Psia's guide to talking to people

This was a lil tutorial that I wrote to help my guild out with the new voice comms system. I thought that it might come in handy to others, and so have included it here.

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The new in-game voice comms system is pretty straightforward, once you get the hang of it... but it can take a little messing about to get set up. I figure that it might be a good thing if I put together a little basic walkthrough to show you how to do it, for the benefit of anyone who is struggling.

First of all, you need to enable the voice comms in your sound settings. Press esc to bring up the "Options" menu, and then click the "Sound & Voice" button. Select the "Chat" tab, and you should see the options shown below.

Click "Enable Voice Chat", and choose push to talk or voice activation. Thus far it seems that most people need to ramp up their microphone volume to around the 200% mark, but ymmv. You can also adjust the volume of the WoW sounds when someone is talking with the "Game Audio Fade" settings. Below the options box you can see a little lozenge shaped box like this: This is the indicator that shows who is talking when in a party or raid (it doesn't seem to work for a seperate channel like ravenschat). It is entirely draggable, so you can put it wherever you like.

The last thing on this options set is actually on the "Sound" tab. If you enable "Sound in Background" on this tab, then it will allow you to continue to talk and listen on the voice chat whilst Alt-tabbed out of WoW. If you do not, then when WoW is minimised you will be unable to use the voice chat.

Anyway, now that your settings are done. You can use voice chat. However there is still another step. You may have noticed a "Voice Chat" button on your minimap (it looks like a little speaker). If you press this you will get the options box below: You can only ever be in one channel at a time. So if you are in say, ravenschat, then you will not be able to hear your party members. And vice versa. You can enable voice chat for your party, raid or BG using the tick boxes at the top of the options box. To enable chat for other channels, such as ravenschat, you click on the little speaker icon next to the channel in this option. It will go gold, and you can then chat. As shown in the screenie, you can see all members of a channel displayed on the right hand side of the window, and there is a speaker icon next to the names. Where this is highlighted in gold, as in the screenshot above, the character has voice chat enabled for that channel. You achieve this by clicking on the icon. In this case, Psia is chat enabled for ravenschat, and Toojags is not, although Toojags is in the channel.

So, that's it. I hope that this little tutorial helped.