I have been unable to play for the past three or four days. When I try to log in the launcher hangs on checking if the servers are up, with the strange behavior that I can no longer click any of the buttons (eg. Minimize, Close etc.), and once I tab away from the window I can't bring it back to the foreground in any other way than minimizing more recently used windows.

The searching animation keeps playing, that pulsing diamond icon is getting really hypnotic.

Anyway, I'd really like to play again since I kinda have a VIP account with the clock ticking, and it's really starting to bug me that I'm basically flushing money out the toilet.

Suggestions on fixes should please keep 'uninstall, reinstall and download all patches again' to a last resort as that would take me a couple of days on this crappy net connection.