We have two variations of playable dwarves.
Four variations of playable elves, but sure let’s add more because this is World of Elfcraft right?
edit: Make that five - six playable elf variations if you count the Illidari elves as a separate race (and considering their unique customization options, they’re pretty much the first Allied race we got).
And quite frankly, I’m dead tired of these edgelord classes and races.
No more elves!
Say it with me!
No more elves!
No more elves!
No more elves!
Four more elves!
Four more elves!
Four more elves!
If it makes you feel any better, San’layn aren’t elves any more than Forsaken are humans.
I guess there’s really 3 races of dwarf then…if you count The Ebon Blade.
Nah, I’m sure the Forsaken’s AR will be very cute and cuddly.
At least 2. There should be a type of elf for each of the cosmic magical energies they can be addicted to.
Nature - Night Elves
Fel - Blood Elves
Void - Void Elves
Arcane - Nightborne
Light - High Elves
Necromantic - Darkfallen
But again, blood and night elves are substantially different aesthetically and culturally. I wouldn’t count worgen or undead as ‘humans’ either. They’re both ‘elves’ but are sufficiently different from one another IMO.
Now, I don’t think we should add more elves just yet, I think other races without allied race variants at all should have a go, but once we’ve had a few more rounds I don’t think it’s such a big deal if we get more elven variants down the road if they do another expansion of allied races. Plus…elves are just really popular. Void elves are the 4th most played alliance race at 120 according to warcraft realms census despite being relatively new, and of course night and blood elves are super high. So if we get another round of allied races, there’s really no reason not to add more elves. Again as long as we’re not ONLY getting elves.
It only seems like we’re overflowing in elves because they’re popular races to pick and because people are throwing night and blood elves under the same bucket despite their differences.
What have you smoked? Blood elf are already more light fanatic than high elf. If the alliance high elf start being adding at something, they lost all their ‘’ high elf are pure’’ argument.
Yeah but they won’t be once the Alliance takes Silvermoon and the Sunwell.
You mean ‘if’ the Alliance takes Silvermoon. That’s a mighty big if. We already had two capitals lost for shock factor at the start of this expansion I wouldn’t hold my breath on Silvermoon or the Exodar getting dragged into this.
At the very most, maybe a Ghostlands warfront where we go back and forth controlling the zone.
Well, it would be awfully silly, not to mention, poor writing, for them not to finish the job at this point.
How would it be bad writing? Just because a character like say Alleria wants to do something doesn’t mean it’s ‘bad writing’ if the character never achieves it.
I will say, while I put this under the “Just as likely as orc paladins” category, San’Layn can be multiple classes so there is potential there.
Because there’s really no logical way that Silvermoon should be able to hold off all of the EK Alliance. It was still plausible when the Horde controlled most of Lordaeron, but now that the UC has fallen, it shouldn’t be feasible for Silvermoon to stand alone against the forces of Stormwind, Ironforge, Shadowforge, Gilneas, Gnomeregan, etc. all on their own.
I mean, even Exodar at least has the benefit of being on a small island they completely control. Requiring a naval assault.
As soon as the Alliance military no longer has to focus on KT/Zand, the Blood Elves shouldn’t be able to hold the city on their own. So if they do, then it’s probably the result of bad writing.
That’s assuming the Alliance has the forces to put into that front. Anduin didn’t even want to take Darkshore back yet because it would spread the Alliance too thin and they’re still embroiled in Arathi and the KT?Zandalar stuff, it’s not like the Alliance is in a position to throw their full weight against Silvermoon.
Not only that but the blood elf didn’t do that much for the last few expansion. Right now they are probably the most in shape army or the horde. They are also close to the nightborn who didn’t lost that much in Bfa too.
Meanwhile the alliance would have to go their facing resistance in Lordaeran in a wasted land with a already in bad shape army.
It probably wouldn’ happen until AFTER BFA, but there’s no logical reason it shouldn’t happen.
Yeah, they definately weren’t on the front lines of the Surumar invasion.
It wasn’t that much a big battle for the blood elf and night elf there. If anything they helped more the nightborn by covered them than anything.
If there was that much lost in this battle, the silvercovenant would probably be nearly all dead.
If you forget all the good reason like not giving the capital city of the horde most popular race to the alliance than yeah they have no logical reason.
The Blood Elves still need the Forsaken to hold the Ghostlands. Without the Forsaken on the Eastern Kingdoms the Blood Elves won’t even be able to hold their own against the undead, let alone the Alliance if they attacked.
From In the Shadow of the Sun:
For the second time since he had returned from Quel’Lithien, he heard Hawkspear’s words in his memory.
We are no longer her people.
If Lor’themar was honest with himself, he could not deny that he had known it all the while.
…
“We do not have a choice, Rommath; do you not understand that? We do as Sylvanas asks or we quite possibly lose all of Quel’Thalas south of the Elrendar River!”
“So, let it go!” Rommath shouted, and Lor’themar froze in shock. Slowly he turned back once again, catching sight of Halduron’s equally startled face as he did.
“Let it go?” His voice started to rise. “Do you know how many elves—sin’dorei and quel’dorei alike—died to defend that land? How many continue to die? And you say I should just let it go? What the hell is wrong with you?”
“They would rather have died in vain than have given their lives just so you could turn into nothing more than the puppet of some—some monster, in the name of their sacrifice!”
You get that if the alliance attack silvermoon, they gonna have to pass by the ghostlands and losing troop fighting those undead and getting rid of them for the blood elf?
You do remember that the Night Elves stationed outposts throughout the Ghostlands back in the Blood Elf starting zones questing, right? To be fair, Blizzard themselves forgot about that.