Quote Originally Posted by siverstorm View Post
Not everyone needs to hear them to play properly, thus the whole point of it being optional. Pugging coil and not having access to voice chat would probably be the one case where I'd prefer macros for the important abilities. Literally haven't needed any of them otherwise.
In my experience they mostly exist to draw a player's attention to the chat window to ensure they don't miss an important message. This is particularly useful is someone is alt-tabbed as you can use the sound effects to get them to return to the game screen. I also see the sound effects regularly used in pugs for the extreme primals to good effect as well as any other fight that requires a degree of coordination when voice chat software isn't an option. I don't really care if you personally don't feel you need them. If it were an option to disable them we would start seeing people that DO need them turning them off as well and the entire feature would be rendered useless.

We would be much better served trying to find a way to make them less easily spammable, or having a feature to simply mute the sound effect chat commands from a given over-zealous player.