Guild Wars 2

Sorry if this has been suggested, I looked and couldn’t find anything.

I really love the sound and music of Guild Wars 2 but I absolutely despise the addition of all of these permanent instruments. I hate standing in town, or out on the field and having someone blast some obnoxious melody through my headset. With the addition of something with so much potential for griefing I really think there should be a toggle to hear it.

Basically, I want an option to ignore those sounds specifically without risking the removal of any other game sounds.

Feel free to flame/agree/disagree/call me a total noob/etc below!

My server seems to have been blessed with a minimum of horn-blowers. I had seen hundreds of complaints here on the forums about people griefing with them, but had never actually heard one until today.

I was visiting the merchant in front of the bank in LA, when suddenly some idiot pink-garbed Asura jumps up on the wall next to me and proceeds to pound two notes over and over. Those things are PIERCING! It was almost physically hurting my eardrums! I couldn’t believe it.

I asked him nicely, “Could you PLEASE blow your horn away from where people are conducting business?” Which of course resulted in a fresh round of painful noisemaking.

I had to leave with my business unfinished. Somebody has GOT to do something about those horns! (Or about those PLAYERS… perhaps the ability to /report for griefing, resulting in increasingly long horn noise bans with each infraction?)

But yes, your thought has been suggested and seconded hundreds of times. They really are loud, aren’t they? Even if the person was playing a nice tune, I would still want to turn it way down!