Even the architecture is more similar.
They are okay with it. The horde has been absolved if blame for Teldrassil, with blame landing only on Sylvanas.
There weren’t really any consequences for the draenor clans for hopping on the Garrosh murder train either.
And there haven’t been consequences for anything sylv and the undead have been doing since the start, with the other horde leaders constantly turning a blind eye to it all.
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There really needs to be war trials for the people at the catapults if nothing else. They really botched that whole thing.
I don’t know about the Gorrash murder train thing, but nobody knew how he would use the manabomb. That was on him.
Night elves are awesome. Void elves, not so much.
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I have a feeling that Tolkien elves maaaaay just mean “Orlando Bloom/Liv Tyler elves”
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But I can send my little purple cloud ahead to jump ahead of the group on my lowbie since my friend had to reroll alliance on a whole different server than come back to this guild where she already had leveled characters.
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Give me Elrond, Galadriel, and Haldir. Legolas is okay, but liv Tyler made arwen intolerable to me.
If the alliance gets another good race I may have to switch.
I blame it all on Peter Jackson, dude went all elf-crazy and messed up some of the important story points because of that.
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Tyrande and Genn are pretty adamant that this is not the case?
The Draenei mass murdering/brainwashing the orc and ogre clans (even the ones that were neutral or outright fought to not join the Iron Horde) isn’t consequences?
Lol? Blood elves are at best the 3rd most evil race in the horde behind Undead and maybe Orcs and that is arguable could be second. They subjugated a Naaru for power. They fed off living things for their energy. They helped to move the divine bell through dalaran and ended an uneasy cease fire as a result. They kill their own kind who aren’t able to deal with their addiction rather than attempt to help them. The blood elf story is absolutely about evil but you think it isn’t because hey pretty.
The high elf story is about dealing with addiction and the reality that those you once loved have turned into mana addicted fiends. Then persevering through it not taking the easy way of just getting energy from other creatures. Doing the hard and right thing of kicking the sunreavers out of dal once they had abused the trust of the council too many times. Then fighting on the isle of thunder. Not to mention helping in the fight against the lich king.
Meanwhile any good the blood elves have done has basically been by accident when not helping to carry out the genocidal plans of the horde.
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I don’t think it’s a debate over which race is cooler.
It has more to do with the fact that horde can get the purpleskinned and lightskinned elf theme.
Whereas alliance are not allowed to have both for some reason.
A fair trade off to the nightborne (horde purpleskinned elves) being playable would have been high elves (alliance lightskinned elves) being playable.
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Void elves would be so much better if that cloud had some actual speed or if it was just a blink instead of the cloud.
I think that ultimately depends on perspective because I get the impression that some people here base their interest in a race on whether that race makes sense as well as how they look.
Sure the race can be interesting from a lore standpoint too, and arguably should, but all of that is really just fluff that helps with RP.
Yeah, except I don’t think that’s going to really cut it for anybody.
Not many Night Elf fans are happy with that characterization of them though, because that runs in stark contrast to their WC3 characterization that made them more like savage woodland elf types that fought like amazonian warriors.
But honestly, I’d consider them the proto-High Elf compromise, they were added because Blizzard was pressed for time and didn’t want to have two elves on the Alliance (even though they were fine with two short races, which was equally weird to me but whatever) and that came at a bit of sacrifice to their original characterization in WC3.
I think the preference for true High Elves and not Night Elves lies simply with the fact that Night Elves are honestly actually pretty alien-looking, they’re not very human-like at all to me really. They are extremely tall, the females have abnormal muscles (abs on top of abs), and they have green and purple color palettes, fangs etc. None of this is bad, but the appeal of playing an elf is playing something that’s very human-like but also “perfect” in a way, if also tragic.
The alliance gets two varieties of dark elves the horde gets one of each.
I don’t care much about racials myself. The visual of entropic embrace kills me, and I loathe the tentacles. I won’t say on the forums what I actually think they look like though.
And they are blood elves painted blue otherwise. Give me high elves with a different model, stance, and dance.
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Hey, if someone’s complaing that WoW isn’t Tolkien, I’m going to point them to a tolkien game. Wow has its own story and shoehorning in aspects of another story (which at this point in time are the basis for like 90% of the stereotypes in fantasy as it is) is not a good thing for that story.
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No it’s referring to the different dnd archetypes which existed long before the movies. Night Elves honestly are closest to drow in terms of appearance and void elves are dark elves that don’t really have a specific category.
Eh, he’s also a pirate rogue so with the cloud and the grappling hook he’s all sorts of mobile and fun so far.