The High Elf Love Thread 🥰

[Midare-area-52 (Midare)]

I like how you purposefully ignored everything else I said to reply with what, I imagine you feel it’s a witty retort.

It wasn’t.

@Valarían-hydraxis

I think if Alliance Players who would take the time to learn about the whole High Elf debate, Did all the Alliance High Elf Content provided in the game for the Alliance Players, and learned the Lore Behind the Ren’dorei, allot people would have different opinions they have for the Ren’dorei and reconize the poke in the eye by the devs.

It’s not even assured that Alliance players that have done all that (including the meager amount of high elf related things besides them being canon fodder) will agree.

@Lorithyn-agamaggan

I wouldn’t have went with the void route, but that’s just a part of their poor implementation

I’ll never understand why they didn’t dip Alleria’s followers in the Void juice.

[Lannisteros-proudmoore]

I like the Void Elves I play mine like Yennefer of Vengeburg who wants more power. But I am disappointed with what they’ve done with them, and still support HE’s to the umpteenth degree, because I know how much fun people could have playing their HE’s on Alliance RPing the world

[Midare-area-52 (Midare)]

I’m sorry to inform you that Void Elf bashing it’s a common thing in this topic, it’s usually those against High elves that tend to defend them for the most part (althought it’s not exclusive).

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

@Midare-area-52

I like how you purposefully ignored everything else I said to reply with what, I imagine you feel it’s a witty retort.

Because just you dismissed everything I said as “just opinion”, I can do the same to yours. But when you state “they do have a purpose” as if it was fact, I just pointed up it isn’t.

It’s amusing how the results of the trainwreck are just in front of you yet you refuse to acknowledge the disaster.

[Lorithyn-agamaggan (Lorithyn)]

@Midare-area-52

I’ll never understand why they didn’t dip Alleria’s followers in the Void juice.

Also this. If they had simply used the existing High Elves to create Void Elves, or used a different excuse to make them available (Half Elves), it’d solve the implementation problem for quite a few people

[Guzzle-barthilas]

@Lorithyn-agamaggan

I wouldn’t have went with the void route, but that’s just a part of their poor implementation

I mean without that, do the Alliance really have any void specialists? The Dark Irons have sort of flirted with void stuff, but they’re more about shamanism/dark shamanism. The Horde have the Cult of the Forgotten Shadow and the Shadowmoon Clan to provide potential connections to void storylines.

[Lannisteros-proudmoore]

Yeah I know I guess I’m the opposite, pro HE but I absolutely love the Void Elves they fill a niche that I fall into I guess, I can see where the HE people come from just on account of I have the most fun doing things like LoreMaster and exploring and head canon my narrative, and concede in general they didn’t deliver any meaningful narratives in BFA that I feel they should have

[Tarrok-thorium-brotherhood (Tarrok)]

@Valarían-hydraxis

and reconize the poke in the eye by the devs. (imho)

Have you considered that maybe this is much more a “eating crackers over here like she owns the place” situation than that they’re actually spiting you?

[Valarían-hydraxis]

I like them to a point also, but they are not High Elves nor even close to acceptable replacement for High elves, and we didn’t ask for them. We were given a race that devs totally gave us opposite what was asked for out of contempt in place what was asked for. There attitude on topic (all Interviews given on the matter as proof) and filnal model they released is proof of that. (imho)

[Lorithyn-agamaggan (Lorithyn)]

I believe if we were to get a void-themed race it should’ve been Ethereals. Otherwise the void nonsense feels like it should stay a class flavor rather than a race one

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Alamara-goldrinn

Can the antis finally admit that void elves were just a bad idea

No, I still like the concept

@Alamara-goldrinn

terrible execution

yes, unarguably

@Alamara-goldrinn

void elves had no purpose or reason

No, I still think they are a good idea that ties into Alleria’s story well.

@Alamara-goldrinn

not even Blizzard knows what to do with them?

Absolutely. They could have been an excellent storytelling vehicle and could have even done a decent job of laying the requests for playable Alliance High Elves to rest in a way that made most people mostly happy.

[Guzzle-barthilas]

@Alamara-goldrinn

But when you state “they do have a purpose” as if it was fact, I just pointed up it isn’t.

No you didn’t, you made a nothing post about how somehow providing new aesthetics isn’t the purpose of a new race.

