just wanted to share. if any of you out there have problems patching, you can also try downloading the manual patch from this link (the file is 130mb or so).

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/35087

i spent hours earlier today trying to patch but had weird problems like sc2 crashing without error messages and infinite patch loops after a fresh reinstall. finally got hold of the manual patch and luckily it worked