I think the other capitals would be used significantly more if they gave them all a facelift, a transmogrifier/barber, and a small portal room linking to the other capitals.
I believe that would be fine. Let orgrimmar and stormwind keep be big portal rooms that have many more portals than just the capital cities and other important quest/story things.
with the whole shorter ears thing I believe they should remain an NPC only option for now to be used for half elf NPCs.
It would be a good opportunity to give kalec a new model as well as spread some half elves among the high elf societies.
Blood elves having the option for short ears just doesnât sit right with me.
yeah they kinda painted themselves into the corner. they over hyped the horde, then directed helfers to play belfs in lieu of getting playable high elves on alliance, then made a m+ boss fight cheesed by belf arcane torrent racial before the nerf, then made a new op race only playable by belfs on horde *demon hunters - and now the bulk of the playerbase are one race on one faction. no one will be able to ask for anything without the belf community agreeing to it first or being neutral to it. the quality of life of your faction/race/class is now in the hands of the belf community. the devs will have to tiptoe around them.
So much this! Also add in the trolls, Gnomes, and rebuild the Night Elf and Forsaken cities⊠All of them should be full cities.
Half elves donât sit right with me being an entire race, they were born between a relationship between an elf and human, not enough lore to be a race. Give them to Blood Elves and High Elves.
blood elves should have blue, red and purple eye options but they dont need to also be half elves. half elves of the human-high elf variety, are an alliance race, as they are the result of humans and alliance high elves, not humans and horde blood elves.
Pfff, please this never happened when all the capitals were mostly the same (A.K.A. Vanilla to Cata times). The big bad portal room in the main capitols is too much convenient gameplay wise to bother with the rest.
Basically only RPers give a f* over the other factional cities; your average player doesnÂŽt bother with them cause why travel further when you can find EVERYTHING you need in one place?
And mind you, itÂŽs thanks to this behaviour that the strat of ignoring the other racial cities and put everything on the main capitols has worked for the devs. To spend resources on those cities just to catter to a small percentaje of the population (and we can infer this is indeed objectively and statistically a small percentaje taking into account the RP exclusive servers ARE very few in comparison to the regular ones; and devs -who had access to this data- surely used it to calculate the minimum required number of servers to properly satisfy the RP player population) IS a waste of resources that could be used to implement actual playable content FOR EVERYBODY (indeed they cost a raid tier).
We might not like it, but itÂŽs true. And a smart sensible choice all things considered. I rather see Silvermoon languish in itÂŽs TBC timeline if this means I donÂŽt have to suffer through another 6.1 patch.
Excuse me, the ear lenght choice is a perfectly valid cosmetic one for ALL the elf races -we only saw it on Belves, but what about seeing it on Nelves or NB or Velves-; and while I personally donÂŽt dig the shortest one; IÂŽm sure other players WHO DONÂŽT RP AS HALF ELVES BTW, will appreciate it A LOT because the issue with elf ears clipping and ruining helm tmogs will probably diminish. And this is miles more relevant and global in the general player population than the niche half elf RPing.
Sorry but as far as IÂŽm concerned half-elf RPers donÂŽt have the exclusive patent over elf ear size, so if this customization can be used as an additional perk for everybody COMPLETELY SEPARATED from the hybrid BS I say itÂŽs a perfectly ok choice made by the art team of Blizz.
Done with the QQ?? Cause this is just a loong QQ diatribe, dear. No more and no less, and the fact actual competitive Mythic and Mythic+ teams arenÂŽt full of Belf avatars kinda destroys your argument.
Pot meet kettle. You are one of the posters that complains most about âcretin Belf posters messing around with your harmless petition to get playable thalassian elves on Allianceâ; but now apparently we defending the right to keep what we already have is âunfairâ. Excuse me, who gave you the right to take our stuff -stuff we have played with and bonded with for more than a decade-?
Get you playable Helves ALL you want, I donÂŽt care, but keep your disgusting greedy fingers from our territories (QuelÂŽthalas), our culture (Farstriders -you can have your own version; however good luck with the idea that we Belf fans will be A-OK with this portion of Belf culture being taken from Belves to give exclusive access to you people-; also hands off our runic tatoos if we get them) and our NPCs (no, you canÂŽt gel Astalor nor Halduron nor Liadrin; develop your own characters ffs!!).
