Guild Wars 2

Holy kitten, but when I turn on Glint Facets, there is this background music that is triggered. It only cosists of single monotonous tones. And as I play, I find myself getting more and more aggressive because of that. It drives me insane! Please turn that off!

Facets is just an auditory and visual mess.

Intrusive, immersion-breaking graphic, annoying sound effect. No. Sort it out please. These 2 things together are why I refuse to use Glint. I just stay with Shiro and Jalis.

THIS!! YES… PLEASE for the love of god.. make the music stop. IT IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING

Honestly, after a while you get used to it. I don’t even really hear or see it any more when I’m not specifically looking for it.

Chaosbroker.3860:

Honestly, after a while you get used to it. I don’t even really hear or see it any more when I’m not specifically looking for it.

After a while I stop hearing it. But then it gets all the more frightening why I observe myself getting more and more aggressive while I’m playing the game!

• IMPORTANT INFORMATION *

You can turn the Herald “music” off by disabling / turning down “player instruments” in the sound menu.

Tipper.6973:

• IMPORTANT INFORMATION *

You can turn the Herald “music” off by disabling / turning down “player instruments” in the sound menu.

Thank u tho its a shame not being able to hear random instruments again

It seems that nobody prest attention to the music of the game here.

Listen to that and you will love the organ sound of the facets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oFGagjD18o

I don’t normally hear the sounds tbh, but visually the facets are lacking. I’d prefer if facets were represented as crystals that floats around you (It is Glint stance after all)

I’ve actually never heard anything. Maybe I turned off instruments sometime… :o

Yup, turn player instruments down. I never heard them during the first beta because I already had. Now I have it all the way up

Truthfully I find the facet ambient sounds nice and relaxing to listen to.

For those who don’t know, it’s a simplified version of the Crystal Desert theme from GW1 (to which we have heard snippets of in GW2 through the Living World Season 2 (Glint’s Lair, biggest example)).

That being said.

I do agree that the visuals on the facets could be better. It makes it slightly trickier to do platforming when you have a big circle on the ground that makes the terrain have no shading.

Knox.8462:

I don’t normally hear the sounds tbh, but visually the facets are lacking. I’d prefer if facets were represented as crystals that floats around you (It is Glint stance after all)

This person has the right idea about what the stance could have as visuals. After all, back in GW1 each ‘facet’ was in a crystalized domain that had a color to match each facet (for example, orange for Strength (Warrior), or Green for Nature).

Easy to see, thematic with the legend, and reduces ground clutter. Plus any PvPer would know that the important thing about seeing what buffs are on a person isn’t based entirely on visuals, but the actual buffs/condies on their portrait.

EDIT: As an RPer I also want to point out that I’ve noticed myself turning out of Glint or activating all my upkeeps to remove the ground visual. Just looks out of place when RPing with others. So, for an RP standpoint as well it’s a little… intrusive.

Personally I’d vote to remove the visuals, and to reduce the sounds just two quick chimes.

Please give us a option to add our own music to the game file for Glint. I want the beat to drop and blast some dubstep when I swap to this Legend.

Linfang.1087:

Please give us a option to add our own music to the game file for Glint. I want the beat to drop and blast some dubstep when I swap to this Legend.

Nice idea! I want chopin’s nocturne when i use facet!

Uh yeah I actually don’t mind them. Got used to them real fast.

I have a suggestion on how to sort this out. Its a bit of a far-out, trend setting idea, and it might shock some people, or offend those of light heart.

…Why not just put the facets in the boons and conditions section?

Seriously. Why do we need a visual representation? Its immersion breaking, it bugs out unless the ground is PERFECTLY flat and just overall makes me want to avoid the Dragon Stance. Even as a visual indicator, its no good. The icons are so small, you can’t tell what facets are active unless you squint your eyes at it, and when you’re in combat, it just bugs out because you’re blinking and shadowstepping all over the place. and for the love of god, WHY is the disk NEON BLUE? This skill effect is is upstaging my character, who should be the main focus.

Remove it please. Its intrusive and ruins the visual appeal of my character.

Audio settings
/15char

FLiP.7680:

Audio settings
/15char

But then I can’t hear myself harassing PUGs with choir bells.

Tipper.6973:

• IMPORTANT INFORMATION *

You can turn the Herald “music” off by disabling / turning down “player instruments” in the sound menu.

Thank you!…
Thank you, thank you, thank you…. THANK YOOOOUUUUU!!!!

I really question this game’s decision in sound design in general. The default mixing is really off and I don’t know who thought it would be a good idea to make the amateur voice acted NPCs repeat the same mawkish dialogue every two to three minutes.

gannondorf.7628:

It seems that nobody prest attention to the music of the game here.

Listen to that and you will love the organ sound of the facets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oFGagjD18o

In fact, it is exacly this music that is playing in segment. I love it !