Guild Wars 2

is still happening in gw2.
This has been reported since beta.
At this rate someones hearing may get damaged or their headset, of which btw, I will invoice you if it does.
I barely have in game audio on & this noise is still deafening….

It happens even when Guild Wars is muted entirely. A program muted should not make noises period. On a couple occasions where I -was- playing with sound, this has caused my headphones/speakers to crack, and has been mildly painful.

This has been reported and commented on by devs in the past, but in case they care at all about players’ hearing and hardware:

It ranges from a loud, blunt POP to a metallic-sounding explosion and happens seemingly randomly. For me, it happens in combat, out in the world exploring, standing and running around in populated areas and alone.

I once got an extremely loud bang watching as a snowball thrown by another player landed nearby. Perhaps it happens when certain sound effects go off at the same time.

If you have video with sound of it happening, please post.

I was VOIPing with a friend once and he heard it from the client through my mic, asking “WTF was that?”

It’s really loud.

I have played with audio really low, mainly due to this, but wasn`t aware that it happened even with audio off.
It is ridiculously loud though, having had similar when mate playing DayZ nearly kitten himself when gw2 made that noise & he heard it over my mic, which shows how bad it is as I wear headsets.