While I do agree that BE needs something in exchange, Iâd hate to see undead paladins when forsaken canât for lore reasons. We already have 3 fandoms at each others necks, letâs not add forsaken fandom to it. 
And Blood Elves can have Golden eyes regardless of class, itâs not that serious. Most of the Forsaken Elves consider themselves Forsaken Elves from what we have seen, right down to Sylvanas when she returns to her home to say good bye to loyalists.
Most undead posters Iâve seen have been very supportive of BEs receiving such customization so the idea the Undead fans are going to be at BE throats is totally based on assumption that so far has no merit. And whatâs more, the Forsaken should be getting new customization to be Nathanos like if anything, not turned into another facet of Elf let the Undead BE skins go to the BEsâŠ
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Well. Iâve always wanted to play a High Elf because Iâve always liked High ElvesâŠ
If Vanilla WoW had been different, then maybe things would be different. But I remember being excited seeing the High Elves in Theramore and in the lodges.
In Vanilla I was super excited about Quelâthalas being up there and there was the lodge nearby.
Then they did BC⊠and that was fine. Not what I wanted. But it was interesting. But the High Elves were always there.
So⊠for me Itâs always just been about wanting to play my Warcraft 2 and 3 boiâs.
Even if the people youâre talking about exist, it doesnât mean Alliance High Elves shouldnât be playable for those who want to play themâŠ
and honestly⊠considering whatâs going on, it seems pretty cruel not to let people play something theyâve been asking for fifteen years. After all, some of them might not be around to finally see their dream realized.
So it was a good announcement. Hopefully people can finally live out their WoW fantasy⊠and if theyâre misguided and have some other fantasy? Well. Itâs not going to do any harm. Not like it matters.
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Iâm more into the lines of thinking that sanâlayn and dark rangers should be melded to make their own race. It would justify things more. And atm I donât think much forsaken players are in tune atm for things that is elf related.
I donât even know what youâre talking about other than youâre the first person Iâve seen to actively advocate against BEs getting undead skins on the basis of Forsaken fans, when most Forsaken fans are very supportive of BE getting things and vice versa. Iâm a BE fan and never played a Forsaken, but I have a deep love for Forsaken lore and their in game representation, and from what Iâve seen a lot of Forsaken fans are also BE fans.
Whatâs more they are also same faction so what ever small offense youâre assuming is to be had, is now made even smaller.
Sanâlayn should be their own designated AR. But Sanâlayn and undead BEs arenât the same thing. So thatâs where Iâm at with that.
Mostly I dislike the idea due to that paladin lore states undead canât be really be infused with the light as it would literally turtore them to death. And to be paladins you need to be infused with the light.
I also think that helfs are being given more importance than they really are, nor do they have their own city, and they barely have numbers to have a decent squad
I would already unify them with the void elfs, please blizzard unite the silver convenant with the void elfs
Nah, have the silver covenent join the army of the light, and help diversify it along with humans, dwarves and gnomes! (WC2 alliance races)
People that want high elves want them for a number of reasons. For me its because I grew up playing Warcraft II (both vanilla and Beyond the Dark Portal). I was fine with blood elves being the new high elves, but then Wrath of the Lich King came and established them as a collective that sided with the Alliance. The Allerian Stronghold survivors wouldnât have been enough on their own, but combine that with the Silver Covenant and the Quelâdanil Lodge guys and you have a convincingly large enough in-world presence to justify their being playable.
For the record, Iâm not an elf fan and would need very specific circumstances to roll one. That said, I do understand where the people who ask for high elves are coming from, and mainly take issue with how Blizzard has been wishy-washy with that request, bordering on malicious compliance as of Legion.
âGenericâ as an adjective does nothing for your point, because then youâre trying to allude that being different for the sake of being different is better. Void elves are âdifferentâ but are a terrible addition lorewise. High elves might be âgenericâ, but they were already in-game, have a presence in-world, and have been requested for several years.
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D&D Elves are generally chaotic neutral for the most part.
Lore⊠no I donât expect that⊠but I think they might go into more detail about the forthcoming customization⊠and possibly announce the âinheritingâ of options from parent races to other allied races (i.e. Nightborne getting Night Elf skins) and maybe even Darkfallen options for Blood Elves. Of course thatâs probably just wishful thinking on my part
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Iâd say the answer here is to give Blood Elves the âDarkfallenâ aesthetic to make Sanâlayn/Dark Rangers⊠and also let Forsaken be Paladins! 
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Except Iâm not talking about people asking for the wow high elves. Iâm referring to people who are talking about non-wow elves and why they need to be a part of things. Like bringing up Tolkien to explain why high elves on the alliance are needed. I mean Generic Elves as in basically the no frills version of Legolas.
Also that they are asking for that to be reflected basically in the story. If you want to fill your TRP profile out to be that, knock yourself. But Blizz shouldnât change the story to accomodate people asking for the elven races in their game to reflect elves in other properties
Iâm pretty sure those forsaken would love it to be infused with light and slowly burn into ashesâŠ
If the Forsaken want to incinerate themselves with the Light while throwing shields or bashing skulls with a big two-handed mace, who am I to stop them?
Someone should make a comic of a forsaken paladin screaming in pain in different occasions/situations just for the lols.
Numbers mean absolutely nothing in WoW. Void Elves themselves as well as some other races prove this.
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And Iâm not saying that this should not be playable, but equating them with blood elfs has always been nonsense
And more than 15 years they have been discussing who are the real high elves
I am blizzard and I kill that name forever, two different paths for blood elfs and rebel High elves, two different names and more marked differences
to unlock this void elf, i had to get exalted with nb, as if i was going to get them as an AR, then i was allowed to rep for velfs. so if you think nb was a pain to get, you shoulda been there for velf rep grind. it was at least another month of rep grinding. not only did we have to get exalted with nb, we also had to get exalted with highmountain and that azsuna and dreamweavers too. all that just to have the privilege to rep grind another month to get a race with hardly any lore, a home consisting of a rock, and original sold to us as velfs like alleria hehe. woot, finally, its coming sorta true.
Iâve got all of the ARs at this point.
Void elf is one of my favorites. They need work, but I think they have a lot of potential.
NBâŠis alright, but the rep grind was boring and Iâm just not super excited.
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