I play on EU and connecting from Middle East. I have problem loading to instances that start with IP 18.x.x.x. (getting stuck at server_stat_wait) The problems started way back when they moved to AWS servers (pre PoF, yeah it's been like that for a year and half) and recently it's much better since they seem added new servers (3.x.x.x) which are fine. 35.x.x.x - 52.x.x.x both are okay for me. I don't have latency issues but have problem connecting to 18.x.x.x IPs. Yeah sure VPN can help but it's not reliable for me, not one bit (Disconnects, interruptions and much higher latency). I have tried many different DNS servers which helped on some cases like loading time and reducing skills delay, -clientport 443 or 80, run as admin, disabling overlays, port forwarding, changing route and etc... . Have submitted tickets before and only gotten responses like, "yeah go ahead and just use that VPN". It gets really tiring at this point. Edit: Again it's much better since I even had bizarre problems like sudden black screen which probably was a disconnect with game failing to show error message but I hope these servers with IP 18 get sorted out.Also it's only guild wars 2 I have these kind of problems with. Edit 2: today it seems some of 18.x.x.x instances are working for me and some don't.