Let me explain; I think many classes got an upgrade during the visial and audio update back in legion. Fire mage, Destruction Warlock, Demonlogy Warlock, Elemental Shaman, and Balance Druid esspecialy, no complaints there.
But in my opinion, for example warrior, rogue and hunter really got the short end of the stick. I really would like the play warrior or rogue in DF, but the sound effects are not impactful at all to me. It needs to be more meaty or slicy sometimes while now it has too much “swoosh” and not enough “splurt” if you catch my drift.
I would suggest an audio option for each class that ideally lets you decide which of the two (pre legion, or classic for that matter, and post legion) sound effects for each skill you would like (since I personally would like to make a combination between retail and classic skill sounds). And if maybe thats too much, then just a checkbox you can turn off/on saying “check for switching to retail skill sounds”, without indivial skill sound adjustment and the option to combine. That would definately do aswel.
I really do think that skill sound effects add a whole lot to the general feel of a class and in my mind, with minimal dev time (since for instance the sound files are already there), this could be a major win for blizz. Retail wow with a classic feel.
I would really like this option to be added. Even though I like the current Skill Sounds, option for Classic Skill Sounds would be even better. Mainly the Rogue abilities: the old Mutilate and Rupture sound effect, and of course the old gun sounds were so amazing that it’s one of the reasons why Classic is so iconic. This is like one of the few reasons that I still log in to Classic sometimes, even though I don’t actively play it as it’s too time consuming to play together with Retail.
I mean when WoW Classic and it’s expansions was “re-released”, these old Skill Sounds were added in that Classic and for its expansions respectively. I think it shouldn’t be too hard to add Classic Skill sounds to Retail as an User Inferface option, the sound option could be made audible for other players or not. However, it would be better to make the option audible for “self only”. So that it wouldn’t effect the game in general, and those who like it the way it is.
Also for Retail, it would be nice to add Alternate Voice Options for Player Characters, like 1-2 additional option for each race/gender. I know it could be too much work and costly to do voice-overs of every voice emote for every race/gender, Still I would like to see this, in addition to Classic Skill Sounds Option.
And while at it, I would say that revert visual effects for Destruction Warlocks. I mean no offense, but visual effects for Destruction Warlocks look like these visual effects were made in Paint. Where as some visual effects were better after the update, especially for Fire Mages.
Couldnt agree more with everything you said. Also, old kidney sound effect for rogues has a special place in my heart
Anyway, seems like most people dont really care for the sound effects since not much can be found online about it which is strange to me cause skill sound has so much impact on how pressing the button feels.
I searched a bit and found this btw on curseforge; /wow/addons/oldgunsounds
Should still work so atleast you got some old rogue and hunter sounds back that way.
its aoe in Wrath made me love the spec.