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Threat Warning
The default threat alert that you are close to pulling aggro.
Art: Black Rook Hold loading screen · Blizzard Entertainment. Black Rook Hold: pulling threat
0:00 / 2.3s
Where you hear it
aggro_enter_warning_state.ogg is part of the default threat warning, which alerts damage dealers and healers who are getting close to pulling a monster off the tank. Its partner file plays once the monster actually turns on you. Before this built-in warning, players relied on third-party threat meters to know when to stop. Damage dealers learned to pause their rotation the moment they heard it. Its two-second rise is easy to recognise even mid-fight.
TriggerPlays when your threat on a mob nears the tank's, as part of the built-in threat warning.
In the game client
| Client path | sound/interface/aggro_enter_warning_state.ogg |
|---|---|
| FileDataID | 567401 |
| Expansion | Wrath |
| Game versions | Retail |
| Duration | 2.3s |
| Sample rate | 22,050 Hz |
| Channels | Stereo |
| MP3 size | 55 KB |
| M4R size | 38 KB |
| OGG size | 27 KB |
Use it as
Notification sound
Over a text, a two-second warning registers instantly and is hard to confuse with a stock phone chime.
Discord soundboard
On a soundboard the 2.3-second Threat Warning clip lands and finishes before anyone has to stop talking.
Alarm
As an alarm, Threat Warning was built to be heard over game audio, and it loops without a gap until you are up.
iPhone
- Tap iPhone ringtone (.m4r) above and choose Download.
- Open the Files app, go to Downloads and open the file.
- Tap Share, then Use as Ringtone (iOS 26).
- Pick it in Settings, Sounds & Haptics, Ringtone or Text Tone.
Android
- Tap Download MP3 above.
- Open Settings, Sound & vibration, then Phone ringtone or Default notification sound.
- Tap My sounds, then +, and pick the MP3 from Downloads.
Discord
- Download the OGG or MP3 above.
- Open Server Settings, Soundboard, Upload Sound, and pick the file.
- Name it and choose an emoji. You need the Manage Expressions permission.
Discord takes clips up to 5.2 seconds and 512 KB; this one fits.
Windows
- Windows sound schemes only take WAV files, so convert the MP3 to WAV first (Audacity or any audio converter does it in one export).
- Open Settings, System, Sound, More sound settings, then the Sounds tab.
- Pick an event such as Notification, click Browse, choose the WAV, then Apply.
OBS alert
- Download the MP3 above.
- In your alert tool (Streamlabs or StreamElements) set it as the alert sound file.
- Or in OBS add a Media Source with the MP3, untick Loop, and fire it with a hotkey.
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On TheWoWDB
Appears inRaid and PvP Sounds
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