it’s official blizzard book. and blood elves- fel addicted.
AnyTHinG iS pOsSibLe
I’m sick of this crap being parroted by people who think the WoW team is a wish-granting fairy that will bend over backward to give the playerbase whatever they want if they piss and moan loudly and constantly enough. Unlike you, my expectations are grounded in reality, and they tell me that another Alliance-aligned blood elf copypaste is not on the devs’ radar.
One was made to appease older players and make back money lost from people playing on private servers instead of retail, the other is an unnecessary addition requested by vocal Alliance players who started playing during WotLK at the earliest. Any argument comparing high elves or similarly long-requested features to Classic should be automatically null and void.
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They’re a different faction, but the same race despite how you want to twist it.
I took the liberty of finding the reference by Blizzard that says:
Blood elves are, biologically and physiologically, high elves.
- The Warcraft Encyclopedia: Blood Elves
Which was an official article by Blizzard entertainment. Though mild elements were reconned, the naming of the race & why wasn’t one of them - and is continued to be referenced up to this day.
Wrong. Them being named Blood Elves has nothing to do with the Fel. It’s not like Void Elves at all. Void Elves had the name of their people changed because of being altered by the Void. Blood Elves chose the name of their people out of honour of the fallen. Elves that were renamed directly because of the Fel were actually called Felblood Elves.
Blood Elves solely, had their name changed for political purposes — Before they had anything to do with the Fel. So you’re wrong … Again.
There could had been a High Elf in Dalaran; who was far from the incidents of the Scourge; respected their peoples decision and renamed themself a Blood Elf at that deadset moment without ever touching the Fel or returning to Quel’Thalas.
"In honor of the blood that was shed throughout this kingdom, in honor of the sacrifices of our brothers and sisters, our parents, and our children, in honor of Anasterian… as of this day we will take the name of our royal lineage! As of this day, we are sin’dorei! For Quel’Thalas!” - Kael’Thas Sunstrider
They stated they were no longer High Elves, to rename themselves Blood Elves - out of honour to those that had fallen to Arthas & the Scourge, during the fall of the Sunwell and protection of their kingdom and people.
References to this is Blood Elf Quests: in Eversong Woods + Ghostlands, along with quests in Outland, and dialog repeated in the Isle of Quel’Danas; when they left Kael’Thas & said despite his wrongdoings chose to keep by the nobility of sticking to the renaming of their people in honour of the fallen. The Blood Elf Heritage Gear Questline - Which was recent (So still canon) pretty much explains that too.
There’s also references in the book Chronicles, along with the novella Blood of the Highborne which is part of the World of Warcraft: Paragons.
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There’s no way it would be a blue eyed blood elf in the context that he was added though, considering that the Sunwell had not been restored at that point, especially with eye color being the main distinction between High elves and Blood elves within the game.
Additionally many High elves left the alliance and became neutral refugees within Shattrath, which would also be considered non-alliance considering they all use Night elf voice lines.
The better question was why did Blizzard screw up on what should have been an easy win? It’s kinda asinine to say hey lets make a group of group instead of oh hey here is a way for some easy lore characters to be placed in the game.
Blood Elves were calling themselves blood elves before they ever met Lady Vashj, let alone before they started to use fel to sate their addiction to magic.
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Simple answer is that for the most part, when ever they are forced to do something by popular demand from the player base, they do it in such a way as to spite the players asking for it.
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first this is not a popular demand. there are 4 people spamming 4 threads currently. the exact same 4. despite all this spam bumping, no one new ever responds meaning literally only a few care or the forum community has these spammers and their thread muted. either way its clearly the opposite of what you think it is in popularity
second theyre not trying to spite you. you personally believe blood elves are not high elves. development have let us know time and again that they do not hold that position and that high elves are already playable on the horde. they make the lore so your belief in flat ea- i mean that high elves arent playable is incorrect
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First you’re joking right? High elves were a pretty popular request for quite some time. Just because most people have accepted high elves on their own are likely not going to be a thing doesn’t mean that wasn’t true.
No one asked for void elves. Literally no one. Void elves are not the only example of blizzard doing something in a way that is very hard to not perceive as having been done to spite the players. Remember how they were going to not have flying in WoD and people demanded they do flying, and they added it as a pathfinder achievement in the most annoying way possible?
I never said they weren’t playable. I’m not the OP claiming that void elves and blood elves aren’t high elves.
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Chronicle makes it quite clear that only Kael’s elves in Outland turned to tapping Fel.
Yes, but they too (The ones that travelled with Kael’Thas in Outland) along with some in Azeroth still named themselves Blood Elves before that regardless.
Oh certainly.
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people really hate different opinions dont they. this thread speaks volumes for the kind of closed minded, gatekeeping drivel.
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^ Yep 100%.
That’s why I was saying earlier in this thread there could’ve been ‘High Elves’ in areas such as say ‘Dalaran’ that identified as Blood Elves; simply afar from Quel’Thalas (Using fel-crystals to fuel their kingdom, and few various peoples) or Outland and uneffected or altered by the fel thus still have their eyes remain the way they were.
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No, you asked for something Blizzard (And many players) have stated was not, and should not happen for many reasons, and when Blizzard offered a compromise they felt would satisfy both camps you decided to interpret it as “spite” because anything short of having exactly what you want must be evidence that they’re deliberately out to get you.
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I actually rejoined wow because of void elves.
While I will admit I didn’t ask for them, when I did find out about them I started my account back up almost immediately to start grinding out the requirements.
Had been gone almost 7 years.
Suspose, since I assume you’ll reference them too, I’ll mention I’m quite fond of both Kul’tirans and mechagnomes as well.
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False. They were once high elves, but not anymore. They are blood elves. By your logic americans are still british.
Yes.
that’s not a compromise.
Pretty sure it would be claiming Americans are still human by their logic.
Blood elves and high elves are the same race.
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Not to mention the dev statements that people use as evidence that high elves are canonically playable by Alliance explicitly says it applies to blood elves too. So blood elves aren’t necessarily just physically the same race as high elves anymore.
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Why can’t you ppl keep this garbage contained to the mega thread? Go away already.
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