New Customization Options for Blood Elves and Void Elves

[Avarie-farstriders]

It will be my fault. I will be consumed by my thirst for vengeance and become a dungeon boss.

[Renotarshil-malganis (Renotarshil)]

Was hoping to raid your panty drawer.

[Avarie-farstriders]

That happens, but in a different dungeon.

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

Sorry, I missed your reply.

@Eärendiil-ragnaros

if we think about the high elves that are in the alliance are still in a frozen state

Yes, they are. But people like them because they are established. ANd they are easy to understand: they are exiles that seek a life away from home due to a political choice. They don’t need special explanations like where they come from or how more of them are made. Most fans think their choice back then was the right one as well.

That their lore is frozen it’s a pity. That’s something that every helf fan wants to see addressed.

Personally, I think high and void elves should work together. Not the former turning into the later, but as a kind of relationship like gilneans/worgen. The void elves would be the guardians of that society, and joining the void elves is seen as a great honor and a sacrifice for the comunity that only those who pass the trials can perform. That could explain where void elves are coming from, and why high elves accept to become them despite their usual disdain for unsafe magic.

That would also allow both of their lores to evolve together, and would make people feel more at ease with the idea of playing void elves instead of high elves. The new skins help it a lot, but I was suggesting that since the void elves were first announced.

[Hypêrspace-dalaran (Hypêrspace)]

well how are we all tonight/today?
/waves to lurkers

egads, i’m so excited for shadowlands, i spam reload wowhead just to see their latest news and datamining. haha.

[Aguni-illidan]

I wouldnt bother.
Wait about a month or two. Make everything more interesting.

[Hypêrspace-dalaran (Hypêrspace)]

/paces
/guzzles coffee
/paces

are you sure? haha

[Aguni-illidan]

Very sure.
nothing is better than having two months of content to go through.

[Thormus-hakkar]

@Eärendiil-ragnaros

if we think about the high elves that are in the alliance are still in a frozen state

How they are healing their mana addiction, how they plan to build a settlement where and when

your fate is to be diluted in human blood?

It’s certainly a story they can portray but at the end of the day if the story demands there be a legion of High Elves there will always be a Legion of High Elves. Even if they’re refugees generations from now (ingame timeline wise) living in human lands. If the story demands there’s still pure blooded High Elves they will be there.

And I highly doubt blizzard will ever kill High Elves off or have them entirely mix away into the human population. If they wanted to do that they would have done it long ago. Especially when they had the opportunity to do so with Void Elves. and now we see them adding High Elf aesthetics to Void Elves soo…

@Eärendiil-ragnaros

they did not show their heads as if it happened in legion or in the same mop

This is probably a result of them trying to force Void Elves into that position which failed because people were still asking for High Elves. Yet despite this the High Elves still made appearances.

Not even every player race shows up for a prominent role in every single expansion. Aside from that though High Elves I would argue have more participation in the overall Alliance story throughout WoW than many of the playable races have.

[Hecatone-burning-legion (Hecatone)]

@Alamara-goldrinn

If not high elves, what other allied race was being seeded before the magic idea of void elves sprung into existance in near 7.3 development’s end?

They obviously weren’t seeded to become playable, otherwise we wouldn’t have had Void Elves. It’s just too bad Blizzard decided to homogenize the factions rather than let the Blood Elf aesthetic go. Hopefully Void Elves just absorb the remaining Alliance high elves, so we can forget about them and I don’t have to have their story thrust on me again in the future.

[Hecatone-burning-legion (Hecatone)]

@Renotarshil-malganis

And all it will do is prove Sylvanas right and that whole breaking the cycle scene will be empty words as usual.

Just imagine if it turns out that we were all going to die when Azeroth hatches but everyone get so come back to life because she’s ‘only just kidding evil’ and WoW’s writers are without scruples.

[Aleona-windrunner]

Don’t take this for word but i think someone posted on twitter that there’s a shadowlands build for tomorrow (or today)!

[Nicodemùs-argent-dawn (Nicodemùs)]

I hope that’s true… and even more I hope it includes the new Void Elf options so I can play with them in the wowhead dressing room and stop using Blood Elf stand-in’s with the wrong hair.

[Nithenarina-dentarg (Nithenarina)]

Well, most of the story and background of Void Elves - as in the current purple ones - is EXACTLY that of Blood Elves.

So just look at them as Blood Elves with a dash of naughty void antics for the past few years.

Also I don’t think a quest is even required. Isn’t it hint enough having High Elf NPCs standing about in the Rift? Every so often a new one walks in-- so they are obviously increasing their ranks with Alliance High Elves and also more Blood Elf converts.

These new recruits are learning the ways of the void differently to how the original A-Team did. Again, that’s already explicit in game.

[Nicodemùs-argent-dawn (Nicodemùs)]

The High Elf Wayfarers are indeed a welcome indicator. I’d just like more in-game dialogue talking about it. Doesn’t have to be a quest or even a multi-page dialogue tree from the NPCs. Just a short blurb about why they came to Telogrus, beyond some vague “a path denied us is now open”. Like “I came to join the legendary Alleria Windrunner and fight for the Alliance under the banner of the Ren’dorei!” is at least a real indicator that they are there for more than just sight seeing and perhaps reading the brochure.

Another thing I’d like to see is for an NPC like say, Instructor Duskwalker (Telogrus Void Elf NPC), having some dialogue talking about the actual process by which new members of the Ren’dorei are inducted that might offer an in-game reason why these new Void Elves are able to retain their normal appearance.

Even just a blurb like “With Alleria and Locus Walker’s guidance, the elves now seeking to join the Ren’dorei have managed to avoid many of the physical changes those of us serving Magister Umbric underwent when trapped in Prince Durzaan’s ritual.” would be nice.

[Sarallesta-sargeras]

God, who ever shared this tweet earlier, this is gold

https://twitter.com/valarynn/status/1243965416944345090

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

@Hecatone-burning-legion

They obviously weren’t seeded to become playable, otherwise we wouldn’t have had Void Elves.

We got void elves because there was a change of plans at the last moment.
Which is why void elves weren’t seeded in Legion, and end up getting a poor introduction and were never properly fleshed out.

Danuser said that void elves only came to be after they had finished Alleria’s story in 7.3.

So what was being seeded before that decision? Nothing?

[Sarallesta-sargeras]

Alamara, lets just drop it. We’re getting our High Elves, lets just request for an option to disable the effect of Entropic Embrace, and for more hair styles and hair colours.

[Shadows-emerald-dream (Shadows)]

Yes to more hair options.

No to disabling Entropic Embrace.

#keepthevoidinvoidelves

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

There are signs pointing to being able to customizing Entropic Embrace’s skin and hair colors, thought.

I don’t think you can disable it entirely, but you can reduce the effect to the point it’s just a hue over your character, like this:

Without EE:

Skin enabled/Hair disabled:

Skin and hair disabled: