Is it really? I havenāt played a Zandalari yet so idk. But thatās a good sign if thereās already something like this ingame for an existing race.
People are asking for lore to be added. High Elves could be learning from the VEās rn but not change anything, maybe it opens their mind to being open to being more pragmatic about deeper learning. Who knows. The point is we could see HEās swearing fealty to Alleria, and taking on the VE name. High Elf in all but name. Which would open the HE classes up too, and so what, Alliance needs more Paladin classes its equal as is I was told, yet Horde shamans still have more races playable to shaman, Paladin being the class given to Horde in BC is equal, but the Horde class given to Alliance in BC isnāt equal? Add in more paladins.
I think the issue is that the alliance has fewer Paladin options than we should, even tho we technically have 5ā¦itās like having 3 still, with the redundancy of Dwarves and Draenei.
Who knows, maybe they unfold some story of the velves to justify their customizations?
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Which is kinda sorta why I said Paladins should be exclusive to the High Elf customization options.
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Which still wonāt work due to theyāre racialsā¦
It could in a way, penumbral calm doesnāt have a visual que so that one is easy, entropic embrace can just be a glimmer of arcane or silver particles instead of void, the rift ability is a little harder but it can just look like a slower blink.
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Okay lore is fine and iām all about expanding lore but there is just absolutely 0 ways to ever make a void elf paladin viable.
Alleria just being near the sunwell caused a horrible chain reaction and summoned a bunch of void monsters. Blizzard has already shown that itās not possible.
The minute a void elf pledged themselves to the light they would literally explode into pieces. People asking for this just makes me honestly question peoples thought process.
Also, iām not sure if this is true but how can a high elf be a paladin if paladins werenāt introduced until they turned into blood elves and enslaved a Naaru?
Iāll say it again. Iām okay with customization. Iām okay with lighter skin colors, im okay with lighter eye colors. What iām not okay with is people highjacking race and trying to change something that has been established just because it would fit their immersion better.
If the lore supported the customization options being HEās who now call themselves VEās its safe to say they arenāt the same level of Void as you. It would just be another part of your society now in the VEās.
I doubt they would add a toggle. I donāt think they should. Void elves should be void elves. High elves deserves theyāre own slot, or at least half-elves does.
The High Elf paladins, are paladins the same way Humans and Dwarves are. The Blood Elves forcibly manipulated the Light through torturing a Naaru because they lost faith in it. Liadrin for example, used to be a priest of the Light - as you can see in the Blood Elf heritage armour quest.
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Right, they forcibly manipulated the light, this was after they became blood elves and became Blood Knights.
Where were high elf paladins before they enslaved a Naaru?
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Why?
Void Elves can be priests. Obviously they can use the light, unless they heal with the void, in which case it works with paladins the same way, itās just about how they use the power.
I completely agree but if this is the road Blizzard wants to take to try and give us High Elves, itās not out of the ordinary to ask for High Elf options, since out of the 2, High Elves are more popular.
which again many people have stated.
Give them unique racials or change the visual of the racials to better fit the High Elf aesthetic.
Problem is, adding BE customizations to Void elves crosses a line that should not be crossed. Whatās next? Nightborne looking like NE? Forsaken with human appearances? They could have avoided this with a proper compromise of making half-elves and giving them theyāre own rigs, and say they are apart of the silver covenent, maybe even squad led by Arator the redeemed.
They wonāt and it wonāt be right if they did. There is ppl that likes the void theme of the void elves and it would rob them of it.
I see it as a good thing. It allows the HE narrative to be told in a way that doesnāt threaten BE themes, under the VE name.
It adds another potential facet to VE society if lore is added.
The alternative is to rile up HE fans to what? To make them hate this? What does that accomplish other than trying to push HE fans to want a separate AR which I donāt fault if there are some that still do, but what Iām saying is this is a compromise we like and can work with if lore is added. So why are people so intent on trying to ruin it for us? I say ignore them.
Priests and Paladins arenāt really a good comparison though. Priests utilize light but a Paladin is infused with it.
Kind of like how an undead priest can be a holy priest, it causes them pain but itās still very possible.
A void elf is void infused, a paladin is light infused if those two met up:
Void Elf: I PLEDGE MYSELF TO THE LI - āExplodes into visceral piecesā
Magister Umbric: āOh, so THATāS what happensā¦ā
Has anyone started working on transmogs for the new customization being added to Void Elves and High Elves?
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I have not! But Iām most excited for my VE to use the customizations. Iām not going to RP as a HE personally but keep my former BE background, Iām a big Sylvanas fan so I want to imagine I originally joined up with the VEs to spy on them for her. And since her leave of the Horde Iāve become attached to the Alliance and itās values.
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The thing is, in doing this, they crossed that line, not only do we get blood elf skin tones, we get regular blue and purple eyes, and they do as well.
Blizzard has effectively made Blood Elves neutral in the eyes of the Horde with this change, thereās essentially no reason for us not to ask for regular hair styles for what has essentially become High Elves-lite.
Right but you said Alleria even being near the holy sunwell was dangerous, why do Void elves get to be priests in any sense then?
Even if they donāt infuse themselves with light, even using it should make them explode. People are saying they heal with void instead of light, if the two are interchangeable in that way, why canāt void paladins be a thing?
Except they are not high elves lite, but blood elves lite. Do not reward blizz for being lazy.
Gameplay; the reason they can be priests is due to the shadow spec. lore-wise there is no such thing a holy/disc priest void elf.