While I donât see it actually happening , if Blizzard ever wanted to open the Paladin class up to Void Elves, they could simply recolor all their abilities (and icons) the blue/black of void effects in place of the yellow holy light color much like Warlocks can get green fire.
If they wanted to get real fancy they could have the class name show up as Shadow Knight (or some other new and interesting name) instead of Paladin and have their abilities do shadow damage instead of holy damage. The healing is a non-issue since we already have shadow based healing spells so there is precedent for that.
Heck, if they did this it wouldnât even have to be for just Void Elves. It could be for Forsaken as well! And beyond that, the same concept could be applied to other classes if Blizzard wanted to proliferate them to other races but give them a unique flair.
I can play a Void Elf Holy Priest. So⌠they donât need to recolor anything.
While thatâs true⌠wouldnât it be cool if the same idea was an option for priests too? You could still play exactly as you do as a Holy priest⌠but have all the cool void visuals!
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Glyphs.
My Void Elf Discipline Priest is more Void Elfy because of one.
That would require⌠a lot of glyphs >_>
Unless there was one glyph used on a racial or class passive that just changed everything
Same amount of work as youâre suggesting though. 
The Alleria Turylon burning eachother thing does make Lightforged Shadow Priests and Void Elf Holy Priests an oddity for story reasons.
But if theyâre just gonna make some High Elves in the Void Elf faction then they might as well just throw Paladins in there too.
Iâd take it either way⌠in fact just doing it as a single glyph you use on a class passive would be ideal since its a system that could be used for any class and any number of themes. Like a âglyph of eluneâ that makes turns the holy yellow light color of abilities the soft blue/white light of elune for priests (and potentially night elf paladins if that happens).
make shadow-hunters etc. Easier than making specializations that do things like that.
Would have been a good use for Glyphs the whole time.
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I feel with the creation of the Renâdorei they now can add the Silver Covenant and High Elves in the Alliance Renâdorei customization options, we all know the lore, Why create a new AR when the model is there already, kinda like they are doing with the Wildhammer Clan. We all know the High Elves still on the Alliance side will never would never go back to the Sinâdorei not after all they have done under the Horde flag to the Alliance High Elves. Imho.
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Both cases Iâd rather an AR.
Wildhammer deserves their own racials, as do high elves.
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I donât understand why the âVoid Elfâ paladin thing is so complicated?? Simply force a âVoid Elfâ Paladin to be restricted to High Elven options in the customization. Give them secondary racial abilities or change the visual effect to fit the High Elf or paladin aesthetic. Have some flavor text somewhere stating the Thalassian Paladins are full blown High Elves part of the Silver Hand.
Considering that we can currently have Blood Elf Warlocks with golden eyes and Paladins with green yes it would just make sense to say that that canonically all the Paladins are the normal looking ones but itâs not a hard restriction on customization.
I would agree but imho its being kinda picky to say new AR, instead of using existing models that are there already. Just my opinion though, We know they are deserving but its kinda repetitious. Just my opinion though.
Nah thatâs fine. I see the reason and the idea behind it, itâs just neither fit the racials (dwarf for Wildhammer and void elf for high elf) for their parent race. You also lose voice lines, racial mounts, a tabard ect.
Both races I feel have long been deserving of such care.
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Yeah, just because they gave you skin colors, doesnât mean they have to take your fanfic as game lore. Feel free to RP your void elf as a SC war criminal all you want though.
But thatâs what you got. And Blizzard isnât going to take your weird non-canon view of what blood or high elves are into account in the future I hope.
I think itâs fair to see the HEs officially being taken into the VEs. A statement from Blizzard or in game story showing it would be better of course. But we have the ones in Telogorus rift already, both HE and more BEs just come out and officially say these are the new VEs would be enough for most.
Like Iâve said, my biggest concerns about blizz doing something like this are the story. And this whole âAnd thatâs howcome blood elfs are evilâ is the last thing I want to see hit the game.
The least they can do is a few NPCs talking like they did for Classes in Cataclysm.
The best they can do is a quest that gives you an Armor Set and maybe a Mount and customization options.
And Paladins.
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