It's pretty sad reading through this thread when I realize it's mostly adults making these posts, flinging mud back and forth. What's even sadder is knowing you have the power to solve this issue already but the sheer amount of animosity between all of you prevents you from seeing it.

Each alliance has their tank party and ONLY their tank party down in the claiming area. Six people each and no more. Everyone else at the zone line. Whichever group gets the claim, the rest of their alliance then proceeds down to the area to fight. Everyone at the zone line immediately zones out and waits. The other tank parties may stay in the area NOT BEING DICKS and wait patiently should the group with claim die. If your group wipes, just homepoint immediately. You've lost and there's no reason to stick around continuing to lag the zone (the only exception to this is ONE and ONLY ONE person sticks around to get the ToD). If another group gets the claim, then the rest of that group and ONLY that group will zone back in and proceed to the HNM. The remaining tank parties may continue to standby, continuing to NOT BE DICKS.

This should work fine for any of the land kings. It'll take longer for your group to get to you on King Behemoth but if your tank party can't kite him for the whole two minutes it takes you to go from the zone to his spawn area, you have no business fighting KB to begin with.

Simple solution. Fair all around. Less drama over stupid limitations that can be circumvented. All you have to do is be fair to each other.

Eh, I don't want pop HNM's. Part of the thrill of the fight is the rush to see who claimed. Either by pop aggro claim or voke/dia claim. It's fun. It's also the challenge and time put in for the gear that drops off the mobs who have 21-24 or longer for a chance to claim and a chance for drop item that makes it valuable and a nice trophy piece. If everyone has one because it's a pop item, it will lose its value. That will take a huge end game event out of the game completely to satisfy shells that don't want to put out the effort to get it with the other shells. If you want the gear, put in the work, fight through the lag, get mad at the server crashes, and try again the next day. Keep perusing and eventually you'll get it.

Drop rates for pop items could be set so that it doesn't devalue the items dropped from these mobs. While I also don't really want force pops, I would be totally fine with them being implemented in the interim until the lag is fixed.

...TopShelf told Nas to roll back all your ZNM gear, do the gilpocalypse and nerf Fishing/RNG into the ground.

Eh, I don't want pop HNM's. Part of the thrill of the fight is the rush to see who claimed. Either by pop aggro claim or voke/dia claim. It's fun. It's also the challenge and time put in for the gear that drops off the mobs who have 21-24 or longer for a chance to claim and a chance for drop item that makes it valuable and a nice trophy piece. If everyone has one because it's a pop item, it will lose its value. That will take a huge end game event out of the game completely to satisfy shells that don't want to put out the effort to get it with the other shells. If you want the gear, put in the work, fight through the lag, get mad at the server crashes, and try again the next day. Keep perusing and eventually you'll get it.