It’s my opinion that the darker blood/void elf skin tones were not introduced in game the optimum way. For the initial release of Shadowlands they should have created a dark skinned Blood Elf and Void Elf character. In patch 9.1 they should have released them as player customizations. That way we could have a little bit of a foundation for their introduction.
I’m not really seeing how giving them to NPCs out of nowhere is any better than just giving them to players.
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Lmao It’s unbelievable how you guys are looking at dark skin elves like it’s something so special that it needs a proper introduction.
Do we need an introduction for purple / green eyes Undead? Worgen with stripes? Cause I’ve never seen those before.
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I have actually argued at length in favour of introducing the skin tones as Blizzard has done. But the events of the last 6 months have caused me to examine my own views, all the evidence available, and have also made me truly resent cultural Marxism, and modern woke culture.
The way I see it - introducing character creation this late in the game, they really ought to have gone the way of the Allied Races for this sort of character creation. Now if this was shortly after the introduction of Blood Elves, I’d say fine, no problem to the new options.
In fact, that was the premise of my original argument - that all these new tones were simply to beef up the CC and really should have been there from the start but Blizz messed up.
A game like GW2 did it best IMO. Vanilla GW2 humans had a variety of skin tones, and customization but none dark. 5 years after, they released their Path of Fire expansion which takes place in the lands of Elona (heavily inspired by Egypt, and Northern Africa), many black skin tones and hair styles were introduced. Nothing else changed; your Human was still human, not an Elonan, or anything. I mean you could RP as one, or you could keep RPing that you were just a black human from Kryta (game’s original playable human nation).
My closing statement though will be that if the option was sloppily, suspiciously “woke” circumstance premises to introduce additional customization, than no additional customization, I’ll take the former option.
I’m very excited to make my Void Elf look Wrathionesque with purple eyes.
Yes. I want a quest where we have to sit there with a brush and buckets of paint giving them stripes.
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Well the Night Warriors got an introduction, and their about as special as somebody wearing the black mageweave set.
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The Night Warrior transformation is hardly comparable to a handful of elves suddenly having melanin in their skin
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Night Warrior got an introduction like they did because it ties in to a lot of stuff happening in the Shadowlands.
Ehh, Fair enough. I just think the introduction to it was very underwhelming imo.
To be fair, while dark skinned elves do exist since we have a tanish color for blood elves, it would only be natural for dark skinned elves to exist.
That said, i wouldn’t be against the idea of introducing these (though not via questline ala Night Warrior), because it would allow us to get the full understanding of how this became a thing. Cause all i have for the conclusion of why this is a thing is science and such, which the game is notorious of following. Unless this is what Blizzard intends or rather leaves it blank intentionally for the imagination.
You’re easily please I be more excited if they fix this crap fest of game first.
Oh trust me, I am quite annoyed about that. But I realize that the team that does the art and customization stuff is probably different from those responsible for the systems (Ion and co). Only because the art is so stellar every expansion.
Honestly, I get where you’re coming from, but these customization options weren’t introduced with any sort of lore priorities in mind. Just let players have their dark-skin options without pressuring Blizz to explain where they were in the lore all this time. The players can come up with RPG reasons on their own as they play their characters.
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Yes so very true.
I just want the correct underwear on the void elves!