The War Within: A Request

Alright look, Dragonflight did a lot of things wrong. It did some things right too, but it did a lot of things wrong.

But by far the most egregious error of Dragonflight (and I’m half-meme’ing) is the loss of Call to Arms on the login screen. It’s there for like, 5 seconds, and then gone. War Within must correct this grievous error. We need a remix of Call to Arms. Done correctly. With the drop and everything. Not some 5 second homage. It’s still Warcraft, dang it.

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There are people with their music turned on?

:flushed:

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I admit. When a new login screen comes, I stare at it for a couple minutes just to see the loop, and I soak it all in. Like the delicious pasta I just had.

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Can’t imagine playing games with parts of the sound muted. Such weird behavior IMO.

Like, yeah, turn it way down so I can hear my voice chat and such, but it’s still on.

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Was gonna say, y’all don’t listen to FFXIV music or something while raiding/M+'ing?

I mean, I’ve played with WoW muted since… probably Legion?

I’d rather just bop to some beats while doing my stuff.

For me, while healing, I cant have anything else going.

I will get distracted, mistime something, not have an ability ready, etc.

WoW’s sounds keep me in the moment and focused. But hey, everyone is different.

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Hehe… when I’m healing is when I have my loudest and fastest music going. When I was actually trying to heal keys, something like one of the few actual 210-bpm songs I listen to was going constantly.

WoW’s sounds are honestly… I can play with them on? They just don’t do much for me, I guess. Must be from being unable to play with sound on for a couple of years when I was a kid due to parents on grave shifts and all that fun stuff during my summers, lol.

I’ve played this game for many, many years. A couple years back I decided, you know, I’ve heard pretty much enough of it, I can fill it in for myself. So I muted it.

I still turn sound back on for new content sometimes, or when I make a new character and I want to immerse in the world for a bit.

At most I can listen to something instrumental. Classical, etc. Nothing with words.

Because if its a song I like, I will start singing it. if I start singing it I will start reminiscing about it.

Then suddenly I havent prepped cloudburst totem for a large AE coming up.

The ambient WoW music doesnt do anything for me, but the combat sound effects do. Especially this week with afflicted.

I am one of the people who has appreciated the log in music and its variations with expansions for many years now and will second the OP’s request.

I don’t know what this thread is about. :eyes:

So ever since the original Warcraft login screens, there was a theme that was present. It’s called Call to Arms.

It’s most present in login screens which had the Dark Portal present. Cataclysm was a notable step away from it. Mists had more of it. Warlords had a lot of it. BFA had a lot of it. Etc.

Dragonflight borderline eliminates all of that main Warcrafty theme though, and it made me sad. So I’m hoping War Within will bring it back with a remixed version like other expansions did.

Edit: it jumps to MoP right away for some reason. Might wanna scroll through from the beginning.

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Oh… I get ya now. Thanks!

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Pretty sure it just remembers your watched progress. It started at 0 for me.

Oh word. I thought it was because of the link. Neat!

i have literally no idea what you are even talking about here…completely serious.

“A Call to Arms” is a song that Blizzard has used for years across multiple Warcraft games (including the RTS and Hearthstone). I assume a part of it typically makes it into the main menu music but I don’t pay attention that much. They linked a video of them a few posts up if you wanna check.

i never play with sound on, so never even heard it. been playing since tbc

I could never do that. The sounds of the world give so many visual cues of what’s going on around you. Before add-ons it was sometimes very helpful to know what raid bosses where about to do. In the current game if it wasn’t for the warning of when my health hits a certain point I would splat if it wasn’t for some self-heals. Sorry just don’t always trust healers who get tunnel focused.

I always turn the music off , it adds nothing to the game and distracts from teh important things like sound queues and voice dialogue. Most of teh time I dont even have my headset on so I play with no sound . Its only during raids and new main story quests that I have them on