Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for advice on which profession is the most quiet.

I really love the Elementalist, but hearing “I am the wind! Fire! Water!” every 5 seconds drives me crazy. I also really love the Necromancer, but find their weapon’s noises to be very loud, relentless and overpowering.

So, what profession to do you think makes the least amount of sound? Both weapon noises and voice clips. Basically, I’m trying to avoid loud and/or repetitive audio.

I’m not sure there is a truly quiet profession. Of the other professions, engineer is loud (explosions, gunshot) thief pistol shots are quite loud and repetitive if you go pistol/pistol. Warrior might be okay as long as you are not using rifle or any shouts in your build. Guardian I’m not sure of, apart from the Tome of Wrath where they repeatedly shout ‘feel my wrath!’. Ranger isn’t that bad noise-wise IMO except for sword attacks, which isn’t the weapon but the voice clip, at least on female Sylvari. Pet death comments get old very fast but you can minimise this by choosing less squishy ones. I find mesmer noises not loud, but annoying.

I’d suggest you turn the sound effects down in Options – can’t remember the exact slider name but experiment. Don’t do it completely if you WvW because sometimes you hear an enemy before you see them. It’s also worth creating a character then trying them out with the combat dummies in the Mists, because then you can try them out with weapons unlocked and different builds to see whether you can stand the noise they make.

quickthorn.4918:

I’d suggest you turn the sound effects down in Options

After reading your first paragraph and seeing this I just burst out in laughter.

Pretty much. :P

Warrior is the most quiet in my opinion because all the sounds except rifle are very modest. However, rifle doesn’t sound annoying either.

Kain Francois.4328:

Warrior is the most quiet in my opinion because all the sounds except rifle are very modest. However, rifle doesn’t sound annoying either.

“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!!”

“SHAKE IT OFF!!!”

“FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!!”

“ON MAH MARK!!!”

I have heard FGJ so much to the point it is drown out. Also, you can disable voices without impacting a majority of the game.

Guardian.

Others don’t hear your shouts (really, how can’t they hear you shout?). And “Hold the Line” voice never works.