Bets on because High Elves will be the determinate race of Silvermoon after Midnight ends. The gems don’t make sense for blood elves, but they absolutely do for high elves. None of the armor’s gems match the Blood Elf heritage gear.
Imagine that.
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Taliesin, who regularly gets told stuff behind the scenes by Blizzard’s devs, is floating the idea of just getting over the trauma from being Blood Elves and to stop it. Turn the red roofs blue, etc.
The blue is same blue that also appears in the eyes of Blood Elves.
The idea that blue=“High Elves” is a political one, not a fundamental one.
What’s funny is that the lore isn’t even the crux of the matter here. I often see people try to rationalize the Belves’ modern direction and color schemes like, “they’re going back to their pre-Scourge roots”, “it makes sense for them to have evolved past their TBC themes”…
..Okay ? I don’t care LMAO. You’re the writer, you can have everything make sense, so sure. You could have Alliance Trolls make sense if you wanted to do that. Should you ? No. Could = \ = should. Fel-wielding trope inversion Elves were cool. Red-gold-green is a cool color scheme that looks great. Red-gold-blue doesn’t work and looks like crap. Players are entitled the fantasy they were sold. You obviously still have room for narrative development but you must commit to the fantasy you sold to your playerbase. It’s your job.
Ehh, Midnight is just a vehicle to give Silvermoon back to its “real” players. The HE RPers. The BE fans should just accept that their fate is to be folded into their cultural betters; and for at least 2 Windrunners to be their new Racial Leaders. Arator and Vareesa. They will redeem the race, and finally save it from itself. /s
Ah yes !!! A Horde character ! Sure feels great to have prime Horde representation. I’m talking about Arator, obviously - Arator the Horde character. Lok’tar ogar, fellow Thalassians !
I welcome gemstone diversity. Red, gold, and blue have colored the blood elf racial crest since TBC and Silvermoon’s tabard/cape have had blue gems since Wrath. The only blunder has been the Blood Knight “heritage” set using blue stones; yellow ones would’ve made it pop way harder with the golden eyes nearly every Blood Knight has.
Also, if Blizzard were making concessions to high elves, they’d have enforced a unique high elf identity and restricted it to the Alliance, not given it to the blood elves as optional character customization.
You misunderstand.
I’m implying they’ll release High Elves as a player race, and High Elves will be the determinate race of Silvermoon when that happens – not Blood Elves.
It would explain their lack of dedication to the Blood Elf colorscheme set forth in the heritage armor and the rest of the entire ducking game, lol.
They did that 18 years ago
Absolutely mind melting how Alliace players twist their brains into pretzels trying to act like BEs and HEs are completely genetically different species.
Imagine outing yourself as being unable to pick up on commonplace subtext that a nine year old could surmise easily.
Imagine being wrong.
They have to be petty on an unimaginable level to make sure the new blood elf sets are incompatible with all other blood elf related gear.
I think it’s an extension from their direction they are taking Warcraft. Damn the players and damn the previous writing if it’s in the way of what they want.
It’s weird because The Reliquary still use green. So it’s very mishandled how they have represented who Blood Elves are. They decided on blue stones suddenly and primarily that despite green still being in some groups and red as well. And yes, I know there are side quests where you can find that stuff but it’s stuffed into corners of Silvermoon like it poses some sort of shame for the race. Like all of this was designed by someone trying to apologize for who Blood Elves are.
I don’t think they’ll change the race name or anything. That requires changing things in the game and people’s characters. There will be nothing impactful like that. Everything will be very passive. It’ll just round edges, mute tones. Make everything as boring as they have for the past two expacs.
They pulled up short of simply giving the Alliance the Horde race.
I not going to say “never” that they would give them the most popular race on the Horde side and then reduce that race to irrelevance on the Horde side. But I don’t think they will go that far.
If they do? Well, I’m already being more attracted to FFxiv and I was never sure I wanted to come back after unsubbing in BfA.
But it is clear that we may have many of the same complaints, but I don’t have “quite” the level of despair you do. If I did I would have already left, I think.
Exactly this. The Icon of Blood has always had blue in it. Lor’themar’s unique model includes blue gems instead of green for that reason. It’s a bit annoying that the green gems seem to be lacking in the Midnight armor sets for the sake of mixing and matching, but blue hasn’t ever been off-limits for Sin’dorei.
As for matching heritage sets, the Ren’dorei are also suffering from a mismatch between their heritage set and the new color scheme most NPCs have started wearing in Midnight.
They always were, they just had a different name
Its amazing how people forgot an elf is an elf regardless if its name peter or johnson.
If anything this is just blizzard doubling down on their agenda to erase horde aesthetics from the game.
“We are making the expansion on a horde city, so to not hurt the feelings of the poor alliance players we will only tell the story trough alliance characters and have the city be as much alliance coded as we can so they can feel at home”
This is literally why they changed Thrall armor to BLUE instead of Black.
You know ORGRIN’S BLACK PLATE, the famous BLACK AND GOLD plate, that they made blue so Thrall could be shoved in TWW in a more palatable way?
Thats why you are seeing blue stuff instead of green, since we already have too many red.
That’s like saying the Defias are Stormwind loyal citizens because they’re the same race.
High Elves are not loyal to Silvermoon.*
They’re loyal to the Alliance.
It’s a political denomination.
*Until Midnight makes Silvermoon an Alliance city catering to Alliance elves.
Did I mention that during the night the Dawnwell will be a Moonwell of Night Elves and Elune?
They were actually
HE is not a political denomination, they are not a separate race from Blood Elves and Void Elves.
Silver Covenant is a political denomination, and they’re going away.
You’re legitimately insane.
I’m just going to leave this here and let you slowly realize what you said.
Intentionally leaving out the next part just makes you look dumb