Like I said, they didn’t make everyone happy with it. There are plenty of people that do like them, but plenty who don’t. And if someone’s going to tell me that the really unsatisfying to me ARs on the Horde are fulfilling player requests, I figure that VEs do the same thing.
It’s all personal taste. After seeing stuff like Yaungol and Taunka it’s a little underwhelming to have the only change be just antlers. And I’d rather they’d open up warpaint/tattoos for the core races too rather than making it an AR feature (especially when that’s basically one of the main distinctions between the AR and the race it’s based on) Like I think DIDs are a good point, they are the same model, but significant appearance changes like the hair and eyes.
Yeah, but I’m saying there that the Void Elves were an attempt to modify the blood elf model to give it to the alliance in a similar fashion to modifying the night elf model into nightborne, not make a lore argument.
I don’t remember there being a lore reason for the void elves to change their name. I think Blizzard just did it because they are elves that use the void. That’s about the extent of the thought that they put into it.
void elves stand in solidarity with the tauren on lack of development. did you know the void elves or any of their developing story or quest chains, did not exist in legion. they didnt even get a zone. hmt got a zone, nightborne got a zone. lightforged got a zone. void elves were like invisible. lol the entire rep grind for void elves, had not one thing to do with void elves.
Not the point. Blizz decided in exchance for putting Night Elves on the Horde, they were going to put Blood Elves on the Alliance to balance it out. They also decided that High Elves weren’t different enough to be added which is why they went with Void Elves.
The level of distinction Blizzard required for Void Elves (relative to Blood Elves) is, by many magnitudes, greater than what they required for Nightborne (relative to Night Elves).
In any case, I don’t have any major issue with the Void Elves appearance – I only included the point about Nightborne being duplicates of Night Elves because it seemed generally relevant after you’d posited that the High Elves would’ve been a duplicate of Blood Elves.
The issue, for me at least, is that the Void Elves aren’t comprised of the High Elves we’ve come to enjoy – and short of forcibly converting all remaining High Elves into Void Elvese, no matter what Blizzard does to their model (even if they give “High Elf Customization Options”), this won’t change.
That’s pretty much it, the void changed them so they decided to become children of the void.
I guess lore-wise they were supposed to be feared and not trustworthy to all other races including the high elves from the Alliance, so they became their own separate group.
Sadly, Blizzard didn’t really expand on that neither on game nor books/comics since everyone seems to be okay with them, so they are just edgy elves so far.
ya know that image of the woman screaming at the sky when trump won? thats the level of melt down we were having. lol shudder. and i’m not an enemy of mr . trump. but i empathize with that guttural scream thing.
The Alliance-aligned HE’s have been separate from the Horde-aligned BE’s for like 20+ years, in-universe – their stories are their own, excepting when they overlap (i.e. Purge of Dalaran, Isle of Thunder, etc.).
And they had no development ever since, being cannon fodder at some events it’s not the same as continuing a narrative, really.
Yeah, that’s not what I meant.
Name or not, those that stayed and honored the fallen have more right considering that, well… they stayed when they were needed and honored the fallen.
Even Void elves were better at that than the traitors.
I dunno, who has the capital, the remaining bits of the predisaster government, the sunwell, etc.
I’d say the Blood Elves are the band that decided on a new name and the high elves are some session players that didn’t come along but think they’re the true continuation of that band.
thats what it was. we were hyping each other up for it. every little thing the devs said that even hinted at high elves, we’d celebrate and theorize. it got worse and worse, till the q&a. then it was like losing a tournament you’ve obsessively trained for. followed up by anti helfers ribbing us furiously for at least 2 weeks.
Do you remember that time, circa 1776, when the signing of the U.S. Constitution literally poofed England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland out of existence? They didn’t have their own path, anymore, the only narrative that mattered was America – remember that?