What causes the "ripping cloth" melee noise?

[Tethler]

Originally Posted by Secrets [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Successfully being attacked generates a crunching sound if 9% of your remaining HP goes away as a result of that hit. If you are below 57% HP and you don't get hit for more than 9%, a different sound is played. Some specific NPCs have hardcoded sounds that play when they are hit as well.

Unsuccessful attacks have their own defense sound (ie; miss) sound, some specific fail cases like riposte and block have their own defense sound too.

Also keep in mind that EQ has limited sound channels - which means that if too many sounds are active it'll refuse to queue up another.

Source: EQ Mac disassembly in CEverQuest::ReportSuccessfulHit

Well then, there we are.