Nah, I’d rather just get darker skin tones. Like, black as pitch. Let me go full Drow. Night Elves can keep the lighter tones.
Yes please, Also Yaungol.
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Stay in my lane? Ok Betrayer. Go back to listening to “the whispers” while us true High Elves bath in the warm embrace of Holy/Arcane light from the Sunwell. It’s not my fault you need to wear so much clothing while you embrace the cold dark void 
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What happened to: “I understand you would love Alliance elves…you’re an Alliance player, and want to be a fair-skinned, light-haired, blue-eyed elf. Sorry? The Horde is there and waiting for you.” Apparently not anymore.
can void elves be given paladins and make this the perfect change? netherlight paladins please please PLEASE
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File that under the same answer for “Vanilla WoW isn’t going to happen.”
Development teams actually change their minds about things.
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Honestly they should of never created Void Elves and just put a carbon copy of Blood Elves/High Elves on the Alliance.
Their entire backstory and creation feels so lame compared to Alleria who had been training at harnessing the magic and then absorbing a fallen Naaru. Instead we have to believe that an entire subrace of High Elves/Blood Elves were created from a happy accident. Plus I hate the modulated voices, even with these skins it would feel weird to still have that void infused voice.
In the end we’re all “High” Elves. We just get our fix from different sources be it arcane, fel, holy or void energy.
Also why they hell do any of us Elves work with these disgusting Trolls, Orcs or Humans anymore? Pretty sure between all the Elven races we’d outnumber both factions at this point. ELVES UNITE! Let’s Make Azeroth Gorgeous Again!
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I think you’re wrong here, personally. I like the Void Elves myself and my only real gripe with them has always been that their number were pulled from Blood Elves when they could have just as easily been High Elves.
This and the high elf and blood elf wayfarers within the Telegoruos Rift there show that they are training more elves, so Alleria type void elves make ok sense. They likely just pull void creatures from around the Rift to empower them ala Alleria. (They’re probably weaker than Alleria as a result but thats fine.)
If they’d stop kicking one another maybe.
Yes this is a valid point, however I’d be weary of them doing this because the implementation matters. High elves shouldn’t suddenly override and take over the void elves’ race slot (ie: Void Elf in name only) - but if they can avoid that detail then things would theoretically be fine.
I don’t, however, agree with this. If we have access to the customization, then the complaint about High Elves is settled. It simply is. The problem that the helf community had was that you couldn’t play as an active, participating race of the Alliance. Now we can. In my opinion, the crusade is done.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s addressed. Both sides got their high elves. Is it a perfect implementation? Absolutely not. Do I have some minor gripes? Definitely.
But the entire community needs to be pretty damn grateful and not continue to push this. The Alliance was literally given (visually) a nigh-carbon copy of the blood elf race. That is unheard of and well beyond anything I (or anyone else for that matter) could have reasonably expected Blizzard to do.
Pushing for anything further just comes off as childish, frankly. It will just make Blizzard less inclined to do something like this in the future - and we want Blizzard to be willing to correct these sorts of issues when they come up.
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Ah yes, because the only people that want the specifically Alliance loyalist High Elves, which up to now have been the ONLY remaining High Elves in the lore and in the game, to stay Alliance-only clearly just want to run around with the least original character name in WoW history.
If you’re going to just be a prick about it, I don’t know why you bother jumping in the conversation at all. You’re not being useful.
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These additions to the Void Elves are so low effort they still have the Blood Elf underwear, but you want them to create entirely new assets for the Nightborne? Yeah, no, that’s not on the same level. At that point the Nightborne would be getting more than the Void Elves.
I cringe to think what will become of the Goldshire Inn now that Alliance has access to much more attractive elf models.
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Agreed.
I suspect that this narrative progression will basically be exactly like when the Wildhammer Dwarves joined the Alliance, or the Dragonmaw Orcs joined the Horde. Their presence among their broader racial group will be made known, and some facets of their culture may present themselves (ex. Dwarf Shaman), but ultimately the focus of the broader group isn’t really affected.
When introduced, the social and cultural tendencies of the Wildhammer didn’t erode or negatively impact the social and cultural tendencies of the Bronzebeard; instead, the narrative of each group progressed in tandem.
You can’t definitely state something as an objective fact, and then follow it up with, “in my opinion”. It is a fact or it isn’t, and in this case, it isn’t.
Will the threads and requests die down? Probably. Will it disappear? That remains to be seen, and is largely dependent upon how Blizzard handles the circumstances.
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This has happened. There are High Elf recruits in the Void Elf starting zone. Not ALL High Elves have joined, but some definitely have.
For this to make sense, we would need access to Blood Elf hairs as well. We still cannot be just a High Elf. As long as non-corrupted High Elves are commonplace in Alliance forces, Void Elves with pink skin are not the same thing.
