Today I was a little late getting back to the game to go after the SB and I logged into the character screen OK .. though a bit slow loading graphics to said page .
after clicking on character it took almost 5 mins to actually get into the game ..
these LONG loading times have been an issue since about the time that Lions arch was repaired (and Lions Arch for a long time took even longer to load into which is why i moved all my characters out of there and try never to go there)