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.
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.
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.
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.
“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 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