Guild Wars 2

Was wondering whether the blade shards will still be available after Escape from LA becomes Battle for LA? Would be good to know whether I have to farm them like crazy this weekend or not!

I contacted support enclosing the following tracert

and was told to contact my ISP as the problem was on their end, however my interpretation of the trace route is that the hops on my ISP’s end are completing fine – the problems seem to occur on the 3rd plaync server that’s reached (somewhere in/after Texas). Am I being stupid? I’m no network engineer so it’s entirely possible!

I’ve replied to the support ticket asking the same thing, but they’ve gone quiet :/

BT here. The connection’s been pretty good recently – 40Mbs – and all other games seem to play fine. It’s just GW2 that’s giving me probs

I’m also getting huge lags from the UK. It took 1min, 40secs to open my bank tab just now (seriously, I timed it).

Trace route:

Tracing route to 206-127-146-74.plaync.com [206.127.146.74]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 2 ms 3 ms BTHomeHub.home [redacted]
2 24 ms 17 ms 15 ms 217.32.146.73
3 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 217.32.146.126
4 16 ms 16 ms 18 ms 217.32.147.194
5 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 217.41.168.189
6 16 ms 16 ms 15 ms 217.41.168.107
7 17 ms 21 ms 15 ms acc2-10GigE-0-0-0-0.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.1
59.249.120]
8 21 ms 22 ms 15 ms core2-te0-7-0-4.faraday.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.2
49.11]
9 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms peer2-xe8-3-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [213.121.1
93.111]
10 24 ms 18 ms 17 ms t2c3-xe-0-1-1-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.211.16
4]
11 16 ms 20 ms 18 ms 166-49-211-38.eu.bt.net [166.49.211.38]
12 35 ms 37 ms 32 ms xe-4-0-1.fra23.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.181.157]
13 36 ms 34 ms 35 ms 89.149.164.42
14 40 ms 40 ms 39 ms 206-127-157-86.plaync.com [206.127.157.86]
15 38 ms 38 ms 43 ms 206-127-157-102.plaync.com [206.127.157.102]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

The problem seemed to start with the new patch yesterday, although I suppose it could equally be coincidence. I’ve had to start playing Neverwinter instead – times are truly hard.