'Sorry I can't hear you over the roar of the Sunwell': World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky

‘Sorry I can’t hear you over the roar of the Sunwell’: World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight’s lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to ‘shoot more bullets at you’ design, says encounter lead World of Warcraft WoW lead says they ‘lost something along the way’ by building dungeons for sweaty Mythic+ timers instead of 20-boss mazes like the good old days, but Labyrinths could be the solution World of Warcraft Here’s when World of Warcraft: Midnight launches in your time zone World of Warcraft ‘The Light really did call EVERYBODY’: players find Leeory Jenkins, complete with his cloth shoulderpads, defending the Sunwell in World of Warcraft: Midnight World of Warcraft WoW’s classes were pruned for Midnight because many were ‘built in a world’ where its devs assumed they’d be using addons World of Warcraft World of Warcraft players are once again slaying hundreds of frogs, this time to skin their hides before Blizzard catches them World of Warcraft Blizzard will take it slow with World of Warcraft balance updates after the Midnight expansion drops RPG The best parts of my favorite World of Warcraft classes are being turned into new heroes for Fellowship’s pre-season 2 update this week Final Fantasy Final Fantasy 14’s latest unofficial census is a surprising uptick, and shows I’m not the only one getting sucked back into the MMO again World of Warcraft An inaccessible zone in World of Warcraft: Midnight has players convinced it’s a clue for the next update World of Warcraft WoW’s revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story ‘has to be told within the context of a new continent’ World of Warcraft WoW dev was surprised that players ‘like being jumped’ by the upcoming Prey system—even on its hardest difficulty, where ‘going AFK might get you killed’ Games World of Warcraft producer says Chris Metzen sometimes wishes Blizzard hadn’t called it Warcraft because ‘it sounds intimidating,’ and some fans are not taking it well MMO They survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: And for completely different reasons Action Blizzard says it’s open to even more Diablo 2 expansions and reworks unless people get really mad at it about this one: ‘We’re going to have to see what the players say’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Resident EvilArc RaidersBest PC gearGame Quizzes Games MMO World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight ‘Sorry I can’t hear you over the roar of the Sunwell’: World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky News By Tyler Colp published 1 March 2026 Were the elves trying to warn us when they told us to remember the Sunwell? 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Related articles Redesigns for both Orgrimmar and Stormwind are on the table if World of Warcraft: Midnight’s Silvermoon overhaul is well received ‘The Light really did call EVERYBODY’: players find Leeory Jenkins, complete with his cloth shoulderpads, defending the Sunwell in World of Warcraft: Midnight WoW’s revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story ‘has to be told within the context of a new continent’ Thematically it makes sense: the magical Sunwell is naturally opposed to the Void and is trying to use all of its energy to hold it back, and this clash is central to the main conflict. But it’s doing so in the loudest way possible. You ca