Guild Wars 2

I have been getting disconnected with this exact error at least once every 30 mins, sometimes more ever since the latest patch came out. I can always immediately re-connect without issue. Absolutely nothing has changed on my computer/network/firewall/router/etc other then installing the latest patch.

The really frustrating thing is that getting disconnected in the middle of a personal story quest forces you to restart the quest from the beginning. I was forced to restart one of mine 3 times last night due to disconnects.
The funny thing is my wife never gets disconnected and shes sitting right next to me on the same network using the same firewall/router/etc so it’s very unlikely the issue is being caused by something on our end.

Based on my 15 years of experience as a network engineer for a Internet colocation/hosting company, I would guess they have a firewall/load balancer/IPS/etc that is dropping or aging out these TCP connections from its session table and causing the disconnects. We can always immediately reconnect since the re-connect creates a brand new TCP session in the firewall/loadbalancer session table. Again, its just a guess, but seems similar to things I’ve seen myself working in the industry.

Yes, same issue for Metrica and Queensdale for me. Just stays on the loading screen with the ring spinning on the lower right corner. Looks like this update broke stuff good. Maybe they should roll back the update.

I would love exploring the world so much more if we could have first person camera view as an option. The world of Tyria is a very beautiful and detailed world. You are missing out on a lot of the detail when using a wide angle 3rd person camera position. Right now I like to explore with the camera in as tight as it will go and close to level so I can really see the details in the environment. However, with this angle your character ends up blocking everything directly in front of you and you end up staring at his backside.

Please add option for 1st person camera view. It seems like it would be a simple change.

What do you guys think?