High Elf Compromise Celebration Thread

[Delbert-deviate-delight]

I am just glad that at least half the high elf threads on the forums will now go away and we can get back to nagging blizzard for Vrykul and Ogres.

[Shadedace-tichondrius]

Void elves are high elves , you hijackers just want a distinct race showing your tooltip as High elf . It didn’t happen for the people who love wild hammer dwarves and they don’t rave about .

[Leinadh-stormrage]

@Lannisterian-tichondrius

I wanna say again I think this is a huge victory. I still think we have things to hope for, in terms of HE lore being added to compliment the new customization. Classes that are inherently HE that aren’t available on VEs at the moment but would have a valid request to do so if they add HE lore.

And for those that dislike the entropic embrace a toggle on / off.

That’s kind of where my mind is at with everything I think. But all in all very happy!

YES!!!

[Daromir-onyxia (Daromir)]

@Leinadh-stormrage

At long last, a High Elf compromise that many of us find acceptable. Thank you, Blizzard, thank you for listening to the majority of the playerbase. Thank you for the new customization options for Void Elves. They’re still not the High Elves we were looking for, but with the new customization options we can at least now roleplay as one.

Happy for those who are willing to settle.

I am not.

This compromise is unacceptable to me.

Still looking for Alliance playable Silver covenant High Elves.

[Zulamar-malganis]

Just wanted to tell you that you are the most ungrateful person I’ve probably ever seen. Good job.

[Nillah-uldaman (Nillah)]

@Leinadh-stormrage

thank you for listening to the majority of the playerbase.

I mean I’m happy for yall but… I don’t think high elf fans were a majority. In any sense of the word, really.

[Elunarith-wyrmrest-accord]

At the end of the day the true High Elves are the Nightborne and they’re still Horde side. x,D

[Savin-shadowsong (Savin)]

Nah the High elf mages joined the alliance a few years ago, remember? That was when mage became playable for Nightelves.

[Elunarith-wyrmrest-accord]

The Night Elves of Suramar were Highborne elves also known as Quel’dorei before the dome went up.
Nightborne are still the true, original Quel’dorei.

[Leinadh-stormrage]

And the Shen’dralar, the Night Elf mages, are Highborne as well…

[Elunarith-wyrmrest-accord]

There is like 10 of them left, they barely count as an actual population.

[Leinadh-stormrage]

Oh, sorry, I don’t speak headcanon.

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

Honestly what I truly hope this is not simply a “get to look the part” compromise and actually addresses the lore flaws with void elves and the high elves as a group, and takes this as an opportunity to move forward the lore of the thalassian exiles as a whole.

When Void Elves got introduced, I was really excited about the concept of the High Elves following into Alleria’s footsteps, and realizing what the actual story was, was very frustrating.

I hope this serves to move the High Elves forward -at least a part of them- and give the Void Elves more substance.

[Maebh-moon-guard]

I’m not going to settle on this compromise. This is weak and pathetic. These are still the blood elves that became void elves. Since the introduction of void elves, the much requested high elves has been a step further away from what we want. This is not enough for the lot of us.

Give. The. Alliance. Proper. High Elves!

[Mazharr-sargeras]

@Leinadh-stormrage

FOR THE ALLIANCE!!

For the Alliance!

salutes my Stormwind War Banner impaled in a Blood Knight

[Savin-shadowsong (Savin)]

Yeah cause 10 Demon hunters counts as enough of a population to be playable and the like 20 void elves count enough too. The numbers game is old and beaten and doesn’t work. The Highbourne as they were exist in alliance. they are the same dudes that never stopped their studies, the only difference is they didnt hide under a bubble and change from what the Nightbourne used to look like.

[Leinadh-stormrage]

Night Elf Highborne are really the true Highborne. The Nightborne are mutant ex-Highborne.

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

@Maebh-moon-guard

I’m not going to settle on this compromise. This is weak and pathetic. These are still the blood elves that became void elves . Since the introduction of void elves, the much requested high elves has been a step further away from what we want. This is not enough for the lot of us.

Give. The. Alliance. Proper. High Elves

But what if they address this as lorewise the High Elves -at least the Silver Covenant- joining the Void Elves under the same banner, with both Windrunners as their leaders?

That would effectively address High Elves as an entity -at least the one we have constantly seen since WotLK-

Would that suffice? Or is this just an issue of “This is not High Elves as I want them”?

[Masurao-lightbringer]

It fits what we see in Telogrus, as in what we know from how the originals were created vs new recruits in Telogrus that are High Elves. Also, they can retain the SC for story purposes when it suits them while taking the Void Elves off on a new path in the lore. Win Win Win Win, and Win.

[Lannisterian-tichondrius]

I think not only that but why would new VE’s who are un tainted by the Void not just be HE’s who are open to studying the void, and basically following Alleria. It could literally just be a name change situation for people who don’t take the current VE customization options (ie original VEs) so I agree we basically if given the lore along with it, could be playing the HE’s that are asked for just with a name change, the racial might still make sense on account of limited void exposure + studying etc, idk how to spin that.

But with lore backing I think this is a really nice compromise.