Guild Wars 2

Am I the only one who finds the constant wolf howling and bear snorting sounds on character select and in game super annoying! Every 10 or so second the sound plays. It’s not even subtle either, it’s really loud. The only way to get it to stop is by turning environment sound down to zero which in turn means missing out on all the other environment sounds.

Please get rid of it. I’m close to just not bothering with the game at the minute it’s that annoying.

I don’t seem to have that issue. Make sure your audio options (in-game and OS or audio device settings) match your physical audio device (if you have a 2.1 system of speakers, make sure all settings are for 2.1, etc.). If they do not match, you can get some odd audio effects.

Good luck.

I made a thread on the Min Toxic Hybrid being WAY too loud on the environment channel. THAT pita has to be lowered by the Dev’s as it’s not properly normalized with other sounds in the channel.

For the character select screen, there are no environmental sounds as you’ve described OP. Only the GW2 theme play’s in the background of the character select screen.

I’ll have to try and record it somehow to show you what I’m hearing. I’ll try to record it tonight when I get home from work.

For the love of the game, give me an option to turn off the stupid, unnecessary tron backpack voice.

I don’t need to constantly hear, “Your grawl impression is really coming along.”

If we’re on the topic of annoying sounds, I’d say some of the weapon skill sounds for some classes are annoying. Take Orb of Wrath for the guardian scepter as an example. It’s a very rasping/ear scratching sound that easily overpowers other sounds, especially for a skill that is an auto attack. I wish they’d mellow it down a bit and make it more subtle.

Another annoying sound is the electric sound that plays whenever you use any skill with bolt. It’s very grating and I wish they’d find an alternative that’s not as harsh. It’s the only thing I don’t like about bolt as a legendary.

yes, lets use this red thread to talk about this Toxic Hybrid problem.

Please Anet, make minis sounds slider.
Or just block all sounds that come from a player that is blocked.
I’ll take anything at this point.

This one mini is making me play the game without sound! And I want to hear the sounds and the beautiful music.

Near every bank, every TP, while you wait for world boss.. everywhere I hear this HORRIBLE DISGUSTING sound.

Please do something with it.
Gaile .. this is making me run away from other players, this is making me angry at others players, this is not how MMO should work.
I starting to hate this game because of this one sound.

for me the single most annoying sound in the game is the deafening hurricane wind rush that happens at half health or less.
:(

Gaile Gray.6029:

There are a lot of settings in your options menu that allow you to adjust ambient sounds versus music versus combat sounds, etc.

It “sounds” as if you might want to make an adjustment that makes it just right for you.

Gaile, from reading his post it seems that the sounds he finds annoying are linked to the environmental sounds he wants, meaning he has to choose either to live with the annoyance, or get rid of some of the awesome ambient sounds in the game. It’s a tough choice.

I think some of you must have some weird sound settings, because none of these things are really noticeable for me. I hardly even realized the mini hybrid makes sound at all, and my venom thief has it out all the time.

For weapon sounds, none of them are annoying to me in the strict sense. However, the necro’s scepter auto-attack kinda sounds like I’m playing cricket, and doesn’t feel especially necromantic to me.