Heathens! All of you!

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One thing that’s been highlighted by the discourse surrounding how good 11.1’s music is and how “everyone will have the music on now” is how apparently SO MANY OF YOU NEVER HAVE THE MUSIC ON! WHAT?!

HEATHENS! ALL OF YOU!

You’re telling me you’ve never felt the emotions rise as you return to Argus and hear the mournful hymn that is its background music? Or let grizzly hills welcome you home with fiddles? Or revendreth draw you in with its anthems of intrigue? OR NAZJATAR? The core leitmotif of Nazjatar is just pure awesomeness!

Yes, I do put podcasts on in the background of my most mindless activities and farms, and yes, there is a value to a customized playlist, no one is denying that, but for the love of all that’s decent, you don’t need to be a RPer or a lorehound to get so much value out of the decades of emotional landmarks in the music of WoW!

DO BETTER!

(ok for real it’s your time and I’m being hyperbolic, BUT STILL!)

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The new music is cool, but there’s only so much swing jazz I can take.

I’ll have other stuff ready for when my ears start crying.

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Sorry. Sound off is the only way to play.

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No, no. That’s a perfectly reasonable reaction.

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I have the music on for the entire first part of the expansion, until I’ve completed everything and heard everything. Then I usually listen to other stuff while I’m playing.

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I was told that ‘everyone plays with the music on!’

I don’t play with the music on because Skyrim’s soundtrack is ten times better.

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I play through every xpac with the music on while I read quests and pay attention to the story. I like to try and immerse myself as much as possible. Once I have played though fully and done all quests, I tend to mute the game music and listen to my own when grinding or leveling alts. The only time I have ever fully muted the game is Hallowfall, so I don’t have to hear Faerin speak.

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I’ve had it turned off for so many years I have no idea if wow’s music is any good or not. I just remember it feeling kind of cheap and generic.

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I play with music off 95% of the time with YouTube videos going on my second screen if not my Spotify podcasts or playlists going.

Sometimes though, if I like the zone or haven’t heard it in awhile, I’ll turn on in-game music especially if I play the Lament of the Highborne from the toy. I will never forget the day I heard that the first time in Undercity…

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Uh im a lapdog not a heathen

I have wow music on all the time tho. Some bangers there

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I have the music off, I like to hear the ambience and sounds of the area I am grinding in…

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Yup ive played music at 0 nearly the entire time and listen to my own music.

I dont think wow music is bad but for the amount of time i spend in the game it is ridiculously repetitive.

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Music distracts whats playing on youtube.

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I kind of want to replace the skyriding racing music with either “Time Out Of Mind” by Steely Dan, or “Lido Shuffle” by Boz Scaggs. Other than that I’m pretty happy with WoW’s music.

ETA: I particularly want to use Mark Knopfler’s guitar solo. (Not really a solo, but the bridge is fire.) (Starts at 1:55)

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Sorry. Hard pass from me. Music remains off.

Not a fan of jazz in the first place, and FFXIV has had a jazz track in one of their new cities which is irritating for me.

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:robot::notes:

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I can’t YAWN hear any…YAWN thing over th YAWWN e sound of Dorn YAWNnnnnn agal NPCs YAWN…apparently too YAWN to tired to YAWN assist me.

So I turned it off. How about a no yawn, sigh option Blizz?

:ocean: :crab: :ocean: :crab:

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Guilty as charged, though I have the music on 55% of the time, to match the speed I can’t drive.

This track stopped me dead in my tracks when I heard it for the first time in the Bee Lands:

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I listen for sound cues in M+ and raids.

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