I have the same problem.
When I try to play with my main character the game freezes when entering the world.
I have a lvl34 asura ranger and is in Kessex Hills. I was getting to an event when my client crashed, and now every time I try to play with that character the game freezes in the main screen at the beginning when entering the world, although I start to listen to the world sound and music. I have to go to task manager and stop the game from there.
I’ve created another alt to play in the meanwhile, and now it happened the same. I’ve been playing for over one week and besides some random crashes in client I’ve been able to log back into the game. Even now I’ve created a third character and have been able to play with it fine.
I even tried to repair the client, and uninstall and reinstall the client but it didn’t solve the problem.
Already sent a ticket to Anet support but still waiting for a response.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?