Why do my abilities sound different?

Did i miss something? Why do my abilities (Jade Serpent Statue, Enveloping Mist, and Vilify) sound different all of a sudden? It reminds me of off-key music, it’s horrible and driving me nuts/distracting. Did blizz change the ability sounds? If so-if it aint broke, why “fix it”? That usually ends up actually “breaking” something.

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It is most likely your audio card or game. Try doing a fix in your game.

The ability sounds have not changed.

My healing spells sound different as well

I know the sfx for FoF got changed a while back. Feels more fluid/flowy now instead of chunky/bricky from MoP.

Honestly, I miss the old chunky fof.

Its not just you fam! I noticed the sounds are different. Kinda like, idk, “tinny”… or something.

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Same here - the pitch or tone on those spells including a few others changes upon every cast. I thought I was losing my mind. Been frantically going through sound settings, troubleshooting my headset, thinking that its on my end!

Its not an audio card or game problem if multiple people have reported this.

Also, All monks thus far posting they have issues.

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Not all monks. All my sounds literally have not changed. I even turned my volumn up so I can hear any change.

Nope. Still the same it has been for years.

All of my other sounds are fine out of game and in others.

All of my monk sounds vary in pitch.

Edited - Now noticing spell pitch changes on my Shaman too

So strange. Why do some of us have this problem but not others?

Any of you upgrade to Windows 11? I noticed on my Work PC with windows 11 I get a more tinny sound

still on windows 10

This used to happen to me as well but not even on a monk. Just when I would fight warlocks etc… could it be tied to the reverb/sound cache size?