The issues related to logging in to the North American PC/Mac megaserver have been resolved at this time. If you continue to experience difficulties at login, please restart your client. Thank you for your patience!
Turn off zone chat? Tell reduce 95% of issues. The other 5% being /s and/y, but those are so far in between, I don't know anyone that minds them. Unless you're having issues in a good, in which case, it's your own choice to stay in a cancer guild. Choose better, if that's the case.
What server are you in, anyway? I get nothing bad at all on PC NA and EU.