Guild Wars 2

Last night I was one of the people experiencing the issue widely reported at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Cant-update-Game/first and my game appeared to become playable later that night as well as earlier today, but about an hour ago I’ve begun to experience connection issues that are similar in nature, but without the patching.

My game is fully patched but refuses to properly load. I can log in and go to character select just fine, but my friends list either all displays as offline (even though I know that at least 10 are online at the moment) or will say online but does not display their character or location or account points. My guild name and other character information will load in, but the guild tag will simply display as an empty bracket. The information on my daily and monthly load just fine and so do my character portraits.

I can opt to enter the game but will spend upwards of three to five minutes on the loadscreen, with half and half success rates on whether or not the count of vistas/waypoints/points of interests will load, but will disconnect soon after. I was able to get into the map once earlier but it instantly delayed and disconnected me after a minute. I’m often forced out of the client after a white screen with a disconnect notice, or notifications on the character select screen stating that I have an internet connection issue. However, my internet is perfectly fine and all websites will load without lag.

It is important to note that others are also currently experiencing similar severe lag, some stuck in patching states similar to what happened to many of us last night.

I run windows 7, comcast, and am from the chicagoland area— the latter two seem to play a key factor in this strange lag.