Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Instances, Raiding, Wrath of the Lich King

We’ve talked about listening to music while playing the game before. While the “actual” game music is pretty good (I’ve gone back and forth amidst having it on and off during the duration I’ve played, and at that point I’m in an “on” phase, so I can prepare out all the new Northrend music). But Lazaragh on Jubei’thos wants to know about a specific situation: what do you listen to while raiding?

Personally, while I’ll often have a podcast or a movie on while playing solo or sometimes running five mans (if I’m feeling particularly awake), I tend to have to focus while raiding, so I usually turn the background noise off and listen to Vent or just the audio queues ingame. Any more than that an I get distracted. But there are all kinds of answers in the thread, from trance to pop to metal (Dragonforce FTW!), and pretty much across every genre that you can think of. What might be most interesting about all of that is that the music apparently has no effect on gameplay, though it’d be interesting to see the raiding performance of humans who listen to music while playing against society who don’t.

Maybe an enterprising raiding group can do an experiment and figure that out. I’d guess it’s just personal taste, but it does seem to me that even whether you say your attention isn’t divided, the music has to be a little distraction. possibly it’s just me. What kind of music do you raid with?

Tunes for toons while raiding originally arised on WoW Insider on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Mike Schramm