I have listened to many complaints over the last year of how long it takes for the load screens. I have to admit it has cause me a little angst too, especially when doing daily writs. So I went on a search over the internet to try and discover an answer to the long loads.

Let me preface this with the understanding that TOS always states that the primary cause is addons and the user community constantly shooting that down. I a not going to take a side on that argument, but I am going to state some of the research that I have done and the conclusions I have come too. You can agree or disagree with my findings, but ultimately I am happy with the time I have taken because the results have made me very happy.

First off there are two parts to the loading screen when “changing characters”, first of there is the “character loading” screen and then secondly there is the “zone in” screen. Through my testing the “character loading” screen is all on ZOS. It varies between 10 and 25 seconds and there seems to be no correlation with the number of addons I have loading. This component of logging on is solely on ZOS, and to get improvement they will need to do something.

The second part is on the “zone in” screen. Through my testing this has varied from 5 to 60 seconds. I find that if I remove addons that I approach the 5 second timing and as I add them it increases. So I out my focus on limiting the addons needed to do my daily writs. I discovered that if I reduced my addons to only those needed to do the writs, this portion of loading a character averages about 10 seconds. So by controlling my addons I have reduced my over all loading time from an average of 75 seconds to 30 seconds, this is almost a 1 minute savings per character.

Only issue I had with all of this is there was no easy way to enable and disable addons/libraries. This was very time consuming and frustrating. Now on to the real reason for this post…..

In my research I found the addon [url="http://"][/url][url="http://"]Circonians Addon Selector[/url]. This addon allows you to set up profiles on which addons are enabled, so switching be tween “daily writs” and “combat” addon profiles is very quick and allows me to keep the majority of my characters with quick load times for the tasks I am using them for. Thanks you Baertram for the awesome addon (it saves me 10 – 15 minutes a day on daily writs alone) and for those of you complaining about long load times, you need to look into this addon. It could just be exactly what you are looking for.