Server coming down shortly for a revision update as well as potentially spawning in some Winter's Veil stuff in cities. Estimated downtime is 5-30 minutes (I'm learning to be broad in my estimates!).
Server will be back up shortly; just updating antivirus definitions.
I think this update made the emote/say range extremely large. :X
Sidenote: If you leave a group and go somewhere else, including opposite sides of the continents, you can still hear see their emotes and vice versa. :X