Like, think along the lines of FFXIV and GW2, yeah? You pull out an instrument, and your hotbar turns into a bunch of notes, you can hold down a hotkey to change the octave, or just make each row of your keyboard a different octave, and you play music in game.
I’d also be okay with something like Mabinogi and Maplestory 2, where you program MIDI basically, and it plays whatever you wrote using the instrument you’re holding.
Could have engineers make the instruments too, give them a little more to do.
… failing all that, Guitar Hero would be cool too, like New World has, and it could give people buffs, so every raid would want a good “bard” around to get high scores and give out a good buff, and you could have people post up outside of M+ dungeons giving people buffs.
To be fair, most if not all of the Bards in FFXIV use an add-on that just converts MIDI files into the notes to play in-game. All it takes is to use something like Online Sequencer to find or make a song, slap it into the program, then let it rip. Oh, and hope that it stays within the octave range that the game allows to not encounter dead notes.
But you can annoy people a lot with it if you’re just making noise. I would prefer something like BG3 or Sea of Thieves. A collection of ready-made pieces to play, and everyone who participates synchronizes with them.
It’s my favorite thing in New World. Just sit there in town playing Guitar Hero – and people gotta give you tips for the buffs, so it’s a fun way to make some pocket change.
The songs are really good too. I spent so long farming for the music sheets to unlock some of the songs.
I’d support this idea. I don’t want a FFXIV guitar, harp, etc. I want whatever WoW’s version of a guitar, harp, etc. would be. I want to be able to both compose and share music in-game.
And the only way Blizzard can announce this feature is recreating the original loading screen music from Vanilla. And then announcing the next login music for an expansion using said feature.
Test it on the Darkmoon Faire. Then release it as a game feature. That’d be pretty sweet.
Lute for humans, flute for BE / void elves, violin (perfect for undead), a pan flute since NE love trees, some sort of drums for orcs and trolls, etc.
And yeah it’d be cool to be able to sell / trade sheet music scrolls. Could have scribes make empty sheet music that you can fill and trade with people.
Yeah, Musician exists pretty much as the same way the Bard addons work for FF14. Except the sounds are based on the add-on rather than in-game instruments being piloted by the addon.
I sometimes have it on but often times have to mute it because I’d just be walking around and then suddenly get blaring racket as someone starts playing their aggressively loud pop song renditions over it which is only made worse that there is no real proximity base to it and it goes from 0 to 100 once you come into their range.
The Musician add-on lets you stop/mute the entire addon or individual performers without having to use the in-game ignore feature (though that could work too), but proximity sound for something that effectively operates on Chat range from players wouldn’t quite function the same way.
The reason why some things end up just being ‘loud’ or ‘soft’ isn’t because of the volume setting specifically since that would effect all of them, but how when it is triggering more sounds at once it creates the effect of being louder even when individually they are the same volume, like hitting ten keys on a piano versus one.
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