I keep saying I’m gonna resist and not buy the expac till I see more Void elf customizations but I’ve already bought the CE for my husband’s birthday which I’m still expecting to dispatch 2 weeks later lol. And since he still wants to play WoW something tells me he’ll get it for me for Christmas and I wanna say no but at the same time I don’t…
No, maybe I am losing the war. To me this is not about a war. I said I don’t mind that some players wanted to be high elves.
I just wish they were separate from true void elves.
I still have two years left of game time so I will decide I suppose over that period.
I think though I will most likely quit this game at this point. Maybe I care about stories making sense or I am a fantasy nerd if you are going to make fun of me for that.
I don’t like changes to any world though that to me have sudden changes and if there are going to be sudden changes they should be explained.
Yes, I really like how the void elves were when they were first created.
Most likely, I will just quit wow.
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You can just pretend like the purple ones are the only real ones.
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Blood elves are High Elves. They just changed their name. It was like British citizens on the North American continent back in 1776 changing their name from British to American. They didn’t change their race or species, just what they called themselves.
So if they gave the Alliance High Elves then both alliances would have the High Elves.
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It bummed me out when they did the same thing by “adding” Wildhammer dwarves to the game by way of a handful of customizations on the Bronzebeard model. By all rights Wildhammers should be their own allied race with a tweaked model and racials, but that’s probably never going to happen now.
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I also find this super disappointing and agree especially on the eyes it makes like no sense.
On the other hand, the original color palate isn’t gone. My void elf uses it and other people who actually want to be void elves can still use it. So, though a disappointing loss of distinction for the race, MY void elf can still be exactly as was originally envisioned. At the end of the day, that’s what matters. 
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The void, in its purest form, explores all possibilities, including ones that look uncorrupted.
(At least that’s how I’ve decided to view it)
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Brave of you to speak these words with all the Orcs around but I’m glad someone finally said it.
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If you think about it, Stormwind probably doesn’t smell much better. 
It’s not got a lot of room for a sewage system… … … … (looks at the canals and smiles nervously) 
Yeah but I read that boiled butt is healthier than fried butt
I’m super bummed that Void Elves got watered down. I was a huge fan of their aesthetic and split my game time between my rogue and this character pretty evenly for a while. It felt different when they changed the race. I don’t know why. I guess at the end of the day, I’m happy people are happy, but it cheapened it for my little void bb.
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For now I am still hoping we just get some damn racial naming customization(Stormwind, Lordearon, Gilnean human, Wildhammer, Bronzebeard Dwarf, Blackrock Orc etc) and that the void elves can get the ability to customize their racials looks(all the racials can function the same but instead have arcane name, like Arcane rift or something)
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Healthier? Yes! But is smells way worse!
They didn’t change it, they just added options. You can still run your Void Elf with the original appearance. If anything they made it more like Alleria herself. She can look like a normal High Elf or she can go into void form.
What they should have done is do the same thing a Shadow Priest does and have the void form something that gets turned on and off under some given situations.
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I disagree with your first part of the statement, because I think the added aesthetic changes the way void elves are, but I agree with the second part. I’d have loved to see a permanent void form. 
IMO
Velfs and Helfs are different subraces.
It’s classic Blizzard “Give them something they asked for… but only kind of… and with ‘conditions’ attatched.”
I can guarantee you that those 14 years of people asking for Helfs and complaining that Belfs were NOT Helfs are still not satisfied with Goth Belfs that grew tentacles.
Well duh because these are not what we wanted. They are not even the high elves who have been part of the Alliance for all these years but blood elves who rejoined the Alliance.
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They’ll get over it.
All elves are just mutant trolls anyway.
Yeah, I am reading all of these responses. I feel like I am being laughed at or my points aren’t really being considered.
I don’t care if you laugh at me.
What I will say is that some of it is a lie.
The idea was that they were a new race. Yes, they mostly came from blood elves and a few high elves. Yet, they were literally transformed by the void. Thus they are a “new race”.
They are also a “new race” because they still can speak Thalassian and this is because this change didn’t happen gradually over thousands of years (where the languages might have diverged); it happened almost instantly I think or at least within a very short time span where they wouldn’t forget their native language “Thalassian”.
Many if not all the ad’s I saw regarding void elves when they first came out showed elves that were shades of blue or this off color white grey look.
This is how they were meant to be.
Alleria is just a strange outlier with the void. If I had my way she would have been altered forever to fit a void template.
Not all of void elves might have developed void like tentacles but they all should still have that same original spectrum of colors and maybe you could say that more void like colors should have been added but at the end of the day, everything that they physically look like should reflect colors that have been used to construct the void since the start of world of warcraft.
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