How to disable an annoying sound?

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I love warlock but the shadowward.ogg sound is making it almost unplayable.

All guides I have found tell me to access the /WorldOfWarcraft/Sound/ folder and delete the file of the sound that I hate, but I cannot find the Sound folder nor the file of the sound that I hate.

What do?

Bonus Question:

The new warlock infernal is an abomination. Is there any way I could have my client display the old model?

EDIT:

I've discovered that if, in the World of Warcraft folder, you create a "Sound" folder, and then create inside of that a "Spells" folder, and then inside of that create an empty .txt file that you rename as the sound that you want to get rid of, you can mute evil sounds. I understand that you can can further have the sound replaced with something else, but I don't know how and for now I'm happy with just muting that nonsense.

I still want to replace the infernal model, if anyone knows how.
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Thank you so much!

A little tweak though that I found:

full path for the folder is C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\Sound\Spells\fizzle

Create the Sound, Spells, and Fizzle folders.

Then create a new text document. open it. click file, save as, then name it the exact sound file you are trying to get rid of, for instance fizzleholya.ogg for holy magic fizzle on a paladin.

My ears are saved!
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How to disable an annoying sound?

Divorce worked for me.

Oh, wait . . . .
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08/19/2018 09:51 PMPosted by Sygvald
Thank you so much!

A little tweak though that I found:

full path for the folder is C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\Sound\Spells\fizzle

Create the Sound, Spells, and Fizzle folders.

Then create a new text document. open it. click file, save as, then name it the exact sound file you are trying to get rid of, for instance fizzleholya.ogg for holy magic fizzle on a paladin.

My ears are saved!


There is no sound folder in the main wow folder anymore is what he means I think or at least there isn't for me. So how exactly does one put files into a nonexistent folder.
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One creates the folder (and sub-folders if required) when one is completely out of the game.
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All my replacement sounds worked fine until today, after 8.1 launch. Do you guys know if Blizzard disabled the option or changed the name of the sounds? Maybe the file extensions to something else?

Update: I found the solution. You have to copy or move your custom sound folder inside the _retail_ folder now present in the World of Warcraft root directory.

Hope that helps someone!

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Thank you - This helped me keep sane today :slight_smile:

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