I had been grumbling about the lack of gems from those dailies and didn't realize how much exp I was getting until I switched from Roland to Merlin and jumped from lvl 11 to 18. That was just one run in standard level.

I don't find these rape scenes interesting because it's never an established character, it's just some random asshole, and the more often it just randomly happens the more contrived it seems. If they didn't have the balls to make the protagonist the aggressor they could have established very good villains from these scenes. They probably feared that an abducting/coercing protagonist would cross the line for players who don't enjoy the rape, but they've already peppered the story in enough rape scenes to have turned those players away. They're already too committed to the theme not to go further.