I’ve tried just about every sound option I can find in game and in Windows, turning them off, on, digging in to CVAR’s, and clearing and reinstalling the entire game (and addons) to no avail. Every emote sound is quiet, and pretty much inaudible when made by another character. Others have reported it on this forum, and it’s good to keep raising it to get more attention, so I’m raising it again.
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They seem to be tied to sound effects volume slider now which I don’t remember that being the case before.
Bumping this.
Other players’ voices are quiet for both myself and a friend. I can hear my own emotes just fine, but not other people’s.
Everything is at 100% volume aside from music and ambience.
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I think that’s maybe install specific, it’s at 100% for me and even setting it at 0% makes no difference.
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Can confirm, happening to me too, effects, dialogue, everything at 100. Set it all the way down to 0 and back to 100 just to try, but no difference. It sounds like party member voices are only 10%
I have this too, I can hear myself but it’s quiet, others are nearly inaudible
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I grabbed the Advanced Interface Options addon and reset all CVARs and that seems to have made it better. Somewhere along the way something broke.
This has been happening to me for a LONG time, before Dragonflight. Still ongoing.
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It was for me too. It wasn’t until dragonflight, when I wanted to hear all the dracthyr emotes, that I started to be bothered enough to obsess over finding a fix.
Has anyone found a fix for this yet?
I know it’s an unimportant fix compared to other things, but I really hope they fix it again. I miss hearing emotes, way more than I thought I would lol.
Agree. Emotes and character voices too low. NPC dialogue and drake roars too loud. Can these please just be put on separate sliders while we’re at it.
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Same here.
It’s ALL other players effects.
Voices, jokes, sound effects, etc. It’s inaudible for me.
I have the same problem. Can’t hear other character’s emotes or anything related. None of the volume sliders seems to help. Kind of a big problem for me.
It sounds like one of the non-user exposed CVARs got modified by an addon at some point.
Looking the the CVAR list, my best guess is that the ChatAmbienceVolume seems to be the likely culprit. According to WoWPedia, this CVAR should have a default value of 0.3 and the description is “Ambience Volume (0.0 to 1.0)”
To test this out, log in to the game and run the command:
/console ChatAmbienceVolume 0.3
If that doesn’t work, then maybe you’ll need to do a full UI reset, which involves temporarily removing all addons and the WTF folder, then wiping the stored CVARs with the /console cvar_default command. This will put the client completely back to default, along with all the stored CVARs on the server that your client can pull from.
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“SET ChatAmbienceVolume” used to be one of the settings in Config.wtf, but that no longer seems to be the case. 
Just wanted to report that I tried all this with no positive results. The volume of character emotes is tied to the effects slider, which raises the volume of all combat and other sounds. It needs to be moved back to the dialog slider.
The ChatAmbienceVolume doesn’t have any noticeable effect whatsoever, if it is even doing anything at all now.
You are making sure to test it where someone else makes an emote, right? It doesn’t apply to the emotes you make, which are tied to a different volume slider.
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Yes, but good point. My partner and I are both having this problem (we like to emote and be dorks in general), so we tested it together. I can hear myself a little bit, but they are very hard to hear, and vice versa.
The sound effects slider did make it louder, but it makes everything else much louder, so the emotes are always drowned out.
Yeah that CVAR that I brought up acts like a multiplier, if I’m understanding the sound system correctly. So if the slider is set to say 60% and the CVAR is set to 0.3(the default value), it means the volume for other people’s emotes would be more like 20%. Early morning brain fog, so hopefully it makes sense.
Try setting that CVAR higher then like /console ChatAmbienceVolume 0.8 so that you don’t have to crank the slider up so high to the point it drowns everything out.
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