Guild Wars 2

Ever since the balance patch last week, I have not been able to play the game. I make it through the launcher, but right before character select, the app crashes saying there is a problem with the game client

does it come up with a crash report? if it does, you can click the ‘more details’ button and copy & paste the top part of the crash report here (the part between —> Crash <— and —> System <—).

or is it a windows “GW2.exe has stopped responding” crash?

Are you using something that injects code into the game client, such as reshade, gemfx, or a DPS meter such as arcdps, bgdm, etc?

If so, remove that, and see if the problem reoccurs. The balance patch definitely required changes to the memory reading components in DPS meters, in order to adapt to new internals in the game client.