Yeah I’m neutral on the ordeal, I’m happy some of my friends got what they wanted. To me personally, high elves are particularly boring and I’m not a fan of either them or the Alliance in general. I definitely won’t be playing a high elf, and my void elf will remain voidy.
Just like how, I’m sure, there’s plenty who dislike San’layn and would never play one, but support the idea so people can have fun, if that makes sense. I’m that stance with ogres too, definitely not interested but hopeful they get added for the people who are nice and decent (though there’s some who are absolutely rude and of whom I cannot stand for one moment on these forums, but I won’t get into that.)
It just bugs me that we’re going into an expansion with a zone dedicated to vampirism… and there is no sign, at all, of any San’layn lore or being able to play them. It’s like they abandoned the concept for the Venthyr, which is why I truly can’t find myself liking Venthyr (even if they looked decent). All of this lore and tidbits from Legion and BfA, all seemingly leading to… nowhere.
It’s so frustrating. Blizzard gave the high elf community at least part of what they wanted–they can play their characters as high elves. Now people would like some lore, even tidbits of that would suffice. But it just feels so disappointing that they don’t say even a thing about this request going into an expansion where it would be perfect to add them in, at least in my personal opinion.
They say “Yeah we’ll see” for Allied races for the covenants in an interview, but regarding the requests that have been floating around for years now? Especially one that’s really relevant? Meh.
And no, we’re not entitled to anything, but even a “Yeah we see, but there’s no plans.” Of course, they don’t do that because stringing us along will allow us to stay even if they say nothing. Just frustrating I guess, is all, when they do make an entire post with other things spotlighted yet no one else is acknowledged at all.
Yeah I can see this especially if in some sort of quest or recruitment scenario, the San’layn defend Silvermoon City and such like that.
Orcs I feel would be the big ones that would hate the San’layn, they seem to dislike forsaken and DK in general too (sorry orc players :P)
I wonder if there’d be ‘monster’ or ‘vampire’ hunter organizations. I know there’s one on Alliance side. I wonder what they’d think of San’layn.
Ugh such a disappointment. I love Vulpera too but I think Sethrak would make an amazing allied race. And Arakkoa, come to think of it. Both I’d roll right away.
