I redownloaded the whole Dawntrail Expansion and the patch yesterday and also rebooting pc after extensive troubleshooting that I dont think had anything to do with it and its resolved itself and I've loaded up the game multiple times now since and no issues and no more hang ups. I'm starting to think it may have been something they fixed in the backend or hell maybe some files went wonky cuz it never did that the entire DT expansion for me until the newest 7.01. But like I said above, redownloading the expansion and the patch files through the launcher fixed my issues and restart the pc after then try to launch the game.