I think itâs fair to say when one says high elves theyâre referring to itâs people not the nation.
Also why do you feel the issue is design only? I feel like itâs pretty easily to make them different and with all this fan made art it doesnât take too much imagination to see how they can be unique.
When you say âsince WC 2â it is an incorrect and disingenuous statement that ignores all the lore people claim to enjoy.
Now, as for.mosification
You have void elves filling that aspect of being modified.
If the issue is lore, then that can be changed accordingly to include the high elf group.
Otherwise, itâs demanding a racial slot for what the horde possess already. Essentially asking for two bites of the race to the hordeâs one.
That is just begging to piss people off.
Ot creates jnequal design, requires a lore rewrite. Basically far nore work than necessary for what wont be worth the pay off.
I feel like a lot of your argument has to do with feelings of people you canât possibly predict or expect but for laughs if you look at Lightforged they came out the other end fine.
I mean, the devs literally commented on why void elves were picked over high elves. It was iterated again by Ions statement of " the horde is waiting for you.".
I dont aim to predict thoughts of feelings for anyone. I go off what has been said and demonstrated.
As for lf dranei, they stayed on the same faction as their parent race. It is not the same.
I think itâs very clear a recognition of the ask, is the first step in delivering the ask. So a joke it may be now, but comedy is often used to set the foundation for a future stance change, especially when smoothing over things with people that have traditionally agreed with their current stance.
So itâs a nice allude to whatâs to come I think.
Nobody asked for High Dwarves tho.
The joke is obviously a recognized hint at High Elves.
The alluding to the future stance change is the recognition of the long fight for High Elves.
Pandaren I was informed recently also started out as an April Fools before being made playable on the core creation screen.
Pandaran had a long history in Warcraft before they ever made it into an april fools topic.
No, but now that they mention it, high dwarves sound great. Joke or not, it also sounds like they are more likely to make it into the game than a race that already exists on both factions.
I didnât say they didnât have history in WoW. I said they were an April fools joke prior to being added.
Alliance High Elves also have precedence in history and presence in game after all, Iâm just comparing the similarities between the two situations and remaining optimistic on the subject 
Edit: just wanted to say WC3 while I havenât played it since I was young (and I have no interest in re playing it in reforged lol) was one my favorite games and I very much loved the founding of Orgrimmar and it remains one of my favorite things about the Horde despite people often citing the aesthetic as the one thing they dislike about the Horde. I positively love it 
hehe he said, how in the hell are we gonna explain this? he knew, all the devs knew at the time, horde belfs didnt just mess with lore, it tore thru the fabric of wow reality like a bull in a china shop. but the horde needed the help. they dont need it anymore. now they just have to help keep the whole game viable, not just their corner of it.
Are you leveling a warlock too!
It is glorious! My true calling outside of a mage and priest but to replace my mage!
Though I did watch some wow video of compilation of a Horde version and Alliance version of War of Thorns just for nostalgia, and it had a Paladin and I thought that looks fun⌠but I have a boosted Paladin and it wasnât fun to me but maybe if I level one.
Regardless I have had such little time to level or do much in game lately!
I am! Though I have an alliance side warlock at 120 already. My horde locks have always been off for me story wise so I often deleted them.
This ones story I quite like. So lucky Vidris. 
I have such trouble getting into a character that isnât magic based, so I couldnât make a hunter to replace my mage.
It had to be Warlock or Paladin but I dislike melee but I could heal but it still looks somewhat melee so here we are.
Glad you like your story for Vidris! A Nightborne warlock is a nice narrative!
Edit: PS I think I will breathe new life into my mage with Alliance HEâs⌠he be my one I switch!
So, maybe you should take up on your own words. It was QuelâThalas that left the Alliance after the Second War, not the race. Yes, there is still quite a few High Elves that have still been loyal to the Alliance, ever since QuelâThalas splitted from the Alliance.
Iâm glad as well. His story is even tied into Fezzyâs familial storyline. Quite enjoyable.
I hope one day I get to meet them as such.
Lannisterian is tied to Lannisteros too! I was thinking about making a second priest but decided against it. And thatâs why I chose Golden eyes, a family of Priests and Paladins. And a scholarly priest drop out to take up his true calling as a warlock, left his eyes golden.
If I ever change them to green I may just have fun with the idea of the use of Fel effecting him Iâm unsure, I do like golden eyes.
Heh maybe! When I came back to the game I knew I wanted a priest, and I knew I wanted an Alliance main character to play, and a new Horde main character⌠but since I had already done Horde story on my mage, I decided to make my new alliance character first.
And since I knew I was TIRED of my mage and wouldnât be playing him I never posted on the forums on him.
I donât regret it, but I do identify with my Horde character more, and the faction a bit more and the BEâs a bit more and Iâve acquired T3 on Lannisteros shrugs
We may see less of him should I acquire it here, I do so love a good red background.
But I too hope to see him as a glorious Alliance affiliated High Elf one day!
Well you stated âstarted out as an April FoolsââŚso thatâs why I responded that way.
This sounds like pedantry for pedantryâs sake. The high elves for effectively 99% of their history could be considered one and the same as Quelâthelas. Was there any actual split within their people until the scourge came?
There were some elves who went elsewhere, studying abroad in Dalaran, or the ones who volunteered to help the Alliance where their nation did not. But up until they joined the Horde, were any of those an abandonment of their people as opposed to doing a thing as a citizen that doesnât line up exactly with the governmentâs stance.
You canât claim high elves have been allied with the alliance since WC2 when the story says theyleft the alliance after WC 2.
Remnants who chose to do their own thing =/= the entirety of the high elf race.
As I said earlier, even then, not all high elves are alliance.
Dalaran high elves are neutral.
Quelâlithien were neutral.
You only have the SC and theyâre not representative of their group.