I for one think void elves should.
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Yessss <3 Please blizzard! We want those High Elf colors specifically blondes and whites!!! <3333!
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Unfortunately, if Void Elves can’t become true High Elves, I’ll be very disappointed, and make my High Elves on Horde side.
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Please. We all know that the only thing that purple blood elves has of merit is to use the sindorei model that the alliance could not use with High Elves.
If they were meant to be different from blood elves and then be allowed to be equal to bloods elves, it was a waste of time and resources all this rodeo so that the alliance did not have an identical race to which the horde has to then let them be equal.
Had used High Elves then.
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how about they just flat out tell you that it will never happen and if you want to play a blood elf on the alliance 100% too bad. then we can move on. so sorry you have to settle for 95% of a horde race
I’m not really against the idea of the Void Elves getting new hair colors, I just get annoyed by them specifically asking for the colors we have.
I get it that Void Elves aren’t the perfect High Elf fantasy that some people wanted but does that mean that Blood Elves should lose everything that makes them unique so that a copycat race on the opposing faction can have it?
Idk. I’m just tired of it all. Just give them Blood Elves and be done with it imo.
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night elves are te only cool elves 
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I agree that choice is generally a good thing, until you reach the point of homogenisation.
I personally would prefer that races not look the same as every other similar race.
I mean, that hasn’t been a problem for Pandaren, who share the exact same options regardless of faction.
Also, specifically to Knee’s point… I understand the concept of “keep the faction aesthetic”, but again… Thalassians have broken that aesthetic ever since they’ve become playable. They are the exception to the rule.
This isn’t like asking for Horde Humans or Alliance Orcs. This is enabling players to play the race they’ve been shown time and time again. This isn’t homogenization, because, canonically, that’s already occurred. This is just enabling player choice.
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Pandaren were introduced that way. Until Void Elves and Nightborne came along, no other races shared models across faction.
And you can hardly call Nightborne a carbon copy of Night Elves like what people such as yourself are asking for with Void Elves.
The entire point of the Allied Races was to have unique features that weren’t exactly the same as the core races they were based on.
But Alliance couldn’t be blonde haired, blue eyed Blood Elf clones so that wasn’t good enough.
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I agree it is, I’m just saying that in this case it may not be ideal.
Void Elves are empowered by the Void, hence their appearance. It’s difficult for me to see it being possible to equate that specific nature to a character that looks like a Blood Elf. If I wanted to play a Belf, I’d play one. I think a certain degree of race-specific appearance should be maintained because otherwise we might as well just have one elf race with every appearance that - like the Pandaren - can play for both factions.
Sure,if blood elves can have all of the void elf options.
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Arguably, so were Thalassians. Again, they’ve also been an Alliance race since they were introduced. We just couldn’t play them.
My understanding was they were just added to increase the number of available customization options. It’s the same thing you said, but from a different angle. Whereas you say “unique”, I say “diverse”.
And frankly, looking at races like Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har Orcs and Zandalari Trolls… A lot of the reasoning was to give players the races they’ve requested forever.
We don’t want blood elf clones. We want to be able to play the Alliance-aligned high elves that we’ve been shown since Burning Crusade. It’s been one of the most requested options for over a decade. Really, it’s not the Alliance players’ fault that Blizzard has constantly depicted Alliance-aligned high elves in-game.
There are two paths here.
- OOC: These options were added because of high demand for Alliance-aligned Thalassians. There is no true canon reason for it beyond that it’s a compromise to give those players what they’d requested without adding an entirely new race.
- IC: These are Alliance-aligned High Elves who study the Void, but didn’t undergo the drastic mutations. Remember, Void Elves appeared entirely normal until things went horribly wrong when they were attacked and forcibly over-exposed to the Void.
If I wanted to play a Belf, I’d play one. (Actually, I do play Belf lol). But, I don’t want to play Belf, I want to play Helf. Factions matter. That’s the crux of this argument.
One can’t say “factions matter!” Then say “Alliance-aligned Thalassians and Horde-aligned Thalassians are the same thing!” Those two arguments are mutually exclusive.
And, again, at no point does this remove the option to play voidberry. If someone wanted to play Velf, and always wanted to looked betentacled, they can do that.
But… that’s exactly the canon. One elf race split between two factions.
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Thus it makes even more sense that new Void Elves retain their original hair color if they didn’t go through any sort of ritual, not even Alleria’s. Thanks for your argument! 
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No, because velves don’t have green eyes.
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Mmm.
There, fixed it for ya.
If you give a helf some pink skin, he’s going to want natural hair colors.
If you give him natural hair colors he’s going to want blood elf hair.
If you give him blood elf hair he’s going to want other blood elf assets.
If you give him all the other assets he’s going to want Silvermoon.
Etc. Ad nauseum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slopeUh, excuse me Mr.Unique-Horde-Fox-Race?
One of isn’t unique. We aren’t discussing Vulps.