Guild Wars 2

Realization just dawned on me. Scarlet is the Lich King from WoW:WotLK. During leveling the writers wanted the players to have a lot of interaction with the LK in order to create a reason to loathe him in order for the heroes to WANT to defeat him. He comes off as ridiculously overpowered and you cant even scratch him, he also just escapes when you manage to harm him a little. You cant even fight him till death until the FINAL unlock of the entire expansion. The difference between scarlet and LK is that the players KNEW the lore behind LK, in fact played as him during founding in WC3, he wasn’t just retconned in, he was known and a known threat to all existence. With the introduction of Scarlet not only have we NEVER heard of her before, we also do not know the extent of her abilities, so we do not see her as a threat as we did with the LK bringing destruction to the entire planet. We have no reason to fear or hate her as a villain and want to bring her to justice. The writers are attempting to do this now with the LS. The LS is like the story between Personal Story; the PS deal with new dragons and progress the personal story with the LS being everything to do in between. The writers WROTE a story and are trying to bring it to fruition and give you a reason to HATE scarlet and to FEAR her… its just taking to dam long for us to see her as a threat; that’s what the writers tried to implement with the Divinity Reach arc. The problem is we as players do not have the same feelings for DR as home as the NPCs do and don’t really see the fall of DR a big deal or that Scarlet COULD do more.

Basically we can’t gauge the scope of the threat, but the writers/devs do, so they see scarlet as this big bad boss Joker to be defeated, where we see Harley Quinn. Now i may be wrong and she may be the harley to a more kitten joker, but that needed to be established early in the lore or we just fought an underling for more than a year and feel like we just wasted most of our time chasing phantoms.

TL;DR; We as players do not see scarlet as a threat and therefore do not regard her as a villain to be slain, but as a nuisance to be tolerated.

…….Clockwork Invasion was Merely a Setback….