Guild Wars 2

Can you pleeeease pretty pretty please with sugar and a purple butterfly-shaped cherry on top bring back the clock chime sounds into Gravity Well’s spell audio FX? It was the only one that had a solid “clock chiming” sound to it out of the Chronomancer spells besides Well of Precognition, but the chimes in that one are too short-lived to be enjoyed, and they come to an abrupt halt at the spell’s end.

IMO nothing evokes the concept of “time magic” like the deep heavy sounds of distorted *GONG*s, and being that Gravity Well is the Chronomancer’s Elite Skill, it only makes sense that it should have it!

The strange thing is it used to have those sounds, but it was removed for some reason. Now the spell sounds empty and hollow, with just some deep bass sounds. You can’t really tell its a clock at all… it kinda just seems like a creepy black hole. It almost sounds Necromantic.

I know it seems like a really small and trivial request but one of my favourite things about the Mesmer has always been its very unique and immediately-noticeable aesthetics: the visuals and especially [for me] the audio aspects of the class. I think putting some really cool (and demented!?) clock-chime sounds in there would really add to the overall visual quality of the spell, rather than it just sounding hollow and void-like. It would also help to immediately identify the spell, from an audial perspective, as belonging to the Chronomancer.

tl;dr Put The Clock Chime Sounds Back In Gravity Well Please!!
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Bumping for visibility!

Since we’re on the subject of sound effects of skill mesmer, I would like to also take in order to also change the following sound effect of skill:

Illusionary Counter and Illusionary Riposte while channeling in blocking, a sound effect similar to skill “echo of memory” (sound effect when channeled), is a effect sound very style mesmer and successful.

Phantasmal Duelist and Magic Bullet Change the sound of your shots, in a sound less annoying to the ears, I remember the first beta of the game, not sound very annoying, but then they changed, the truth that the sound effect is by no style of mesmer, sounds like shots electrical engineer, loses all his grace, change it by one sound more ethereal or chaotic.

Then add a sound effect to the following skills, because they have no sound effect when you wear:

Arcane Thievery add sound effects like Mimic

Signet of the Ether add sound effects when you use it

I would also add, in the following phantasmal: Phantasmal Mage Phantasmal Disenchanter and Phantasmal Warlock (in general, the scepter of use and launch a projectile), when they will attack, their sounding a sound effect attack, similar as sound effect attack of phantasmal Déjà Vu, It sounds like a sound a skill “Aneurysm” of Guild Wars 1, but on a more serious version, the truth that is exciting to hear, It makes you feel you’re a mesmer since Guild Wars 1, by those special details and effects missing from Guild Wars 2.

I’m so glad someone else decided to dip into the conversation!! While this thread was primarily supposed to be about Gravity Well in particular, I think a good hearty discussion about some of the more awkward Mesmer spell sounds is definitely in order!

Illusionary Counter+Ripsote: I totally agree with you!! I’ve always felt those sounds were too… I dunno the word… deep? Plain? Awkward? All of the above? Lol However I’m not sure if the Echo of Memory SFX would fit in well with those spells. It sounds too “irony” and “timey[wimey]” for a blade or scepter counter. I would like, for Illusionary Riposte, a magicky-sounding-sword-clang-reflect-type-thing. For Illusionary Counter? Perhaps something more mystical sounding, without the ‘sword-clang’.

Phantasmal Duelist & Magic Bullet: With you there! These should be changed to sound more pleasing to the ear.

Arcane Thievery & Mimic: Not even just SFX!!! I would LOVE to see some actual visual effects put onto these as well!! They may be simple spells with subtle effects, but I don’t think that in any way means they don’t deserve their own visual lightshow!! C’mon, we’re Mesmers!! Even the simplest details are supposed to be beautiful!

Also, I could go on about Signets but I really think THAT one is a discussion for a whole nother thread LOL.

And the whole last part I agree with you as well

Seeing as our class tends to suck from a mechanical standpoint, comparatively to other classes at least, I think we deserve some extra visual love. That’s supposed to be our realm anyway! ?(ˆ?ˆ?)

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