This is mass delusion. We got High Elves in the form of Void Elves.
Shows over, weâre done here.
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Probably nothing for the next 3-4 years because Void Elves entire thing is just to be Blood Elves but inferior both from a lore and design standpoint.
Youâre cooler than Belves.
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Oh man canât wait for the expression in the face of the High Elves at the Silver Covenant when they get the memo they are now part of the Horde.
Shows Yellian out
I mean. Blood Elves are getting the âhigh elfâ âââdefining featureâ"". You lost, fair and square and youâre never getting them.
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Well judging by you playing a Demon Hunter I can see why youâd think that, but personally I just have to disagree and I just donât see it as positively because Iâm not as heavily a fan of edgy stuff, also hereâs a number of problems the race simply has:
Weâre infused with Void which is always going to be the villain juice in every storyline whereas Blood Elves are the righteous Holy Light elves which will always be the objectively heroic force in the narrative.
We have far less customization and our customization looks even worse than Blood Elves as of these expansion details.
We live in a floating rock and they get to live in a beautiful golden city.
They have way more characters with strong history, lore, and ties to the world that have existed for far longer whereas we only get Alleria, who is good, but then we also get Umbric who is a nobody.
We have less popular class options than Blood Elves.
Hell, even Nightborne get better lore than we do. People wonder why the High Elf complaint exists in such vocal fashion and it comes back to how poorly treated and implemented Void Elves have been since their inception.
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Their defining feature is their loyalty towards the Alliance, and their resistance against mana addiction without sucking mana out of living beings.
They can always have a different model like devs did with Kul Tirans. Physical appearance is irrelevant.
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The light is just as evil as the void.
You share their characters, history and lore.
The Nightborne are french, I pity them and their silly, taunting accents.
A handful of high elves that didnât change their name is the least viable reasoning to take a race from the horde and give it to the alliance, sorry. Developers themselves even expressed that.
Itâd be like saying draenei joined the allianceâŠbut not ALL dranei joined and some kept the name eradar and thereâs eradar horde NPCs therfore they should be horde
Itâs silly, pointless, and would be a slap in the face to the horde.
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Theyâre the same race. You can quit attempting to deny fate. Nailâs in the coffin forever now.
Kul Tirans and Humans are the same race as well.
Oh and Undead too.
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No not really. Theyâre separated by mortality and hundreds of years of differentiation compared to some elves having a spat over what amounts to hunting.
The âloreâ is just a means so you can get your âprettyâ elves on the âgoodâ guy faction.
Numbers doesnât matter sis. If Void Elves, Darkspears, Bilgewater are all a thing, then the group of High Elves that you mention can.
Now⊠on the other side, if the reason is because they donât want to give a copy-paste race with different eyes, then yeah thatâs a valid reason and I can get behind. But leaning on lore because they are just a âhandfulâ of people⊠nah.
I (personally) would rather have other races becoming AR in either Alliance or Horde because I think the game already have too many playable flavors of elves.
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Prior to BFA, there were 0 differences between Kul Tiras and the rest of Human nations, for example: take a look at Theramore NPCs, who came from Kul Tiras.
Kul Tiransâ âcultureâ was exaggerated in order to introduce them as an AR. This was stated by devs themselves in an interview available on YouTube.
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Blizzard tells you as such but they donât show it well at all, look at this recent patch where a possible future shows the Void Elves all going insane and succumbing to the Old Gods, ultimately betraying the entire world in the end and how this expansion has been capped off with the Void being the big bad once again.
Blizzard does nothing to connect Void Elves to the history of the rest of the Blood Elf people, they are entirely something else and part of that issue stems from them giving Void Elves a no-name character as their face. We do get Alleria, but it feels hard to connect her with Void Elves much as her characterization is wildly different from the race as a whole, and she resembles more a High Elf that uses the Void rather than a true purple Void-infused elf.
And if Kaelâthas shows up in Shadowlands and is far more connected with the Blood Elves in the narrative with the Void Elves having nothing to show for it? I wonât be the least bit surprised because it really does seem as if Blizzard only made Void Elves playable just to silence the High Elf request and nothing more interesting than that.
Good. They did a good job.
âHigh elfâ lore has already been done, dealt and delivered long ago. Youâre not getting them. And you never will.
Youâre not a dev, so your opinion is just that - an opinion.
Iâll keep asking for what Iâd like to see implemented in this videogame, just like they asked us to do.
Are we done here?
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Fixed that for you, show me any reason to be hyped about Shadowlands from a perspective as a Void Elf player who is already dealt limited lore compared to the other allied races.
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The developers saying they are already playable in the game on the horde side does, though.
And like you said, taking a race from one faction and giving it to the other with just an eye color change in my opinion would be a slap in the face to the horde.
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