Back when the new race/class combinations were announced before Cataclysm, people literally thought the sky was falling because night elves could now create mages. At the time, those themes were literally the antithesis of each other.
Now no one ever talks about it, because it’s how they developed the story moving forward.
PS: How are you a gnome priest, but still a night elf. Did you race change and it’s just a glitch? V cool.
He must be the rare Gnome elf!
Again, what do you expect people in the Pro Helf crowd are going to do?? Blizzard is rolling High Elf aesthetics into the Void Elf race rather than creating a proper stand alone High Elf AR. They’re already giving them the skin tones and the eye colors. That’s one giant step in the door. Most people or a large number of people in the Helf Community see this as their new avenue to request High Elves from thus that’s what they’re going to do. I believe it’s more likely at this point we’ll get proper High Elves through the Void Elves than a new allied race. It’s the card that we’ve been dealt.
Also: I don’t see “High Elves” returning to the Horde. That’s not to say people can’t RP that but I think the blue eye options for Blood Elves are simply going to be Sin’Dorei who were cured through the cleansed Sunwell. That’s just my opinion though. When people say “High Elves” that’s almost universally associated with Alliance aligned Thalassians.
The levels of assumption in this post is of legendary propertions!
The VE skin colors is to let players play closer in line with alleria, not high elves. This is the only answer unless they state otherwise, also not what they said before they announced the customizations.
The whole reason this debate exists is because some people haven’t moved on from Warcraft 2.
We can help those ppl with this!
Lightforged WC2 alliance race choices as a toggle instead of an eye toggle!
So like I said they have 1 giant footstep in the door to making High Elves already through Void Elves. I know that isn’t ideal for some people but that’s the case. They have the skin tones and now they have the eye options. For all we know they could have more that we haven’t even seen yet. At that point what’s stopping them exactly? You add a few more simple things like Hair/hair color and tattoos and you have it in all but name. The racials essentially can stay the same but with the option to change them from Void to Arcane. With all the customization we’re getting there could even be an option to tag your character as a “High Elf” rather than a Void Elf.
I think it’s more likely blizzard will go down this route rather than making a new race all together. They have to know what they’re doing with this.
Isn’t repeating your posts with the same replies spam bud?
I at least put my post reply in different threads and avoid using it more then once in a thread.
If you want to expand Lightforging to other races, that’s fine, but it doesn’t really belong in this thread. Good luck with your requests though.
It is, if it involves HE’s since you guys wants to rename void elves, I instead suggest that. This way you guys can’t take away more from VE and have an alternative way to rp with a “HE”
Luckily I was not drinking coffee as I read your post this time. 
No… no it isn’t… and if you want to attach a class to race identity… then well… a lot of Void Elf identity is Shadow Priest… so if Blood Elves can be Shadow Priests than that’s stepping on Void Elf identity… so perhaps they should remove the Priest class from Blood Elves to preserve Void Elf identity if Paladin is so integrally ground into Blood Elf identity…
Note: I’m not seriously suggesting removing Priest from Blood Elves, i’m just pointing out how rediculous the claims of paladin being integral to their identity thus can’t be allowed for Void Elves on that grounds is…
I certainly do not want to rename them.
I know you don’t. And I am glad as well. They are asking too much with the threads request.
Really. I just started rolling my eyes at some of the request. Blizzard isn’t going to start changing the void elf race. There’s just been more added for some more unique rp /aesthetic choices.
I think if blizzard had wanted to turn Ves into Hes, they would had just made Hes the AR in the first place. This is more of a compromise, and a way to earn some good will (since they technically didn’t have to give anything), imo.
Give them an inch and they take 500 miles.
Could we remove diaper gnomes instead?
I cant imagine what it’s like for people to be so obsessed with high elves that they have to pressure Blizzard more and more to have what they want in the game.
Blizz gives them the skin customizations so they can role play high elves, then there’s this.
More to come, I’m sure.
The Helfers just can’t understand that if Blizzard gave them the exact High Elves they have been clamoring for, it would be doing a huge disservice to the Blood Elf fans who are truly the High Elves of Warcraft. The High Elf culture, kingdom and lore belongs to the Blood Elves. “Alliance High Elves” are a very small splinter of that culture, and it is the same culture. Alliance are really asking for playable Blood Elves with Blood elf racials, jokes, appearance, and story but just “slightly different and less evil.” Nothing short of that will suffice. No amount of customization options will fix it because VoId ElVeS aReNt HiGh ElVeS.
But they don’t think about that because it is just about fulfilling the “I WANT!” fantasy of an overpowered Alliance.
I had a post that responded to your other post, but it was hours ago so I’m rewriting. I do appreciate your enthusiasm and positivity and of course I am very excited for the customization options and to at least be able to have the appearance of a high elf. With that being said, the best thing we can do is to roll with it and see how things go, I do believe that these discussions on the further “cleansing” of void elves will not stop until the full high elf fantasy is received, but at least the appearance is there.
Also, I race changed from a gnome, I have no idea why the forums have so much trouble updating but it’ll probably take about 2-3 months -_-.