Guild Wars 2

The new Greatsaw buzzing in-combat sound is driving me nuts. It’s much louder than other combat effects, really stands out, plays every 1-3 seconds and often glitches during big battles (sound stops for a while then plays for 1-2 seconds at really high speed). I tried lowering sound volume but constant zzzZZZzzz’ing is still the main thing I hear.
Not to mention that if I have 3 mesmer clones up, each with its own GS, I get 4x the same effect.

I understand that in theory a loudly buzzing big chainsaw sounds really cool. It IS cool for the first 10 minutes, but if it’s your main weapon, you’ll eventually get tired of it. I believe the legendary sword Bolt had a sound fix for the very same reason.

Please, ANet, revert this or at least bring the in-combat sound effect on par with out of combat. That pre-patch soft engine purring was perfect.

I agree…. i hate that f——- sound

Like Sarasti mentioned, the gentle humming of my greatsaw murder weapon is all I need. It’s perfect that way.

it’s a cool effect, but a bit too loud

It’s much too loud and lasts far too long. With the chain sword I swing once and the sound goes on for at least 1.5 secs which is annoying and sounds ridiculous.

I totally agree with the other posters. The greatsaw used to sound excellent, now it sounds pretty obnoxious.

I had to get a new weapon because the sound is way to annoying.

I have to agree with the above posts. I cant swing without hearing that sound. It’s driving me batty. Please revert it. Pretty Please. With a baby Quaggan on top.

My ears were bleeding while using it. I paid a lot of money that I would not have paid had I known it was supposed to make this awful sound. I too enjoyed the gentle humming. If it can’t be reverted, I agree that it should at least be quieter and far less frequent.

Going to have to agree with this, just recently used the skin instead of selling it after being on the fence about it for weeks because it’s my favourite skin so far in the game and after just a couple minutes of testing it out in Cursed Shore I’m just about ready to find an alternative.

I can almost literally hear no other combat sounds over the saw sound. The pitch and tone of it is very well matched to an actual saw but that’s what makes it the most irritating :\. One of the most nerve wracking sounds is a chainsaw or lawnmower sound that just doesn’t end.

If you were unaware it is the same for the 1h sword as well

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, thanks for your input on this. The chainsaw sound was not intended to trigger as often or play as loud as it is currently. Apologies for the auditory discomfort. A fix is in the works and we will be addressing these issues in a future patch. Thanks for understanding.

Omg I <3 you so hard right now.

I really like the sound, but it can wear on the ears after a while. Maybe just have the sound play on drawing the weapon and then only now and then during combat.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, thanks for your input on this. The chainsaw sound was not intended to trigger as often or play as loud as it is currently. Apologies for the auditory discomfort. A fix is in the works and we will be addressing these issues in a future patch. Thanks for understanding.

No disrespect Mark, but,
Your recent Greatsaw “FIX” has now eliminated the sound all together for me.
Whatever you have done to “FIX” the Greatsaw, has now made it so that I am unable to even hear it at all anymore.

Please, either notch it up a a little bit, or allow the players to be able to set the volume of various items like this themselves. The later option would make everyone happy because people could customize their sounds the way they like it.
The way it is for me now, without sound, has ruined the Greatsaw for me.

Miss Pink Floyd.9730:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, thanks for your input on this. The chainsaw sound was not intended to trigger as often or play as loud as it is currently. Apologies for the auditory discomfort. A fix is in the works and we will be addressing these issues in a future patch. Thanks for understanding.

No disrespect Mark, but,
Your recent Greatsaw “FIX” has now eliminated the sound all together for me.
Whatever you have done to “FIX” the Greatsaw, has now made it so that I am unable to even hear it at all anymore.

Please, either notch it up a a little bit, or allow the players to be able to set the volume of various items like this themselves. The later option would make everyone happy because people could customize their sounds the way they like it.
The way it is for me now, without sound, has ruined the Greatsaw for me.

I agree with everything on here. The desirability of the weapon is lost now because of the stripped audio from an otherwise masterpiece of graphic design from the Anet team. If I was part of the design team I would be a little depressed that the work that went into designing that chainsaw resulted in it no longer sounding or functioning like a chainsaw. I was in a group with 2 players that had it and didn’t hear it once. The players with it expressed similar concerns.

Put in a “Weapon audio effects” in the sound settings please because this is saddening.

GreatSaw users: Continue to fight the good fight.

There may be a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel and this time… it is Not a train. I spent a substantial amount of time with Cody C, Anet’s QA Audio specialist last evening, doing Production Server testing on the Great Saw functionality and Audio variances amongst different players. You may have seen us doing some testing on Stormbluff Isle server outside the Asura Lab near Tequatl spawn. We tested both in and out of combat and without going into too much detail, here are the results:

1. There IS an acknowledged problem.
2. The problem is not universal with all GreatSaw users (there are different audio decibel levels that the users of the sword experience.
3. The surrounding players may hear different volume levels then the sword user.
3. Cody said this issue will be reevaluated with the Audio Team.
4. There was also some discussion on increasing the volume across the board. Now the way the statement was made, it was not Guaranteed to be raised, but it was inferred.

Hope Springs Eternal

That news is somewhat pleasing!

I think the best thing that they could do to please everyone, is to have a weapon sound slider, let people choose the right weapon level volume for their own tastes.

There are a lot of weapons that sound far worse than the Great Saw, but I have never once complained, because, even though I may not like a sound, I have respect for the people that do. I spent a lot of money to get this weapon, a big selling point for me was the chainsaw sounds, it really made this into an awesome beast, and for me, this is “my legendary”, since I will never be able to afford a real legendary.

I think that the best thing of the chainsaw greatsword was the sound. I also think that many people will enjoy and many will hate it. So please re-insert it and add to the option Window a volume slider for the weapons effect or re-insert it with a lower volume. This is the best solution for this problem. Thank you!

When the Greatsaw skin came out, I really did not pay much attention to it, after they fixed the sound in January, Someone was using one in Orr, and I fell in love with it, it sounded great, and for me, it is like an affordable legendary. I keep checking patch notes, hoping for the sound to be restored again.

I’m waiting on that patch note too. I’d like to play my warrior again. When I moved to TC and started doing runs, I was the only one with a Greatsaw. Within two days, two more cropped up, and then a fourth a couple days later on a guy I watched finish leveling there. I haven’t seen one since they removed the sound.

I got compliments on and questions about the Greatsaw constantly, but never a complaint. And I was spammed with group requests from the time I logged in until I accepted one whenever I played using it.

It isn’t the same playing without the Greatsaw. And I can’t stand using it without the sound.