It comes with the territory.
Just mute your headset when you’re not engaged in battle.
so here is my voice chat problem and why discord is better:
i have 2 ISPs, one is starlink and the other is a ground based point to point wireless. because starlink drops signal regularly with each satellite hand off going over the horizon, you can’t game on it, you DC. so i route the game’s UDP play traffic over the ground based point to point wireless, everything else that doesn’t need a constant connection, such as the client, my web browser, youtube, etc goes over starlink.
so here’s the issue with VC, when that satellite hand off occurs, VC just times out, it doesn’t re-establish or maintain any connection, and the onyl way to fix this is to alt-tab, open task manager, and kill the voice proxy process, then tab back into wow, and rejoin the VC.
discord maintains the session, so my voice cuts out, but when reconnected it just goes back to working like normal.
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I use both but for different reasons. The WoW in-game chat is fine, when it doesn’t crash and just stop working. When it does, you have to log out and log back in to re-establish its connection, which is annoying.
The plus side is that when it works, it works well, is easy to use and you don’t need another program running to do VC.
Discord is more than just voice chat, there’s text chat, video chat and channels. The problem with any forum (which Discord is kinda like one or can be) is that people can abuse things.
It sounds to me that you somehow clicked on a bad link. Some of the more public discords that I’m on (for example, product support for a program) have issues with these. Some jerk joins the discord and posts something with a misleading link that leads to malware. A well moderated forum takes these down asap but it’s a challenge.
I would strongly suggest you have good anti-virus installed on your computer. These kinds of links are not only on any place you’d read, but could also be embedded in ads (and are). Wowhead is notorious for having that sort of thing, for example, but almost any site can be victim to such things.
What you experienced I suspect, is not unique to Discord. Also a trick that’s useful to learn is hover (don’t click) on any link first and see if what you see matches what the hover shows (sometimes with the mouse, more often in the lower lefthand corner of your screen). If the two don’t match, likely you’ve got a case of something very suspicious.
Just a bit of FYI, I am not trying to sell or not sell discord.
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Nah, that 15k is from 2018 onwards.
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I was in a guild that would get mad if you talked in guild chat. They wanted people to use the discord.
It’s like what’s the point of having a guild at this point
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That’s pretty silly
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Okay good for you, why do we need to know that?
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OP the in game vc is fine if all you do is play WoW.
Discord how ever gives players a way to communicate if they play more then just WoW together. There are communities set up that focus on classes . There are communities set up that focus on specific communities of players in the game .
Discord gives players options that the in game vc doesn’t like being able to link video guides for raid boss fights that help guild raid teams prepare for fights.
As for it or any program giving a virus , any good anti virus program will give you a warning when you click a link and even so if it doesn’t after you download any program you should always run a virus scan just to be sure .
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So this thread is still going eh?
As a side-note, skimming thru the comments it warms my heart to see the OP thoroughly roasted/destroyed by pretty much everyone 
OP’s thread backfired pretty hard on him, you love to see it
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Well each to their own but Discord is a great platform for all activities that call for communication on line be that video games, study groups (yes I’m in one so they do exist) , role playting games (like playing D&D over a VTT, my primary reason for having discord btw)…So don’t crap on the platform because YOU don’t like it.
Also I have to add if your standard for inconvenience is a ONE TIME download of the application then wow you are one lazy person.
Once its installed and of course you have an account signed in – its technically just as easy as the built in voice for WoW…you click the icon to launch (you have to launch wow to play it don’t you?) and then you just select what channel you want to talk in. WOW THAT IS INCREDIBLY HARD!
Reminds me of “old man yelling at clouds” meme
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Are you still using an IBM 30GB HDD or something? Who cares about having to download an app?
What? lmao
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Discord is used for so many things and not just about WoW. I don’t even Raid, and I use Discord. It’s such a great tool, and I can watch my online friends play games I’m not interested in playing, but they can still show me it.
I’m even a part of fandom Discords that aren’t about video games, at all. Like Disc Servers for TV Shows and/or Movies. It’s just much better to use when not everybody is playing WoW.
It’s how my guild in perma Vanilla Classic is surviving, and if I need help with elite quests, I can converse with those that aren’t online, in the game but check Disc on their phone, and we coordinate/make a plan, that way.
He’s basically missing out on an entire community, and/or various communities by neglecting Discord and thinking it’s the anti-Christ.
These days I’m not sure what’s bait, and what isn’t bait anymore, because as of recent these folks are dead serious lol
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If Discord is giving you viruses you are doing something wrong lol
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Seems to me you need to learn what bullying means.
What was misunderstood that you claim poor reading comprehension?
Gonna go with this. I recognize the “Thanks for playing!” line they keep using from another person who used to post around here.
You came across confrontational and unfriendly right from your OP. Pot meet kettle.
And the hilarious part of all this? You don’t even need to download Discord. Click the link and you can use it from your web browser.
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/906234294333218826/943732268940288050/IMG_7139.jpg
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I’m guessing the OP is either:
- just a troll feigning ignorance of basic gamer/voice comms tech, probably made this thread for giggles or to “get a rise” out of us
- a genuine old-timer/old person/retiree that is lacking the “internet street smarts” that comes built-in to most of us younger folks that grew up with tech and don’t “fall” for the malware links, suspicious downloads, etc
Based on the tone and content of the OP’s post, I’m guessing he falls under #1.
It’s basic common sense, basic “internet street smarts” to NOT click on or open suspicious/scammy-looking links or download anything from said suspicious/scammy-looking links. It’s unlikely the average person in the year 2022 is going to fall for such obvious hacker traps/malware, assuming they’ve spent enough time on the internet to acquire some basic, entry-level “internet street smarts”
It’s none of those lol
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Must be a sad convo u have with urself
While everyone else is in discord
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Big oooooof 
Thanks for the laugh 
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