Same here, good thing i could play at least the rest of the moring only started just now ... I rly wonder how many more patches we will face this problem.
I had not logged in for 4 days but last night I downloaded the patch, but when I got to my character select screen and selected one of my characters I was just stuck on loading but then booted me back to the login page. I tried again and it worked but still loading was waaaaay longer than it used to be.
Now Ive just tried again, and again once I select my character I just get stuck in a loading screen, this time I had to ctrl-alt-del to close it as it was that long of a wait.
I cancled my sub 4 days ago I do hope it has nothing to do with that, as I sure as hell wont sub again if it is!
I was fine after leaving Alik'r Desert but now I'm suffering in Bangkorai, I couldn't load into a dungeon and now can't get back to the character select screen. Meanwhile on my other PC I'm fine.