Playing a mage and leveling through story after beating boss in temple and clicking shard to go to End of Time for first time the game crashes and locks up. CPU and GPU use drop to zero with memory sitting at about 3GB and not moving. Tried reloading the character multiple times and the same thing happens on both steam and standalone clients.
It didn’t its actually a bug with the zone itself. The game will not even load that particular instance probably due to an effect on an item I was wearing at the time.
It is the only character that will not load.
The zone is not the endgame version of EoT it’s the first time you travel there after grabbing the fragment from temple (giant purple lotus).
So after getting the character load I did notice something odd. That character was using Torch of the Pontifex and the offhand slot was somehow empty even though I was using a two handed weapon.
I immediately created a second character and it went through that section entirely fine but I was lacking backups for the Torch and the Exsanguinous so I could not test replicating the bug. Either way the most current patch has resolved it. Just might want to be something to look out for if anyone else ever manages to encounter it.