There are plans™ to make this less bad. We have a ticket internally to make load balancing choose better when you enter a heavily populated zone (like Plane of Tranquility). I am sorry that it did not make it in time for the Mischief / Thornblade PoP launch.
I just made a character on mischief to see what the fuss was all about. I didn't see any slowness at all zoning to pok or to pot.
Exactly this! I had some leftover pizza today. Yet, people are still going on and on about world hunger...
It was the same problem on Phinny when PoP started. it will sort itself out in a day or two once all the tourists leave. I noticed General Chat went from the normal 2 open up to 6 at one point.