They’re not coming to the alliance.
Have a nice day! 
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Ions latest interview denying Blue Eyes for Blood Elves gave me hope though
Because we already have them on the Alliance.
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Yea, as void elves
We dont need anymore imo, thanks
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We have High Elves also within the Alliance too.
Also,
Speak for yourself.
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I did speak for myself.
Its almost like you are trying to take things out of context
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“We”. Once again, speak for yourself.
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Really sara, you going to intentionally ignore context “imo” or aka “in my opinion” was added for a reason
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Really Henitai, you’re going to continue using “we” within that context? You could easily edit it to replace with “I do not want to see anymore” or something along those lines.
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Because, thats basically what I said. Really dont know why you are being pedantic about this but fine
I dont think we need more elves.
Happy?
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I basically don’t care about this whole high elf debate but for the love of god will someone please explain how giving Alliance high elves will somehow doom this game to destruction? Players might not should receive everything they want but they shouldn’t NOT receive it simply because they want it.
And we are so flooded with races that make no sense considering we already have most of those only instead of simply making it a coloring option its a whole new race. The only one that is actually new is the Vulpera. The high elf solution is to continue the same. Add some minor appearance change like smaller ears or some absurdity like that with a whole new set of traits then hand wave why their same people, the blood elves, hadn’t changed. Make all existing high elves, all of them, this new look. Done.
After all, their whole void elf plot was this except they didn’t bother to have it make any sense. It would have been like highmountain tauren didn’t have different horns but were actually blue. Instead they could have actually developed a story for void elves that had all remaining high elves join that faction, not be blue and gain some minor void ability and it would have been a sweet way of making those wanting them happy. Instead they went so far out of their way to ensure no one was happy with their introduction as well as continually having high elves show up in this game while saying they no longer exist. Its like they go out of their way sometimes.
I like my void elf personally. I know his existence makes no sense. The blood elves, people that would do anything including sucking the life essence out of living things, have standards we’ve never heard about kick out seven people and suddenly we have potentially as making walking on Azeroth as we do blood elves. A population that itself has already overtaken the faction it belongs to while having almost no acknowledgement as to be eyebrow raising. I mean if they accidentally lost the Lorthamar character model there would be no blood elf representation at all in the Horde.
As this point it has to be malicious intent that Blizzard hasn’t given players something that has been requested since this game started. And really this might have all blown over had they introduced blood elves properly remembering their own lore. Why you can’t think of seven high elf characters (apparently all you need for an entire player race) to join the Alliance is highly suspicious at this point.
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“Because it will effect there gameplay”
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Honestly I think a large part of why high elves haven’t been given to the Alliance yet is because it is being held in reserve for when Blizz really needs to prop up the Alliance population. The Horde/Alliance split is getting worse and worse. I would be surprised if total play time on all Lv. 120 players wasn’t a minimum 2:1 split in favor of the Horde. Maybe even 3:1.
I also think that that Blizz vastly overestimates how effective this will be in balancing the factions. Most of the really serious playable high elf advocates are already Alliance. Most Horde that try rolling a playable high elf character are going to do so out of curiosity but will not stick with it.
By the same token, if the Alliance is given playable high elves, the sky is not going to fall. The vast majority of players that are staunchly opposed to it will move on within a week. Sure you’ll see the odd ‘Blizz is so mean for giving the Alliance our blood elves’ thread but is that really worse than all of the ‘GeT RiD oF LfR’ threads?
I do like your Sethrak idea. Really I think that a large number of Allied races should be added to the game. Tuskarr, Arakkoa, Saberon, Taunka, Saurok, Ankoan, Jinyu, Ogres, Mogu, Tol’Vir, etc. And with some exceptions (such as Ogre, Jinyu) I think that most of them don’t even need to be faction specific. I realize that some of these assets would be time-consuming to create and the number of allied races would make things harder to balance but I think people would love it.
So yeah, all that.
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Nobody’s saying that but there’s a precedent set that Blizzard tries to keep things balanced, and giving the Alliance a horde race breaks that rule entirely.
There’s not enough lore justification to justify breaking that rule, and Blizzard has already said they’re not doing it. Hell, It almost sounds like blizzard is done with allied races at least in the short term so this arguing is for nothing.
Except high elves aren’t a Horde race. And before you quote Ion at me, from all I can tell, he hasn’t read the lore himself; if that were so, I wouldn’t blame him either. He has other concerns and lore is not his job.
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I’ll quote Metzen at you instead
“Blood elves are our High Elves”
Pretty sure at the time lore was his job, or at least part of it. he gave high elves to the horde in TBC
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And that was about a decade ago. Times have changed since then. In a place where we can have lightforged death knights (!), I do not think we should rule out anything that makes…substantially more, y’know, sense.
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“Blood elves no longer truly consider themselves high elves, and they tend to have different priorities and behaviors than their high elf kindred.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20071007024546/http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/encyclopedia/index.xml
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this is getting ridiculous
the high elves ARE the blood elves! they switched sides! if everything that has happened to the blood elves since WC2 had still happened yet kael had kept the name high elves would you even be saying this?
come on kara
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That’s all you really needed to say, this kind of mindset just kind of nullifies the rest, imo.
Yeah…sorry but no one is thinking clearly when they believe the game creators are ‘malicious’ toward their player base.
Here, maybe this will answer some of your more rational questions:
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