I would just like to point out that people should stop bumping the other threads.
Last time there was this many the entire subject was locked and we lost the train of High Elf Discussion threads.
Edit; For the record, Void Elf and Night Elf customization threads are their own thing and donât actually count as âHigh Elfâ threads, unless Blizzard straight up labeled them as High Elf skins.
I have a good idea where convo consolidates if this thread is locked. But yeah I think we should stick to this one, and mostly seemed to be until recently again. Though sometimes I noticed people bumping all threads at once.
Some people just want to argue.
It doesnât really help to do that and should be discouraged.
Not naming names but itâs getting a bit aggravating to try and track multiple threads just because some people want to gripe.
This is still the thread the discord encourages conversation to happen at, so Iâve been staying to this one. With another one in mind if it were to lock again, but until it caps I believe this should be considered the main thread even when unlocking.
But I have noticed tit for tat posting from posters at the same minute almost across all threads that has been annoying, even the disagreements in here have been a bit more calm imo perhaps like you said thatâs why they are using other threads, less positivity about HEs more just arguing.
I would encourage more to concentrate on what we like about High Elves then trying to be rude to one another, especially since there are so many positives about High Elves to talk about. 
Since people are linking Talendrionâs art in another thread I figured I would link some here.
These feel very High Elf-y
Those are very nice!
Very ranger esque in my opinion!
Agreed on High Elves for the Alliance. While it sucks they were not able to be in BFA to help out, I look forward to them joining later.
The Horde lost several major battles. They had some early success in the War of Thorns (which at the Battle of Darkshore the Night Elves & Worgen turned around), as well as in Stormsong. However, Lordaeron was definitely bad for them. The Alliance may not have taken the city, but the Horde was kicked out. Zuldazar was a big Alliance victory as well. The Horde chased out an enemy who was already leaving. From there, the Alliance won Stromgarde.
Anduin was weary of fighting Sylvanas and seeing all the death that was occurring. He didnât see a way of going into Orgrimmar and getting Sylvanas without massive bloodshed.
The Horde, even after the War, is not in as strong of a position as the Alliance is. They both took a massive beating in this war, this was not entirely one sided in terms of battles won / lost, but in the end I think the Alliance not only won but has the more favorable position.
Major appearances would of been nice, but we canât ignore that they arenât being forgotten.
Vereesa was at the siege of orgrimmar along with some of her High Elven ballista.
And yet it is shown in cinematic to be explicitly clear the Alliance was at its war exhaustion capacity. Meanwhile Sylvanas sort of shrugs off the losses the entire time.
My recollection iirc was that he explicitly doubted having enough to take the city. He never said âthis will be hard thereâs no easy way to win without massive lossesâ, he literally was skeptical they could even win.
The Horde had 0 loss of life at Orgrimmar save for Saurfang, and it was the loyalists alone Anduin doubted even being able to beat with Horde help from non loyalists. So why would they be in a worse place now? It seems pretty clear they lost the war and the battles that goes without saying, but the victory looks way more hard won on Alliance.
They did, and yet Alliance is shown as repeatedly being in the weaker position prior to Orgrimmar despite its victories, during Orgrimmar doubting their ability to take the city, and after Orgrimmar when the High King is all to eager to end the war. Then you have Tyrande who is unhappy which is a clear sign of division, and is a stark contrast to the re unification of the Horde. So no where anywhere do I get the sense they are âin the weaker positionâ, Alliance won the war hooray yet is weaker because of it, thats how things work sometimes.
Iâm sorry. If I get a reply, you know Iâm bound to reply.
I think this is an excellent summation of the war overall.
The Alliance had the overall win but it cost them dearly and while the Horde too lost a great deal they are effectively in the stronger position overall.
We donât have a megathread right now and havenât for some time. I assume thatâs because it was locked down when there was one thread up?
Anyway, the point is that if a megathread came back I would agree, but the side ones pop up because the main one gets locked down.
This thread was created by the HE community with my own take on it of course, but it is the official thread in that sense, and is under announcements in the discord as the thread to discuss at.
Now thatâs not to say anyone is obligated to talk here but it would cut down on spam, and I had help with this thread, I could have made a megathread, I could have tried a copy and paste past megathreads but thatâs too similar imo and neither was the choice we went with and the thread that is up today is the route that was taken.
So while not a detailed megathread as in the past it should for all intense and purposes be where we can share art, and discuss the HE topic until itâs capped, (with obvious breaks in posting assuming during a lock)
I agree with Dredes statement that the postings in the other threads are imo not done in good faith to argue for HEs and more just to argue especially since this thread is not locked anymore. But to each their own.
They joined the Horde to appease the Asian market, where girls apparently wanted to play cute elfies with their boyfriends. Anything in-lore is a tacked on excuse that will never make sense without a disgraceful suspension of disbelief.
This thread was created because the megathread was locked down, right? Then this one at one point was locked? Or has it stayed open the entire time?
The new threads pop up because there is no central place. This always happens. Thatâs why this one is here, correct? However, it is not a megathread. When one of those opens or is created it will streamline things I think.
This thread was created after there was no HE thread after the love thread capped. A megathread was discussed when creating it, that route wasnât taken. There wasnât even going to be another thread when I volunteered to make this one. I had help from several people including the person who was in charge of past megathreads.
So no this isnât a 200 page thesis on HEs. But it is the official thread encouraged to discuss HEs at by the HE community.
The current iteration of the Love thread is nice, and I imagine itâs useful when and if this thread gets locked. But until this caps this is still our place to be able to discuss HEâs.
Iâm not sure when or if there is going to be another megathread like in the past. But this thread being created by the HE community, and on the community discord as our thread should be enough? Unless the intention is just to spam and argue then to each their own.
Really? Averie was lined up with one made at one point and somehow that got skipped if I remember correctly. I was bummed that hers never got made.
The title of this one doesnât sound like a central area to me though. The love thread either.
Just curious here. Why wasnât a megathread created?
Why do people keep bringing this up? This doesnt help any case for helvesâŠin fact, this damages the argument.
If you are in the discord I would suggest looking at the announcement page, where you can find the current community backed thread in the future, if youâre unsure. As the megathread style of threads has temporarily been replaced with community backed threads. That could change in the future but I donât see it changing for the time being.
Edited: I took out the context of what I said Iâm assuming youâve seen it.
The new thread was made before this one, but the mods have no consistency and allow a bunch of extra threads to stay open now.