Breakfast Topic: Listening to music while playing WoW
by Darlene Antonelli 
Aug 29th 2011 at 8:00AM
Here are four ways that I incorporate music to my play:
Leveling Undead I found that listening to The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack was a hilarious addition to leveling an Undead character. The lyrics, "This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween!" added magic to spotting skeletal fish in a lake.
Leveling Draenei/Night Elf The Lord of the Rings soundtrack or Pirates of the Caribbean or Beats Antique are epic songs for these races, no matter where you are in Azeroth. Epic!
Dungeon DPS/warrior Black Sabbath or any heavy metal! Keeps me awake between pulls. Also, techno music works.
Dungeon healing Pink Floyd keeps me calm, cool, and relaxed. Plus, I don't feel the irresistible urge to jump around as I do when listening to heavy metal.
There you have it! What I like to listen to when I play. What do you like to listen to?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
mazca13 Aug 29th 2011 8:07AM
I don't get along with music and WoW very well. If I'm doing something really mindless, like fishing or archaeology, then I do sometimes listen to it - but for anything else it just seems to distract me. I think I have a very one-track mind, if it's trying to enjoy music it also can't enjoy WoW.
ravyncat Aug 29th 2011 10:01AM
I am like this too.
I can't listen to other music or I get very distracted. The ingame music is ok because I have it turned up enough to hear but quiet enough that it is in the background.
I can't listen to music when I work either. My poor brain needs quiet and no distractions or I can't concentrate on anything. ^^;;
loop_not_defined Aug 29th 2011 10:25AM
Same here. I used to listen to a lot of stuff during raids and whatnot back in Vanilla, but these days I find it too distracting. I'll listen to Pandora during mining and other menial tasks, and even then it's mostly mellow stuff (the primary station being labeled "The Shins").
Thomas Higgins Aug 29th 2011 1:05PM
Queen or Big Country would also rock. For an example of each groups best, "Princes of the Universe" - from the soundtrack to "Highlander" or "Restless Natives" from, well, "Restless Natives".
Both those songs kick ass and take names, and no fricking prisoners either.
Such a shame that both groups lead singers are dead while a-holes like Simon Cowell get to infest the airwaves with non-entities deluded into thinking that they are pop stars.
Flolyn Aug 29th 2011 8:09AM
Power metal such as Dragonforce, Hammerfall, Rhapsody of Fire, etc. No matter what I'm doing in game it makes it feel more epic.
xxxwrathxxx Aug 29th 2011 8:23AM
When i played my Undead Death Knight to 85(that a pun?) I listened to Dimmu Borgir pretty much straight through. The music seemed to fit the feel of the character very well.
Warrior/Paladin- As much Amon Amarth that i can take.
I do agree with Flolyn though...sometimes I think Blizzard should have hired Dragonforce for some of the zones.
Gendou Aug 29th 2011 8:33AM
Dragonforce... I think I have an entire WOW playlist that is nothing but Dragonforce.
My warrior got leveled from one to thirty or so on Dragonforce. I think it scarred him. But in a good way.
Thomas Aug 29th 2011 8:38AM
That's funny... I stopped listening to metal a long time ago, but I was PvPing with my warrior the other day and felt inclined to blast Amon Amarth.
MusedMoose Aug 29th 2011 8:46AM
@ Gendou -
That's because Dragonforce is epicness personified. Nothing bad can come of leveling a warrior - or anyone else, for that matter - while listening to Dragonforce. ^_^
shatto.a Aug 29th 2011 8:49AM
@wrath: Amon Amarth is my DK Tank music. Viking death metal just seems to fit the DK playstyle, for whatever reason.
Orrdeath Aug 29th 2011 8:51AM
I like To add techno, DJ nate, It's normally the music at the end of the crendor videos. Makes everything your doing more epic. If it comes to mining or some BG grinds! But if I'm in a raid mumble is the only sound the music is off.
lordtrollingsworth Aug 29th 2011 9:15AM
Nothing bad....except for the lyrics. And the guitar playing, if you wanna get anal about how mych studio magic is employed to make the guy seem like he's that good.
Wolftech Aug 29th 2011 10:43AM
@lordtrollingsworth - Having seen Dragonforce live, I can tell you they are just as good live as they their studio albums are. Now, go back to your Justin Bieber and leave the adults alone.
Prances in Underpantss Aug 29th 2011 12:36PM
If you like Dragonforce, check out Queensryche, Symphony X, Dream Evil, and Dream Theater (Dream Theater's later albums). They all have some pretty powerful songs.
Nothing beats The Odyssey by Symphony X while in a Dungeon or Battleground. 24 minutes of powerful symphony/heavy metal epicness. Plus, its about Odysseus. You can't get much more epic than him.
lordtrollingsworth Aug 29th 2011 4:07PM
No, they really aren't as good live.
"good".
You know what other word starts with "g"? Generic. Because they are painfully unremarkable to anyone who discovered the genre decades ago. SWEET, ANOTHER SONG ABOUT DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS WITH A DOUBLE BASS PEDAL.
Dragonforce sucks, and their fanbase is %99 neckbearded virgins who couldn't get lucky with a +20 modifier to their roll.
GuyverIV Aug 29th 2011 5:10PM
...While I don't really give two figs about Dragonforce or most speedmetal beyond wanting the occasional *HELLYEAH* energy surge fast-loud music can give you, I must say that I'm not happy.
With a name like lordtrollingsworth I would have expected a better, more refined troll. Something like Winston Churchill. THAT was a man who could insult with culture. Instead we get "Your music suks, it's so generic, lolneckbeards, D&D virgins lulz!" comments. Indeed, I could, were I more clever, get a bit of milage of the irony of using such generic, overused stereotypes in his critisism of (apparently) generic overused music.
I would call his observations and insults childish, but that would insult the intelligence of my goddaughter and her entire first grade class. Well, except for that little guy who drools. He does his best, though.
But I do have a question, milord, after having read your other contributions to the thread. Is it hard being the only beacon of taste in such a bleak world? Of seeing everyone around you being horrible and stupid and liking what is so OBVIOUSLY the Wrong Music? How do you deal with that?
It's a burden I don't think I could bear.
Moeru Aug 29th 2011 8:09AM
http://forum.ah.fm/ Dungeons, PvP, etc.
For questing I turn on the WoW music.
Nathanael Aug 29th 2011 11:49AM
slacker.com in a browser, minimized: Movie Score station. Or, sometimes, Pandora playing a custom Hans Zimmer station.
Revnah Aug 29th 2011 8:11AM
There's nothing quite like blasting old Disturbed albums while running heroics!
Apart from that, I usually have WoW's own music on. It helps with immersion :-)
RavenJet Aug 29th 2011 8:28AM
You will be shown... how I've become INDESTRUCTIBLE
determination that is incorruptible
From the other side a terror to behold
annihilation will be unavoidable !