I think all the elves need their own faction.
Itâs just a game and tribalism has no place in the new wow environment. Elves are an overplayed race to begin with.
No, elves should not be merged. Most have their own cities anyway. Their own ways of doing things. I think people took Metzen too literally. Weâve had unity several times, it doesnât mean a complete merge. Just working together.
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It does in a game that always had that tribalism.
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I do think this is more likely.
I donât think Blizz will actually combine the races, though I canât say for sure obviously as Iâm not them, and itâs more likely that weâll have some sort of story where they just help each other.
Itâd be way too much work for a one-year long expac. Itâd just be easier for us to decide we have to put differences aside to defeat a threat to Azeroth. And people get worked up imagining skyâs the limit sort of scenarios and it never plays out that way. Itâs always the most obvious and easiest thing.
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Itâs not just political allegiances. Itâs also that at one point there was a shift in magic feeding practices and an overall attitude toward what is acceptable to do for survival, and vengeance, which more or less amounts to a cultural shift.
Obviously this difference became less pronounced because blizzard royally messed up blood elf lore almost immediately upon actually adding them as a playable race in TBC. I have, and always will say that dialing back the blood elvesâ use of fel magic from how they were depicted in the RPG and concept art for TBC was a huge mistake on Blizzardâs part. Having Kael join the Legion, and giving the blood elves the Sunwell back, especially a holy infused one, ESPECIALLY so soon, was an even bigger mistake.
It completely depleted the reason to even have blood elves have a presence in the story. It made them irrelevant. It forced Blizzard to come up with a completely new direction to take them way too soon, both for people who liked the characterization of the OG blood elves to enjoy them as they were for a few expacs, and for Blizzard itself who clearly didnât really have a compelling direction to take the blood elves afterwards. All for people who just wanted boring vanilla elves because they are clearly entitled to things to change for their boring tastes, instead of letting them stay the same for a while for the people who actually liked how they were. Ahem⌠that was quite a tangent but, oh well.
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What does it being a game have to do with⌠anything at all? Please do tell?
Pffft says you. You may not care about pressuring blizz to preserve the faction conflict as has always been intended in warcraft and thus a fundamental part of the game and story, but I do.
What does you thinking the elves are overplayed have to do with anything?!
I do not want alliance in my fav horde capital. End of.
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We have been there before with BfA and it was a failure. The developers also acknowledged that there will be no more war between the factions as a focus, because the massive backlash was clear enough for them (GameRant, Feb 8 2022).
It will likely happen, with the merge of the High/Void and Blood Elves. The storybeats write themselves at this point, especially when Metzen alludes them.
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They never said they are merging. Just unifying to defeat the void. Like we have so many times to defeat the big bad. They arenât gonna force everyone to be neutral.
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Iâm more interested in if the Tribes Include the Sanâlayn, Felblood, Withered (Both Blood Elf and Nightborne.), Druids of the Flame, and any tribes we ainât seen yet than I am the current ones we got.
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BFA was a failure for several reasons. It wasnât necessarily mainly due to the faction war. Blizz goes back on their word A LOT. They said they wouldnât add another cross-faction race but here comes the Earthen.
Also, I never said anything about making the faction war the focus of another xpac. Not having it as the focus, and downplaying it massively are two entirely different things. Surprised I even have to explain that.
I would like to see more from the Felblood. Itâs been a very long time since weâve seen them and if Blizz is deadset on repressing the old fel-dabbling ways of the sinâdorei, the Felblood are definitely a group Iâd really like to have either as an allied race or at least as a customization option thanks to their visible fangs and clawed fingers. The horns probably wouldnât be kept since they are not actually part of the model, just reskinned Magâhari ritual horns or felheart horns. Theyâd be wearing more than one helmet at once basically.
The Wretched are probably a thing of the past at this point, as are the Withered.
If Silvermoon becomes neutral, the Thalassian elves should also be neutral or share their customizations.
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Silvermoon wonât become neutral because it is a starting area for Belves. Velves should get their own place to live. We all also shouldnât be forced into neutrality because a few people want that on the forums so they can pretend to be real High Elves again.
Itâs funny to me that this all started out with, âNo, honestly, we just want to be the High Elves that stayed with the Alliance.â Now a little of that has been given and itâs, we want everything else, all your customizations and your city.
Blizz needs to put their foot down, and not ruin what makes each race distinct for a few forum goers.
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We have a place to live. The Telogrus Rift. Blizzard needs to seriously update it to a home for void elves rather than a refugee camp.
Even if they do come together in any way shape or form they need to do this anyways.
The different groups of thalassian elf need to be able to stand apart on their own with their own aesthetics and places. Hell, Iâve even proposed the idea of the SC and Highvale and Void Elves coming together to make a single group, and in that they STILL need to be shown as the separate peoples they are at this point.
Its cool for em to be side by side defending their homeland. Its not cool if Blizzard is just going to homogenize the various tribes into one single useless blob of lore death.
The world needs expanding not contracting.
I mean like actual housing. Like a huge citadel or something.
Exactly and I donât see why some donât see value in that. It lends to race fantasy.
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QuelâThalas will be revamped, the zones will be different, the blood elf starting zone will be updated, Silvermoon will become a bigger capital, it will probably have a port for horde and alliance ships.
There will be change.
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Quelthalas is getting a visual upgrade, but they already said not to expect anything on par with Cataclysm.
There will be change, for Belves. Alliance will likely have the same access it had during TBC.
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This is the first time that a core raceâs territory will be revamped to become the main territory of an expansion, there will probably be 4 or 5 zones for both factions.
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I would love a Velf citadel in the Rift, I already love it there, just wish there was something to do aside from staring into the void⌠not that I hate that eitherâŚ
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