I'm having a similar problem...
I tried warping to Gate of Anguish, but when i get to the loading screen, it says: Connecting: 0%
normally, everything would load in less than 10 secs, but now its been 10 mins, and its still not connecting. I went to go eat breakfast, and then came back, and GW finally gave a Code = 05...couldn't connect to server.
I tried logging back in, got through the character select screen, click my character to go back to gate of anguish, and i still get the loading screen at 0%.
frustrated, i went to grab another character to see if they can load into gate of anguish. Kamadan loaded fine, went to lion's arch to see if i got a similar problem, but it loaded fine. went to explorable areas in elona just to see if the monsters loaded ok too...they were fine.
went to chantry of secrets, asked them to let me into gate of anguish, and now that 2nd character is stuck at the loading screen.
went to try a 3rd character. and just tried to enjoy myself without going into the gate of anguish. So I went to lair of the forgotten to turn in a reward....and behold the dreaded connecting: 0% screen.
it seems that only the tormented areas (with that loading screen) are giving me problems loading into.
I started playing my lvl 7 paragon for a couple hours to kill time, that character had no trouble zoning.
Several hours have passed (9hrs), and I still have those 3 characters stuck at the loading screen. i don't have any more characters that can reach the the later parts of the game, but I did happen to try nundu bay, and now my 4th character is stuck trying to load into nundu bay.
I have tried doing that "gw.exe -image" switch thing, and it successfully did its job...but it hasn't fixed the problem at all. ran AVG virus scanner, spybot: search and destroy, adaware, and even defragmented and error checked my harddrive. everything came up fine. I even did a ramcheck to make sure all 1 gig of ram were ok
Please Please Please someone fix this....all i have left is characters under lvl 10 to do newbie quests with....
Thanks in advance!
system specs: (from system properties on my computer)
Intel (R)
Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.40 GHz
3.39 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
Sapphire RADEON x600 PRO
currently have 20 gigs of free disk space on the drive that houses guildwars...
My other internet applications work perfectly. webpages, AIM, Counterstrike, etc...