No. Horde gets High Elves and Alliance gets Void High Elves. So essentially, the Horde get what the Alliance has rightly requested since vanilla, and the Alliance gets a corrupted version we never wanted. Is it better than nothing? Well, it would be without the Horde getting it too. Is it what we asked for? Categorically, it isn’t.
We can be grateful for the meager scraps we’ve been given and still acknowledge that it is far less than what has been requested for the entire history of WoW.
Not pushing for more will make Blizzard think we’ve forgiven them for the horsecrap that Void Elves are to begin with, and that this compromise is good enough.
It’s not.
It’s an okay start, there’s nothing wrong with saying “This is better, but we’re still expecting more when you give Allied Races the treatment you’re currently giving the Core Races.”
I have stated an objective fact - they’ve answered the request in a more generous way than anybody should have expected.
The “in my opinion” was referring to specifically that the movement should be done here.
Also - no hostility here intended. I overall agree with you
We’re likely to get non-void hairstyles and colors.
Wrong. We have our high elves. Wait and see what they do in terms of other customization before grabbing pitchforks.
They did the best they could with a controversial topic. To expect them to overtly favor one side of such an issue is madness.
The heck do you expect?
Are you honestly naive enough to believe that Blizzard was ever going to give an explicitly High Elf allied race to the Alliance?
High Elves have the same overall appearance as a race that is on the Horde, rather it should be there or not. Do you want the same racials as well? Because that’s pretty much what would have to happen. This entire movement was a fool’s errand from the get-go and I’m bewildered that we actually got anywhere.
No, Blizzard was never going to give high elves as a race to the Alliance - that dream was dead and unrealistic the moment the Horde got Blood Elves. This is the best that could have been hoped for. They’ve made the best move they could, without being outright foolish about blending faction lines and favoring one camp in a controversial topic.
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Void Elves being the concession is a huge part of the problem. Every High Elf wishful I know would rather not have them then have something as ridiculous and fabricated as the Void Elves, the initial group of which aren’t even politically High Elves.
Oh you poor sweet child. How dare they expect you to live with only two color options. It’s definitely not like Night Elves and Draenei have the same restrictions amirite?
No, get stuffed. Purple and especially crimson have no lore basis. You’ve already got more options than most races with glowing eyes. Stop crying.
It’s neither petty nor spiteful to say that the blue eyed elves, who in lore and in game only exist as members of the Alliance who refused to follow the path of the Blood Elves, should not be an option for the Horde. You’ve already got two core races made of one-time Alliance members. You don’t need this one small thing.
It’s not. Deal with it.
Okay, but I still can’t. Our racial still has us randomly void-form, and almost every hairstyle has void tentacles sticking out. We also still can’t be blonde.
You don’t know your own lore. Blood Elves WERE High Elves. However, as I already said, their use of fel energies changed their eyes green. The remaining High Elves that chose to keep the name not only didn’t use fel energies, but chose to abstain from consuming magic altogether except the bare minimum required not to become fallen.
They’re also all elves of Darnassian decent, as well as being of troll decent. Humans are of Vrykul decent. That doesn’t make them the same thing.
Also using a story that was made up 5 seconds ago to justify not giving us High Elves is part of the reason we’re’ upset. It’s an insult to use Allied Races to NOT give us what we want, while giving the Horde BOTH of their big requests (Zanda trolls and literally every kind of orc).
Still incorrect. They have been magically changed.
It is objectively true that they are giving an answer.
It isn’t objectively true that their answer addresses every issue tabled by those that have been requesting playable High Elves since the advent of Allied Races. A major portion of what hasn’t been answered is entirely narrative-based, which is why we have to wait and see what sort of in-universe justification(s) they provide before we can definitively decide if Blizzard has done right by the High Elves.
The appearance of the High Elves was only one aspect of their request, and virtually all of the prolific posters (let’s say, those with 200+ posts in threads discussing playable High Elves) are equally interested in seeing their narrative elements and characterization progress. If Blizzard doesn’t explicitly adjoin the HE’s to the VE’s, or at least intone as much, you can absolutely expect to see more requests HE’s going forward.
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As I said, I agree with you about how the implementation needs to happen.
I’ll stop calling it an objective fact, because you do make a fair point in terms of the storytelling side of things.
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Sorry you feel the need to whine when I’m stating basic facts.
This is how the forum is, they will never be satisfied until they can be uncorrupt pure arian high elves lmao.
not sure if anyone replied to this point, but the void elves in the starting zone are comprised by high elf initiates porting in from Stormwind to become void elves.
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Is it wrong that when they do the June 9 update they announce this was all a troll on their part.