Big Blood Elf Customization Thread

Anseria-wyrmrest-accord · December 31, 2022, 1:38pm

“alliance high elves”? correct. they are all traitors who betrayed their people for a cushy city life when the going got tough.

Edgyjojomeme-nathrezim · December 31, 2022, 1:47pm

question for fellow elves

This eyebrow shade/glitch looks same with every face and haircut, it ruins my face, any solution? Settings maxed out, RTX off
https://i.imgur.com/8HbFJWk.png

Kraelan-scarlet-crusade · December 31, 2022, 1:52pm

Blood Elf skin on Kul Tiran frame. Make it happen Bliz!

Nicodemùs-stormrage · December 31, 2022, 5:46pm

Ah I haven’t played it in a long time. I did play it extensively at one point, but drifted away when it became so microtransaction-centric. I still consider it a good game if one focuses on the stories though!

This is ideally what I want and how I would view them expanding it every so often like they do customization. And tbh the new trading post situation reminds me a lot of galactic seasons enough where when other people on the forums have commented its a copy of I’ve liked their posts because I’m like yeah I see that - so if they can copy that they should copy player housing too.

Rift’s player housing mechanics was something I liked a lot. You could choose from a variety of environments for your private instance and you had a variety of building blocks to work with and create unique structures. It wasn’t a perfect system, but it did offer a great deal of freedom. I don’t expect any player housing provided by Blizzard to be nearly as “blank canvas” as that (assuming we get anything at all), but I hope that if Blizzard delves into player housing, they do give us a variety of options to choose from, especially race specific architecture and furnishings.

WoW gets more attention and funding imo than swtor so I view it within their capability w little to no excuse to not to.

Oh it’s absolutely within their capability! It just comes down to willingness and how the numbers work out with cost vs. benefit. We can’t expect Blizzard to view things and value them as we do. They are going to look at it from on high and ask “we could do this, but how much would it cost?” and “if we do make the investment, will the return be high enough to justify it?”.

Our “joy” and “appreciation”, while I’m sure is desired from Blizzard (or any other game company), is still secondary to the business end of things and how the numbers work out. It’s just a sad truth about game development.

I also like the public listing option in swtor both to show off what you did and also if you need help to take inspo from other peoples decorations.

FFXIV’s player housing is sort of like that. You can visit other people’s houses and apartments if they flag their home as open to guests. I usually leave mine open for people to visit, and my apartment even got toured on the HGXIV youtube channel.

(doing something nice with an apartment in FFXIV isn’t easy since you are limited to 100 items you can place)

I don’t like the idea of competing for plots etc though like in other mmos so I wouldn’t want blizzard to copy that.

Yea… limited plots kinda sucks. FFXIV suffers from this as well. It was worse in Archeage where whole swathes of landscape could be marred by a cluttered sprawl of player homes that don’t always look… aesthetically appealing.

I mostly worry if it happened that it isn’t like customization where certain groups feel left out, like if they did a dwarf themed location and then nothing for Horde players until next expansion.

If Blizzard ever does player housing, I truly feel they would need to invest a great deal for the initial release so that there’s a wide variety of options/locations/assets to choose from. Obviously there’s going to be the typical Human/Orc stuff, but there has to be more than just that if Blizzard wants it to be more than just the second coming of garrisons. If nothing else, I’d expect Blood Elf/Silvermoon assets to be included in such an initial launch, if only due to their popularity.

There’s really little excuse not to have a variety of assets when those assets already exist (even if they might need some tweaking to work in a player housing system). We have over a decade of Human, Dwarf, Elf, Orc, Troll, etc assets in game already. Repurposing even a fraction of those for a player housing system should result in a massive initial selection of assets to choose from.

Nicodemùs-stormrage · December 31, 2022, 5:51pm

Have you seen the pretty pink cloak we’re getting from the trading post in 10.05?

Naughtymoon-proudmoore · December 31, 2022, 7:11pm

I have, it was shared with me in one of the two Discords that I’m in and I was like I’m not really a cloak fan but I’ll totally collect that regardless how it’s obtained.

I feel like I’ve already spent all my trading post currency for like the next few years already and it’s not even live yet.

Nicodemùs-stormrage · December 31, 2022, 9:54pm

He he, yea. I’ve been on the PTR and it’s definitely going to be a challenge to get all the things I want and how best to make use of the single slot we can use to lock something in for a later purchase.

While I am sure the flail will be a popular purchase, I’m probably going to focus on getting multiple lower cost mog items vs one or two really expensive ones.

Gilt-nagrand · January 1, 2023, 12:27am

I rarely play blood elf, but when I do, I am shocked by how few options they have for customisation.

Basic things like scars, tattoos and hair adornments are just completely missing.

To top it off, we now have dracthyr blood elf males with so much customisation.

Could we please share some of the love with the OG blood elf male?

Naughtymoon-proudmoore · January 1, 2023, 12:30am

This, I would sex change this character to male so fast if they got some of the customizations that Dracthyr Blood Elf males have, legit.

Nicodemùs-stormrage · January 1, 2023, 2:34am

I’m really hoping that Dracthyr have set a new standard of customization robustness for the devs going forward, and that every race gets a comparable level of customization selections as the Dracthyr have.

Eltharius-zuljin · January 1, 2023, 3:48am

They betrayed nothing.

Blood Elves betrayed what made them High Elves, made unholy demonic packs, drank tainted magic, and hunted down any High Elves that refused to do the same.

Anseria-wyrmrest-accord · January 1, 2023, 4:09am

this is all headcanon lol.

