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Why did my Ranger turn into a submarine?


aaron.7850

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-ping-.....-ping-....-ping-

 

Seriously, its a sonar sound, and after hearing real sonar(aka being 5 feet above the source.) that sound is such an irritation to my ears i had to stop using staff on my druid, good thing i play the game muted now, but if i could change that sound on my end i so would.

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I am talking about the baffling sound effect of Staff 1... its so off-putting and immersion breaking its like a dev put it in there as a placeholder and forgot about it. And its very annoying too.

It is LITERALLY a submarine sonar.

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As a general rule it's never a good idea to assume that everyone reading a forum topic (any topic, on any forum) is aware of the problem you're having or considers it a problem. Chances are at least some of them have never noticed, some are indifferent and when it's something like this there's probably even some people who like it. When you make a topic vaugely alluding to the problem in a way that only makes sense if everyone else had the same reaction you did you're going to get a whole load of confused people and very little traction for getting the problem fixed.

 

Imagine your target audience is people who have never equipped a staff on a druid. They would hate the sound if they did but currently they're unaware of it. How would you get them on board with your request to change it? What exactly is the problem? What would you do to change it? (Also be prepared for the fact that some people will, genuinely, like it the way it is and you'll need to either find a reason (other than your own opinion) that your position takes priority - it's enough of a problem that fixing it justifies removing something people like - or you'll need to find a compromise, like adding it to the things changed by the 'unique item sounds' options so you can mute it and they can keep it.

 

You can still use similes and metaphors to emphaise the point, you just can't rely on them to make the entire point for you when the underlying facts aren't apparent to your audience.

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> @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:

> Oh, a sound effect. Never noticed it.

 

Especially when other combat sounds get involved. On the other hand I do have my effects volume set to something not obnoxious so that might be part of it. The default sound settings makes those way too loud.

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> @"aaron.7850" said:

> So I finally unlocked the Druid elite spec and decided to use test my staff, and lo and behold my ranger is now a submarine scanning the depths of the ocean for kaiju activity

 

Staff 1 is the sound used for the Octovine. Listen carefully during the fight.

 

Long ago I suggested a different sound, but... yeah.

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> @"aaron.7850" said:

> I am talking about the baffling sound effect of Staff 1... its so off-putting and immersion breaking its like a dev put it in there as a placeholder and forgot about it. And its very annoying too.

> It is LITERALLY a submarine sonar.

 

I too find that a bizarre sound effect choice...it seems a bit lazy on ANet's part. Also, Celestial Avatar 5 skill sound is like some kind of machine whirring, not a druid-communing-with-nature sound.

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