Guild Wars 2

So there I was in Lornar’s Pass, trying to get the Beaker’s Empty Belly achievement – just north of the jumping puzzle. Scarlet decided to invade. Of course as soon as Scarlet herself spawns, she teleports straight to me, just as I’m about to get the achievement, and müllers me.

Note that I’m in an area you can only get to by finding a hidden tunnel underwater, where there is no expectation of any other players being nearby. Then I’m attacked by an enemy impossible to solo while I’m trapped in a dead end.

Who thought this was good game design?

Invasion veterans know what’s coming next. I waypointed halfway across the map, repaired my armour, loaded the forum to post and…Scarlet came to see me again. Fortunately running like kitten works when your’ve got somewhere to run to. Then she did it again. I went to WvW where it was quiet and safe – I’ve never been stalked by a trebuchet…

How about limiting Scarlet’s teleportation to the areas where the invasion events ocurr, instead of having her teleport into places where she can’t reasonably be expected or fought?

While you’re at it, how about making her pick a different target for each attack, instead of hounding some poor player all over the zone like a demented stalker?

I haven’t seen this behavior. Maybe you were the only player in the zone? What if they held an invasion and nobody came?

IndigoSundown.5419:

I haven’t seen this behavior. Maybe you were the only player in the zone? What if they held an invasion and nobody came?

From my experience, when an invasion starts, Scarlet randomly puts a “target” on a player during the invasion, and will repeatedly teleport/spawn to that person continuously, no matter where they go. (unless they leave the map, or log out)

I’ve read that also, that she can select a player and repeatedly attack them. Several people reported her singling them out during the first set of invasions for the living story.

In particular she does not approve of AFKing during her invasion. This morning I found a lone player dead in the hylek crafting area of Sparkfly during one of her invasions. I rezzed, then realized my error, the player was AFK. So I moved away to craft (which is what I’d come there to do, after all, I’d just finished not killing Tequatal and it was convenient) and here comes Scarlet again to murder that poor player and then poof. She took no notice of me.

Cool stories.

In all seriousness though, that’s really bad design to have an enemy just teleport to you at any time which is impossible to beat solo. At least you can run from her sometimes, but that’s really sadistic if it happens in a situation like the opening poster described.