Most of the voice actors are terrible and make the game even more childish and cringe than its already written.
I propose Blizzard should implement a tool to mute and skip voice acted quest content. They might finally get some statistics and maybe think about how much money and time they could save with not doing this ever again.
A big shoutout to Toddy Whiskers for the inspiration to make this thread.
Just let Metzen voice half the NPCs again.
I don’t see why not.
But the problem is not that “the voice actors are terrible”. I’ll leave an appraisal of Toddy’s accent to some actual Scots, but whether it’s good or bad, it’s what someone else wanted.
I could do without Toddy’s Blue … what is it? hairstyle. The devs seem to want to make medieval Azeroth into 2022 L.A. 
Actors, Voice Actors, programmers, graphic artists all do what someone behind them asked for, and that someone behind the curtain signed off on it. Certainly the person doing the actual doing will affect the final product, but if the boss behind the scenes doesn’t like it, the VA can be dropped and substituted.
I do get the sense that some things were on a quota in Dragonflight: “Oh, we have to increase our voice lines by 30%, and we’re only at 24. What about voicing this bit?”
Personally, I’d turn off the voice lines if that was an option. I can’t recall any I want to keep. I wouldn’t be bothered by fewer cutscenes and cinematics, either.
Voice acting seems to be a real hit or miss when it comes to MMO’s. GW2 had equally bad voice acting. Worse, actually.
Then we have SWTOR and FFXIV which has really good voice acting, and the Secret World which has SUPERB voice acting.
These are all MMO’s. I don’t really know what makes some voice actors great and others awful.
Oh, the irony!
I’d rather keep the voice acting and have the mute option for those that don’t like them.
I really enjoy most WoW cutscenes. They are much better than the ones I saw levelling in FF but granted I never made it to end game. It just wasn’t the game for me. Those I did find cringey so I guess it’s all down to individual tastes.
Press ctrl s
Imagine complaining that this game is childish. It has been like this since day one. The art style is one of the reasons it has been so succesful.
Just lap it up and enjoy it for the carefree nonsense it is! Gnomes with big bushy pink beards.
I think the actors are fine. I don’t think any of them are gonna win an oscar anytime soon but I could see them in a daytime soap opera.
I am half Scottish and Toddy sounds fine IMO, like what she is supposed to be, an OTT caricature.
There is an option. It’s called “Dialog slider” in the audio settings of the game.
No, it hasn’t and all it takes is for someone to go back and do old content to see that you are lying, even MoP wasn’t anywhere near these DF Disney levels.
@OP I actually did mute the sound sometimes when it got too cringey, ctrl+S takes care of it, mutes all sound effects but whatever, easy to toggle until the cringe goes away.
I thought the voice acting was great. I’m not against having an option to skip or mute, though. It should be up to player if they wish to endure it or not.
They’ve come a long way… who remembers the female tauren in Mulgore who lost her dog. It sounded like she was given a $2 microphone held together with tape.
Correct. WoW used to be dark. I mean really dark. I mean Game of Throneslevels of dark. There where times where I legitimately thought “Oh dear, they have to take that out if they really want to keep their PG14rating”.
Dragonflight now really is PG14, just as advertised on the Box.
Pretty sure that voice actor of tauren with no dog was like some 8 year old kid who won a competition and the prize was to voice a WoW character! Remember reading it somewhere
Ohhh that makes more sense then, because it sounded way different from everything else. Thanks for the info!
Update: It’s actually a really sad story: https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/d689yt/have_you_seen_my_dog/
Pretty sure it was a male tauren.
And iirc it was voiced by a kid who had cancer and it was some sort of make a wish thing i believe.
On topic:
I think some voice acting in dragonflight is really great, others are very terrible.
Like the voice acting before Overgrown Ancient in Algeth’ar academy.
The male voice sound fine, great actually.
The female voice is a different story though, I cannot stand it.
Just listen to it here at 3:39.
Yes to both accounts (posted a reddit post above)
Bless you for saying it first. I’m so damned tired of hearing these people say the same nonsense in every thread.
Any time you call out anything bad in modern WoW, you get these lemmings coming in with the same tired:
Probably missing a few. It’s like a gotta-catch-em-all trope hunt.
It’s gross, it’s why I now only reply to people like you, who have actual brains. I don’t know if that Einstein quote about daily interactions with idiots did come from him but I felt it was true after spending too many hours trying to have a discussion with people here.
/rant
The amount of revisionism in these forums are insane. Don’t forget the classic “well, it’s their game so they make it how they want”.
It’s Chris Meteen’s, Samwise Didier’s game and anyone else that helped attribute to the franchise from the start.
As long as Majordomo gets deleted, I am happy.
That is NOT the voice NOR the character too play such an important role in the Red dragonflight.
Majordomo Executus, THAT was a majordomo!
This cheap furry excuse is completely lackluster and lame…
His voiceline before lastboss off RLP is super cringe 
Blizzard have access to high quality voice actors.
It’s just the writing or voice directing that is terrible.
Please by all means look down onto the road leading into Hellfire Peninsula and ask yourself why its made out of skulls and bones.
Or perhaps visit Bastion of Twilight and ask yourself why Sinestra, Deathwing’s mate has scars that resemble molten dragon claws.
Or perhaps learn how Gorona Halforgen was born, or why there are half Draenei/half Orcs running around.
We don’t need these lies and revisionism.
The first cinematic after the intro is Arthas returning to his kingdom to stab his father in the heart and to raise his kingdom to the ground.
Yeah, “Disney”.