Guild Wars 2

Ok this is not a gamebreaking bug by any means, but I have noticed on several occasions that my ranger pet’s footsteps will suddenly become bizarrely loud and ‘thumpy’ to the point of being disruptive. I had thought it was only my ranger pet, and only to myself, but it has also happened in Fractals where guildmates will also hear my pet thundering along all of a sudden. It doesn’t happen to all of us at the same time (so for example last night a guildie had the bug whereas everything sounded normal to me), and it seems to happen mainly during combat. It also seems to happen mainly with the brown bear, and the brown bear mini; I don’t know if it is specific to them as I use the bear as my primary pet pretty much all the time and swap in others (eg moa, raven) less often.

I don’t know if I am inadvertently hitting some combination of keys that would trigger it but I can’t see how that would affect other people’s sound settings in any event.

Has anyone else experienced this, or know how to fix it?

A work around that works when you get that is to switch pets. At least it works for me.