Guild Wars 2

Is there anything I can do to shorten my load times. With the new rewards, everyone chasing chests for the new mats, and the waypoints closed near the meta events, by the time I get to the map and start running to the event, it is over before I get there. I saw the timer for it start and by the time I got into the map then started to run to it, the event was over. Before that was an issue with the map loading properly for Shatterer. After a few minutes, the map loads but the resources (not sure if that is the proper term, but I am referring to the ground and stuff around me including my character) don’t load and I have to run to the event guided by my icon on the mini map and even then I sometimes can’t find the target box to hit. It becomes a pain to try to get to events that I just start avoiding them unless I am already in the map