It is not that they are not cool in their own way.
It is that it would have been far easier for Blizzard to just give the alliance Alleria’s brand of high elves, which is what alliance players have been wanting since BC.
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I actually think they look kinda cool but yeah they don’t really feel like a good race to me “thematically”. To me the idea of blood elves already being like a “low population race” lore wise yet over represented in game and then a splinter faction of them becoming void elves which would be even smaller and now also over representated… I don’t like it.
Na man, I didn’t fight in no second or third war with void elves. I’ve got nothing invested in them. They don’t even have much r34.
i will like her more when she has helf options and delf options. by delf i mean, purple npc eyes-the good ones- and white silver hair.
the solution for this is for blizzard to make a visually appealing race with good lore that can rival thalassians. but because visually appealing is now considered basic and dumb, thalassians will just steadily grow in number vs. the rest of the population.
No, Humans are still far more popular, Nelves too.
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I love Void Elves. I also love the new customizations coming (skins), but to be real with you my aesthetic IRL perfectly aligns with VEs and as an Alliance diehard who doesn’t have High Elves I’m perfectly fine with a blueberry Elf to compensate.
Does not make sense, Light is the opposite of the Void.
Hmmm. Not played pandas past their starting zone (just can’t do the beast races >_>; ), but did a bit of digging. Apparently (though would be nice if actual pandaren players could confirm or refute) originally they couldn’t talk once they picked a faction (which is pretty silly…given that they literally came from the same island and choosing Alliance/Horde wouldn’t magically cause them to forget how to speak their own language…but hey, back then Blizz was hardcore about not breaking the faction communication barrier)…
But as of Legion (with demon hunters being able to talk to each other cross-faction via demonic), they changed their minds and pandaren now can talk cross-faction too?
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I am here with you. Oh we weren’t singing the song?
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I definitely like void elves for void elves, though like many others I do wish they had gotten more lore.
I’ll probably catch flak for this, but Void elves are conceptually okay, appearance wise, and all that as a disclaimer.
BUT… I think Blizzard is making stuff up as they go along these days.
I can’t recall the last time i cared about a quest line’s story. Half the time i just use Azeroth autopilot to skip through reading quests, or why anything happened. It’ll happen in another Version 2.0 again anyway.
I think after Wotlk i had fully lost any interest in story line, truthfully, while i still love the game, i just lost a love for the lore.
Void elves just don’t bother me for that reason. Much like pre patch changing a lot of customization in game to appease people.
They give no reason as to why such drastic changes took place, we know why high elves went horde, but then we have the Silver covenant and many high elves still with alliance, so why didn’t they simply make High elves like the pandarian race?
After all isn’t the allegiance to the faction?
Not all high elves followed Kael’thas, and the ones who did were corrupted and twisted into Demon hunters and various other magics.
It’s also sort of why paladin doesn’t make sense to me entirely for horde, simply because of that connection to fel magic, and following a prince that went down the wrong path, why would they remain loyal to the horde even after cleansing the sunwell?
Because one human treated them badly?
By default shouldn’t the dwarves who were treated badly by that same human, also be on horde, with that same rationality?
I think Void elves are cool in their own respect, but they aren’t high elves per se.
Not anymore than a nightborne is a night elf.
I mean lore wise all elves came from trolls originally.
The Draenei and orcs were allies before Ner’zhul betrayed them along with the others who were betrayed by Gul’dan.
At this rate, it’s ‘creative writing’, so even being a fan of high elves, and elves generally, it’s painful to watch blizzard stumble along like this.
That original cinimatic for WoW was probably the best, after Wotlk, as i said, it just fell off. Now we’re in the equivalent of a T.V show that creates mind numbing events simply to have something to show the crowd, even if it makes no sense.
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personally i’ve always loved the void elves. If I could stand playing alliance I would likely roll one as an alt (of course if I could stand alliance my main would be a dwarf hands down)
My biggest issue with the velfs getting a bunch of the belf customizations wasn’t the whole “they are stealing our stuff” it was “they are watering down the coolest thing about the race”
velfs are awesome!
Yeah, Blizzard is stumbling along at this rate.
As i stated in my earlier post, it’s more so them doing so for appeasement then for lore reasons.
It wouldn’t make sense that “ALL” elves followed Kael’thas for that reason, or that Paladin’s would be accepting of the Demonic influence of the horde.
Nor that the orcs would be allies with the Undead who enslaved them and force them to fight in arenas, or allied with the Blood elves who were slaughtered by Orcs, Trolls, and Undead at various key points in the lore.
With their current removal of a Warchief, it’s only evident the lore just isn’t their focus anymore, same with the customization and new races.
Like i said, i’m not opposed to the void elves, but they aren’t high elves, and they were created to some how replace something they were to appease the masses.
A lot of people will accept it for the sake of not biting the hand that feeds, or “beggars can’t be choosers”.
They’re conceptually doing this a lot with each expansion in terms of ‘balance’, they leave the classes that are suffering, at the bottom, and the ones that are performing well, at the top. They implement new XYZ items to fill the void to make them ‘okay’ or ‘over powered’.
While creating stories that just aren’t that interesting, or time lines that make no sense.
After Wotlk, it’s been down hill lorewise.
Pretty much. But Void elves were only created to appease the high elf fans by giving them another version of it, rather than giving a valid alternative.
I’m all for new races to some degree if it’s within lore, but this rate they just fabricate whatever they want, and non of it matters.
We may as well just do an “any race any alliance” set up.
And i don’t even like that idea, but that’s what it’s being watered down to, as they continue to blunder about as drunks.
Damn I love that trailer too. It makes me want to log in… and then I am in BFA and suddenly get depressed.
I love all my void elves. With the exception of maybe one of them, they will be staying as they currently are.
My two favorite cosmic forces in this game lore-wise are death and the void. My Velf DK embodies both. Now if Blizz would allow for me to have permanent Entropic Embrace as a skin color then this would be the perfect race. Purple is my favorite color too so it all works out.
lol Ion is petty because he won’t give alliance an exact copy/paste race? Right. Okay.
Of course people are saying “muh blood elves”. I’d be mighty pissed too if my race that was horde for the last 10 years was copy/pasted onto the opposite faction.
I love my void elf. I love her skin tones. I love the way my mog matches everything, I LOVE our void theme, entropic embrace looks amazing and I love my dark, washed out hair and the way it drapes over one of my void glowy eyes.
If I wanted to play a blond, blue eyed elf Paladin (not sure where everyone is getting this notion that high elves were paladins before when they didnt even really become paladins until the whole fake-naaru-enslavement thing), I would choose horde, because that’s the side they are on.
It still full-on makes me shake my head in disappointment that people are asking for a copy/paste race that already exists on the opposite faction and think there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Then when blood elves players get upset, some of the high elf camp people will essentially attempt to gaslight the blood elves players by saying “well it should have been this way from the start” or how much alliance “DESERVES” high elves and that the blood elves were a “mistake” and never should have joined the horde. Then, when void elf players chime in that we don’t want to be turned into high elves, we’re FURTHER gaslighted to say that what we feel is wrong because we should have never existed in the first place etc.
Like, its absolutely bonkers.
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The only way Void Elves would have a chance to even come close to Human and Night Elf numbers is with more classes added.
Between Humans and Night Elves you have three of the most popular classes: Paladin, Druid, and Demon Hunter.
Adding even one of those to Void Elves would give them a chance to compete… which, in addition to lore reasons, is probably why it will never happen. Void Elves will have to settle for 3rd place in the Alliance population race. Not that we even have a remotely accurate way to track populations by race.
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