Unable to access Stronghold or Write in Area chat

Hello,

I have come across an issue and I am not the only one. I am on US West \ Valtan.

I had swapped over to my main (Scrapper) from my Glavier (just starting T2 questline), and noticed only 1 Dispatch was ongoing when I have 2 slots. So I went to Hearth to the Stronghold via the song and thought I may have accidently pressed escape to stop it (i was moving between windows and pressing escape key, but have done this before without issue).

Noticed that I had not moved on so I used the song again. It completed without interruption but I did not move to Stronghold. I thought ‘this is odd’, so waited about 30 seconds and tried again with same result. Also there was NO error message at all.

Tried to post a message into Area chat to see if others had issue, message seemed to go but did not show in Area, or any other channel (if I made a mistake). I then tested moving via Triport to another location in zone (I was in Punika city).

Found someone else and was able to communication via Normal. He had the same issue, mentioned maybe Channel change would resolve it and he moved on. I then attempted the same (I was on Channel 25, tried to move to Channel 52), but I got a complete black screen for more than 30 seconds so I Alt+F4 and End Program/Task in Task Manager.

Waited 2 minutes for client background services to finish and tried to log back in but got the “Multiple Login attempts” message and kicked out again.

So I am writting this error while I wait the possible 15 minutes to retry again!

Oh and someone did write in Area chat about not being able to move to Stronghold and asking others. but Area chat was completely ‘dead’ (no one else was typing any message).

Able to get to Stronghold after re-logging back in.

I had already done update prior to last exit and after the most recent maintenance. So not sure what happened as an issue.