Correct.
All it does is make Belves a little bitter.
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Doesn’t stop Blizz from making bad decisions.
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WoWHead just datamined flowers in the hair for Male Tauren, which I know has been a popular request in feedback lately.
That shows they are listening, at least 
Now I’m just waiting for Dark Ranger Belf options, and more hairstyles and hair colors for Velfs (And just every race in general, please).
https://www.wowhead.com/news=316698/shadowlands-dressing-room-customization-for-build-34972-many-jewelry-options-flo?webhook
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haha cute.
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Belf rogues are a non entity. They literally don´t exist apart from the Alliance aligned fanservice devs try to sell as “Horde” (Valeera) or a character that died in the same novella he was presented (Lorash).
Ty, Starla. You´re welcome to dwell in the lore fights on SF.
Exactly, they aren´t. Thgat´s why they WON´T waste resources in a race that has playerbase population guaranteed by proxy of OP Class exclusivity (with the due respect of the Belf DH present on the thread).
If something is “doing OK” without giving it a push, more likely than not people won´t employ time nor effort on it. Cause those resources saved can be used in something else.
Well, my emotional response is SO down lately that I guess I´ll consider it a victory if we avoid the awful jewerly (though it seems we won´t be 100% fortunate and will be stuck with fugly necklaces and irrelevant bracers) even if we don´t get anything else.
Of course it won´t; having exclusive rights on the faction of a race / class combo that happens to be easy to play and very desirable for any type of content (again, I´m sorry Mr. DH) basically makes the race sustain itself regardless of how underwhelming it´s costumization.
I second this, Ariel seems to always stick up for BE lore and players I respect that.
Though we disagree on my golden eyes, and my desire for Darkfallen themes.
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The reason Belves became my fav race was their lore. I find extremely relatable and extremely positive the way their arc mostly developed up until Sunwell Plateau (the reseting they got with the Deux Ex “Light / Arcane” Sunwell did them no good narratively wise). It is the tale of VERY proud and entitled people that get a very nasty wake up call and that become humbled in their suffering… but at the same time, it´s the tale of people finding their inner strenght to survive a nightmare that almost destroyed them and move on to become better than they were before. It´s the tale of faulty people in their path to redemption (and those usually are not so easy nor direct; the drawbacks and the mistakes are very good to make the story more complex and richer). And I´m a sucker for those.
That´s why i usually feel sad in regards to Kael´thas; as a character he deserved SO much better. That´s why I hate so much when devs reduce them to their silly superficial persona, literally negating their very existence.
The lore a little (in regards to the Golden eyed warlock combo), but specially the current writers ARE the reason I´m not 100% in agreement with some of the stuff you want. I simply lost my faith in Blizzard´s lore dev team after years and years of systematic erosion of Horde themes and characters. And I´m extremely wary of their intentions regarding anything Horde side that can be pseudo darkish or extreme (even the light becomes a risk when played by Horde).
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You pretty much described a lot of my favorite things about blood elves as well.
I’m my favorite thing about Blood Elves.
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Mine too! You are my favorite thing about Azeroth!
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Once you remove the lore, Belves become discount generic elves from popular media (NOT Tolkien elves per se, but yes the average lawful good long eared humans those are usually depicted as in several games and novels).
And those aren´t as interesting for me, at least.
Now regarding the actual topic of this thread, I found one very useful image proposing some Belf customization options taken from reddit; just go into the link and look for the last post:
h|ttps://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2555112-The-Blood-Elves-discussion-thread/page5
God that thread is breaking my heart… after reading one poster petititioning for the Tiara and Choker portrayed in the original femBelf priest of the TBC cinematic; I realized just how much WORSE the necklace options being datamined are in comparison.
Ands I also feel dissapointed in myself (goddamit, why didn´t I realize that!!)
Stop channeling this hilarious male Belf fanart (I do love that fanart in a non serious way, though):
h|ttps://co.pinterest.com/pin/18155204721401972/
PD: I don´t post enough to get link rights, so remove the obstacle to get the link proper.
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You could actually link any particular post you want (from that website), by right clicking the # button on the top right of each post, then copying the link address of that one.
But yeah, I really like the tat/runic options from that post, especially the entire button row.
Uhhh, not sure my forum rank will let me, but let´s try:
Noope, can´t post links. I can post the specific post I wanted to though, thanks to you ^^:
h|ttps://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2555112-The-Blood-Elves-discussion-thread?p=52432138&viewfull=1#post52432138
The “runic face scars” as they´re called in the image are pretty cool, though personally I´d like for them to have a subtle coloration to make them more alike to runic tatoos.
Farstrider style i like more like shown in this other post:
h|ttps://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2555112-The-Blood-Elves-discussion-thread?p=52458636&viewfull=1#post52458636
Less “Alleria esque” and more Horde-ish
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Why would I stop channeling the truth?
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Cause the people writting the parodylore can negatively influence the art team.
See how we are STILL stuck with fugly jewerly and no scars / tatoos / scarifications still?
I plan on resuming that mog later again. Just trying something different for the meantime.
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I do live for those runic markings on that mmochampion thread as well. I agree some subtle coloring and a glow would be great options for runic markings as well.
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Wow, those are amazing. This is exactly what I’d want for Blood ELves.
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I would really love some long hair/braided hairstyles for Blood elves like we see here.
`https://i.imgur.com/q6G9t9z.png
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Yeah and the Template thing on the side of the Character Customization screen would be a welcome addition for all races gaining new visual themes/subraces.
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