This worked for me last night. Going to do the same -- hopefully by that time I'll be able to log in.
About 12:00am EST seems to be the sweet spot. also got in immediately at 8:45am this morning. As soon as the Holiday weekend is over and everybody is back to a normal real life schedule and the brand new release hype has died down a bit, the login issues will be gone. Just give it a few days... Not that it doesn't suck pretty bad right now.
So what you're saying is that people aren't putting in a lot more time now than they normally would. Uh... huh.