Having the same issues here, random high ping spikes regardless of what I'm doing or where I am. I'm having trouble with the chat/friends list and logging in as well when I open the client itself. EU playing on NA server.
I ran into this issue today. When I go to my guild roster, there are magenta blocks if a guild member has a lvl 0 in a crafting discipline. They appear to have some kind of text as well.
Here is what it looks like
Anyone else having this trouble?
My character is a male sylvari and in Convergence so far I've gotten male charr and a female voice (maybe human?) say the line "Taimi did mention Gorrik. Seemed a little agitated... I'll talk to her."
To me it seems like it's random.