TOR Survey - The Monkeys Report Back

[Kelora]

Pssst.....you can set the mic so that you don't hear yourself.

i'd still have to go and get a mic first though. don;t have one atm. and naturally didn;t know you could filter yourself out

I don't think you actually need a mike to use the software.  The last mike I had blew up spectacularly along with a lot of the computer it was attached to following a natural gas explosion at the local iron foundry, that all but fried half the city's grid.

Even when I have used a mike, it really hasn't meant much.  If I say five words the entire evening, that's a large conversation for me (apart from answers to direct questions, which nine times out of ten consist of 'yes' or 'no').  And I have always been able to follow directions in dungeons and raids without needing to talk (and I avoid leadership positions in dungeons/raids if I can possibly help it), so while I am ambivalent on a voice channel, I've spent all the money on mikes that I plan to.  A mike on my computer is sort of like false eyelashes on a ferret...occasionally amusing, but serving very little useful purpose.

I'd say it greatly depends on the difficulty of what you're tackling. Even leading groups I never felt I needed to do much speaking unless the group was having a particularly rough time of the content. I tended to avoid speaking just because of the female character/deep male voice thing, tends to unnerve some people. I guess some might find it normal from a dwarf though...

[PinkRose]

Nice write up and analysis, Val.
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