Guild Wars 2

You do still level up, you get Skill Points you can use these to max out your slot skills / and they are used for crafting legendary items.

But yeah I agree would of been nice to max out trait bored :P evan if it was only doable for PVE

This problem is caused by mass amounts of people in one area get this alot trying to get into Lions Arch (Fractals..), (IE you are in an un official que) I beleave putting an instance in side a major city hub was a very bad idea, To fix this I just logged in at a quieter time and use a different city until they fix this.

Hope this helps.