āWEāVE ALREADY DISPOSED OF THOSE ARGUMENTS, WEāVE REFUTED THEM ALL, YOUāRE JUST MEAN AND WANT TO DENY US WHAT WE WANT FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN MALICE AND SPITE!ā
Iām kiddingā¦
I was curious because you were a NIght Elf player.
The only thing Iād say to your response is to correct this:
I donāt think thatās true.
When it comes to the, āThey didnāt use Felā thingā¦ I think thatās a consistency thing. They donāt do the Fel thingā¦ and I think thatās a really important part of their story, because historically High Elves try and avoid that whole historical demon invasion bit.
And I think itās a really important part of Blood Elf Lore that theyāre so distraught over getting eaten by zombies that theyāre willing to do anything.
Iām fine with High Elves doing bad things. I just want them to be consistent.
Additionally, the overwhelming majority of the folks who legitimately hope for āWhite Knight High Elvesā are almost always the least versed on the history of the High Elves ā meaning their opinions, unfortunately, have very little actionable value.
Itās worth noting that Alleria is a fan favorite, despite being downright genocidal at one point ā exterminating the orcs like vermin.
Thaloāthas offers the quest [15] A Captainās Vengeance to Hordeplayer characters, expressing an open hostility to the Alliance fleet which has attacked his ships. He is friendly to Alliance player characters though, but will not offer the quest to them.
World of Warcraft in the first place is supposed to be shades of grey. Warcraft III is all about, āHey these orcs arenāt all bad.ā and, āHey look there are bad humans.ā
Yeah the Blood Elves went off the deep end a little and did some really bad stuff. But theyāre not, āThe Bad Guys.ā
Lorāthemar is simultaneously a really good dude and a tyrant because heās gotta be.
Yeah, Thaloāthas was a weird example. As Tarrok said, he offers quests to Horde, not Alliance. This is because the Alliance navy attacked his pirate fleet. This is also why heās not hostile to Alliance players. He doesnāt have a beef with the entire Alliance, just its navy.
Personally I want High Elves because theyāve proven that theyāre loyal to the Alliance. Also thereās some appeal in playing a race thatās rare and exotic, I like the fact that they are few in number
I donāt want to play them because they can do no wrong and are perfect in every way possible. Every version of Thalassian elf is flawed in some way
I could definitely be remembering seeing him on some transitory horde toon of the past. And you should pull a pic of him in classic, like a Zelda refugee.
Mea Culpa.
But the fact remains that therein started the kernel of my idea that the perfect version of WoW might one day exist wherein I might get to be that however briefly.
I have been waiting years upon years for that opportunity. And in that time I have come to understand my distaste for the mud hut venues and one plus one equals apple take from the Horde side.
The Alliance and its history, its foundations were much more something in which I could invest as a character and a player.
And imagine my surprise to find out I was not alone. There were many of us, many players who imagined themselves in that idyllic version where they could play this race that would be perfect for them, in the setting that seemed best.
That version, so close for all those years, was finally stymied by one person. And in that time all the thin, gauzy reasons for not adding them have fallen away or been torn off by the very people who swore they would never give this segment of the paying player-base what it had waited and asked for all those years.
I imagine it might have found its appeal to others in other ways. I feel like I saw the first High Elf in the game there in Ratchet. It was certainly the first one I had ever seen in the game.
It was like a quiet promise for a bright future. When I remember those days it reminds me what hope was like.
Blizzard has done some stupid things over the years but nonchalantly returning āHigh Elvesā to Blood Elves isnāt going to be one with them.
Anyone treating the subject as possible is actually trolling, saying it because they know it will ātriggerā people who want High Elves.
You especially know itās trolling because thatās apparently the first āOMG ITāS PoSSibLeā topic rather than the FAR more likely Undead customization that has actually been asked for on the Horde.
Just goes to show what a dumpster these forums are.
Well apparently in ptr, the Mechagnomes flag has a space for another allied race in embassy, and the allied race option in character select has 2 more spacesā¦ one be Vulpera and Mechagnomes, plus a gap for horde and allianceā¦ so maybe we get another one before expansion??
The most obvious candidates are going to be High Elves and Forsaken Night Elves.
Theyāre a BE/NE AR pair like the first VE/NB were
They re-emphasized HE and Undead NE in the final quest of the patch showing both Vereesa and Delaryn, with Calia helping the latter
Undead BE are most likely a skin of BE and weāre missing an alternate undead race
High Elves are still the most requested alliance AR and this might be their way to say āf it just take itā to drop the subject forever as part of their latent apology tour
But then again 99% of people thought factions were going away so attempting to predict anything out of Blizzard (other than not doing something blatantly PR damaging) is pointless.
Who knows, they could pull one from under us and finally horde get Ogres? And if alliance get High Elves that be the Original Factions completedā¦ the OG
Yeah I mention Alliance because just like the Horde will probably get undead BE, the Alliance is also a candidate for undead Night Elves as an NE skin leaving another option for the Horde like Ogres based on the Kul Tiran model (cause we know thatās the real reason they made Kul Tiran models).
Iām optimistic that theyāll do High Elves as they are going all out on OG customization while admitting to NOT doing them for allied races
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