Actually, it was stomped on because Anet nerfed the wrong noise. Gotta love those elemental egg-shell shields, right? >.> And they still haven't reverted the magic shields; apparently, it must be that nasty visual noise! It couldn't be all the other, larger, brighter, flasher effects! Nope! [/sarcasm] Ever since the NPE, I feel like the devs are listening and reading less and less or have a listening/reading comprehension issue. I, personally, haven't seen a ton of screen noise unless I'm fighting Maw ("Does anyone know what this boss looks like?"), but then again, I have a potato computer, so I tend not to see the spectacular effects. The screenshot I quoted shocked me... hence the four "..." in that post.