As much as they have to tiptoe around the Nelf playerbase regarding giving druidism and Sentinel stuff to the Nightborne, for example. Or giving them Ahsenvale cause reasons or a bunch of other racial exclusive stuff.
Ear size does not make a half elf, dear. This is purely playerbase headcanon.
If anything, it seems ears size is gonna become a common customization option for ALL elf races -some people apparently saw longish ear size on Nelves-. Just like irl humans ears and noses have different proportions and this does not make them less humans genetically wise.
Iâm confused on how an elf having smaller ears makes them a half elf. Iâts kinda like saying if a human has a smaller nose they are half human or something.
Funny⊠I remember Ironforge being the hub for the Alliance⊠Also Darnassus was always full on my server. It wasnât until things started to only be in SW that the other cities emptied out.
the thing is though is that blood elves shun half elves. They donât make sense to be part of blood elf society, In the old RPG lore you would be exiled from quelâthelas for having half elven children.
Do you have actual sources other than the non-canon RPG?
on hand? no. However I am sure someone with the information available will be happy to show canon lore where half elves are not looked in high regard by the people of quelâthelas.
Uh-huh.
Look at this pot calling the kettle black.
The customization option to allow an ear slider, is great. No one is saying donât RP your character. However I will argue against the idea that the ear slider is a confirmed Half Elf indicator, and is some sort of additional slight to the Pro HE community.
Itâs an ear slider, I would guess if implemented NEâs would get it to. Their comments on diverse humans when first announced in the fact they always considered them as such⊠perhaps the ears are the same why would every elf have the same sized ear, perhaps its just now being reflected in game. You can RP it any way you want I am sure, but I do not think it is Blizzard saying âHere are your Half Elvesâ.
True but post Vanilla people migrated towards Stormwind. From TBC to Cata basically all the cities had the same stuff⊠and most player population still took the choice to dwell in Orgrimmar or Stormwind when no apparent advantages were had in those cities -nor huge ones like the current portal room for example-.
You aware short ears are not canonically deemed an exclusive half-elf trait anywhere, right? Shorter or longer, they still look like âknife earsâ, dearâŠ
IŽm sorry, but this is just player BS propaganda⊠ear size customization for all elf races is a perfectly valid choice imho (especially when we take into account the eye color -who WILL vary A LOT for the other non elf playable races- variation is gonna be limited by color in each elf race).
To put it simple, maybe elf ear size can be used to placate elf players regarding the perma complain over ears destroying helm tmog and give more choices on the model precisely because eye color wonÂŽt be a terribly varied customization option. If some use it to RP purposes, thatÂŽs just but a bonus; but probably far from the actuyal reasoning of the implementation.
The problem with Short Ears is that currently Half Elves are literally just Elves with Short ears/eyebrows or just straight up Elf models.
Elves are basically just humans with big ears/eyebrows and often glowing eyes. Thereâs not much to differentiate them aside from those and build.
Aside from being somewhat beefer sometimes they donât have much to show them as being Half Elves.
So it steps into the Half Elf thing rather itâs intended or not.
I mean I support HEâs on Alliance, and I do think the devs should also be respectful of the BE players, to an extent of course. Mostly because a lot of pros are anti BE, whether its citing WC2 and only WC2 and going on about ancestral grievances while ignoring all other lore for BEâs on Horde, and then weaving ideas about re taking Quelâthalas almost as if they forget weâre arguing for playable Alliance Quelâdorei that gets lost in their attempt to steal Blood Elves off Horde.
The latest things being pushed that completely disregards BE player feelings, is the neutral option, a big push to see them neutral, and it is always funny to me seeing people who dislike BEâs saying âwell this is a nice compromise I would accept itâ. What? And you think BE players would like this, to physically move the BE name creation off Horde, and call it âThalassianâ? And then what about the overly pro Alliance posters I mentioned prior, the ones who cite WC2 lore, and canât accept BEâs are Horde⊠how long until they start asking for Quelâthalas to be considered neutral also, or just outright Alliance?
So I support HEâs, and I support the defense of BE story and things, and I hope the devs do too, I also hope the devs implement playable HEâs but in doing so yes I hope they keep the upmost concern for the BE players as well in terms of protecting BE story.
I donât understand how people can want to play High Elves and think making Blood Elves Neutral with facilitate that.
Are they just trying to shut up the arguments and are missing the point?
Some people in the HE âcommunityâ seem to believe that blood elves should have been Alliance from the start, at least thatâs what I get from beliefs like that.