Blood Mage "Sanguimancy" causing crashes to desktop starting in act 2

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EDIT: This crash has to do with the Dusk Vigil unique staff. Getting stunned while casting a spell with both Dusk Vigil equipped and Blood Mage 'Sanguimancy' allocated crashes the game. See my new thread here

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3621946
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My first character is a Blood Mage. Starting near the end of act 2 I started getting constant crashes while in combat. It would not crash in town, and would not crash while walking around. I thought maybe it's the environment. So I powered through the crashes (thanks to the new pause feature) and got to act 3. However the crashes continued.

I did pretty much everything in the book to try and fix this. I reinstalled older video drivers, I adjusted all the setting I could including trying dx12/dx11/vulkan. Still crashes.

I swapped my memory sticks for older memory sticks to check if it was faulty RAM. Still crashes.

I checked the health of my pc. Still crashes.

Went to the store and bought a new SSD and installed a fresh copy of windows. Still crashes.

I originally thought maybe a new skill I was using was causing it, including blood mage. However I ruled this out as I tested playing in act 1 and noticed no crashes. This made me originally assume blood mage isn't the culprit. However reading more reports from users say blood mage crashes the game I decided to unallocate Sanguimancy and what-do-you-know it stopped crashing. I am very confident that for some reason the ascendancy node doesn't crash in every zone. I tested it for quite some time in fields in act 1 and didn't get a crash, but that could be coincidental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCpbokq3Hk

Here's a video of me in act 3 clearing an area WITHOUT Sanguimancy, then towards the end of the video I allocate it and it crashes shortly after. Before the start of this clip I was clearing the area without sanuimancy and did not crash. Note that earlier I could not progress hardly at all in this area without crashing before unallocating the notable,s so I'm quite confident it is in fact Blood Mage causing the crashes.

Specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
ASUS TUF GAMING WI-FI X570 motherboard
32GB DDR4

Drivers tested:
Geforce Game Ready Driver 566.36 (Dec 6, 2024)
Geforce Game Ready Driver 566.14 (Nov 12, 2024)

Oh and here is the windows event log for the crash

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Faulting application name: PathOfExileSteam.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x67544a58
Faulting module name: PathOfExileSteam.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x67544a58
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000012133ef
Faulting process id: 0x0x1E3C
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DB49296E88BCC6
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Path of Exile 2\PathOfExileSteam.exe
Report Id: 98871882-bb3c-4393-8a73-29a88ed33bfc
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

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Same thing happening to me as well, started soon after i specced Sanguinmancy and equipped Dusk Vigil staff.
Game just closes without errors or anything, definitely happening when i get hit, but with some other condition (probably casting spells, or something related to blood orbs)

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BlindSythe#5919 wrote:

Same thing happening to me as well, started soon after i specced Sanguinmancy and equipped Dusk Vigil staff.
Game just closes without errors or anything, definitely happening when i get hit, but with some other condition (probably casting spells, or something related to blood orbs)

Yeah, this describes my experience as well

Good troubleshooting. Extreme, thorough and covers my last Houghton about drivers.

But bc we are all experiencing the same thing, it's them. Skill is bugged and needs a pass from GGG.

I have the exact same error.
I tested on win 24h2, 22h2 and GeForce Now. It crushes everywhere.
I tested many configurations and the bag is caused by sanguimancy + spell trigger, in my case it is
sanguimancy + casting after minion's death.
Dusk Vigil Staff (also with autocast) + sanguimancy

In both cases it crushes often.