Crashing Several Times After Patch + Slow Loading + Unresponsive UI

So after the patch, the game's been increasingly unstable for me. I've never experience as much runtime crashing as I did today.

In game, the UI elements can become unresposive. Changing classes and using skills takes longer despite no network lag. Loading takes longer despite running on an SSD.

No. I did not update anything with my computer or graphic driver. The only new factor here is the patch and I hope this will be taken care of soon.

http://i.imgur.com/ASr9RmP.png

Update: ok.. since my thread creation, I crashed another 2 times for about 4 times total today. I'm somewhat hoping that it's not just my computer experiencing this and we can get this resolved soon in an emergency patch.

Some of this is happening on ps3 as well. It started with the last bigger update, and got worse with this one. Loading times have gotten much slower, when getting out of a vendor screen it sometimes takes a full minute before we can move. The load times on cutscenes is at times insanely long where others in the same party are out of it before we even get the option to skip, then have to wait on more load time after skipping.

During beta and up until the last 2 updates this was not an issue at all. Internet connection has nothing to do with it. I really hope someone can tell us why this is happening and if it will be fixed and hopefully when.