Whispering Ice unique sound is not playing

The Whispering Ice is not playing its unique sound effect upon killing a rare enemy anymore. I think it went missing when PoE switched to the new sound engine in 2.3. Please bring this sound effect back.

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Henry_GGG wrote:

Hey,

I had a look at this, and as far as I can tell, it is working correctly.
In your sound options, is Channel Count set to High? There's a chance the whispering sound is being drowned out by other sounds.

These are my sound settings:

I am using the Steam client.

I checked with Medium and High channel counts (requires restarting PoE), moved individual sliders up and down - nothing happens when I kill a rare monster. It used to play the whispering sound effect before 2.3, and my build hasn't changed. A friend playing the same build says he is having the same issue.

Icestorm (the skill granted by The Whispering Ice) produces 10 hits per second, lasts 5-6 sec (depending on Int), and I use Spell Echo with it.

I can definitely hear those multiple impact sounds. But before 2.3 the unique sound always played, even with me continuing to spam cast Icestorm. Could it be that the unique effect is being drowned out by the multitude of individual hit sounds? I don't know how it worked before 2.3, but could you perhaps adjust some kind of a 'priority order' to make sure that the unique effect is played over the individual hit sounds and doesn't get interrupted by them?

I too cannot hear the Whispering Ice unique sound when killing rares,
Testing using both 32 and 64 bit clients and Onboard Realtek / Asus Xonar sound cards.
Channel Count was High in both instances

I've never heard the WI sound either :(

There's a unique sound?

Has this bug been fixed? I found the Whispering Ice but there's no unique sound for me as well :-(

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Henry_GGG wrote:

Hey,

I had a look at this, and as far as I can tell, it is working correctly.
In your sound options, is Channel Count set to High? There's a chance the whispering sound is being drowned out by other sounds.

Greetings,

I have some extra insight to this bug: (First off I did check the setting you suggested and still do not hear the whispering ice sound.)

I have played the whispering ice before. From what I remember, the whispering ice replaced all character taunts when killing a rare enemy. In other words I never heard a taunt from the character with the whispering ice equiped ever, and only heard the angry wind sound on each rare kill. For example: the scion's old "Go to bed little nightmare!" or now "Sleep now little nightmare."

However since about the time some voice dialogues were updated (about the time the whispering ice sound stopped working), I would get the occasional player taunt when killing a rare monster without the whispering ice sound.

Essentially: player taunts are being played on kill of rare monsters which suggests that the whispering ice sound is not overriding these sounds as it should be.