InterfaceRetailClassicForever

Ready Check

The raid leader's ready check: a sharp bell that demands a click on Ready or Not Ready.

Art: Ulduar loading screen · Blizzard Entertainment. Ulduar: a raid that lived on ready checks

0:00 / 2.9s

Download MP3MP3 ~189k · 67 KB iPhone ringtone (.m4r)iPhone ringtone .m4r · 2.9s OGG / DiscordDiscord soundboard .ogg · fits ≤5.2s

How to install it on a phone, Discord, Windows or a stream

Where you hear it

A ready check opens a Ready / Not Ready prompt on every raider's screen, and this tone announces it. Blizzard mixed it to be heard even when the game is in the background, since its whole job is to pull people back to the keyboard before a pull. Raid leaders fire it before every boss attempt, so a single night of progression can mean dozens of them. Boss-mod addons offer options to play it through the master channel so it still sounds with in-game effects muted. Long-time raiders often flinch at it outside the game, which says a lot about how well it works.

TriggerPlays for every group member when the leader or an assistant starts a ready check with /readycheck.

In the game client

Client path	`sound/interface/readycheck.ogg`
FileDataID	567409
Game versions	Retail, Classic, Forever
Duration	2.9s
Sample rate	22,050 Hz
Channels	Mono
MP3 size	67 KB
M4R size	35 KB
OGG size	26 KB

Use it as

Ringtone

Ready Check runs 2.9 seconds, enough for one full play before most people pick up, and it loops back cleanly.

Notification sound

Over a text, a three-second double chime built to reach players who have tabbed out registers instantly and is hard to confuse with a stock phone chime.

Discord soundboard

On a soundboard the 2.9-second Ready Check clip lands and finishes before anyone has to stop talking.

Alarm

As an alarm, Ready Check 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.

Full iPhone steps, including older iOS

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.

Full Android steps, Pixel and Samsung

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.