Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this is a feature or a bug but during combat my sounds disappear at times and don’t come back for a while. By that I mean the audio of the enemies, the sounds of my own skills, my character’s shout-outs (On my guard!) and the noises gathering tools make. Instead I hear a faint ringing. It’s like my character just went deaf.

Been trying to test this and from what I can see, it seems to happen when an explosion type skill is used near me. So it might be a feature?

Could someone shed some light on this? I tried changing the quality of the audio in my settings but it didn’t help.

At least this isn’t anything very new, since I can remember this happening infrequently, but already many months back. Generally in combat with massive number of players involved. If it’s a feature, it isn’t very nice one. It doesn’t happen often, and I end up just restarting the client after the fight is over, to fix it.

Apologies for the late answer!

I’m not sure how infrequently it’s supposed to happen but I experience it at least once an hour. Usually after an explosion-like skill, which tends to be much louder than the rest, is used near me. Either by a mob or another player.

On the bright side, for me the sounds always return on their own with no client restart needed. The time varies but these ear-ringing episodes are never longer than a minute.