I always laugh when I use the fruit vendor and he sounds like Rory McIlroy. "Can I help yew? I enjoy that line a lot. Stay safe traveller!
I love the sound of physical avalanche spell, but when I convert it to cold, I am not as big a fan of the icier crisp sounds, they lose their nice crushing sound to me. I use it anyway, but the physical variant definitely has nice crunch to it. Now that I have said that, I am starting to wonder if they even have different noises, or if it is just maybe the impact noise on a monster it makes when it hits it or it dies changes. I feel like it does minorly but am unsure if imagining it. Ice stormbolt is actually quite satisfying after I just went and listening to it in detail. I actually like ice stormbolt a lot, but I dislike that, it doesn’t have an actual bolt anymore from above. I just tested physical storm bolt to see what it sounds like, it is quite cool too actually. And even the regular one sounds pretty nice but maybe just isn’t sharp enough, it is quite rumbly but not enough splitting cracks. I don’t really think their sounds themselves are that bad, I think it is how they get mixed in with the sounds of many mobs dying, it might be the equalization of the noises in the mix combined with the death sounds of creatures or excessive noise all at once some aspects get lost in the mix, rather than any of them are bad as such. Maybe I need better headphones, I’ll look into that.
I do like crisp sounds of cold skills, but I feel like they are a little snowy crisp, than cracking/splitting ice wall crisp. Or perhaps if even just the noises of freezing or cold spells against frozen targets maybe had more crack to them. Maybe it is just more reverberation to make things sound bigger or more booming since a lot of them are sort of weather related for Shaman.
I do like the windy noises of maelstrom and tornado, but I feel like Tornado could have more “roar” to it, or even whistly gale. I feel like tornado needs more oomph, or an escalating crescendo or something. Maelstrom is very soothing, but the actual sound it makes when it is cast is sort of odd. Perhaps more like those instruments, or when Crocodile Dundee spins his rope (bullroarer) as a momentary casting sound as honestly, for maelstroms it probably should sound sort of like starting a nature motor as well due to its buffs and stacking potential. Vroom vroom.
I also dual wield swords and they slice and shing nicely, but I had tried using maces to see if they had a different melee sound, but I think it is the same? I didn’t test that very thoroughly, but I had considered buying cosmetics for 1h maces or axes you see as I noticed they can be used on swords still, as if they had changed the sound to more of a thud or dinging noise I think it might have been quite satisfying.
Sometimes I think when you walk over wood it is quite soothing, you could add some sort of novelty clogs cosmetics that make all footsteps wooden. Semi-joking there.
I love “I want to learnnnn” it is definitely one of my favourite lines to hear as it is quite amusing, Nothing really grates me too much for monsters. I enjoy Orobyss voice a lot when he speaks.
More splitting, more thudding, and more ding if I had to summarize. But generally I enjoy most of the sounds. Upheaval sounds really nice too. Entangling Roots is quite a pleasing therapeutic sound.
I always used to hear the wrong words when I fought Lagon that made me laugh but I think it must have changed since I last played as I can’t hear it anymore whatever it was. Though I do hear Barney Gumble reciting poetry everytime Rayleh tells me something like “You are too late, this World is already dead”. I have the voice error lines turned off as my Primalist just tries to tell me everything is impossible all the times and we just get into arguments about it. He always eventually does what I tell him anyway.
I also think one and two handed whips should be a thing, but that is a whole other kettle of fish. But I’d probably buy a whip class, just saying. Even if it is gender locked.
