Did anyone else notice how Blizzard just took Night Elves from the Alliance and gave them to the Horde?

Basically.
The Alliance Night Elves lost their capital city and they are never going to get a new one, they lost their starter zone and another zone (Ashenvale) in BfA. (And Sylvanas gets glorified for commiting genocide against them for some reason)

Meanwhile the Horde got the Night Elf model with Nightborne and they even have a beautiful high quality city in Suramar, while the Night Elves on the Alliance have nothing anymore.

I just wonder why Blizzard decided to do this? Why not instead let every race be every faction?

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The Night Elves still have hot bods. :man_shrugging:

/hairflip

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Except that we didn’t “gain Suramar”.

We lost the Undercity and a leveling zone as well. It was a mirrored loss gameplay wise.

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Night elves hah, more like Homeless elves

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They still have the vastly superior customization.

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So Surumar is now a horde only city?

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The Nightborne was a trade for the fact that the Alliance got Void Elves which use the Blood Elf model.

Also, we didn’t lose Ashenvale. We lost Darnassus and Teldrassil while the Horde lost the Undercity and Tirisfal Glades.

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Give Tyrande time. In Night Warrior mode she just might push everything Horde on Kalimdor into the ocean and replace it all with trees.

Alliance got the blood/high elf model. So I dont see why you’re complaining. We basically traded elf models.

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Ok, but let’s be honest here because this quote is distorting reality.

  • Nightborne have the smallest amount of customization in the game, whereas Night Elves are among the races with the most.
  • Nightborne players overwhelmingly did not want their current model, and instead wanted the Legion model that looked far more unique.
  • Suramar as a capital isn’t even accessible, except for what amounts to a small box with absolutely no vendors, transmog, professions, banks, or auction houses. Whereas Night Elves can still access Darnassus.
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Only the female ones…

The male model is atrocious

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I mean, we technically lost Ashenvale.

The Horde destroyed the only Night Elf cities in the zone during the pre-patch event.

We took Darkshore back in the Warfront, and I suspect the Horde will give Ashenvale back now that Sylvanas is gone, but we did lose it temporarily.

Well they’re like altered night elves, not the exact same thing. Undead lost just as much as the night elves did in the war.

Races aren’t free for all because it would destroy all sense of faction identities and clash horribly with lore. WoW’s a story based game, not a sandbox to that degree.

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Yes, the Nightborne joined the Horde.

We did in fact lose Ashenvale in the bfa pre patch.

Don’t think she’ll make it out of SL alive.

But they didn’t need to destroy Horde blood elves for that?

So all the NPCs are friendly to horde characters and hostile to alliance characters when I go to Surumar now?

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still I dont see the issue. /shrugs/

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They look nothing like Night Elves…

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But does the Horde have meaningful access to Suramar?

Given that Darkshore has been reclaimed, and the Horde is backing off, it is reasonable to assume that Night Elf territory in Ashenvale has been recovered.

Her entire story is literally about saving her.

The Horde didn’t get night elves.

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Um, yes?

The Suramar we can visit in-game takes place in the past.

I know its just a vocal minority, but am I the only one that thinks alliance players are greedy and always want more than what’s already been given to them?

Again, aware that its a vocal minority.

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