Ok, I went in and wiped the Application Data directory that was referenced here: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/92943007-Files-to-Help-Solve-Tech-Problems and restarted the client and it starts now. Hopefully that will help some one.
Conjectrue: Maybe the crash dump file is corrupt or something and the client tries to read it on start?
Interestingly, I just wiped the game and went to reinstall it and it won’t start the client at all after the installer finishes. There seems to be something more strange than normal going on – either the server or something permanent in the system files.
I just had pretty much the exact same experience on the Mac client. Some heap issues, crash and burn, and then doesn’t restart at all. Tried rebooting the computer and running the repair flag, no go.
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