They’re already involved, is the thing. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t add High Elves because they haven’t involved them, but rather that there is a difference between a nameless NPC representing the existence of a race and adding that race as playable.
Veresa though.
What do you mean? She does exist, yes.
Playing on Alliance, I specifically remember hanging out with a bunch of High Elves during Legion, Wrath, Mists… etc.
With an Elven faction leader.
So it just rings hollow to me. If the suggestion is that they’re not involved then why do I hang out with them so frequently on Alliance side?
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They weren’t involved with BFA at all, which is my point.
If they became a playable race, Blizzard would have to include them and push their story forward. I don’t think they want to, hence why they aren’t a playable race. NPCs existing isn’t pushing story. They want to highlight the Blood Elf storyline and now the Void Elf storyline.
Yeah. But they were doing that anyways is my point. BFA is basically the lone exception, but even then, there were High Elves in it.
High Elves with Silver Covenant tags on them.
If High Elves story isn’t getting furthered then why have I hung out with them more than almost any other Alliance Race?
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I suspect they are going to fold many of the existing high elves in the world into the void elf faction. Like you said in the other thread, it’s just a group name.
It also seems to be the direction they are taking all the npc in Telogrus Rift, Stormwind and the two living Windrunner sisters.
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If you’ve hung out with High Elves more than any other race, I’d say you’re hanging out a lot in areas specifically where High Elves are. I hang out with way more humans, night elves, worgen, etc. and now void elves
I don’t understand what you mean by saying “they were doing that anyways”? Are you arguing that you think Blizzard do want to further the High Elf story?
It is a very specific nit to pick, but I think Doubleagent might disagree with this point.
They just have been. There hasn’t been an expansion other than BFA and the cut content from WoD that didn’t involve High Elves.
I don’t feel like I’ve spent a lot of time in WoW hanging out with Dwarves, or Gnomes or Worgen. etc. Humans are pretty ubiquitous Alliance side.
Well, I can’t quite argue with a “feeling” other than to say that High Elves definitely don’t have as much of a presence, but then your feeling says otherwise.
I guess maybe you hang out with a Dwarf Hunter/archeologist sometimes?
Haha, sometimes, but not all that often!
Instead of reposting this here, I am gonna link this; Instead of of complaining about VE we can instead suggest race diversity in the playable army of the light!
In the Telogrus Rift you see high elves and blood elves hanging out with an ethereal. Maybe they’ve come to join the Ren’dorei?
As far as I’m concerned this is how allied races should have been handled in the first place. Just make them customizations. Don’t need to make a whole new race just to have a brown orc, or a Tauren with moose antlers.
Oh boi, real wildhammer dwarces arent coming, they are just a skin for regular dwarves.
But i am happy in both cases, i dont care about racials etc, i just want appearence
You can’t RP something that regular high elves wouldn’t do (well, you could, but then you’d be doing a bunch of OOC things). Alleria accepted Locus Walker’s offer because the Army of Light was on the verge of losing the war to the Legion prior to the Vindicaar showing up. They needed all the help they could get to turn things around, and it took not only that but X’era dying before she agreed to do the void thing. Desperation and dire circumstances force people to sometimes consider options they would normally scoff at.
So the chance to get Silver Covenant high elves following Alleria came and went with the Argus campaign. You could create another Burning Legion-level threat that could convincingly steer other high elves to consider doing the void thing, but then you’re sacrificing story and lore time to do something that should have been done in the first place.
Easiest way would be undead elves as options for the forsaken.
Make a glyph of Black arrow that replaces dire beast, it fires a black arrow summoning an undead minion/skeleton.
Could add some other glyphs to flesh it out as needed.
Forsaken elven hunter with black arrow glyph.
There are now forsaken night elves though, so having it as a customization option for the forsaken would make sense.
I want to get off Mr Bone’s wild ride.