The racials can stay exactly the same but be changed in cosmetic appearance to reflect the High Elf fantasy. Entropic Embrace can be âArcane Embraceâ or something like that. It would do the same exact thing. Void Rift can be Arcane Rift. THe only difference would be the visual effect. If someone wants to stay a Void Elf then they could have the option to keep their racials Void flavored.
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Okay, so youâre just asking for it in a soft reset kind of way⌠I still think itâs something Iâm not a fan of and donât think blizzard will do in such a severe degree.
But I do apologize for thinking you meant a hard reset instead of a soft one.
Still think itâs a crazy idea though.
This is literally not a sentence as it pertains to this topic.
You get the option to stay a Void Elf, itâs just fact that the option to be a High Elf is overwhelmingly more popular and will be more represented player-base wise.
Thatâs literally no ones fault but popularity and player demand.
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Whether I would what it to change or not, Iâm not sure we will be seeing any changes to things on this scale.
Not saying they shouldnât, just that it took how many years to get what your getting now, and changing racial cosmetics is kind of wider than giving a few new skin and eye variations.
I would say that might be something not worth worrying about just yet. Itâs highly doubtful Blizzard would outright just completely replace Void Elves with High Elves. It took 15+ years to get them to this point, and I believe they did so with great reservations.
Unless something drastic happens in the future, Void Elves will still be called Void Elves in the UI, still start in Telogrus, and still possess the option for heavy void themed aesthetics.
Itâs highly unlikely any of that will change. The only thing I would expect beyond whatever weâre getting in Shadowlands is more options for players to opt out of the void themes, like a glyph for Entropic Embraceâs visual to look like something else, like say an Arcane Aura (though I wouldnât expect an option to outright hide it) and even this is something I think Blizzard is unlikely to add.
You concern seems to be how much High Elf aesthetic gets added vs. Void aesthetic, and I can appreciate that. But until we see exactly whats coming youâre probably worrying yourself more than you need to. And also keep in mind that this is a new option coming so its a big deal and thereâs going to be lots of people talking about it and the options they want as Iâm sure youâve already seen.
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Well, because it wasnât the whole sentence? I mean itâs definitely understandable.
Honestly, I donât think the rift will be as big as you think, but honestly⌠As I said before I donât really care in the long run. I just want there to be a divide with void elf stuff coming from blizzard. Ad far as people who play helfâŚrp as much as you want.
Thatâs literally not a concern of mine in the slightest.
I get where youâre coming from but I feel like itâs different this time. This is an expansion where weâre seeing all kinds of different character customization. Theyâve already put one foot in the door on delivering High Elves through Void Elves. They have to know people are going to keep requesting proper High Elf customization if this is the route theyâre taking.
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I guess Iâm more Void Elf than most. I see many roads, possibilities, opportunities, for everyone to get things that make them happy.
I think Paladins can work on Void Elves with the right aesthetics (as in their abilities are all void themed rather than light themed) and lore support (Mayhap Void Elf Paladins referring to themselves as Riftblades rather than Paladins).
I donât think Paladins are likely, but I also donât think they canât work either.
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No no no⌠I appreciate you talking with me.
Iâm not actually worried. Iâm just giving my feedback on what I would prefer to happen. At the end of the day, the full reset could happen and I could wake up tomorrow to find my shadow priest now a high elf. I would be, at worst, mildly disappointed.
I donât think things will be so bad, and the new customization are dope.
Just, as there are calls for more helf flavor for void/blood elves, I want to give a voice to the people who also still want void/blood flavored elf stuff and boy thatâs a weird sentence.
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For lore no, or they make sub race or it is a laugh to make paladins in that
It is impossible to be a void elf and be a paladin
To be frank, lightforged or void elf DKs shouldnât exist either, and yetâŚ
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Yea, itâs not impossible.
Iâm not sure if Iâm a fan of the idea at face value because of the even further implications, but I probably could be brought around.
I think, at least for me, that these customization have to come out and we have to see how much they are affecting the blood elf and high elf lore in some kind of full on official canon capacity.
It could be that, worst case scenario really, Blizzard doesnât plan to address them as anything other than basic customization to appease the role players and they wonât have an effect on canon at all. Which case, this will all seem kinda silly.
Though I hope a more mutually beneficial decision is reached for all fandoms involved.
I highly doubt Blizzard would do something like that anyways. Basically taking one groups race and twisting it into something completely different for another group isnât something blizzard has ever done.
That is not so, what happens with those dk, is that they only show themselves as they were before becoming a dk, they have no strength, neither light nor void, but death, since your powers are more of necromancer than of which you are in life, and that happens with all races
Yea, youâre probably right. Like I said, Iâm not really like caught up in it. Just voicing my thoughts on it on the public forum more than anything.
You are wrong? Youâre claiming a fact with no ability to back it up other than anecdote.
And youâre doing so towards the most played AR.
My point was that you donât have to be so negative about how youâre going about it.
Your opinions are just as valid as anyone. You just sound bad is all.
Blizzard expanded void elf lore to include those wayfarers finally and made it possible for high elf fans to RP their high elves.
Look man have your opinion but chill out a little. You sound like you want velfs to go away.
Iâll grant you this one. Itâs just what it sounded like you wanted.
Again, if you were less negative about it that might not have been the read some got.
We not playing the same game? They were fairly active in the war campaign, and honestly I think these new options facilitate new lore for them.
Weâve all been wondering how they could get more velfs without the ritual. Now we can assume the wayfarers can in fact follow Alleriaâs path.
As Iâve been one of the folk who had been suggesting adding helf customization to velfs I can assure you the Antis (some at least I donât want to speak for them) weâre very much against this.
Two things.
One. I donât know enough about the Karen meme to really comment. Lol
And two. I prefer Nicholas cage in a bear suit for when Iâm being considered ridiculous.
Itâs been my favorite description of me so far.
Sigh Iâll never be able to unsee it.
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The only option they mention is for blizzard to create the title of high elf within an allied race, which can happen, but we know they wonât.
At the moment they are skins that are endorsed by the same allergy, I think that discussing that no longer makes sense
and those who want the high elves will keep asking them, this wonât do
this only works for those who want the skin regardless of the lore
Blizzard could write twelve warcraft novels on Void Elves and I bet people would still insist that void elves donât have enough story or lore.
And yet lightforged still have light-powered tatoos and Naaru runes, and all their racials remain. And void elves still keep their void powers.
If we can pretend that these DKs arenât void elves or lightforged draenei anymore just for the sake of fulfilling a class spot, thereâs nothing forbiding void elf paladins from have some shallow explanation.
I donât think it will happen, but not because itâs impossible. Itâs because Blizzard wonât add any race/class combos right now.
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