Alistarion-stormrage · January 1, 2023, 4:10am

Gross /10char

Kyuu-bronzebeard · January 17, 2023, 9:17pm

Been a long time since I posted this and its been quiet here for awhile so I’m just gonna throw this up again.

Some of it needs updating given some things that have come to pass but I think most is still valid.

Blood Elf Customization List

Still a work in progress…

Eyes, Hair and Faces
A great deal of options remain unexplored in regards to hair, eyes and faces and should be added to give Blood Elves a greater amount of options. Eye colors especially could be expanded for not only several new shades but also for greater player options.
Hair for Blood Elves should be expanded to show not only the prim and proper high elf styles but also to represent the militaristic Blood Knights, the wayfinding Farstriders and the cultural spread of Horde styles found among the orcs, trolls and tauren.
And honestly… just more face options…

New Eye Colors including, Amber, Orange, Red, Pink and Black. Colors that also sit between green and gold, green and blue and green and purple to represent blood elf eyes shifting from green to either blue or gold.
Phoenix Eyes
Heterochromia Eye Options using all available eye colors for either left or right eye.
Blind eye options for both left or right eyes with options for every color available.
New Hair options including shorter medievial military hairstyles, Curly hairstyles, Farstrider braided and dreadlock hairstyles and Horde based hairstyles.
New Hair Colors including more shades of the hair colors we already have as well as pink and proper black.
Eyebrow options including short, medium and long.
Beard options including long full beards and different separated mustache, sideburn and chin options.
Additional Faces.

By Somand

Warpaint, Tattoos and Scars
Options for warpaint, tattoos and scars should be added to Blood Elves a race that has been fighting for survive for years and struggled to get back to where they are now. Damage is expected.

Farstrider Warpaint.
Rommath Style Magical Rune Tattoos.
Henna Style Tattoos.
Phoenix Fire Tattoos.
Light Tattoos.
Scar options for the head.
Scar options for the body.
Damaged ear options.
Arcane Arm/Leg Prosthetics.

By Somand

By Ramavatarama

By Izzabelle

By Lancelot

By Lancelot

By Lancelot

By Aceline

Misc
More options that don’t fit as easily into a category.

More shades of skin tones.
Jewelry being opened up to both male and female models.
Body Jewelry (Beads/chains) readded to the model and available for both genders.
Jewelry colors being expanded.
Ear Armor options.
Jewelry in Hair decoupled and affected by jewelry color options.
Underwear Color Options (Maybe tied to jewelry color).
Body Type options.
Makeup options.

By WoW Devs

Sub-Races
There are a few Sub-race options that could easily be applied to Blood Elves including Darkfallen, San’layn and Felblood Elves.
Though the Darkfallen now also include Dark Rangers/San’layn as the same thing the differences between them compel me to place them seprately.

Dark Ranger Options.
San’layn Options.
Felblood Options.

Heritage Armor
Several additions could be added to the Heritage armor or changed to make it feel a little better overall.
This includes a better Boot option that is more in line with the gauntlet, a Lor’themar style coat for the hips and legs and additional color options.

By Somand

Paladin Mounts
While the Thalassian Charger is wonderful and emplematic of Blood Knights, its getting along in years now and could use an updated model.
Alternatively a new model using either a Courser or a Hawkstrider would be a wonderful addition to update the model and bring it more in line with the newer chargers added since its creation.

By Somand

New Classes
Some new classes have been suggested for Blood Elves, specifically Druid and Shaman. Depending on how the classes were done both could be good additions to Farstrider ranks.
Though the druid could be done as a arcane Botanist bending nature to their will.

Druid
Between the Botanists of the Botanica the closeness of Tauren and troll druids and the Farstriders closeness with nature alone Druids make a good potential class for Blood Elves.

By Kagesatsuki

By Riotfury

Shaman
Though only one individual there is already at least one thalassian studying the elements. This could easily be expanded out. (I suspect the Farstriders wouldn’t mind the help of shaman.)

Feel free to toss suggestions at me to add.

Other Customization or Allied Race Threads

Baalsamael-turalyon · January 20, 2023, 5:26am

Blood Elf Shaman and Druids could easily be a whole cool questline where Talanji helps mediate treaties between the Belves and Amani in order to include the Amani into the Horde

and then Halazzi (Lynx Loa/Wild God) and Jan’alai (Dragonhawk Loa/Wild Good) are happy and help the Belves since they’ve always been so good to their children (Lynxes and Dragonhawks) so teach them Druidry and Shamanism with the Amani

Belf forms could be:

Boomkin = using the upright Arakkoa model with Phoenix motifs
Bear = Bear
Cat = Lynx
Flight form = Dragonhawk or Phoenix-y Eagle
Travel Form = Thalassian charger

Kyuu-bronzebeard · January 20, 2023, 6:03am

I agree. It would be rather easy to get both the Shaman and druid class for blood elves.

Flight form definitely dragonhawk.

Travel I’d do the Hawkstriders.

Tiffany-ravencrest · January 20, 2023, 6:24am

Hey, at least we go fight for Azeroth when ever necessary.
That makes us the useful High Elves.

Kyuu-bronzebeard · February 6, 2023, 5:14pm

Still waiting for more worthwhile customizations for blood elves blizzard!

Dracthyr really set a bar.

Lannislight-tichondrius · March 2, 2023, 8:41pm

was it just humans that got the pink / purple hair this patch or the one incoming shortly rather?

Marduk-dawnbringer · March 2, 2023, 8:43pm

Only thing I wouldn’t mind seeing added to Blood Elves is the fel customization options from BC, think it was Sunwell.