Normally they are down once a week, normal two hour maintenance. This is the first time since launch, that this weekly maintenance lasts more than two hours.
Go to Well of Dragons and do Demonic Encounters. You get Demonic Ichors to buy lvl 135 armors and weapons from Mantol Derith and Seal of Elements, which gives you lvl 130 Alliance Armor in Protector's Enclave. You also get loads of salvageable rings, which gives you lots of AD.
I wish I had known the importance of different marks and lesser marks in refining my artifact weapons and artifacts. Now that my character is lvl 70, and I need those bloody marks, I can't find or buy them anywhere. I had loads of them earlier in the game but I sold them or otherwice wasted them foolishly.
Same thing happened to me. Try to make second character, play until you finish that intro part and choose to chance character in game. Choose your main character, and then you should be able to use that character again. I know this doesn't work for everyone but it did for me, and it has worked for many other as well. It's…
I finally did every single quest in Helm's Hold, and left that hell hole hopefully for good. Now my lvl 35 Warlock is safely in Protector's Enclave, ready to tackle the next area. Thanks once more to one who tipped to make another character to get my main one back in action.
I made another character, played the intro part and changed the character after that, it really worked! Thank you so much for this advice, and good luck to all of you with your own characters, hope it will work for you too.
My Character is in Helm Hold. I can't log in the game anymore. When I start the game I can go to character selection screen, but when I press enter world button it stops loading and freezes immediately in loading screen.