I have a level 63 character that i have been playing in Online mode with Champion of Stormfall mode for a few days, up until 2 days ago of this posting where I am unable to load into an Online game, and get stuck in a black screen that does not progress.

I have tried playing in offline mode with a different character and I was able to play.

I also tried creating a new character and went directly into playing in online mode with Champion of Stormfall and I was able to load in Online mode and able to load into the game world and play.

It seems that the issue is only with this level 63 character in online mode. I do not have any other real characters that I can play, and have no desire to re-level a new character (run thru the story mode, etc) this early after finishing the Story mode with this level 63 not even a week ago.

I basically have narrowed it down to this level 63 character, Perhaps the character data on the server got corrupted, especially since I was able to play in Online mode in Champions mode for a few days, before the black screen started happening?

As a side note, I've tried the items below before I finally had the idea of creating a new level 1 character to test if I can run it in Online:
> I reinstalled the game, by completely uninstalling first using Steam
> I used Steam to validate the files
> I disabled the Windows firewall
> I tried running the game executable in admin mode
> I used a VPN service before connecting with the game

Thanks,