âHad ties withâ and âareâ are two entirely different things.
Post your hopes and dreams and wishes, sure but itâs exhausting seeing what people will try to pass off as factual to back-up their statements. The amount of assumption, conjecture, and out-and-out falsehoods is mind-numbing.
Stick to the facts and, if you do that, youâll see that High Elves as playable are highly unlikely unless you completely tear the lore apart.
I think Iâve seen you involved in this argyument for a while, only on the other side.
You should know that these are a common occurance and Iâm surprised you havenât developed immunity to it and, tbh, this is not even the level that would make me facepalm and develop a headache.
And plus, accepting the Silver Hand was a vital part of what compromised the Alliance, doesnât do anything to the argument really, is only a way for them to ask for a class for a race that should not happen.
Iâve been pretty open about my history with this topic. I was pro but once I realized I wasnât really looking at the topic subjectively, I started looking into as much as I could about whatâs been written and said about the topic by the devs, the writers, previous and current as well as the story.
Once i educated myself, I went completely the other way ⊠likely because it ended up being a gateway to really digging into the lore of the game and realizing how important it is TO the game AND being tired of how little it matters to some. I think it was the Blood Elf heritage armor quest that sealed the deal for me.
Agreed though: best to ignore it cause itâs not going away.
Iâm not aying you should ignore it. I just think that conceding some things itâs a better choice.
Whether the Silver Hand was an Alliance thing or not, doesnât change anything for High elves being playable.
âHey the Alliance isnât too popular, because of broken racials tilting the favor towards Horde. People also donât find the Alliance as interesting⊠How do we fix this, I know! Ignore everything else and add humans but with knife-ears on the Alliance when they already have two! Thatâll fix everything I swear!â
High Elves donât have to be about fixing faction imbalance problems. The potential may be there if they had incredible racials, but High Elves themselves may not solve the issue
That said, more allied races will come eventually. May as well continue to offer feedback as Blizz requested
High Elves arenât coming to the Alliance due to the simple fact that theyâre nigh indistinguishable from Blood Elves.
They could make them to be so, just as they did with your human. To think that High Elves need to be an exact copy of Blood Elves but with blue eyes is just imposing self restrictions as to what an allied race could be
The difference being we only had 1 type of human before, now we have two.
We already have 4 elves. We donât need another, no matter what zany model you propose needs to happen. Any niche they could field thematically is already taken by Velves and Nelves.
If only more people understood this and stopped using literally any crutch, including this flimsy oneâŠ
Again, thatâs a self imposed restriction. âWe canât have High Elves because there are 4 elves alreadyâ
So? How does that stop High Elves from becoming playable? I get that you donât like elves, but that alone isnât enough to deny them
Plus⊠we have like 4 human types in the game (Stormwind Humans, Kul Tirans, Undead, Worgen), and weâre leaving gnomes and dwarves out of the equation because theyâre technically not âWoWâ Humans, but câmonâŠ
When all of those âhumansâ (and btw, how dare you, we forsaken are far more evolved, we transcended life, yo), look all the same (at all times) and even have similar culture, then the situation could be compared.
Kul Tirans did look the same - thatâs the whole point. Devs overhauled their appearance only for gameplay reasons, nothing else.
EDIT: also, the 4 elves we have do not look the same or share the same culture.
dont be silly. blood elves ARE the high elves. you cant have a horde race just because a few individuals using both adjectives exist in the alliance
it is easy to oppose this because development and the lore agree with the anti point of view
people seem to be losing sight of that fact, its almost like with the denial of lore there is an agenda
But do they look the same now that they are playable?
And I still want to know why theyâre supposed to look different and I think itâs really needed.
However, in the case of High elves, it has been practically speficied that they donât look different from blood elves, and thereâs no indication that they should.
And before you suggest they simply make something up⊠Iâll ask you to look at Void elves.
Yeah, thatâs the whole point.
Who wants to join my boat of Alliance racial rework to try and fix faction imbalance?
Almost there, Little tweaking here and there, presto Alliance Quelâdorei
Sigh As usual, coming up with random lore reasons itâs only ok when it favors âThe CauseââŠ
Blood Elves are High Elves and they are a Horde race. Thing is, they donât call themselves High Elves anymore, only those who are neutral or are on the Alliance do. This is acknowledged multiple times in the game
Weâd like to play as an Alliance High Elf loyalist. The biggest point of contention is the model, and as I stated thatâs something Blizz could easily fix. I donât think thatâs silly