Guild Wars 2

So, with the obvious return of the White Mantle, and the comming patch (probarbly) dealing with them, aswell as the fact that the raid already kind of concluded with us learning the white mantle are back and rising again, will raid characters have different dialogue and interactions than characters that didnt complete the raid.

It would seem really illogical to me if my character is gonna be dumbstruck when someone tells him the white mantle has risen, something i’m fairly sure he’s figured out right now.

And im sure plenty of people who were raiding would feel the same ;P

True. The Story will double up on people who did the raid, so it would be stupid (yet hilarious) for someone who cleared it 4 times have his char say “White Mantle? Never heard of.”

I’m pretty sure there will be a dialouge Option for “Mantle, Mursaat, Madness… got it.” for all the raiders and a “Oh if you could fill me in on those freaks real quick” for all who want to hear it.

I disagree, and actually I believe that is not how I picture Arenanet pulling off keeping the Raids as Side-stories. There should be zero lore advantage to raiders over the general populace, if they want to keep that end of raids quite fair. Rather, I believe our player characters, depending on LS3 playing out, be surprised by what’s to come.

I can make this assumption based on the dialogue in Forsaken Thicket, at no point during the entire instance do any pact members / NPCs refer to you as the Commander, rather it seems like they simply view you and your group as friendlies / other troops. Your character in that raid isn’t the pact commander, you are a group of adventurers/warriors/soldiers going in and attempting to stop White Mantle activities.

If there is any reference to the raid from LS3, what will probably be said is a direct reference to this group that went in and found out about what had transpired. That would be the best implementation of the lore for the Living Story with concern to the raid, an optional side-quest to see how those events played out through some soldier’s eyes with 9 others.