Well this is just proof of how insane Blizzard is getting these days. Anyone clamoring for alliance “high elfs” doesn’t understand the lore. The small minority of blue eyed elves that still worked for the Alliance was even smaller than the already tiny group that became void elves. You’d have been better off just getting rid of the faction war and replacing it with something else. Treating players like mercenaries that work for whatever side they want on a per battle basis.
Then you could’ve just given bloodelves a blue eye color and they can run around with their alliance friends and be a “high elf” all they want. But instead you destroy the entire point of a void elf because they were exiled for a reason. Their bodies are visibily corrupt and they have the potential to destroy the sunwell. But lets make them have normal skin and everything because… why?
To top all that off… we’re going to continue with this dumb faction war. The even dumber grouping limitation of being unable to have horde and alliance players working together despite how the story repeats this narrative time and time again. And we’re going to give away the number one selling point of making a horde character… to the opposing faction? Bloodelves are the most popular horde race, they’re even more popular than Humans, Draenei, or Nightelves on the opposite faction. It would be like giving horde one of those three races (and no, ugly as sin nightborne are not nightelves).
So when are horde getting some nightelf options? Want to know whats ACTUALLY in the lore? The forsaken aren’t all humans. They have undead dwarves and gnomes. They have undead elves. Nightelves are the latest edition to the forsaken. Hell you didn’t even bother to throw bloodelves a bone and give them a dark ranger skin tone all you were laser focused on was appeasing the squeakiest wheel on the forums.
I mean if we’re breaking lore and going crazy why not at least unlock everything that fits onto an existing character model?
The responses to this update have been surprisingly positive; everyone please stop insinuating that people are being ungrateful because they are asking for improvements to hair and such, it’s just sad.
(Commentary): Goblin Druids need to be Technomancers or something, with mechs for their forms! Imagine a goblin-piloted shredder just coming at you with chainsaw blades on one hand and a flame throw on the other? Pure awesomeness.
I’m happy for the people that got the blue eyed elf they dreamed of. Persistence looked to be key with this cosmetic, and it’s nice to see hard work pay off. CongratZ!
(Commentary): But how else could they try to make sure people can’t get what they want? The High Elf debate has been going on for years, and the request was going on even longer than that! People on these forums have simply become outright petty these days. They have to do everything in their power to minimize the enjoyment of others, claiming it infringes upon their own enjoyment to try and validate it.
Except the hair is not high elf hair by any definitions of the word. High elves should have been a proper separate allied race with their accompanying customization options.
I am worried they will call this an excuse to be done with additional customization for void elves when in truth all allied races are going to be extremely limited in customization and need to be expanded upon. The skin tones, hairstyles, and features for allied races need to be expanded.
(Speculative): I think the skin tone additions are more to make it easier to give Blood Elves blue eyes. Certainly skin tones are more than I think most of us were expecting for Void Elves for Shadowland’s launch. That said, I also think this means they’ll need less time to work on Void Elf customization in 9.1 or 9.2. The extra time can be spent on Nightborne, who desperately need it. That said I don’t think Void Elves won’t get anything, just that they won’t be getting as much as other Allied Races, because they already got some of what was coming.
There are several hairstyles that void elves can use already that are more silver covenant looking. The two gray hair tones already look like the same silver colour of Vereesa Windrunner’s hair, and there have been high elf NPCs in game with blue hair since Wrath of the Lich King.
I do think they will add more natural looking hair colors to the void elves, but I also think they will add more void themed customization as well. I think they’ll play up both sides of this.
I still think my solution avoided this problem. The faction barrier is the cause of so many issues with this game. Getting rid of that laughable gimmick and just letting “bloodelves” do quests for alliance NPC’s and group with ex-alliance players and giving them a blue eye option would have been dramatically better.
You’d have your elf racials. You’d get to play all your high elf classes. You’d start in Silvermoon and would be welcome in Stormwind. Fantasy fulfilled.
Yeah well if you want to tackle modern day slavery or political and economic ramifications of c19 then why are you on an MMO forum? Sorry but I came here to talk about the videogame and discussions on said videogame are very relevant.
Rules are rules for a reason. Spit on the lore like this and then you create an even bigger issue. Why should I care about any other “lore excuse” for anything ever again? Give me tauren rogues. Or gnome druids. LOL ITS JUST A GAME LETS JUST DO WHATEVER RITE!!111
This one change destroyed the entire point of creating void elves. It’s not even giving you true high elves since high elves can be paladins… and these pink void elf abominations can’t. I gave a better alternative that would let people play with blue eyes and work with the factions they wanted to work for but you’d rather cry cry cry and be hostile rather than read past the first 3 sentences I typed and comprehend anything.
(Commentary): It is confirmed. Blue eyes for Blood Elves! I’m so glad to see people genuinely happy about this. Most of the crowd that had been adamant about it are losing their minds because Void Elves got light skin tones.
