Guild Wars 2

I logged in today to do my dailys. Moving about as I normally do i noticed the sound of my warrior when landing after a jump just sounds different and horrible now. At first i thought it was my pc, so i tried changing in game settings, windows settings, changing it all back to default, changed to my spare set of speakers, even tried using my onboard sound card rather than the PCI soundcard I was using, but no, it still sounds horrible and definitely didn’t sound like it did before. And i have tried jumping on all sorts of ground surfaces.

It sounds like a couple of tin pots clanging together yet previously it actually did sound more armor clanging and ground thudding like it should.

Has this sound actually changed in game? Anyone else notice how weird its sounding at moment.

I have the same issue on my Guardian since the patch. Removing all armour and putting it back on solves it for a short time or until map travel. For now I have just turned sound effects completely down. This horrible clank sound is way to distracting and annoying otherwise. I hope this is a bug and not an intentional change, because playing without sound effects from now on would suck…

Still better than the Charr’s loud shout, when he’s landing, like he is being tortured or kittened up in the kitten real hard (lol I love this censorship)

Same here, human gardian, sounds like someone spitting through their teeth EVERY SINGLE TIME his knees bend, (jumping landing etc etc)
Only started with Oct 2nd patch pls fix… tykittenvm

Yeah… I’m not exactly digging that “empty tuna-cans in a plastic bin” sound. >.<
“Hey, what kinda armor is that?”
“Why, its Starkist Survivalist armor!”

I’ve noticed a pronounced difference in the sound effects for jumping with all armor-types—heavy armor being the most embarrassing (“Clink-clunkity-clank!”).

Noticed this on all my characters (Guardian, Ranger, Engineer). My friend noticed it too on his Elementalist.

So it seems to be an issue with all classes and a pretty annoying one at that. Sent in a bug report regarding it yesterday.

Same here…
My human warrior and guardian are making strange jumping noises. Sounds like someone throws a shopping cart into a bunch of soup cans.

Agree, it sounds really stupid and unrealistic. Make it go away.T__T

what? heavy armor clanking loudly is a problem? thank goodness this is fantasy, otherwise every combat would sound like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-Vut0xb9Y&noredirect=1

For optical reasons i switched to other legs on my warrior, just to be surprised by those weird jumping sounds, as if two empty tin cans hit each other.

Tested around a bit with various legs i still had in bank, and they all have different sounds when i am jumping. The legs i am currently using don’t make any sounds at all, hence i never noticed.

That sound really drives me crazy so i switched back to the legs i was using for weeks. Never thought i’d have to pick leg armor not for looks but for sounds. O.o

While the clanging tin is a little weaksauce as far as sounds go, I’m more annoyed by the cloth "fwip" sound effect my mesmer is getting whenever I jump around on her.

I was running around on my asura warrior yesterday when I noticed that he was still making the “pots clanking together” sound while wearing town clothes….. o_o