Anet, you’ve had this game running for over three years now, so I have to ask.
How much longer are we going to wait to have a patch day where you can actually do the new content without crashing out or lagging to the point of being unable to do anything on Patch day?
You know what the server loads are. You’ve had plenty of chance to stress test (using us as guinea pigs) to see what is required for these things to go smoothly. Do you just not care?
Seriously. Some amount of lag is expected, but for it to regularly be so bad that the game is unplayable the first day? Come on. Get your act together.