Maybe the majority were, but if someone wants to play one, I see no reason to deny them the option; also bearing in mind that we chromie all the way back to cataclysm when we level up, I’d find it reasonable to allow a plethora of customization options from just about any era.
yeah thats war time rhetoric in these parts. everybody’s jockeying for position cause they think the devs actually care what we think enough that they read thru all our posts hehe
I’m just going to put this here:
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No. I am not paying extra to the company that seems to feel like taking a dump all over a fair chunk of the player base due to some weird fascination with one group of pixels over another.
I do hope that the Horde gets it San’layn, and it’s Ogre’s because I know that it’s a race that has been requested for a while. I also hope it is balanced with Alliance getting their High Elves. The High Elves they have been asking for, and not a compromise.
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if they didnt care blood elves would have gotten blue eyes in shadowlands. everyone knows the lore was there if they wanted to do it
and you would have gotten a carbon copy of a horde race instead of void elves
compromise - neither gets exactly what they want
theres literally 2 void elf fair skin tone threads being spammed. specifically fair skin tones, no mention of the new dark skin tones. kind of weird but also not a compromise as its giving them exactly what they want and removes the distinction from a void/blood elf
well because its a global product, and because every region approaches the factions differently, there are some places in the world, where alliance out number the horde by a large amount. oceanic servers, for example.
someone mentioned the chinese prefer the alliance.
Fel contamination is apparently phenomenally easy to contract. Look how rigorously any level of fel energy taint is hunted and purged. It’s clear this is an energy source with serious and dangerous side effects to its use. However long the fel devices were in Silvermoon was apparently too long.
Okay? And upon the Sunwell being re-started, they could again draw on the arcane energy that they’d been so accustomed to drawing on, so their eyes would turn back blue?
Right. So high elves were exposed to purely arcane energies, whereas blood elves were exposed to arcane and fel energy, thanks to the radiation from their very buildings.
But the Sunwell has restarted, thus blue.
That they were in Silvermoon is apparently enough. Fel contamination is apparently extremely easy to pick up.
Yes, they will fade back to how high elven eyes normally work. Since they gorged on holy energy to purify the taint of fel, they’d have gold eyes.
Blood elves were working behind the eight-ball here since they had to actively get rid of a contaminant in their system, whereas high elves do not have that complication.
i betcha they’re gonna give you blue eyed belf options in the form of playable san’layn. sure you’ll have to be a vamp but you’ll get your blue eyed belf if ya want it
So what about our times in fel heavy zones since Classic? How about Argus?
Only those that reconnected and then it would be arcane and holy. So again blue or yellow.
This is completely ignoring what was being talked about with cravings and withdrawl…
Only for those who have re-connected to it and again it is arcane AND holy. So just like BE there should be blue and yellow.
Again that does not seem to be the case. Heck there is even a blue eyed HE warlock trainer in Wrath.
think ill stick with my DK
I often ask myself , why it is that the High Elves in Outlands, that have been around more fel then the Blood Elves of Silvermoon, still have blue eyes?
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Our times in fel-heavy zones were spent with either extremely strong protective gear or magical safeguards against contamination. I don’t know much about Argus but I can’t imagine a Draenei spacecraft being powered by fel. Then again, I didn’t really do endgame legion so maybe I’m talking out of my butt here, but even if I am, I cover this later in the post.
Again, purging the fel taint from blood elves would take a huge amount of time, whereas simply regaining an eye color for a high elf, I assume, wouldn’t be terribly difficult. If fel energy corrupts or consumes arcane energy, and holy energy beats it, then blood elves are, by definition, absorbing more holy energy than arcane energy. So they don’t have whatever balance a high elf enjoys to maintain their blue eyes.
As far as cravings and withdrawal have to do with anything, it was under an assumption I’d had that blood elves consumed the energy of fel creatures, artifacts, and power sources. We KNOW, however that devices powered by fel energy, which do exist in Silvermoon, leak radiation that contaminates the area and creatures nearby. This radiation leakage explained the green eyes of the blood elves, which also implies they passively fed off of this energy.
As far as characters with classes and such, like your HE warlock, it’s possible that they may have engineered safeguards for themselves due to the knowledge that they’d be exposed to such energies. Prominent NPCs and PCs are leagues above the common civilian in this game, so it stands to reason that a named NPC would have more ability to either resist or negate fel contamination than unnamed fodder. Out of character justification could simply be it’s the aging engine of WoW being unable to give a high elf green eyes because ‘those are blood elf eyes’.
I have brought that up in the past. There are also BE who did not stay in Silvermoon and instead followed KT to outlands. Why do they have green eyes?
At this point I am sure it is just a game play choice to differentiate between horde BE and their Alliance foils the HE and not based on lore.
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If they followed KT, they absolutely shared in his fel-draining technique. They had to have. That was the entire purpose of KT and Illidan meeting.
that role belongs to the void elves now as well. making an alliance high elf even more irrelevant
i think there’s a quest at allerian stronghold, where you deliver them draenic vessels which contain crystals that the high elves there can tap. heres the quest text
Amid the ruins of Tuurem are a number of vessels containing raw, magical energy. We are fortunate that the Broken who have overrun the city are ignorant to the resource in their midst, but we cannot assume they will remain so forever.
With those vessels and their power in hand, the scattered survivors of my people can resist the lure of demonic magic. Every quel’dorei we can save from our prince’s folly is one more that can help us regain our lost glory. Bring me these vessels,
the quest is given by ros’eleth, high elf at allerian stronghold. the contents must be arcane
No it does not imply any such thing. Almost everything you have listed is head canon. What we do know is that the amount of fel was not enough to impact the life around the crystals. Strong sources of fel destroys life as we know happened in Deadwind Pass and the Blasted Lands.
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the last bloody thing this game EVER needs is another elf race