This item and crafting lag is killing me!

[LochnarITB]

It appears that everytime you get a new item type in your inventory you get to live in your own little personal world of lag.  The rest of the world moves along without you, critters can attack and kill you, but you just sit there looting the body, or skinning, or what not....

Crafting appears to be even worse....
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This seemed to get much worse yesterday. Even just talking to a merchant would bring on the extreme lag. And then, if you make the mistake of trying to do something else because you thought you had actually not clicked what you wanted, the lag piles up. Eventually it all happens. I bought an extra bag because of this.

The other thing I have noticed is that the game seems to be messing up the rest of my system. I don't know if this is the symptom of a memory leak or if the game is dropping little bombs in the system somewhere. When coming out of the game, especially trying to quit out of one of these matrix time moments, the game will either take an extended period of time to close out or refuse to quit at all. My system is then sluggish. I also noticed that it affects the power saver feature. I run my machine at all times. Rather than using a screen saver, I use the power saver to shut off the screen. If I don't reboot after playing WoW, the power saver never trips. The screen is still on 8 hours later.

Is anyone else running into any of these issues? My machine more than meets the listed specs and, as I related in another thread, I have updated my video drivers to remove any issues there. I am really wanting to like this game. If I were ever to start paying a subscription to play any game, this would be the most likely candidate. However, if the game is going to serve up large hunks of frustration along with the fun, I don't think I can justify doing so.

(Freudian slip? - I originally typed "Am I really wanting to like this game." Am I questioning whether I really want to like this game? :o )