Hazards of creating characters on JPN servers?

[Adamethius]

I have a similar issue albeit on the opposite side of the coin per say. My situation was the same in that since I could not do anything in the Beta and Early Access phases that I decided to indefinitely start playing on a JP server. Lo to my behest, I grew fond of my character and enjoyed playing in the JP server. Although I was on the FOREVER ALONE state I carried on with the thought that heroes are lone wolves and started to please myself (not in that way). Today, this maintenance happened. And I couldnt log in due to the game being unable to retrieve an update. So I went to a friend and copied his 'boot' directory over to mine and it resolved my issue.

"I WAS REDEI!", I thought, as I hastily punched in my great password of 12389179082 characters.
I was able to log in, patched, and my game came up. What greeted me to my horror was a character I was able to create in Phase 2 of Beta... instead of my handsome Drow-ish character (that looks like me IRL by the way, minus the effeminacy that plagues all elf races in lore) that I created in Early Access. My JP server list disappeared!

I am now contemplating crafting a girlfriend made of wood. Maybe she will cheer me up.

[Wraithwin]

I have a similar issue albeit on the opposite side of the coin per say...
...I was able to log in, patched, and my game came up. What greeted me to my horror was a character I was able to create in Phase 2 of Beta... instead of my handsome Drow-ish character (that looks like me IRL by the way, minus the effeminacy that plagues all elf races in lore) that I created in Early Access. My JP server list disappeared!

I am now contemplating crafting a girlfriend made of wood. Maybe she will cheer me up.

Guessing the phase-2 style character was not on JP servers, eh?
Since, my wife's been able to see both, but still not log into her US character.
I got lucky it seems and logged in last night for a whole hour, but didn't want to play without her, so I just crafted/gathered.

Best I can tell, is that with the issues (now) hitting both server sets, they're having inter-communication issues.
Can usually be resolved by X in the lower left, then selecting "Play" again - provided the servers aren't actually down, of course.

My first character is always self-symbolic ~ Then my alternates are always far from myself.

As for the girlfriend made of wood... Dude... All I can say is "splinters" and quote Sterling Archer: "Dannnger Zooone!"