How about just giving us the option to turn the racial off altogether? If you don’t want to see it you turn it off and accept your reduced performance, or if the performance is an issue you turn it on and accept that you are still technically a Void Elf.
Some extra-voidy glyphs would be a cool option for anyone wanting to go that direction.
Can you please stop lying? Absolutely no one is asking to remove anything for goodness sake. We simply want more options, both Voidy and non-Voidy.
Yea but you’re saying my Void Elf isn’t a High Elf because the game text shows my race as Void Elf. By that logic doesn’t that also mean Blood Elves are not High Elves? Yet you’re kind of implying that the Horde’s Blood Elves are High Elves because they don’t turn blue in combat… yet they still suck power from living things but that apparently doesn’t count because it doesn’t turn them blue?
Ion has said in an interview that Blood Elves pretty much are High Elves… and Void Elves are also pretty much High Elves.
I get that there’s a lot of nuance here.
Blood Elves are High Elves who don’t use the name anymore and have gone in a certain direction from Fel to Light. They also suck power from living things.
Void Elves are either Blood Elves who were forcibly transformed (Umbric and his squad), Blood Elves who have turned their backs on Silvermoon and the Horde and come to study the Void In Telogrus, or Alliance High Elves who have come to study the void in Telogrus.
Then there’s the oft requested High Elves. The ones that never left the Alliance, never sucked mana from living beings, and never got tainted by Fel radiation in Silvermoon.
As much as I might want the third type of High Elves, Blizzard seems disinclined to add another elf race at this time. Instead, to give us access to something close to that, they’ve graciously allowed Void Elves to have that aesthetic.
Ideally there will be some lore references added to the game with the customization options go live. But even if they aren’t, we have the tools now to make High Elves even if the race tag still says Blood Elf or Void Elf.
Haven’t you learned you should not give a begging animal food because they’ll only come back for more?
If you want a non-voidy option, that’s what blood elves are for.
VOID ELVES. SAY IT WITH ME. VOID. ELVES. dude… Jesus, wow. lol.
And i’ve literally seen people asking us to be absorbed by the silver covenant, ask to turn our racials light based, and asked to give a completely new story as to why “high elves” are available to alliance.
So don’t sit there and call me a lair lol.
" and Void Elves will inherit the skin color options that are available to Blood Elves."
Sounds like they’re talking about gameplay stuff to me.
High Elves have like… two or three skin color tones available that came with blue eyes.
It wouldn’t have made very much sense at all when talking about customization options to phrase it like you mentioned.
Well. If we want a non-voidy option we can apparently just play Void Elves instead of Blood Elves.
High Elf or Blood elf is a political difference.
Void elf is a transformation, a mutation, not something they can just discard. Yes, they were High/Blood elves before it, but they are no longer. Call it a sub-species if you want. Like how a Chihuahua and a Great Dane are both dogs but not the same.
If you want a high elf, then go to blood elves like Blizzard intended.
And? Okay…Again, where does that say anything about high elves?
Seeing the words, blood elves, void elves…But funny, no mention of high elves…Hmmm…
Where does it say anything about why Void Elves have different skin colors?
It doesn’t say anywhere why they have different skin colors now. You guys are just making wild assumptions at this point. lol
You guys are allowed to make all these scenarios up in your head but then when I try to say what I think the possible scenario could be I get totally shot down. lol
the thing is no one really knows how new Void Elves are being created. I don’t think they will risk changing them the way that Umbric and his group were changed. I really don’t see the Draenai being on board with them corrupting Naaru, just so they can drain them via Alleria’s method. Plus they probably don’t possess the strength for it.
So that leaves them as being High Elves/Blood Elves who are basically not corrupted, who are being taught how to harness and control void energy. Entropic embrace most likely procs when they harness to much void energy. The newer Void Elves being created, might be like Blood Elves as in it’s just a name. We won’t really know until Blizzard explains thing. Given Blizzards timely explanations on things. We will probably never know and just have to rely on the theories we create.
I would not call Alleria’s method to mastering the void a transformation. I mean yes she can take on a void form… but so can Shadow Priests. Alleria’s abilities are not something she was inherently born with, but rather something she acquired through learning and trials.
Umbric’s squad was transformed/mutated, there’s no denying that. But Alleria was not.
You’re still trying to pawn off Blood Elves as more legit High Elves which I do not agree with. They do not fulfill the request for playable Alliance High Elves. The obvious reason being that they are Horde, and while their difference may be largely political, they are no less relevant. And that’s not even factoring the mana suckage from living things, the fel taint, etc.
If I decide my character originated as a Stormwind born High Elf that joined Alleria’s cause, I feel perfectly entitled to call myself a High Elf even if I’m a High Elf with void powers. Who are you to tell me otherwise?
I dunno, an entire race that’s called “Void Elves” is kinda telling you otherwise.
You can RP as a high elf all you want but you’ll still be a void elf. Shrug
I dunno, an entire race that’s called “Blood elves?” is kinda telling you otherwise.
You can RP as a high elf all you want but you’ll still be a blood elf. Shrug
I’m sorry hun, I don’t have the energy to deal with this wall anymore. Good luck carrying the torch.
Right! People can RP whatever they want but at the end of the day if you’re just RPing, what does it matter to you how an in combat mechanic looks?
It doesn’t matter to me. I’m not one of the people here advocating for hiding entropic embrace. I’m merely taking issue with how some people try to imply that its perfectly valid to call Blood Elves High Elves but it’s just “RP headcannon” to call Void Elves High Elves too.
Yeah. Void Elves and Blood Elves are equally High Elves.
Neither are the faction of High Elves. But that’s usually lost on people around here.
I don’t understand what you mean? I just said people can RP whatever they wish. I’m not trying to police anyone’s imagination. If you want to RP as a High Elf Blood Elf, that’s cool, if you want to RP has a High Elf Void Elf that’s cool too but all i’m saying is from an RP standpoint, why would you need to have an in-combat racial changed?
It makes me feel like people just have some hidden agenda for it especially when nobody has ever mentioned anything or complained about entropic embrace’s visual whatsoever.
People shouldn’t be asking for an entire race to go though major changes just so they can fulfill an RP fantasy.