The void elves really need new hairstyles with braids and long hair. 
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If they’re so high maybe they should stop injecting all that sticky icky
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aye. not a tat fan myself but helfs, belfs and velfs, all want tats
and we could use some jewelry, tiaras, hair decorations. and fen needs some void grotesque-ry, like multiple eyeballs, stomach mouths, a’la voidberg
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These customizations should be added to void and blood elves. We don’t need another Thassasian elf type to look exactly like belfs and void elves with some additional color variations. It’s a waste of content.
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what happens when you get a third troll race and lets not ignore our third dwarf race coming soon
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I think part of the problem is in Blizzard at times can’t even keep their own canon straight. To your point about…
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“High Elves” as a race is less useful than saying Blood Elf or High Elf, because the overlap of using the later it to refer to the race as a whole just creates confusion regarding the political affiliations that currently exist.
I feel this is largely semantics. Because we already have those other terms like “Blood Elf” to differentiate.
I think the reason people largely see High Elves as being allied with the Alliance while Blood Elves remain firmly identified as part of the horde is because of how they are in fact portrayed in game.
Take Alleria Windrunner for example. Sister to Sylvanas. She too was a ranger captain of Quel-Thalas. Her husband is Turalyon a Regent of Stormwind/Commander of Alliance forces. It was Alleria that chose to lead her forces to Southshore because she felt the horde could be a threat to the elves. She was not ordered to do so. She worked with Khadgar and Turalyon to expel the orcs from Lordareon. She even had a child (Arator) with Turalyon.
There’s more but Alleria and her forces have largely remained pretty loyal to the Alliance. But this is a smaller force from what I have read. At least compared to say the Silve r Covenant. Again though I think the reason people typically associate “High Elves” or rather those that are not blood elves or the further splinter group of void elves is because the game portrays them in a pretty defined way.
Specifically the Silver Covenant (the militant) group of high elves led by the youngest Windrunner sister Vereesa. She too married a human named Rhonin. She staunchly rejected the admission of Blood Elves into the Kirin Tor. Rhonin was killed by an act of betrayal of blood elves within the kirin tor. After this she worked to expel the Sunreavers (blood elves) from Dalaran. So despite the physical appearance? They are effectively at odds with their own brethren.
When people say they want playable high elves? They are likely referring to an Alliance High elf. When you make a human for example? You are specifically making a human that starts out in Elwynn. Not a human from say Gilneas (which now exist with Worgen). With the lack of a proper race/intro for a high elf, the character’s circumstances/origin is more open to interpretation.
At any rate this is all kind of a moot point I suppose since the customization options of blue eyes were added for both blood and void elves. So if you wanted to say have a high elf still living in Quel-Thalas that hadn’t been corrupted by the Fel? You can. But then Blizzard also added golden eyes. So there’s a degree of flexibility there. For me my blood elf has amber eyes because she is a paladin but when I first created her? She had fel green eyes.
But yeah I again like many of the ideas here in this thread. Some blue ranger tattoos would be really cool!
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I agree. I mean they added a Dark Ranger customization complete with Dark Ranger armor. I mean the body type is already there. So it would be more expedient to just add cosmetic/customization options to what’s already there. Void Elves are what they are, so just build on it.
I do like the idea of an option to swap a nameplate. If you make a high elf that looks like a high elf, its a bit silly to see the tool tip/nameplate still say “Void Elf”
I admit as a Nightelf I have been a bit spoiled this expansion. We finally got Nelf heritage armor and druids got a pretty amazing PvE set for guardians.
I know the Zandalari have heritage armor and there is that BLood troll set. But I hope trolls get their own set too.
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Oh yeah! I ended up deleting that character when I changed servers a while ago haha. But still doing model stuff as Rama 
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That argument is pointless. We’re literally getting a 3rd Dwarf race and no one asked for that, while High Elves are the most requested race to be added. Elves are also the most played race.
oh you’re rama? i love your work.
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Your arguments are based on no facts. Nobody wants a 3rd Thalassian elf race, except you. We already have 2 high elf races. It makes sense to tell Blizzard to stop giving us duplicate content with different skins. And if you paid any attention, people are not particularly psyched about a 3rd dwarf race.
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So, we aren’t getting a 3rd Dwarf Race?
We are and we don’t want it.
Your argument is now invalid.
No thought process went into the above sentence. You are just throwing around words at this point.
It really is a semantic issue. “High Elf” in the present of Warcraft just doesn’t meant the same what it meant Pre-third War. Now it refers to a fraction of the once Thalassian people, mostly associated with the Alliance.
It’s frustrating that we keep rehashing the same semantic arguments, the “Well actually blood elves are high elves?!” because it’s just not of any material importance to the actual argument at this point.
The grand majority of the once thalassian people are now blood elves, who still rule the kingdom of Quel’thalas, and are now part of the Horde.
So when people say High Elves, by this, the year of our lord 2023, it should be understood -by both sides- that that’s only applicable to the small fraction of thalassians that still refer to themselves as that.
That High Elves still refers to themselves as such does not -in any way- makes them the same they were pre-third war. Modern High Elves are, always were, an ideological offshoot of Quel’thalas that was more open to work with the alliance and its races, and decided to keep those bonds after their kingdom left the alliance.
Like we have to both understand that most the once high elves are now Blood Elves, and that the current High Elves are very different to what the term referred pre-third war.
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The Blood Troll set doesn’t even display right on Trolls and they haven’t fixed it. It’s because they make sets on the human model. The blood doesn’t cover the Troll toes. So I don’t even have the set on my Zandalari Troll. It just looks so bad.
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I don’t know I think they look cool. I think that not every variant needs it’s own race if it can be done via cosmetics. For example take wildhammer dwarves. You can make a wildhammer with some cosmetics. Dark Iron as an allied race at least feel a bit different from your standard dwarves.
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I wasn’t even aware. I haven’t tried to use the set at all yet. But that’s sad.
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If all dwarves are Alliance, then when making a dwarf character, we should pick a clan (which will be a customization option) and get customization choices based on that clan appearance, instead of getting a brand “new” dwarf race with the same model but a different skin.