Iâll be interested to see how this continues to develop.
I think the developers have been smarter about this implementation than a lot of people have given them credit for. The decisions they are making regarding the void elf / high elf / blood elf situation will be healthier for the game moving forward.
Mmm. Iâm not sure about thatâŠ
Itâs a good decision not to give the appearance options to one side and not the other. Otherwise there would be a lot of revoltâŠ
But I think theyâll just gloss over the reasons for it because of new customization and I donât think thatâll appease most people who want High ElvesâŠ
as a group people who want to play High Elves are pretty lore savvy. Just being aware of High Elves in the first place means youâre a little lore savvy.
I wanna point out the preview image has belves with dark blue eyes, so itâs more than likely a wip still.
They say itâs a preview⊠but apparently the blue eyes for elves were meant to be an NPC option and then they had some meeting and decided to give it to both sides. According to Ion.
But itâs an actual preview image instead of just saying stuff.
Thatâs why the people boasting about them not having blonde hair is silly.
They were just making an announcement to hopefully put out an internet fire.
And started like 5 in the process.
AS of now i would say the Purple Elf eyes are probably my favorite iâve seen so far of any race. Would be an awesome look for an Arcane mage. Especially with the artifact weapon.
I hope youâre right, but Reno is right too, they did start a whole mess of different fires by doing what they did, not to say that i donât agree with it.
But iâm also hoping they realize that skin tone and eye options are not the âend all be allâ in what High elf fans were chasing after, it has to consist of some story development as well, guess at this point, time will tell.
And just more hair style and color options, cause god damn the male ones are ugly. 
In a way I feel like it was done on purpose to get people talking about it and hyped. I could be wrong but thatâs just what I feel.
I like what I;m seeing so far but I hope they continue to go all out with it including proper hair styles and addressing the issue with the racial. I would think they know they need to get it right otherwise people are going to keep asking.
Please, Blizzard. Give me a reason to use more than just this hair option, LMAO
This is my big fear at the end of all this, if itâs done in another lack luster way, people are just going to keep asking for High Elves.
Exactly, which is what I think they may be doing with the implementation retroactively of the Silver Covenant and all other Alliance aligned high elves as having purple eyes, and making purple available only to the void elves.
No one can ever say it was just about blue eyes again, itâs about the history, the politics, the characters and the story.
Iâm hoping we get the tattoo options as well. Itâs not a gamebreaker for me but it would certainly be nice!
People keep speaking for âHordeâ players about this issue.
Iâm a former Horde main.
Theyâre not getting âBlood Elvesâ - theyâre getting skins to play High Elves.
and frankly, you guys already won in the Allied Race department before, and this seems more like reparations for diaper gnomes + void elves not being high elves to begin with + faction imbalance going nuts for EU/NA + vulpera/nightborne + a million other things this expansion.
Sorry, but the concept of something being âyoursâ is up to Blizzard and Blizzard alone. The Thalassian elf model has lore wise been partially split between the factions since WoTLK, and weâve already been over the whole âHorde only has Blood Elf due to Faction Imbalanceâ thing before - which has been confirmed by Blizzard as well.
The gameâs changing.
Stop hassling people for getting something they asked for.
PS: Blood Elves are gaining stuff, but people want to ignore the new hairstyles/jewelery that are exclusive to them, ontop of the fact theyâll continue to have the main focus for Thalassian elves lorewise.
Yaâll just got a short story.
Kaelâthas is coming back and itâs likely Lorâthemar is going to have some focus on that since ⊠short story doesnât come out of nowhere for no reason.
You guys have Silvermoon - the actual capital in game.
The concept of the elvish âcivil warâ starting up again is very much so more a possibility, which is even more content for Blood Elves.
But na, skins are taking away everything.
As somebody who has played both factions, had (has) a heavy investment into Thalassian elf story/RP, and still participates heavily in Elvish RP in Quelâthalas despite maining Void Elf; itâs time to stop. This isnât going to change anything for you, and it just comes across like toddlers crying the kid beside them some a few candies from the entire package - while they have the rest of the package.
âT-They have more skins now!â
Grats.
You have literally everything else and will continue to get more.
Go ask for the undead skins like every other reasonable person so it equals out.
This was always the issue with the Void Elf Route. People will keep asking for High Elves even if they botch the lore part.
Because lore fans want to play high elves.
Are you referring to the Void Elf skin tone options on the Alpha? If so I donât think that theyâve added all the new skin tones just yet. I heard that Blizzard said they would take a little longer to implement, because they decided to go ahead and add the Void Elf underwear to the new skins instead of the Blood Elf ones. Belvs still donât have the ear size sliders they are supposed to get yet either, so Iâm thinking that both of the new options that are missing for both Velvs and Belvs will be added in the next build.
I think the lore part can be easily corrected. They just for the most part need to make mention of it. Maybe talk about how the Void Elves and High Elves have linked together under the Silver Covenant or something. The leaders of both their groups are sisters anyway.
Idk how likely it is but it would be nice if they got a new tabard even if it was some updated form of the Silver Covenant tabard and a unicorn mount.
The Horde counterpart to this for me would be if the Blood Elves got a SanâLayn option complete with a proper mount and tabard.
Bonus if they each got a new HA but im not gonna hold out for that. Who knows though?
I think the Dark Ranger options are fine.
SanâLayne would prefer that it was itâs own Allied race and I want that for them.
Called it!
Vereesa got purple eyes.