, I've tried Google searching the issue and trying the fixes but none of those are working, this seems like a fun game but this issue is just ridiculous:

So, the issue I'm having is that NPCs take forever to load, this really gets irritating when I'm sitting at a quest giver or a quest objective NPC and they're not there, so I have to sit there waiting anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute for them to show up, one time early on the NPC just never loading until I left and came back. This is really annoying because it really slows down the game for me, I actually usually just alt tab for a few moments because I know it's going to take awhile because every now and then I keep it up and check and it still takes awhile.

Then the zone times which aren't as big of an issue for me, because I can be patient with load screens, but those seems fairly long too when compared to my friend's load time which he says is barely a few seconds while mine is usually the time it takes for a NPC to load (20 seconds, but usually not as high as 1 minute, usually 30 seconds average).

Is there any fixes to this? This game feels fun outside of this but this is just unacceptable.