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Posted by: Hedonismbot.3697

Hedonismbot.3697

I am sure this topic has been discussed before, and that a merger will probably be in order. However, I would still like to adress the topic of the voicefiles triggered by Human-Specific skills (Prayer to Kormir, Lyssa, Reaper of Grenth etc).

I suggest here that these skills could maybe regain their voicefiles, but on a cooldown.

We all know the hilarity that was hearing a human shout “May Lyssa confound you!” every few seconds, and this has indeed been patched. But removing these files entirely was maybe a bit too harsh. How about reintroducing them, but having them play only once every so often? It would bring back a lot of “flair” to these skills.

I do realize that few people actually use racial utility skills in PvE or PvP that much, since they are not the strongest – due to balancing – but having them in less challenging situations contributes a lot to the “feel” of ones character and I’d like to see (or hear) them again.

On a sidenote: Skill related voicefiles often times become an “issue” for veteran players. Hearing “for great justice” for the thousands time (even though it technically is a “shout”) can become a bit annoying (it’s basically the Lyssa-thing).
On the other hand I do realise that skills like this need some kind of feedback to make them “feel” right…

Or in the case of the elementalist: It is very cool to have him shout something when changing attunement, but after investing into the Arcana-Traits and swapping attunements more often, they get a little repetitive. (I think these voicefiles are on a cooldown anyway, so maybe increasing that cooldown would already do the trick)

An option adjusting / enabling or disabling the audio-feedback of skills would solve this maybe.

What are your thoughts?

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Posted by: JayMack.8295

JayMack.8295

I don’t think they’ve been removed. Granted, I very rarely if ever hear it now, but that’s because I rarely find people using it. I used to hear it most often when bots used it during the epidemic of 2012.

I think they’ve just made it a very low frequency chance of triggering. The same’s true of Mesmer mantras. They take a lot of using them to trigger the voice line. I’m sure I heard it at least once a couple weeks back.

Either way, yeah. A frequency slider would be nice but I’m sure it’s on a really low priority list, so if it happens, I doubt it’ll happen for months if not another year.