Guild Wars 2

Once again we find out that Scarlet has been a busy bee, this time with the Krait.

So far she created the Molten Alliance, orchestrated a failed coup in Lion’s Arch, failed assault on Divinity’s Reach, the Aetherblade assaults and many other operations. Which means that, in fact, only (some) holidays were untouched by her presence and much of Southsun Cove. A grand plot involving monsters, corporation without morales and many other interesting twists.

I loved Southsun Cove. I also liked some of actions that were undertaken along Scarlet’s plans. Scarlet herself, however, seems to be more a burden to Arenanet. Sooner or later we will face her off and defeat/route for good. But no other characters on the “bad” side are there to fill in the gap and give more interesting plots. And all of them will probably feel much weaker than Scarlet, who, despite being crazy, is also an ace in politics, golemancy, bioengineering and many other fields.

Perhaps more people serving under her should become prominent and take parts of her grand abilities onto themselves. It is my belief that although leaders should be prominent, they also shouldn’t be all-knowing. If she had experts in some fields to fill in her shortcomings, it might only improve the story.

I would like to hear from Arenanet that more morally questionable characters are to be developed, but right now it seems like Scarlet ate them all.