Hey,
I've been able to play fine for the first 24 hours since the launch. Then I took a break and tried to log in again this evening. Authentification took a little longer than usual, just like the character selection loading. However I eventually got to see my char and went in.
I am now standing in a pretty dead Crossroads, with NPC- and playermodels loading only after a couple of minutes (and mind you, everybody is either idling in place or running into walls). No player name loads properly (showing 'Unknown' everywhere), my friendslist is - to my surprise - empty, /who responds with 0 players online, ping is at 0 ms. I am pretty sure I am not really connected to the server at all. No spell is working, just like all NPC-dialogue and pretty much everything else, that is not interface/menus.
This seems different than the 'can't even login' problem I tried to fix or work around for 6 hours on launch day. I have tried all of what I could think of for now, including: changing login server, deleting WDB folder, using a complete new / clean install of the game. Doing all of that does have minor impact on what loads how fast, but the main issue remains. Asking a friend brought to my attention that, judging by his friendslist I am at least visible as 'online' while trying to fix this. So I might actually be connected?
I have to mention that, since having last played, I am now trying to play the game from a different (also slower) network. However it is not a public or work network.
The client, that I have been using, is one of those found at Valkyrie (Win ReadyToPlay). I was able to connect and play on Nostalrius before, without encountering any (non account-related) issues.
I do not use cheats.
I hope someone can help me out, because I got some sparetime over the next couple of days that I'd really like to invest in some delicious vanilla. Right now it tastes more like salt.