They should give all desirable customization options to night elves to make a sub race of night elves and call them highborne or something
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No, actually Iâve been asking for high elves with their own model since I started in these threads.
But thanks for telling me what I want.
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To which we all know there isnât a reason to as theyâre physically exactly the same as horde elves and thatâs not going to change in a 10ish year span.
Kind of a empty idea unless weâre just gunna do this with every single race that just decides to split off from their main group over a political reason and nothing else. Personally havenât seen compelling reasons to do otherwise.
(inb4 amg kulâtirans who are on the same faction.)
I donât see why you think that itâs fine for people on the same factions to have different models but people across factions would need to look identical. Whatâs the logic there? If people on the same faction can look different as the same race itâs even more logical that there would be differences between those across factions as well.
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You want⌠to go hordeâŚand eat cookies.
I would like some cookies, yes.
That is because you are not considering the fact that having different models of the same thing withing the same faction adds tk the diversity of the faction.
On the other hand, shared models detract from the jnique flavor of each faction. Crossing over is different from remaining in place.
How would having unique models on each faction detract from uniqueness though?
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People wonât be happy until the mouse highlight at the bottom says âHigh Elfâ lol.
Iâd be fine if they adopt a new name personally.
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I was moreso referring to cases of doing exact copies of races on different factions.
Since you are referrring to a new high elf model, its a different issue at play there.
In that situation, it creates a faction imbalance.
Alliance get two versions of the high elf race, to the hordes one. After all they are still from a design view, the same race creates.
Secondly, the new model would need to be seen on blood elf npcs as well to make sense. At that point, you now created the situation where you lock horde players from a new variant of their playable race, but put it on the alliance who gets both variants.
It creates a lot more issues because the only way to make it âfairâ would be to give the night elf model to the horde.
Frankly, it wouldnt be worthwhile. You could have had more unique races that have no connection to the high elves and avoid sticky issues of design.
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Iâm confused as why anyone doesnât understand this. High elves of both factions have existed in game, in our faces, for more than a real decade. There is zero evidence that either faction would have body differences from each other that the other also would have.
The only alternate body style weâve seen is Kulâtirans and theyâre on the same faction. The issue would be if Horde had gotten Kulâtirans. Void elves, for example, use the same model but require different theme/skin/etc as to not look like a race already implemented.
Itâs why they could have altered Magâhar, and why Mechagnomes have different options that modified their body. They exist on the exact same faction and as a rule of thumb Blizz generally doesnât give the opposing faction a copy of the otherâs race. Nightborne and void elves are the only ones and required alterations both of which had lore reasons. One was separate for 10k years being changed by a magical source, while the other had a much more abrupt intense magical rearrangement.
A high elf and a blood elf are the exact same thing. And come Shadowlands, itâll be true even for eye colors where the main and only playable actual high elf will be on the Horde.
There is no reason whatsoever to think that a model change would happen if what you want would come to pass. Iâm not saying you canât ask for oneâŚbut I feel like youâre wasting your breath trying to find a reason for a difference that isnât there.
Well if the horde gets sanâlayn they could have their own model too.
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But that isnât likely to happen. Itâll be the high/blood elf model with different skin tones and body options just like Magâhar are/etc. And thatâs fine since the direct playable high elves are already Horde.
Which is fine since its a core horde race derivative. That adds flavor, but faction swaps bring different factors in.
I would say more but the phone is a pain
this was already debunked. those 2 portal keepers arent canon. dalaran cant exist in 2 places, in different moments of time as well, at once. they are literally flavor NPcs holding a portal open to a past dalaran with rhonin still alive. kinda sad this is the response to SC lives in and puts dalaran first and really puts things into perspective doesnt it lienahd
Dark iron npc models havenât changed to the new ones that players now have access too. Both playable models are shown in KT as well as a third unplayable model.
Thereâs no reason they shouldnât have different models. It honestly doesnât even need a big lore thing. I donât assume that outside of gameplay every single female blood elf is identical outside of hair and faces etc. So high elves being a different representation of what they could look like is fine.
And the horde got an altered nelf model, the model specifically. So why can they have a different model arbitrarily but for some reason the high elves couldnât? Especially since I doubt the night well is what makes them stand differently, thatâs an attitude thing.
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All the same faction. And nothing wrong with KT/humans getting the skinny model. Dark Iron NPC models not changing could be oversight or them just not caring, itâs a big game.
Besides, we all know that theyâre the same. if anything, new body options for races would just mean that blood elves and void elves get them, not an inclusion for another playable high elf since thatâs the Hordeâs thing.
Itâs just my own preference, and I know others would also be okay with an altered or new model, even if itâs not their preference. Itâs not about the model. We just want high elves. If they end up with the belf model I donât care, I just like more options.
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