Quote Originally Posted by UltimateAoe2 View Post
Some of your examples are retarded, sorry. Let's go over them:
You don't have to understand why it bothers me, as long as you understand that it does bother me. My skin is plenty thick, but my concentration isn't the best, so unnecessary sound effects that try to get my attention to pointless stuff tend to distract me from the stuff that actually matters.

Despite the fact that calling my examples "retarded" is hardly nice of you, let me respond to your responses bit by bit.

The Warrior with the Berserk macro: Pacify is so short that in most cases, it isn't worth the healer's attention in the first place. The Warrior missing 2 GCDs there won't make much of a difference. It's certainly not worth spamming the sound effect to everyone every time - much less if your macro entails a sound effect for the start of Berserk, for 5 seconds remaining of Berserk, and for Pacify occuring. Yes, there are WARs out there with excessive macros like that.

Virus and Eye for an Eye. In content where there's only one person who has either of these skills? ABSOLUTELY POINTLESS. If you'd actually read the thread, you'd notice I'm asking for an option to disable them, not for the sound effects to be removed from the game. Trust me, I'm a pretty damn good judge of which content sound effects will help me in and in which content they won't. Neither Virus nor E4E are particularly important in any 4 man dungeons for example, so why do you have a problem with it if I turn sound notifications off there?

The healer who raises. Again. 4 player content, yeah? Just 1 healer, right? No raise macro needed for anyone who has eyes. I have eyes.

And since you're suggesting to vote kick; Vote Kick can only be initiated every couple hours. Too many macro users to kick them all, and honestly, kicking them is so unnecessary when all I want is a way to mute their sound effect spam. Better for everyone if I can just mute it and they can keep on doing what they're doing without getting kicked.


So, you don't really understand why I'm bothered by sound effects, and I don't understand why you're bothered by me asking for an option to turn them off.