I may ask Reddit if there is a way to change the sound effects myself. I can scream my head off at my friends, which it was a friend that triggered this latest headache, but at this point I feel like in order to enjoy a game I pay for I need to somehow eliminate the sounds on my end. I have put in requests with Square Enix and made comments, but I feel like even though others have requested this, Square Enix will not actually do this because of people's "but people don't read chat" comments. I understand WHY people use them, but if I could just have the simple check box to eliminate them on my end - without muting the whole client - everyone could still have these to use.

But seriously I cannot handle the sound effects... they're so high pitched and awful, but certain sound effects such as the dungeon commence ones are not irritating, and can be necessary if you're in a long queue and looked away for a while. Macro sound effects needs its own toggle box.