I'm at that one level 88 quest in zone one (the one with the crying, you know what I'm talking about) and I have to put a pin in the MSQ until this issue gets resolved. Not only is Soken's music too good to turn off, but I rely a lot on sound queues for fights, which is unfortunately where the stuttering issue is the absolute worst. I can work on crafting and gathering and older content, but I can't do any roulettes that put me in the new content where I'm not familiar enough to manage without the sounds, or risk the glitch deciding to branch out into the voiced cutscenes. Like everyone else here, I didn't have this issue prior to 6.0, and it became impossible to ignore after 6.01 dropped.

You guys know I love and appreciate your hard work, and I've come to the forums to complain maybe twice in the... dear god, 8 years? Jesus. The probably-way-too-long time I've been playing. But this third-party sound software was a frankly iffy idea that maybe should have waited to be implemented sometime not during a huge launch when you would have had more eyes and hands free to catch this before it went FUBAR.