I love seeing all the mock ups and art people did. That’s part of what eventually prompted me to join the discussion. Seeing that much passion for the race was inspiring.
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This is something I’ve always had issues with in terms of Blizzard, and I think many on both sides would agree on this:
Why use an unplayable NPC rival to Blood Elves for the Alliance’s representation in some content?
If it was in service of furthering the Blood Elf story, an argument could be made for doing it, but at least in WoTLK, the Argent Tournament was basically devoid of any meaningful story progression for anyone. Honestly, Anub’arak’s cameo was the most significant thing that happened, and that’s not even mentioned in Chronicle.
That whole patch was just a response to fan backlash that a Beloved Character of WC3 was reduced to a simple… Dungeon Boss.
And not even of the higher level one!
They’ve even stated that their biggest failure in WotLK was cutting Azjol’Nerub as an underground zone.
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A true tragedy of WOTLK.
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I’d honestly rather get confirmation we are getting a high elf ar with their own model and have to wait longer to get it than getting them quicker in the form of void elves who wiped the blue paint off their skin. That way void elves remain void without taking further aesthetics from the blood elves and void elves stay voidy, and the high elves have their own class options and own looks to choose from.
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Did you see my earlier post on the etymology of Reno’s name? 
Not in terms of playable characters.
I agree with this, but disagreeing with it doesn’t automatically make someone spiteful.
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The only posting about Reno’s name that I have seen in recent times is regarding Bald Belves.
Why would this happen though? Why would the blood elves suddenly turn in to villains through a cosmetic option becoming available to alliance.
If anything, the high elves are more villain-like towards blood elves.
I’m extremely passionate about the differences between the factions. But like I said to somand, making a race that’s already part of the alliance playable has no effect on “uniqueness”.
These people are claiming that their “uniqueness” is lost through an alliance race having their switch flicked to playable, it’s just weird.
Many have suggested that the current high elves get updated models in order to differentiate themselves more from their blood elf sisters, but even that gets tossed aside for some reason.
Which is why I’m very rough on this kind of spiteful behavior.
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Oh I knew about that from a long time ago.
I try to live my gimmicks.
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I wish this would have been explored in some capacity.
As far as I remember, it’s mostly just presented as “the two hate each other”.
The only time I remember the Silver Covenant really twirling their moustache is when they fed that one guy to the shark.
Doing the Titan’s work.
Honestly, just promote Reno to the Pantheon already.
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Having High Elves playable would make them much more common than they are as only NPCs. That is a reduction of uniqueness.
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No, I must refuse such a thing. I wish to remain on Azeroth and flirt with every female.
You’re gonna make Avarie very jealous.
Because blizz writing tends to default to hitting the horde with the villain bat. I mean just recently we kill a member of the sunreavers justifiably upset over the purge of dalaran and how there had been no justice for that. He was the villain there too.
It should have high elves as the antagonists, because they do hold more anger for the blood elves than the blood elves hold for them. But who knows if it would be written that way.
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Breaking my heart here!
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Which is so ridiculous considering the whole difference between the new and old Horde by design was that the new ones weren’t villains. Like, at all. I mean, Grom got kinda shady for a minute, but he was an outlier in terms of that.