I am putting this in the right spot this time, so moderators know what's going on, I covered about every aspects of support from calling on the phone, GM call, chat support, and even five thousand emails, and maybe 3 threads now. Just hope the developers get the word soon.
I hopefully have gave enough information and enough friendly support to calm people who had this issue for 3 days, it was very unfortunate that most of the support team didn't know and how this problem occured, but here it goes.
About 3 days ago 7pm-12pm EST, there were a few parties in Coerthas Central Highlands ( X: 43, Y: 16 ) they were ready to fight Garuda, it was known that Garuda was crashing lately for a week, but we didn't know it was this bad. As my party started out, we buffed up at the beginning, our tank disconnected first but came back. So we did the normal routine of defeating Garuda, mages gathered at one of the pillars as 2 melees including the tank attacked Garuda at her starting position. Basically the game went into a R0 state after a few mins of attacking her. We could still type in the party/ls chat, but it was like time stood still and noone else on your screen moved, but you could move.
Other parties, I've heard that went through a simliar thing, but probably in mid battle or end of the battle, they got stuck in the instance none the less.
We all got a simliar (30002) or a code of Error (30002) 1347011403,0,5 in The Howling Eye
From what I think of the issue is, the server of Balmung may need a reset, if the problem is like the market wards issue, I sense it could be the solution, character data isn't corrupted, but I know it's stuck in an instance that is no more. We can't reconnect to a party that is no more either, so the game is probably stuck in a loop of finding a party that is not there.
I hope this information will be quite useful for this current version of the game, I don't want to miss the finale of this game, after all.. I've been here since Alpha, I don't expect any royalty recognition, but I hope to play the game before it goes out for anyone until 2.0. Plus...I really don't want people who are trying to get weapons from Garuda or finishing relic to get stuck in a simliar fate as us, or if we get stuck again once we get out..