Temporary Solution!!!!!!
So I have been searching relentlessly for a solution. And have found one, which should work for everyone. It’s by no means a permanent fix, ArenaNet still needs to do it’s part and fix it, but this should work as a temporary solution to the problems we have been having.
First go to https://www.wtfast.com/ (it does cost, but you can get a 7 day free trial – so that’s 7 days of Guild Wars 2 until ArenaNet hopefully fix it.)
Sign up for the 7 day trial, make an account, download etc. When you open to the software make sure Guild Wars 2 is selected.
How this software works is that instead of connecting directly to ArenaNet servers (wherein lies the problem in our case) you connect to a private server, which doesn’t have a problem connecting to ANet servers, which connects to servers, and sends information back to you.
This method is usually used to lower your ping/latency as the providers servers are faster in response than those of ArenaNet’s, and luckily for us, works as a temp fix to our problem
There are other alternatives such as SmoothPing out there as well.
Hope this helped, it worked for me. Let’s hope that Arena fixes it within a couple more days!
But as I said, it’s by no need a permanent fix. We shouldn’t NEED to do this to be able to play a game. Especially if eventually it never gets fixed, and ends up costing us…
Regards,
-Maximus the Almighty
I just tried doing it and I got connected within milliseconds and so far no lag nor DCs.