Guild Wars 2

If you’ve ever played a female sylvari, or attacked the nightmare court, you’ve heard the little “ahf ahf ahf!” noise that I am now officially sick of. It’s the little yappy dog noise that gets played every time you get hit. As a mesmer, all of my clones and phantasms also make this noise, along with every other female sylvari NPC that doesn’t have a unique voice actor. And, considering I’ve been doing Twilight Arbor to try to get armor and weapons which puts me in the way of plenty of female nightmare court, I’ve hit my maximum tolerance for this noise. It has to be the one noise in the game that now makes my ears want to shrivel up and hide in a hole.

It’s so kitten high pitched, and staccato, and distinctive. Does it have to play three times every time you get hit? Do all of the clones and phantasms have to make it too? And every female sylvari NPC on top of that? Could it maybe just be on a critical hit, or on cripple, or something instead of every time I get aggro.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that this noise is single-handedly responsible for making me not want to play a character I otherwise love and am very happy with. Please, if something could be done about the pitch and frequency of it, that’d be amazing.

Fortunately my female Sylvari necromancer outsources all the hits to her minions, so while I do hear the noise occasionally, I think it cute more than annoying.

I totally agree with you. I play a Sylvari female thief and the sound she makes when she gets hit is annoying me as well. It doesn’t fit the voice for female Sylvaris at all and the sound on itself is ridiculous and repetitive, it’s like it plays every time when you get hit.

At first I didn’t even know it was supposed to be a sound the character makes, it indeed sounds like a dog and I always thought it belonged to the Nightmare Court wolves. It’s horrible!

This is a big reason I never could finish my TA armor set. The annoying boss sounds drove me insane.

Zaxares.5419:

Fortunately my female Sylvari necromancer outsources all the hits to her minions, so while I do hear the noise occasionally, I think it cute more than annoying.

I seem to always be in agreement with you.

I swear, no human was involved in the recording of that sound.

It is a very small dog of some sort that they tazed repeatedly.

I posted this on another thread also but here yes I completely agree…

I will never make another Sylvari female again…
I couldn’t bear that God awful sound…

I am a female and role playing a male character in game feels just plain silly to me. So I have to go with female characters but the lack of options is frustrating.

That sound of getting hit makes me wanna jab my eyeballs out. Although I love her regular voice and accent, the scream of pain is definitely a deal breaker! If they fixed it, I’d reroll Sylvari again.
I have leveled a female human ranger all the way to 80 and I don’t have anything to complain about.
Other races I can’t really bear to look at…
So it seems I am stuck with the human race and wont be able to explore other personal story lines anytime soon…

“Killed my minion? I’ll raise another!”

All I ever hear…

I’ve commented in on this in the other threads about it, but the female Sylvari yelping effect is the reason my Sylvari is male. I like having sound on for the cues it gives me, especially in combat, and couldn’t face the prospect of that noise all the time.

I’m sick of the same. I’ve mentioned it in other threads, as have many other people. Nobody from ArenaNet has responded to any of it, however.

Cody Crichton.7516:

Hello, and thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to post about the issue with all sylvari females “yipping” occasionally when they take damage. A bug was found with one of the sound files—yes, a bona fide bug and not a matter of taste. The problem was fixed in a previous patch. I believe the fix came through with the Wintersday content.

Everyone who was plagued by the issue, feel free to play your female sylvari characters again and let us know what you think!

Thanks Cody! It’s nice to get a response
And thanks for fixing this!

I actually haven’t noticed the sound lately at all, especially in the excess that it was originally. Which is awesome, because it was indeed very annoying.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard that yipping (Engy’s 80 and I’ve done a lot of WvW with her) and maybe it’s because I learned that Sylvari women are voiced by Jennifer Hale but I initially hated the shout for retaliation (“This rose has thorns. Here they are!”). I’ve grown to appreciate it now and kinda like it.