Guild Wars 2

I’ve heard my male human guardian actually shout the phrase “Hold the line!” (upon using the skill by the same name) exactly ONCE in my entire time playing GW2 since launch, and I use this skill pretty frequently.

Hearing it once is enough to know the voice-over is actually there, and the first time I heard him shout the statement was roughly a month ago. But, for whatever reason, 99.9% of the time I use this skill my Guardian either says nothing, or says “refreshing” or “armored up” (I believe as a result of the accompanying regeneration and protection buff triggered by the “Hold the Line!” skill). Most of the time he says absolutely nothing, though.

Meanwhile, everyone in my group is a chatterbox. It may not seem like a big deal but I feel like the voice over helps players to be aware that I’m actually doing something to help the group beyond just swinging my weapon.

It’s been broken like this since launch. Can you please take a few minutes to check the triggers and maybe fix whatever is causing the voice-over (which I know exists because I heard it!) to fail to play?

/beg

I totally disagree with you. Are you running highest sound quality? I’ve heard the char say maybe 3 different things when activating that skill, apart from refreshing and armored up. Very cool imo, more variation FTW. “Hold the Line!” come up a fair amount of times for me. I prefer it like it is over one line spammed over and over each CD, like other shouts. Same with Warriors, 3 in a group shouting FGJ every 20 sec, kitten that’s annoying.

Gambit.8425:

I totally disagree with you. Are you running highest sound quality? I’ve heard the char say maybe 3 different things when activating that skill, apart from refreshing and armored up. Very cool imo, more variation FTW. “Hold the Line!” come up a fair amount of times for me. I prefer it like it is over one line spammed over and over each CD, like other shouts. Same with Warriors, 3 in a group shouting FGJ every 20 sec, kitten that’s annoying.

Yes (sound quality). Which race/gender is your guardian?

I’m not kidding when I say I have only heard either absolute silence, “refreshing!” or “armored up!” while using this skill. I have only heard my character say “Hold the line!” once and once only.

I have the same issue. I’ve only heard my guardian say “Hold the Line!” once or twice out of the entire time playing this character (231 hours). I am a fem charr and I would love to see this problem fixed considering the ability IS a shout.

Edge.4180:

Yes (sound quality). Which race/gender is your guardian?

I’m not kidding when I say I have only heard either absolute silence, “refreshing!” or “armored up!” while using this skill. I have only heard my character say “Hold the line!” once and once only.

Male Human. He say it maybe every 5th time. Btw, I used my Norn Warrior for the first time today since patch for an instance and heard some new lines from his shouts. Either are Anet trying to fix their sound engine, that is/was kinda buggy where sounds can get cut off, not play at all etc in combat, or the bug’s spreading.