When using Essence of Squalor in the purified slot of devine gifts - it plays a sound in the ambient channel every 20 seconds, and its doing my head in.. either i have to play in silence, or listen to that annoying sound.. Come on blizz, just remove it - i spend all last season listening to barbs auto shout every 5 seconds aswell.. QOL please
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Indeed.
Drives me nuts too, quite annoying.
I’m not sure the people who make these sounds listen to their own creations, or play the game. They just plan it, they’re the sound guys.
In Diablo 3 I turned off the sound of combat very quickly, because it’s this “shish-ching” sharp sound that is constant as you attack, unbearable. A novice’s mistake, I’d say, and yet it is a multi-billion dollar project. Exactly the same mistake in this game, which is quite unbelievable. I suppose the kids want to get their hearing impeded as quickly as possible or something. Or maybe it’s just me? Oversensitive. And like with this splashing sound, that it’s not quite annoying enough and who plays with sound on anyway? Aren’t you listening to music? All kids do that, so why aren’t you? How is it that you expect a full experience with a game?
It’s unbelievable that this sound plays every 20 seconds. Why not play a sound when the potion refills normally also then? Takes about 20 seconds.
I also have to mute the game completely then. Amateurs. Multi-billion dollar amateurs.
It’s just not believable, and yet it literally is happening.
Have to totally agree driving me nuts, as are the dumb arse pet sounds.
TY!!!
Ty so much mate. I’ve been hearing this sound non-stop from league start and it’s been driving me nuts!!! It’s driving my OCD crazy, to the point I took a break at some point to stop listening to it.
And turning off sound (to whoever suggests it), is a poor solution cause I like the game sounds.
They should fix it ASAP, I’m almost certain that, whoever thought about this SFX, didn’t play for more than 30-45 min.
Ty again for at least putting my mind at ease, at least to as to what causes it!!
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Yeah it is one of the stupidest ideas they ever implemented, being in town around other players is pure headache. The only way to get rid of it atm is to turn down ambient audio to zero 
Something I usually have set to 100% but not this season.
It is a rather baffling decision by a multi-billion dollar company, to cycle a loud disruptive sound every 20 seconds.
How does the quality control actually work? Aren’t anyone playing this? It’s something you notice, a sound like that. If you don’t notice that, I don’t think you should develop games. At least not work in playtesting or sound design.
I don’t want to come off as judgmental but it is difficult for me to understand how it is even possible to make a mistake like this. That makes me consider if it is intentional, that it is made like that to measure tolerance? I don’t believe that but I just can’t find any reason for this.