I used to get this problem a lot, it especially happens to people outside of North America trying to connect to their patch servers. Their patch servers are really notoriously antagonistic towards non-NA connections. It used to be really bad but has been better recently.
Anyway the work around I heard about from before trying to solve the problem is to use a VPN for patching. So I downloaded a free one (today was tunnelbear) turned it on and patched fine, then turned it off.
It should work for you too.
Good luck.
Hi guys, just use tunnelbear on the patch, register and patch and login to gw2 and off tunnel bear then relog on back to the game.
Thank you very much for the solution.
Thanks for highlighting the work around. However we still need to report issues like this so that they can be addressed. It doesn’t help either us or the developers if we have to constantly resort to 3rd party workarounds.
I did get guild wars in 2005 however due to my terrible internet connection (Australian dial up) I became quickly frustrated with playing it (not the games fault just my internet ) and gave up pretty much just after searing.
I have been playing GW2 for about 8 months and enjoy it – though i am mainly a pve explorer type interested in lore/story – so decided to grab the trilogy just to get into the back story of the whole world. Some thing are frustrating (invisible walls!) however starting with Prophesies and going from there, so yeah.. some people out their playing for the (sort of) first time!
