This is the blue post that mentions the toggle option.
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Lol @ “we’re back”
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i love that book
I would have thought their discontent with Void Elves when they were launched would have been the proof… they had no interest in them till they realized they could turn them into “High Elves”.
Leave me outta this…
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nothing bout velfs has been ruined lol we are still void elfs lord
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Paladins were never part of the High Elf fantasy in Warcraft II or Warcraft III, and only came after WoW’s retcons. Don’t really care 
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we still are void tho
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I’ve posted this elsewhere. I’ll post it again.
We can solve this issue and the faction problem with one stone.
Blizzard should dissolve factions. I’m not going to put all the arguments here, you all already know them. I’d be fine with new factions so long as they’re chosen by players, not race or class locked, and have impact mainly in PvP so you can otherwise group, be in cities together, etc. Allow players to play whatever races they want in whatever cities they want with whoever they want while raiding with whoever they want.
As part of that consolidate the races. Remove allied races except for Nightborne who should be made a full race. All other races should be merged down to their base race. Everyone should be able to go to the barber and set whether they want to play for example a Darkspear troll or a Zandalari and that sets the race in their tooltip and so on and defines a set of looks for them that they can use while it is set.
For Blood Elves and Void elves this would mean merging them as well into a single race. By default this can be called High Elves as both are originally (and still biologically) High Elves, “Blood” was taken simply because of the loss of so many of their people and the vow for remembrance, while “Void” was taken because they were corrupted by void and now have evil whispers in their heads trying to enslave them.
The new merged High Elves will be able to choose one of three race settings and tooltips, either “High Elf”, “Void Elf”, or “Blood Elf”. For lore purposes any paladin created characters will not be able to select void elf. Selecting one of these gives you a locked set of appropriate appearance choices. For High Elves you have blue eyes at the least, natural hair colors as seen on NPCs and in art. Importantly outside of class restrictions people should be able to change this freely in the barber shop. If Blizzard wants to implement a 7 day cooldown or something that’s fine. If they want to make it 1k gold or something to discourage super frivolous changing but still leaving it in reach they can do that.
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Blizzard. There are issues with the hairstyles with tentacles that need to be addressed before this releases. The most glaring one is the ponytail on female velves. With the removal of the tentacle there is now a giant gap in the center of the ponytail that looks unnatural. Can that please get fixed? Otherwise thank you so much for these lovely changes. You have brought me one step closer to my desired identity as an Alliance High Elf.
One big request I would like still addressed is entropic embraces’ void effect. if that can be toggled like the tentacles in hair that would be appreciated. Thank you again so much blizzard!
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You didn’t solve anything by merging faction you clown.
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Oh the naivety of some that thought it would all end, that it was all over given the recent ptr additions.
We have come full circle and have began from square one.
It is reassuring to see that the general WoW community on GD seems to be over all the “helf” threads still. You got your flavour of “high elf” as close as you can get them to being straight out copies of Blood Elves, if more come to Void Elves it should be more into there void aspect.
But imo, they need a back seat for awhile. Got too much special treatment as is.
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Oh no? Long queues for one side? Empty hall of fame for raid progress on one side? Players on one side left with few opportunities for PvE and PvP advancement? Players on one side shafted with single-faction mob tagging on a game now dominated by the other? Lack of social opportunities for one side? People forced to play races they’d rather not because there are no opportunities for them on Alliance side? How about the fact that if WoW continues to decline many people are left on low pop servers which are now empty and divided into two camps is worse than being in one big camp for those people? I could go on and on.
The real clown show would be Blizzard not merging factions and instead letting Alliance whither to nothing player-wise while continuing to pretend in lore like it’s a mighty force irregularly attacking and standing toe-to-toe with the Horde. Sometimes you need to change the lore and the story to fit or fix meta issues. Blizzard has never been good with this but it’s now time to get good with it. The faction conflict is played out anyways. Devs have never really cared for it, it’s some amusing thing they trot out but it’s clear from their development and writing they really want the factions to come together all the time. It’s time for the sloppy writing to end. Either no more universe shattering threats to come together to fight, go to much smaller regional threats like bandit lords or what have you (doubt it, that doesn’t fit the Blizz rule of cool) to keep the faction war brewing or put the faction war aside and continue to stand together against big bads.
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Keep fighting the good fight for Helf customizations. After three years of constant abuse from the anti crowd you pro Helf crowd are finally making headway.
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They still need to add tattoo and Paladin before 9.1.5 launch
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https://youtu.be/JEsgomaSW20*
I just want to share this …
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My favorite shot of the day today on the PTR taken today.
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I love it. Looks like everyone in there is having fun.
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Just so very funny.
There are too many helfers who need legitimate access to a real dictionary, it seems.
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Feel like I’m going to miss those High Elf colored armor sets from BFA.
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