Hey Katiera I know this isn’t normally your style but
there’s a whole post worth of words and it helps you understand if you read all of them, not just some of them.
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Problem for Nightborne is they are rigged differently than Night Elves. Even if you transmogged a Nightborne and Night Elf to be wearing the same armor that covers their bodies entirely you would still be able to tell them apart right away. Giving Nightborne more skin tones would be a good thing, but even giving them the same skin tones as Night Elves won’t make them look like Night Elves.
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Seems needlessly petty, since you could’ve unsubscribed when they added void elves, a group with roughly the same story outline and population as high elves.
Before you look for some reason to dismiss my opinion, high elves are the blandest type of elf for me. I would’ve been fine if they were removed in vanilla.
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You’ll always be one of my favourite posters on this board, but come on, in terms of lore the void elves being literal blood elves from Silvermoon, with all the baggage and development attached, was a much bigger blow to the blood elves’ uniqueness as a Horde race than some meaningless RP skin tones. The fact that you can now RP your void elf as having been a high elf beforehand really isn’t that offensive to me. It’s what their backstory should have been to begin with IMO.
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That has to be backfiring. I’m specifically leveling an Alliance warrior because vulpera players tend to be the worst.
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Okay, I like this.
I wasn’t expecting to like the level squish but the revamp on leveling is actually interesting to me.
Now they finally pull their collective heads out their rears on High Elves. Not perfect but sensible.
The artwork for Ardenweald looks great.
Now just to wait and see what the story shows for Ardenweald, The Night Warrior, and Sylvanas.
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I disagree with the paladins aspect, Void Elves use and cast light based magic as Priests, it should make sense that they can be Paladins.
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Ooooo.
Will the Nightborne get an optional Nelf style rig to compensate the Horde?
Look at it this way:
The Alliance already had High Elves in membership of it, as well as Void Elves as of BFA. They are not getting green eye or yellow eye options, so all they are effectively getting is the ability to create playable characters that were already member to the Alliance.
The Horde on the other hand are gaining access to High Elves, which if Ion’s statements of Lore Backup to every customization option holds true, means that there is a substantial enough group of High Elves who are rejoining, or have rejoined the Sin’dorei (and thus the Horde) to allow that option for the Blood Elves.
Think of it as Alliance getting to play as all the members they already had, but the Horde getting members that were previously not part of their group.
Hopefully that helps you feel better about it.
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why would the horde get that, the horde got high elves too
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You do realize the opposite is true? We are getting blood elves, skin and all minus the eyes. Hell, this probably mean the void elves convinced quite a few blood elves to defect lorewise!
We are getting blood elves, skin and all minus the eyes.
The eyes are kind of the defining feature of what separates a Blood Elf from a High Elf at this point, so…not really?
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Same here. And maybe our males will finally become aknowledged as such thanks to the beards (I personally don´t like facial hair but I guess the boys will love the chance to put it on their toons?)
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How dare you! Where’s the slap emoji?
does it really? I the High Elves were already alliance anyway. What they really should have done was just forgo the Void Elves and brought in the High Elves or like the worgen give void elves the ability to shift in and out of void form like Alleria can do.
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i was talking about customization not player numbers. cuz who wanted to be a high is already on the alliance and those who do not are in the horde with their guilds, of course ppl like me who only plays blood elves/Nigh elves this is a good thing.
Wrong as usual Zerde. The haircuts, beards and haircolors on Belves are still Belf exclusive (just like Velf ones are for Alliance btw). Velves still have to deal with tentacle hair and pink eyes… thank God you people are the ones saddled with pink eyes. I could already taste the monumental trolling regarding male Belves with pink eyes.
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Which is funny, because there are green eyed Blood Elves in the Void Elf starting area.
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Technically the Horde and Alliance didn’t get Helfs. We got a customization option. It’s only RP. It’s similar to how we aren’t getting playable Wildhammer dorfs, just the body paint.
More customization is always good.
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You also got high elves lol
both races have blue eyes
This was the actual answer, but Blizzard dropped the ball.
In all seriousness, I’m happy for more customization, even if it REALLY muddles the line between Void Elves and Blood Elves. However, the Nightborne needed customization options much more than the VE, so one can hope that a few of the pink/purple skins from the NE make their way to the Nightborne as well.
Three skin tones in 2020 isn’t just sad, it’s lazy.
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