they threw lore out of the window with tauren pallies, goblin priests and shaman, and lightfored dks. and many others. but those are the most 0.o to me.
Tauren pallies sorta make sense. Goblins shamans are weird as hell but they’re supposed to make deals with the elements. Goblins priests though, yeah you’re right.
Edit: Goblins priests/shamans likely came because Blizzard cared about race/class balance then.
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it was not nice to do the priest campaign and see her become a pally and then not even be able to play one! i wouldn’t as i like being a dwarf. though if kt pallies were a thing i’d change to that. XD
And you think you are?
See, it isn’t about who is winning or who is losing. It is about the lore. Blood Elves don’t consider themselves High Elves, nor they like to be called High Elves. They stopped being High Elves the day they renamed themselves to Blood Elves.
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Its funny, blizz creates playable elves of every possible kind but playable high elves is just asking too much.
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they’re also giving belves the dark elf fantasy. which is a nelf thing. which is cool… but… man…
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I’m a green orc. I don’t call myself an orc, I’m an ogrorc. I don’t want to be like other greenbois. There; I am a new race.
Edit: Forgot a word.
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Priests aren’t necessarily wielders of the light so much as just drawing power from raw faith. Human priests worship the light. Night Elf priests worship Eline. Goblin priests worship money.
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So if we were to poll Alliance players, they would be happy with Vanilla Elf 1 and Vanilla Elf 2? Rather than just use the Elf slot you already have and improve upon it both in lore and in appearance?
Why, pray tell, would the Silver Covenant wish to continue to distinguish themselves from Void Elves? They all are of Silvermoon, and now that the Void Elves are Alliance again, it would stand to reason that the High Elves would want to reconcile with their brethren. Again, they absolutely screwed up with the introduction of Void Elves. But there is no reason to waste a spot on literally the same player model with pink skin and blue eyes. You people complain about Alliance being boring and then turn around and demand more of the same model you already have.
Mechagnomes were a mistake, 100%. And Kul Tiran could have been better (though admittedly I like them more than the base Humans). But you need something visually interesting, like the Ardenweald creatures, like the Venthyr vampires, like even Sethrak or Furbolgs or something that would stand out against the sea of pink and white boring, one dimensional characters.
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I suppose yeah. They’re just wielders of the light almost all the time, so it makes sense they have that stigma.
if they’d fix velves and make them less… purple… i’m sure it would be a decent compromise to a lot of people. there are some that won’t be happy unless it says high elfon their character but a lot of people are more reasonable than that.
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Look at Aerodin’s response. Giving Void Elves pink skin isn’t good enough for them. They have to have two racial options of the same Elf.
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Arcane worshipping High elves with spacial rift as their racial? Nah. Racial wise High elves would make 3,000x as much sense if they were belves.
To answer your first question, yes, the numbers that would flock to a high elf option would absolutely be the favored choice over any other allied race.
I also don’t understand on the insistence of why we need something so different. Lets take a look at the allied races.
LF=Draenei with altered eyes and tattoos
HM=Tauren with markings and moose antlers
Nightborne=Night elf model with a color change
Maghar=orcs with skin tone variants
So to me I find it weird that Silver Covenant elves are where we are drawing the line. It’s something people want. They have their own lore. They are a reputation faction used in three expansions that contributes to significant military excursions. Why does it need a much higher bar for justification?
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that just isn’t realistic at this point. compromises are the only hope that ally have left of getting the fantasy they want with the elves. velves screwed any chance of ever getting actual helves in the alliance.
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Mag’har are an exception, there’s never enough ME SMASH races in game. I doubt ogres will ever happen but I can dream :(
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I WANT A MAGHAR PALADIN. BLIZZ PLS. 
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I have a screenshot from early BfA where I got a bug and I got an unusable pally ability on my action bars when switching specs on my mag’har shammy. I’ll see if I can link later or I accidently deleted it.
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It isn’t about the lore, and it ain’t about me “winning,” it’s about convincing Blizzard to implement Alliance High Elves.
I’m not seeing a whole lot of success on that front. That’s why you ain’t winning.
Or to put it another way… I might not recognize that High Elves and Blood Elves are different races, and you might disagree, but you keep assuming convincing me otherwise will actually get you anywhere when it won’t.
I’m down for High Elf flavored cosmetic options for Night Elves or Void Elves, but a stand alone race? I’m confident in saying a stand alone High Elf race is not happening.
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So what is the issue of giving Void Elves more customization that would better fit the High Elf look? You sincerely want the Alliance to continue to be visually boring?
You bring up the other allied races, and I agree many should have been customization options. But we don’t have two Tauren or two Orc or two Draenei allied races. So why two Elves?
You were given the model. Blizzard has stated that Blood Elves are High Elves are Void Elves. Three of the same Elf. So if Void Elves already exist, why would you give yet another spot to the same Elf with different colors rather than asking for something new and actually interesting, meanwhile giving Void Elves the appearance of High Elves? Hell, it’d be good story development for both flavors of Elf because they’ve stagnated, with only specific characters getting any lore development. I imagine neither Alleria nor Valeera would look at their people and go “Yeah, we need to arbitrarily separate our people because clearly skin color matters.”
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