Guild Wars 2

Yep. Still broken. Modniir Ulgoth gives the “Overlord’s Defeat”, and the event in Malchor’s Leap is not startable because the NPCs don’t show up.

Can we get some kind of response on this, please?

Kilam.4913:

I’m also on Verizon in the NYC area and am experiencing this issue.

Instead of setting up a VPN, try this workaround:

Edit C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts using notepad (run as administrator)

Add this line at the bottom:
174.35.56.164 assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com

Save the file. If Notepad prompts you to save as a new file, you need to start over and run Notepad as administrator.

If you have the GW2 launcher already open, restart it. If this still doesn’t help, you may need to change the address above and try a different number (e.g. assetcdn.102.etc..).

You may want to remove this line later when (if?) they resolve the networking issue.

Good luck!

Just chiming in to say that this fixed the problem for me as well (on Verizon in NYC). Thanks!