the only part of the story I think it could have happened in would have been 8.3
We got some stuff with alleria in visions which counts a little.
But 8.3 was a rushed mess as they gave up on the expansion.
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Agreed. While a few smaller opportunities existed, the big one was 8.3 and N’zoth. Sadly that opportunity was squandered.
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I’m a fan of void elves as void elves. Yeah, the story could have been done much better but I still enjoy what we have. I definitely don’t mind having high elf aesthetics for those who want that fantasy but I honestly do not want the void elves to gain classes or abilities to reflect that.
I’ve wanted to play a WC2 ranger since I even heard of WoW. But the true high elves of that era are gone, the scourge destroyed it. The blood elves rebuilt themselves into something different and unique. Even the Silver Covenant are just trying to hold onto a lost culture. I hope the void elves get the development they deserve, but even if they don’t then they still got a solid cool factor.
(Also I’m cheating and will play my void elf as a WC2 ranger who got trapped on Outland and was with Alleria when she searched for Umbric and got voided with the rest)
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This so much this, it bugs me super bad because I like Void Elves as they are not what people are trying to make them into, less so given we already exist just on the Horde side as Blood Elves.
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I use to think Void Elves were boring but now I realized. They’re only Skinny Thicc Elves that Alliance has and I am grateful.
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It’s a loophole.
At least the alliance can have 100s of Drizzt clones to counter all the Legolas clones on the Horde side now. We just need more armor with spiders on it.
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I’d say Nightborne pull off the Drizzt look better than either Night Elves or Void Elves TBH.
Someone posted a picture of a Void Elf with new SL customization options and it looks pretty good:
Those are Night Elves but yes they look nice.
Guess I did not look closely enough.
Who said anything about an exact copy? High elves are not blood elves. Without getting too deep into it, Blood Elves are those who returned home to Quel’thalas, consumed demon crack to get over their crack-crack addiction, genocided the Draenei just to dab on a windchime they turned into a battery, and then Velen fixed their toilet and said “All is forgiven. Stop asking how it works that a race of fair skinned humanoids with a superiority complex are committing genocide against a race explicitly coded to be Jewish.”
High Elves are elves who remained with the Alliance and generally compose alliance-adjacent factions such as Dalaran.
The psychological and cultural differences between Blood Elves- they allied with people who don’t even have working indoor plumbing and presumably like the architecture of spikey huts- and the High Elves- non-mana addicts, academics, and patriots. Basically the best and brightest of Quel’Thalas.
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When we talk about copy paste, we’re pretty much generalizing the ‘allied’ races into that, and they still are copy pasted with very very slight variances.
Void elves have the same hair styles, ears are the same, and literally the only difference is they’re blue.
Mechagnomes/gnomes, not too different.
Kultirans? “big boned” humans.
Mag’har? Brown orcs.
Z Trolls? Trolls that stand straight.
Nightborne? annorexic night elves with odd mutations.
High mountain tauren? different horns/antlers.
Dark iron dwarves? Same concept.
The majority of it is copy paste, there isn’t much “difference” other than re-skin.
So what’s the big deal other than the racials which are arguably stated to be “irrelevant” or rather not as impactful.
Same concept with mounts as well. Many are copy pastes.
Generally speaking, being upset about “copy paste” would also lead to me to believe that you should also be upset about all the others.
Because you are playing a high elf. the only thing that makes them “different” is some slight hair styles/skin tone/racials.
I will say this, i don’t care if people want to be ‘void elves’ i mean, their creative writing at this point is to appease the camp that wanted high elves, not void elves, but gained a new following.
So it wasn’t really about void elves to begin with, like that wasn’t even a thing lore wise or anywhere else.
Nor do i think anyone really cares if you have void elves, but i think reasonably speaking, there are a lot of loop holes in blizzards argument against high elves for alliance.
Silver covenant
Alleria being a high elf before “creative writing” stepped in.
Back story with undead humans, orcs, blood elves, and siding with illidan, which is later dealt with through B.C.
None of it really makes sense, per se, as obviously not all blood elves followed kael’thas, and not all high elves were ‘blood elves’. So it’s a very fragmented community.
I’m glad you’re happy with blue elves either way.
It’s only shining light on blizzards neglect of the situation, that’s only causing more division.