is the server/hardware dying or is this riduclous zone time now some bug?

[Haloren]

I've had a few times (2-3) in the past couple of months I have zoned with a very long load time. Nothing frequent or repetitive.

I think most can agree on latent connections that you will have a little trouble with connecting. IE seeing a blank servers list. My gut is this sometimes can be with zoning too.

Usually when I am on a latent connection or even a saturated one I start to see issues. For example if Im downloading a game update in steam at almost full bandwidth sometimes I have a hard time seeing the server select till the download is done. Mostly in logging in but maybe with zoning and I've never noticed since it is generally fast no matter what. SSD and general good connection etc.

But, check to see what your system is doing at the time outside of EQ and if it's downloading a bunch of stuff or streaming music etc while your running EQ, test cutting that off when you have problems and see if it improves in the moment. It may be network related etc.