@Lorithyn-agamaggan

I believe if we were to get a void-themed race it should’ve been Ethereals. Otherwise the void nonsense feels like it should stay a class flavor rather than a race one

Ethereals don’t really work as an AR and they’ve made it pretty clear that they’re more interested in selling to both sides than even the goblins.

[Guzzle-barthilas]

@Murgatroyd-lightbringer

Absolutely. They could have been an excellent storytelling vehicle and could have even done a decent job of laying the requests for playable Alliance High Elves to rest in a way that made most people mostly happy.

I think they made pretty good use of the Mag’har and velfs in visions this patch.

[Valarían-hydraxis]

Mind you at the same time Horde Got the Shal’dorei, EX Highborne, with a beautiful city and wonderful starting lore. But that dont matter either I guess.

[Midare-area-52 (Midare)]

@Alamara-goldrinn

Because just you dismissed everything I said as “just opinion”, I can do the same to yours. But when you state “they do have a purpose” as if it was fact, I just pointed up it isn’t.

Because it is an opinion. They’ve been the most successful AR for Alliance since their release, and they obviously exist for a reason even if you refuse to admit it.

But I imagine you have an uncle that works for Blizzard or something. /s

@Alamara-goldrinn

It’s amusing how the results of the trainwreck are just in front of you yet you refuse to acknowledge the disaster.

You’re the one that once spent several posts trying to explain how them spearheading an entire assault on Horde aligned lands meant less than a single NPC standing around somewhere and doing nothing.

You really need to stop trying to put them down, it does nothing for your goal and no matter how hard you try to push your opinion, they’re not going anywhere and replaced by blood elves with blue eyes.

@Lannisteros-proudmoore

Yeah I know I guess I’m the opposite, pro HE but I absolutely love the Void Elves they fill a niche that I fall into I guess, I can see where the HE people come from just on account of I have the most fun doing things like LoreMaster and exploring and head canon my narrative, and concede in general they didn’t deliver any meaningful narratives in BFA that I feel they should have

BFA was a general trainwreck, for everyone, left and right, up and down. Void elves have amazing potential, not only with the whole N’zoth narrative but with being the odd ones out in a heavily Light influenced faction, potential that the HE can only dream they could even scratch the surfance of.

The writers are not even paying attention anymore to anything, including great opportunities.

[Lorithyn-agamaggan (Lorithyn)]

Oh believe me Ehereals wouldn’t have been my choice as an allied race (a core race if anything), but if we were to get a void race they’d be the first thing I’d think of

[Guzzle-barthilas]

Well I can’t say giving Alliance a Horde race would have been my first choice for a void-themed faction, but getting mad with Blizzard for wanting to come up with new stuff is like drunkenly throwing beer bottles at some guy with an acoustic guitar because he wants to play his own stuff for a bit instead of covering Free Bird for the fifth time that evening.

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Lorithyn-agamaggan

Oh believe me Ehereals wouldn’t have been my choice as an allied race (a core race if anything), but if we were to get a void race they’d be the first thing I’d think of

I honestly think that Ethereals…especially given that they are not a unified group and have their own internal factions (See the opposition of Locus Walker, who carefully groomed Alleria, and Durzaan, who force-created the Void Elves in an attempt to Etherialize© [yes, new word] them, as an example)…could have actually been a successful race playable on both sides.

[Itoldyouso-illidan]

I think so as well, but Blizz is committed tonever doing another neutral race.

[Lannisteros-proudmoore]

If I’m being honest if I can maintain a PRO HE stance at the same time, I like them because I like the Lannisters, or the Empire in Star Wars people who are power hungry and pragmatic, and they sorta remind me of the Forsaken in the Horde when no one really trusted them and that narrative was always very interesting me, but I agree that they are not fulfilling the niche HE would because HE as I think several people have pointed out fill this sort of majestic / intelligent type Elf aesthetic so I can see how they conflict.

@Midare-area-52

Void elves have amazing potential, not only with the whole N’zoth narrative but with being the odd ones out in a heavily Light influenced faction

I actually completely agree, and I have enjoyed all the VE inclusion (all the random dialogues too from NPCs) in BFA but it didn’t seem enough but like you pointed out BFA lacked overall in the story dept for people looking for story