Interesting. I never considered the correlation before but my character that has the longest “Requesting Character Load” message every day, the one who experiences the most lag and crashing, is the one with the perpetually full quest log. My main DK has just as much inventory, as much played time and as many achievements, but only a handful of active quests at any time, and doesn’t have near as many issues with load screens and crashing as my Templar.

You may be on to something here.

The Looney Tunes server keeps asking the client "Which way did he go, George, which way did he go?"

this is mindblowing. gonna check that out in case i happen to relog into the game ever again.

It doesn’t anymore. Not for me at least. I find that guildies who are lagging are the ones with the most addons. They have trading addons, 5-10 map addons, and a whole bunch of random stuff. And usually not the best set up/knowledge of how to optimize their setup. It’s like they bring backpacking gear to a car ride to the grocery store.

Free Port to guildies addon has to look up where every guildie is every time you change zones.
Market addons are constantly refreshing
Map addons, minimaps, harvest addons, etc etc all this requires communication.
Then they usually also have chat addons, rp addons (emotes and Mount changers), and it goes on and on. All that on top of actually useful ones like raid notifier and buff trackers.

If you’re on pc it’s either prime time or addons in my experience.

I play on XBox at the moment.