High Elf POSITIVITY Thread 😎

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7697

i’ve no headcanon here to wish to see respected.

i have the written lore, and the desire to never make a high elf, because i don’t like their lore or their affinity for humans.

i’m not telling you to unsub, i’m telling you that you shouldn’t stop with your demands. you shouldn’t let this deceit pacify you. what you want is not going to be in game, and no matter if you try to headcanon it, you are not a high elf. you have to accept this is the fact of reality.

and if you don’t continue to demand high elves, you’ve wasted literal years of your life asking.

7698

So you’re an anti HE person who is upset pro HE fans are happy? But you also want us to continue the crusade for HEs? It’s a bit confusing.

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7699

So you’re just hear to threaddump?

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7700

i’m not against helf being added. i believe they should be.

i’ll just never play them, because they’re traitors to their people and homeland.

7701

Technically I’ve only been asking for less than a year.

I imagine you don’t like human players who RP survivors of lordaeron aren’t you?

7702

This is an interesting turn of events, now there are people complaining that Helf people aren’t complaining about the new skins.

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7703

that isn’t an equivalent comparison.

this is more like people rping as dragons. they’re not a dragon, and it’s dumb they do this.

as a void elf, you’re every bit as different from a high elf as a dragon. having it be slightly easier to pretend to be one isn’t delivering what you asked.

7704

If Blood Elves are High Elves than by the same logic Void Elves are High Elves.

Also… we have some things the Blood Elves don’t that adds a little flair to being an Alliance High Elf:

With the High Elf aesthetic and hopefully some additional lore bits added when this goes live, I’d say its an acceptable compromise. If you don’t agree that’s fine but stop trying to rain on our parade. Many of us are happy. We have High Elves whether you want to acknowledge them as such or not.

Stop being such a negative Nancy and trying to ruin our day.

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7705

blood elves aren’t high elves.

one is sin’dorei, the other is quel’dorei. then there’s ren’dorei.

they are separate, nothing will ever change that. hazzikostas is the one that said blood elves are high elves, and it was idiotic.

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7706

If you aren’t actually pro-high elf, you know you don’t have to echo the fan-fic that some of them made up to try and pretend they aren’t all the same damn race.

7707

You’re welcome to that opinion.

Right now though, you’re basically just yelling “stop being happy!” at us. But we can’t hear you over the sound of our High Elf parade.

You don’t have to like it but we also don’t have to agree with you and you shouldn’t be spending so much energy trying to bring us down. Just because you aren’t happy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be.

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7708

we have to wait until June 9 to see if they say something else

If the skin is justified because the high elves are learning to use the power of the void it means that the title of high elf disappears for both sides

sera blood elfs and void elfs

But as I say we must wait to see what blizzard says and if it justifies these changes with lore

7709

I’m just a bit confused because, you seem to be anti HE. But you’re upset because pro HE fans like this compromise and see potential if we get added lore. But what’s more is you’re upset pros aren’t mad about this? I’m not seeing what you’re getting at, other than you want the HE community to be universally mad about this compromise but you yourself hate HEs you say, so I don’t see what difference it makes how HE fans take the news.

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7710

Sounds like they’re just trying to rile some people up. Possibly for some ulterior motives.

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7711

To a point, I agree, but then we see Alleria that just looks… normal, and IDK, it makes clear you don’t have to look corrupted to be a Void Elf, which also implies that its a self denominational issue and about a willingness to study the Void, but not a certain degree of it required, you know?

But just like Blood Elves only had green eyes for a long time to signify their willingness to use Fel, I would like a small hint like that; Alleria’s skin around her eyes is almost magenta; could be interesting to add that sort of otherworly blush.

But this is also very dependent on whether these new skin tones will be in reference to High Elves and Void Elves merging as one political entity and this will be more of a “Wildhammer and Bronzebeard Dwarves” type of deal, or how with Maghar you have all Draenor clans.

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7712

I really do hope that when the customization goes live we get some in-game references about High Elves joining the Ren’dorei and some details on the process they are going through.

Right now we have no idea how new Void Elves are being made. I think it’s unlikely that Umbric and Alleria would try to purposefully recreate what was basically an accident when they have Alleria’s teacher Locus Walker right there to guide new elves in their learning about the void just as he taught Alleria.

It would be a logical explanation as to why these new options are available since Alleria’s process allows her to retain her regular skin and hair colors when not in void form.

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7713

I don’t think you can really use leader NPCs to make points about playable race models. They get all kinds of bells and whistles and extra specialness since they’re leaders or at least major plot NPCs.

I just hope this doesn’t end up losing future void based options for the velf. I think that aspect of them is interesting, and if I keep having to play alliance to play with friends I’d at least like if some of the options leaned into the weird and alien aspects rather than ran from it.

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7714

There’s probably a few who just want to keep stoking the fire… they just havent realized the embers have been doused :stuck_out_tongue:

7715

Not by itself, no. But when Void Elves are going to get that skin tone, it does reveals that the assumption she looked like a HE to “be set apart” is moot, whether it was even an intention or not -which we don’t know-

Cause it might as well be that VE’s were first intended to be able to look more like Alleria from the beginning but got pushback from someone, who knows. Just speculation in either way.

I do agree with that, and if anything, this reveal feels more like a bandaid for the thalassian issue as a whole rather than legitimate customization for Void Elves; I do believe AR are gonna get more customization options down the line, and then we will see more specifically Void Themed customizations.

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7716

Still seems a bit like fitting past events to line up with future developments. With the way they’re actually just blood elf models with skin tone changes in the preview, there’s a good chance that this was a really recent decision to try and shut us all up about the stupid elves already.

And I’m glad you guys got something to be happy about, but not gonna lie, this feels like another straw on the camel’s back for me after the last few expansions. Seems like the writing team is split between alliance fans and people who were upset that the orcs progressed past what they were in WC 1&2, so all the stuff that drew me more into the horde story is getting ignored or actively discarded and retconned to make us into some generic evil monster faction that only gets spotlight when we’re killing the good guys.

This is like a great big “Hey, we’re listening to you” for the people that wanted that. And that’s nice for you. I just have trouble seeing much for the people who liked the WC3 and original WoW style Horde that says they understand how bad they messed up with us.