Thank you for agreeing with me, on this issue.
NOW, its time for your lessons, litla barnidh, so repeat afyter me…
Skäl.
There’s another solution to that which rhymes with pie shelves forever.
from being in the great outdoors. if you look at the image and scroll to the last one in the series, and look at his hair, they could do that, long and in different colors too for females. would be beautiful. they have perfected curly wavy 3d hair.
1 Like
It’s not so much that it doesn’t makes sense for them to have different models, but rather it would feel like a jip to Blood Elves to add another variation that serves the same aesthetic purpose Blood Elves were intended for. Kul’tirans are designed to show a different take on human models, and further customization options for those who like to play humans, much like the Lightforged Draenei, the Mag’har, highmountain etc. All these examples further the fantasy of the race they’re portraying, when all altered High elven models would be doing would be giving the Alliance a customization option that would have been more suited for the Blood Elves, on the Alliance.
It’s the fact that both High and Blood Elves generally further the same visual fantasy that becomes the problem. People would be upset if the Horde got Lightforged Draenei, simply with gold eyes instead of blue as players who like that race on the Alliance would feel a new customization option they liked were suddenly given to the other faction.
3 Likes
Except that Alliance High Elves have a much longer history, in this game, than Draenei, lightforged or otherwise.
4 Likes
What, you mean like how nightborne were given to the horde?
High elves have been an alliance race from the start and should have been playable long ago.
It’s not as if we’re asking for a rip off of belves that came from nowhere, have no presence in lore and have like blue skin and tentacles and crap…oh wait…
2 Likes
Then why are you policing others doing the same?
7 Likes
https://imgur.com/a/BxClols
something like that. long and curly / wavy
1 Like
That isn’t the point though? The point is that Blood Elves were added to WoW for players to fulfill the fantasy of playing a fair, majestic elf. They’ve been established as a pretty iconic race on the horde for almost a decade now. To give that identical aesthetic to the alliance in the form of a different take on the Thalassian model would be pretty insulting to the largest race population from a gameplay perspective.
This is the very problem many people feel comes with giving the alliance high elves, that many options that could further the fantasy they enjoy with Blood elves would be given to the High elves, and limit their options in the future. Blood Elf players don’t want to compete for a visual aesthetic that their race was intended to fulfill from their inception.
1 Like
In other words, the horde has no tentacle races AT ALL?
Oh, this is going to get ugly!
Finishes her ale and arms herself; skjoldr and skeggax gleaming in her battel-hardened hands!
Do not worry, my fellow and sistyar velves ans Draenei!!
They’ll NEVER get their hands on you!
I, ALFGERDHR, stand ready!
Begins slamming axe against shield, and starts howling a warchant
1 Like
Yeah, blood elves missing out on a few options is totally a good reason to deprive people of a race they’ve worked with for longer than belfs have been in the game.
2 Likes
there are also quite a few blood elves who would prefer to play high elves on alliance and only went horde because they wanted to play a high elf
2 Likes
And Nightborne were changed drastically just like the void elves. The only reason this even happened was as a compromise to the Alliance wanting High elves so badly, but their visual aesthetic had to be changed first as to not infringe on the fantasy the races were intended to fulfill. You got the thalassian model, and now you want their theme too, and that’s a position many players and devs stand against.
In the end we’re playing a video game that the devs have to balance, and that cannot be done with lore, alone, especially if the changes are perceived negatively by the playerbase.
well the new wrathion model doesnt look like the belf theme.
Nightborne were given exactly what I proposed for high elves.
Nightborne, different stance, different shades of blue/purple skin, different expressions, upside down ears. They have the same dance and animations though I think and a different texture.
Void elves don’t even have different lore from blood elves. They are blood elves that were chilling in the ghostlands studying void. They are the blood elf model recolored with different hair, that is all that is different.
4 Likes
That’s the whole point of choosing a race, that unique visual theme they offer the player that cannot be found elsewhere. It’s what sets them apart and makes them unique and interesting, start picking it apart and giving it to other races and suddenly they become less interesting and unique to the player. World of warcraft would simply littered with the same exact-looking race on both sides. The Thalassian model was already ripped and given to the Alliance, and now you want the visual theme too? I feel this is a rational problem players have with this suggestion, as it’s something the devs have also stated to be a problem.
Not sure where you got the notion, but I am not surprised.
whom you do not speak for, not the company either.
…with purple skin and tentacles.
Why not? Elves fighting alongside ORCS? talk about themes.
and many MORE players stand for!
The devs are totally irrelevant, as they are NOT paying for this game and WE ARE!
1 Like
They’re not though, visually they do not encroach on each other’s visual themes. Different skin colors, heights, statures, body markings, and culture. And all of this was simply to even out the fact that the Thalassian model was being given to the alliance. Both races were changed drastically to not infringe on each other’s visual elements.
I wasn’t referring to lore, I’m referring to their visual aesthetic and theme. These were changed deliberately to not infringe on the theme of the Blood Elves on the Horde. Ion goes over this when he mentions why they chose void elves over high elves, because the similarities were too close and that it would blur the faction lines.
2 Likes