Blonde/brown hair for Void elves?

the irony here. not all high elves joined the horde, a sizable percentage did not join and remained with alliance. i mean have you even been to the void elf starting zone there are high elves there and blood elves two separate factions.

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[Citation needed]

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It wasn’t sizeable. It was a small amount that didn’t leave with Anestarian. Believed to be about ten percent of the ten percent of Thalassian elves that are still around post Arthas.

It was Blizzard’s excuse for a lot of years for not having playable High Elves of the Alliance. Then they did the Void Elf thing which are an even smaller group.

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Hair on someone else’s head never hurt a blood elf. Void elves are blood elves by the way.

Yes same race as blood elves. Should get same options.

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Death, taxes and high elf threads

There is a customization thread for this already. This is spam.

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So. Much. This.

So they should have both their own and our customizations… what do we get in return?

To be honest, I wouldn’t mind seeing Dark Ranger customizations, although that might be problematic unless the options are restricted from Paladins.

I’m talking grey/white skin, red eyes, having the option of the “tear-stained makeup” look under the eyes, perhaps some hairstyles that look like they go into a wispy, shadowy vapor at the end instead of tentacles…

I’d prefer something like that over High Elves being added as an additional wasted race slot, at least.

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Honestly, Blizz brought this on themselves, if they would have just given the Alliance High Elves like they had been asking for, all this wouldn’t be needed. They decided not to, and decided to pull Void Elves out of their you know what, and it didn’t satisfy the High Elf community, and after seeing Horde get pretty much every race they asked for without any weird twists, I don’t blame them for being aggravated and asking for more.

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Rather have some cool glowing void tattoos would make me go back to heritage armor just to show them off

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There ya go. A population large enough to field armies to multiple campaigns.

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The population numbers are weird according to their lore vs. what is in game. There are a lot of Helf NPCs in game (although not all of them are with the Alliance), but Blizz claims there were far less.

And for years this was their excuse for not having Helves of the Alliance playable. But that’s pretty much bs right? Because they came up with Void Elves, which according to lore population wise they are supposed to be the smallest.

So it’s basically that they just didn’t want to add them as playable, and they should have just said that.

I think it might be more of a matter of player misinterpretation.

For example, people have long held the belief that during the Third War, 90% of the High Elf race was killed. This was never the case. It’s always been the case that 90% of the Kingdom of Quel’Thalas was killed. There had been High Elves outside of the Kingdom. Now, back in BC when Devs addressed High Elves as an Alliance race, a new race came with new leveling zones and cities. Considering how spread out High Elves were, it was never an option, because it conflicted with their existing narrative.

So, when Allied Races came around, this wouldn’t have been a problem. They wouldn’t need leveling zones or an entire new capital city. The problem there (my guess) is twofold. The first is they saw players reacting positively to Alleria’s return, and figured they loved the whole elf wielding the Void thing, rather than iconic WC2 High Elf hero and Alliance patriot thing. Secondly, BFA was a faction war expansion, and if they think players can’t find a PvP vendor, they were probably terrified of the idea of the forums becoming angry posts of, “Why can’t I attack that High Elf in Silvermoon, and what do you mean it’s a Blood Elf?!”

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And if they lost many members in those campaigns, they’d be a dead faction… You realize that they only field one front at a time? And even when they’re on the battlefield, it’s always in the back, at range. They’re incapable of sending to multiple areas–there aren’t enough of them to do such a thing.

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Honestly, what does population have to do with hair color though?

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I have no idea. I just wanted to point out there there is a, ‘sizable,’ population of High Elves outside of Quel’Thalas, allied with the Alliance or outright a part of it. Granted, ‘Sizable,’ is an incredibly vague metric. A military needs a strong civilian base to support it, after all.

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I know. They counted many NPCs in the game a long time ago, and as is common knowledge, NPCs dont represent the entire population. Many races were almost “wiped out” and still playable, and so on. It doesnt change anything regarding customization though.

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They said they made void elves because Alleria’s void story was popular among the dev team, not due to the playerbase, if I recall correctly.

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