Tried posting this in tech forum but it seemed to get merged into some completely unrelated other post.
So I’ll report it here.
Right now, on any character, my game will crash instantly, 100% reproducibly as soon as I try to go into the Hero Panel.
Edit: Seems like this may be a bug with the -repair option.
I was able to fix this by finding an old copy of my gw2.dat and letting the game update from that. The final size of the new gw2.dat was smaller than the one that kept crashing and asking for a repair by about 40MB. My GW2 settings directory was also filled with corrupt archive file logs. I’ve kept a backup in case you want to ever look at it for debugging purposes.