While I do appreciate innovation, this is far from what I call innovating. I think from a developer like Blizzard, they would have put in an option to opt out of or disable the annoying notifications for Rare Spawns. It pulls me out of emersion and the noise does something to me that sets my anger level up and startles me, which in turn gives me heart palpitations. I don’t want to get an addon, and Blizzard should have incorporated a disabling feature themselves.
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I have no idea what you’re talking about, so maybe I can make a list of what my settings are, and then you can do that and you won’t know about them either.
What notification? I don’t get any when a rare spawns. You must be using an addon.
SilverDragon addon is known to do this - loud noise and auto targeting when a rare is nearby or up.
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No… I’m not… I only use TRP for roleplaying… Unless Blizzard forced an addon in my addons list. Also, it’s disabled.
No idea then, they do not force a sound for rare spawns, I rarely ever know if a rare is actually up even if its near.
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I tried to screencap my addons, but I can’t post images nor links for some reason… All I know is that when I’m in an area with rare spawns, there is a highlight on my mini-map and a twinkling noise. It happens in Shadowlands… I have not been near other rare spawns to see if it happens there.
ALL areas? Because I have seen this in like the Old Dala sewers, but I camp a lot of mount dropping rares, including ones in SL zones, and have never had this happen out and about.
Since Shadowlands is the new EXP, it is happening there, but I have approached a rare spawn and nothing happened, so I think it is triggered by other players clicking on their mini maps to point out that there is a rare spawn… I just want it to go away…
Usually a star shows up on minimap, but a noise? I haven’t heard anything. Also, the star on your minimap does twinkle, but only once. I’m not sure how that’s annoying to you?
Other players can put a ping on the map and then share it but that’s it. You might want to try and reinstall WoW fresh with no addons or anything at all.
I noticed this happening the worst in Bastion… Not only a star, but the noise you get when you click on your mini-map and the circle that appears.
iirc if you follow the arrow and get close enough the mini map makes the ping sound. but it’s a single ping, hardly distracting.
I have no addons that would cause this.
I suppose you can try mute all sounds? You would do that if it’s extremely annoying to you.
Disable the addon.
You kill animals and people by the hundreds, but the sound that “sets my anger level up and startles me, which in turn gives me heart palpitations.” is that of a tiny bell?
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its your addon and its in the addon settings for that addon.
I know what you mean. The rares that are always available. Like the 4 mini’s in the Bastion questing hub. The turtle, the horse and whatever the other 2 are. IT rings at you to make sure you know youre aware. ITs annoying
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Never had those give me a ring sound.
Okay… I should get this out of the way… The noise that is caused by the mini map is very high pitched. I have autism, so I tend to get sensory overload due to that noise. Not to mention how it startles me and causes me heart palpitations. The fact that this happens out of the blue also does not help.