Soul Cleave sound effect is gone

With 11.0.5, the Soul Cleave sound effect no longer plays when used.

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I was just about to report this too. This is very frustrating as a VDH. Audio cues are big and having no sound when you Soul Cleave feels really bad. Please fix this.

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This is still happening. Soul Cleave making no sound made me think I was out of Fury or the button broke. Please fix!

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Welcome to the world of Fury Warriors where everything is whoosh whoosh whoosh.

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Still broken. Hoping for a fix soon. Audio cues are important for my gameplay.

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Please fix this! How does it even get broken like this in the first place? We received 0 changes.

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Yes please for the love of everything fix this, I’m literally having to stare at the button to make sure it’s actually getting pressed now it’s driving me insane.

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I also really dislike this new sound on soul cleave. This doesn’t seem like a change anyone asked for. It has lessened the enjoyment I get from playing this spec opposed to other tanks. Having to relearn such an important audio cue for no reason isn’t something we should have to do after a patch.

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I am once again asking Blizzard to fix the Soul Cleave sound effect that has been absent since 11.0.5.

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Please fix the sound. If its supposed to be updated, the volume on the new one is way too low compared to anything else.

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Bumping this for awareness.

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Three weeks after initial post, still a problem.

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I believe they replaced the sound but are unaware that the new sounds volume is too low, or its some other issue but this is still problematic.

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I don’t think this is a bug, I think they intentionally changed the sound to something much worse. If you disable all other audio and listen to the sound very carefully, you can still hear a very quiet and highly distorted version of the original sound, along with a bunch of other “whack” or “bash” type sounds on top. It went from being one of the coolest sounding attacks in the whole game to sounding like you are whacking the enemy with an aluminum baseball bat, and its absolutely awful.

I cannot believe that a single human being asked for this change or is happy about it. Please give us back the old Soul Cleave sound Blizzard, or at the very least explain why you made such an outrageous, stupid, and unwanted change to one of the most iconic sounding DH spells in the game.

As of December 27th its still the same 6 weeks later. People have been complaining about the new sound from the day it came out in the DH Discord server. This change definitely falls in the category of extremely baffling changes that nobody wanted or asked for, so I’ve gotta wonder who it was inside Blizzard that decided that this was worth committing the paid time and manpower of employees to implement, when there are so many other long standing bugs that need fixing.

For example the bug where some people are unable to link mounts from the collections tab into chat, the way mobs sometimes constantly readjust randomly from side to side while you are tanking them despite you not moving at all, or any number of other things that actually would have benefitted from committing some manpower.

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As of January 23, 2025, Soul Cleave’s audio is still so quiet I can barely hear it while in the midst of combat.

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Blizzard just left our dissatisfaction aside? Amazing…