Guild Wars 2

While fighting Scarlet’s holographic adversaries I noticed that ArenaNet is steering more and more towards changes in sound effects for our weaponry.

First came the legendary weapons, then the SAB skins and now Scarlet’s Kiss/Rainbow.

This made me wonder if ever ArenaNet would offer a means to ‘transmute’ sound presets; or recipes for the crafting disciplines which would apply a different sound preset.

Personally I’d love to have a means to change the sound effects of my rifle without being forced to use the skin that came with the original weapon.

1. A transmutation device that would extract/copy sound effects and place it onto another weapon.
2. Crafting recipes that could be combined with an existing weapon in order to exchange the basic sound effects with a new preset.

As I recall there were already talks to have certain recipes that could alter/apply visual effects (I believe this was talked about regarding the upcoming Ascended jewelcrafting). As such I would personally love if some day this could also extend to changes in sound effects.

As an example, in SWTOR there were several sound presets for weapons. So one lightsaber sounded different from another and one autocannon might have a high pitch while another had a deep reverb. To me this added a lot to diversity.

Imagine using an Azure Railgun but with the sound effects of the Super Shotgun, or the Charrzooka rifle with the sound effects of Scarlet’s Kiss.