Given that I never cared about High Elves to begin with, my only motivation for wanting them playable is just so the advocates will the shut the heck up about it already.
Personally, I’d prefer more lore/representation for Highborne Night Elves. Nightborne hardly count and Suramar was a gloriously wasted opportunity.
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That’s almost as discourteous as the ‘Blood Elves are High Elves’ response people love to make.
Weed and wow. Always hand in hand.
While I am satisfied for the most part (still waiting for some unique made for us hairstyles THAT WERE NOT TAKEN FROM BLOOD ELVES) I do often wonder what coulda been . . . like, Blizzard had a VERY EASY elf race to implement right there with the potential for a lot of unique story beats as well as the basis to fuel the faction conflict further (high elves vs blood elves, that mostly abandoned idea from Wrath). Instead they decided to try and reinvent the wheel sorta and poof up a new elf race that never existed before and had no real lore evidence of existing, did the bare minimum of development, sorta insulted those who wanted high elves several times, and then just left em with no further development or purpose (a trend with a lot of lore heavy classes and other races sadly).
I feel like things WOULD have been easier if they just went with high elves, certainly would be a far fewer forum posts on the matter, but rather then appease one group and kinda piss off the other they made a new group to disappoint, pissed off one group . . . and then pissed off the other group anyway for the mere existence of alliance thalassians.
The genie is out of the bottle now though, so rather then say rip apart a race that barely has anything just to create exactly what I wanted in the first place I say we build with what we have . . . classes are opening up so paladins are gonna happen, they can easily add new void features along side requested high elf ones, they can give us unique hairstyles that fit both themes and don’t steal from blood elves, we can move forward . . .
As an aside though I do also ponder if the whole reason they invented void elves kinda coincides with the blood elves further moving into light worship to push some kinda reverse dark elf vs light elf thing with the twist being the dark elves are on the traditional tolkien side and the light elves being allied with the traditional monster faction . . . curious . . . also sorry for the wall of text, I’ve been thinking about this for a while.
This would indeed solve a lot of the problems and I’d welcome it with open arms. Would love to see my mouse over say “high elf” instead of void.
Then all that would remain is access to paladins.
Fixed it for you.
The only way they’d be able to make these playable without a massive saltfest is to make them neutral.
Maybe not intrinsic, but they were taught how to be Paladins by humans. In reverse, High Elves taught humans how to be mages.
Alleria’s son is a Paladin, for example (though he’s a half-elf).
Your title should be High Elf Fans are you Satisfied…
I’m a fan of elves. I could care less if we get “High Elves”… The options available to make a light skin, blond hair elf exists.
I don’t care, I just don’t want to turn dark, horribly mismatched blue. It clashes with my skin and widow’s peak hairstyles. Remove this, I’ll just use the existing hair colors and be good without a new race being added.
I’m not dictating what people can and cannot do as far as roleplaying goes, and truthfully, I couldn’t care less about that.
Most people don’t roleplay.
For the average person, Void Elves still don’t fulfill the blonde/pale Tolkien fantasy of an elf that they desire.
Void Elves use sinister magic and have been infused with the void, a corrupting force that can drive them to madness if they can’t harness it. This is objectively what a Void Elf is.
I’m not exactly against paladins, but if you pick paladin as your class it really should lock out all the voidelf options, so no blue skin of void tendrils… that way the paladins are just the high elves working with the void elves and not actual void infused beings wielding the light that should make them explode for trying.
I did.
Still says Blood Elf or Void Elf.
There are Night Elves too.
No High Elves.
But that’s the point, if you make a void elf with natural skintones and blue eyes, its not a void elf, it’s a highelf.
If you make a bloodelf with undead skin and darkranger armour, it’s not a bloodelf, it’s a forsaken Darkranger.
If you make a jungle troll but use the sand troll skin tones, you’re not a jungle troll, you’re a sand troll.
They added these options in for this exact reason.
No, it’s still a Void Elf. They still do the Void Elf start and they still turn purple in combat and their Heirtage armor is still Void.
There are highelves in the voidelf starting, so that point is null.
My nightelf shadowpriest turns purple in combat, she’s not a void elf. Also a null point.
Don’t have to wear the heritage armour, infact, my night elf dosn’t get heritage armour, neither do Humans like you yet. Also a null point.
Again you are really really clutching at straws here.
Hard disagree. The distinction has been muddied when Void Elves were granted natural skin and hair tones, but they are just as much Void Elves as any other.
When your Entropic Embrace procs you will be reminded that you are not the Galadriel or Legolas clone you thought you were.
At this point, I just wish Blizzard would release actual playable Alliance High Elves in name, aesthetic, with their established lore to spare the Void Elves this identity crisis.
Nah, your point is Null.
They’re still Void Elves and when you start you get called a Void Elf by Anduin in the letter after leaving the Void area.
You aren’t a High Elf. You’re a Void Elf.
u reaally like 2 taunt antis dontcha lmao
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
A High Elf by any other name is still a High Elf. Blood Elves are High Elves. Period.
I do not. I’m sick of regularly hearing about them over the last 5 years, during which most other threads about the subject have devolved into high elf supporters throwing hands with blood and void elf players and completely unrelated threads have been derailed, all in the pursuit of giving the Alliance a race that it doesn’t need and orchestrated by people who refuse to accept that WCIII was over 20 years ago. If high elf threads became worthy of an instant silence, I don’t think that many tears would be shed.
Everything about this race is redundant. Blood and void elves can both already look exactly like them, every theme they could possibly cover is already covered by an existing playable race, most of the lore relating to Quel’Thalas belongs to the blood elves, their only visual theme is the blood elf aesthetic in blue, and we already have three playable races that use the male blood elf rig. We absolutely do not need a fourth.
Other than the cult-like obsession with them being either added as their own race or void elves being given even more tools to supplant their original identity with the idealized high elf fantasy, I also despise the obsession with high elf paladins, a power fantasy that, once again, doesn’t exist! The named high elf paladin NPCs that we see in-game can probably be counted on one hand, and none of them are notable characters that everyone associates with the class like Uther, Tirion, Liadrin, or Turalyon. Paladins are a blood elf thing, not a high or void elf thing, no matter how much people campaign for the former or claim that the latter is an inevitability due to an even larger obsession with the Alliance getting some form of elf paladin.
All these years later, generic high elf NPCs still don’t even have any voices other than stripped-down night elf voices. This should give any normal person an idea of how little of a crap Blizzard gives about them.
It’s Vereesa. Not Vareesa, Veressa, Valeera, etc. It says a lot about the supposed praise for high elves when so many of you pushing for them still can’t remember how to spell the name of the one central high elf character left, because compared to her sisters, calling her a character is generous.
They’re one of the least interesting NPC races ever made, and ever since WotLK, their purpose has mainly been to serve as foils to the blood elves or filler NPCs in Alliance territory. I balk whenever someone claims that high elves are interesting on their own outside of some Moon Guard RPer’s power trip. What has the Silver Covenant or a single named member of it ever done in this game that made anyone go “Oh, wow”? At least void elves tried to do something different, and in Zandalar they brought in flippin’ void dinosaurs to lay waste to the Horde.
It seems like this is a really difficult concept for these people to grasp. I wonder how they would react to playing an Elder Scrolls game and learning that series’ fans are capable of accepting that the Dwemer (dwarves) are all dead and the Altmer (high elves) are largely anti-human.
Playable High Elves do exist but they happened to have joined the Horde many years ago.