ive been on ptr and live tried multiple iterations of levels of druids, druids with and without mage tower, both factions multiple races all have the same meh sounds. as someone who usually plays with sounds these sounds bother me to the point where i will just be playing sound off unless this is a bug/something they want to revert. why wouldnt they put this on ptr actively and put in in patch notes if not a bug?
Please, please revert these if theyâre intended changes. We got no warning to these, they sound awful, and I sure hope itâs a bug. My potato-walrus sounds like I have glyph of dolphin, which Iâve never used, so I hope they just mucked up some sfx files somehow.
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Iâve been playing boomkin this week after noticing how bad the feral sounds were. Iâm hoping this is a bug or wip because it sounds awful. The lack of mention in the patch notes has me hoping just a bug.
Donât worry guys, Blizzard is a small Indie company; They are trying their best. The developers always work on and change pressing issues while leaving alone things that are perfect the way they were before! We can trust them on this change for sure since we all were complaining about druid sounds before! What a great company that listens to their community!!!
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at least the druid form/ mog bug got fixed in a day. Which if attack sounds are a bug the mog bug was a higher priority.
if it was not a bug, why waste resources âfixingâ something that isnât broke?
by that, i mean, why change it when it was working just fine before.
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They have to pretend to be busy for the stockholders.
So they hired more no pay interns.
These new sounds are absolutely awful. Especially the Aquatic Form. What is that even supposed to be? Please fix Blizz.
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Hate to say this but its not just feral ⌠travelform from legion sounds like i am turning into a crow instead of giant owl and on my warrior when i mount Hogrus store mount it now sounds like a effing chicken instead of a hog like it did before 8.2.5
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I have to agree with all of you that the ânewâ sounds for most of the feral abilites are terrible and hopefully a bug. Both Rip and Ferocious Bite sound like Iâm dropping a loaded oil barrel on the ground or a muffled shotgun blast, either way there was absolutely no reason for the change if, once again, itâs intentional.
And I am also using Glyph of the Orca on my aquatic form and it sounds like Glyph of the Tideskipper when going into that form.
Iâll keep my fingers crossed that someone at Blizzard that can repair these sounds is able to do so asap
Oh wow, I actually liked the new sound, because I have glyphed my aquatic form into a Dolphin.
I was like âOh yay, they added a sound for my Dolphin!â
But apparently its for all aquatic forms⌠Well done Blizzard⌠(Sarcasm)
But that at least really does look like a bug.
Iâve been out of town for a few days, so last night was my first chance to experience the updated sounds.
My god, itâs horrible. Itâs like Iâm playing the game through 1970s car speakers. Stock model.
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If itâs not a bug they should probably still say it is.
The idea that of all the things feral needs they decided it was these sounds wouldnât be a good thing to admit.
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We seem to all agree, as i am re-expressing the sentiment here again with another vote for fixing it or changing it back:
The changes to druid sounds are completely jarring to the entire druid experience. They are so underwhelming and unsatisfying, while also managing to throw off my rotation rhythm, that they now produce mild anxiety. DRAMATIC i know, but they have replaced distinct beast-like audio ques, with a very light weight camping cutlery set, that has been packaged in a muffled padded cardboard box, and recorded being kicked around in the next room randomly, by a very small but persistent child.
Not only are the new sounds effects poor quality, but they all sound the same, and sound nothing like a magical ferocious jungle cat alpha. Why? I want to know what has justified my loss of jungle cat fantasy?? And also, WHO?? Who thought this was acceptable? Because that person is tragically disconnected from what and why gaming is, on a number of fronts, from an array of perspectives. They should not be in charge of anything game experience related ever again.
Its something so simple, yet so important to the experience, that it should be so obvious these new changes are completely unacceptable.
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I donât play feral but I often spec feral affinity on my resto druid and, while itâs probably not as annoying to me as a feral main, the new sounds are really bad. I donât remember if Iâve ever posted on the forums before but I really had to for this, itâs just that weird and wrong. Both rake and shred sounds like youâre tearing a piece of thin fabric with dull scissors and rip is just a thud. Swipe might be the worst and I donât even know how to describe it, like a kinda wooshy reverberating sound and itâs the same for swipe in bear form. Thrash is just a mix of the dull scissors with the bad swipe sound. Maybe the devs thought feral needed a nerf and decided the best way to do it was to just make everyone not want to play it anymore.
Edit: This just in, thrashâs sound for guardian druids remains unchanged; only the feral version of thrash was subject to the worst audio change in the expansion since flash of light.
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I thought my game was broken. I seems that theyâre going for more bloody sounds but Rake, Rip and Shred all sound the same, like youâre tearing wet paper.
Swipe sounds like one of those sonic attacks from the mobs on Mechagon. I hope they change that one.
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What is Blizzard sound deigners taking lol. Paper tearing sound, potato squishing sound, nose blowing sound for the feral and guardian druids. Do you guys even have sound designer or just dowload sfx from free websites?
The new sounds are absolutely horrible. The experience was very jarring the first time I heard them, and then afterwards very unsatisfying. I sincerely hope it is a bug.
For the past few days, Iâve been trying to get used to the new sounds. When I first heard them, it was extremely jarring and I hated the way they sounded, but I figured that it was just because I wasnât used to them. Nope. They are actually awful. Now I just try to ignore them, but they donât have the same satisfying âoomphâ to them that the old sounds did and itâs really disappointing. Iâm glad to see Iâm not the only one who hates the new sounds, really hope they change them back.
Also, I have Glyph of the Orca and was sad when it sounded like the dolphins, but since apparently the basic sea lion also sounds like a dolphin that one at least DOES seem to be a bug (hopefully). I miss my whale sounds.
Oh, and has anyone else noticed how the cat form yawning roar (the one that happens when youâre idle) sounds extremely quiet? I can barely hear it over ambient noises, itâs weird.
Blizzard needs to change our sounds back to what they were before the patch, kitty sounds like they are playing in a mud puddle and bear sounds like they are constantly using the fan of knives from a rogue. PUT THEM BACK!!!
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I still canât believe they did this. I hate the sounds and WHY?
Why not fix something like how guardian artifact claws still donât sheath instead?
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