The High Elf Love Thread 🥰

Bronzo-arathor · February 18, 2020, 7:29pm

I can’t believe this isn’t capped yet but here’s my daily love for playable High Elves!

Also, I support playable Buff Trolls. I hope there’s an Ice Troll skin available.

Fliktarg-emerald-dream · February 18, 2020, 7:32pm

exactly. I see no reason why they shouldn’t be their own allied race. If they are to be customization they need to have a model option. giving a jungle troll green skin does not make it a forest troll.

Itoldyouso-illidan · February 18, 2020, 7:51pm

Easy, because its a stupid idea and a waste of a race slot.
It is unoriginal, and contributes nothing new.
These minor changes to create a “new” race is just promoting lazy design.

Gulkas-barthilas · February 18, 2020, 7:55pm

Except that it does.

Perhaps you should spend more time researching the topic instead of diving in and telling they’re wrong, mate.

Kyuu-bronzebeard · February 18, 2020, 7:58pm

There will almost certaintly be a frost troll skin as well. Even if they don’t do buff trolls there are tons of them in bfa using the darkspear jungle troll models.

Seems like a waste of a slot if they’re doing the customizations for sub groups like this going forward.

As said above there’s plenty of forest and frost trolls in bfa using the regular model.

Gulkas-barthilas · February 18, 2020, 8:03pm

And just as a little victory lap, here’s a fourth forest troll tribe who use the skinny model as well as a forest troll with the skinny model talking to a frost troll using the skinny model.

~https://i.imgur.com/JLSbqid.jpg
~https://i.imgur.com/bRuKPPg.jpg

Drede-cairne · February 18, 2020, 8:12pm

One the one hand different builds in a race are possible and there are slimmer Forest Trolls.

On the other people want the Buff Trolls as an option and it’s one of the main reason people want Forest/Ice Trolls.

Gulkas-barthilas · February 18, 2020, 8:15pm

Disagree, I used to be heavily involved in the discussion around forest trolls in particular on MMO champ. In the run up to BFA we all signed a big petition that said we were perfectly happy with a re-skin. Which was before the skinny models were widely re-issued to new NPCs as seen in Dazar’alor, island expeditions and the Horde storyline.

The bigger bodies would be nice, but it’s just not as realistic. It’s something that should be added to all trolls rather than made into a standalone AR.

Not that I think it matters, I think it’s nigh on foregone that we’ll be getting a forest troll tone in SLs. Which I’m super jazzed for.

Especially given the fact that the Wildhammer will be joining the fray. It’d be borderline offensive if they didn’t get to go to war with their ancestral enemies.

Kyuu-bronzebeard · February 18, 2020, 8:45pm

All of this fits with what I have personally seen as well.

I agree. I sure as hell won’t balk at the buffer models if they add them but I’m not gonna be bummed without. I also don’t think either the Forest or Frost trolls would make for a good AR. They’re literal shadows of what they once were.

Actually thinking about this makes me reconsider my stance on high elves…

I know right? Had the Raventusk been an option at vanilla launch my first toon would have been a forest troll not a darkspear.

Yeah it would really be dumb if blizzard didn’t have them both.

Gulkas-barthilas · February 18, 2020, 8:48pm

One thing I’m really interested in is seeing how we get all these trolls. All the troll tribes joining the Zandalari under the red banner is a really big deal, the trolls haven’t been properly united like that in millennia.

Kyuu-bronzebeard · February 18, 2020, 8:54pm

Suppose what they did during MoP was Zul’s little machination if I remember right… Just a splinter group.

Perhaps after seeing the Horde stand for the Zandalari the other tribes realize what they can do for them finally /again.

New queen, New allies. Enough to inspire new loyalty to the empire.

I hope they have little quests/scenarios/lots of folk talking about these groups joining.

Cashcollecta-emerald-dream · February 18, 2020, 9:12pm

Watched the whole thing. Excellent video. Still hoping for playable unshackled races.

Fliktarg-emerald-dream · February 18, 2020, 9:13pm

You people are bad. That is all I can say. Who the hell advocates for less options??

Why do you treat allied races as if there are limited number of them and once all the “slots” are filled no more will ever be made???

Make forest/frost trolls an allied race. Make taunka an allied race. Same for high elves, gilbins, jinyu/ankoan, hozen, mogu, furbolg, ogres, mok’nathal, arrakoa, sethrak, san’layn, vrykul, tuskarr, yuangol, and titanforged dwarves.

If they can fix the mount issue also make dryads/keepers and centaurs allied races.

Cezol-darkspear · February 18, 2020, 9:15pm

People with 0 imagination and/or people who think they’ll lose everything by letting people request things they’d like.

Iydral-sargeras · February 18, 2020, 9:16pm

Tol’vir fall in this lot too. Would be cool. But doubtful.

Lannisteros-proudmoore · February 18, 2020, 9:18pm

I love this! No limits should be Blizzards outlook on the game always anyways

Gulkas-barthilas · February 18, 2020, 9:19pm

You apparently.

Another day, another toxic helfer.

Starlagosa-dentarg · February 18, 2020, 9:20pm

Blue eyes for Blood Elves, please!!

Tarrok-thorium-brotherhood · February 18, 2020, 9:21pm

Or maybe people don’t think like you think.

Because I for one think that HMT were a complete waste of an AR slot because they are barely changed and could have been held off until customization. I don’t want minor changes to be a whole new race because a whole new race has different racials that need to be balanced, probably a different set of classes so that if I really wanted some of that customization I’m SOL on the class I’ve been maining for a while now.

It’s all priority, I want blizz to make new races allied or otherwise be more distinct and not just a paint job on an existing race. I can figure out my own character’s backstory and origin, I can’t change the model or available classes of my character.

Basically, I prefer fewer race choices but with much broader options underneath that. Put all the trolls together, that means you can have the troll you want as the class you want as opposed to hoping that the cosmentics you want and the class you want end up matching in one out of what, like 7 separate troll races?

And I find it amusing you seem to think they’ll just throw out a million different ARs. Because we don’t have enough complaints about supposedly unbalanced racials without adding a ton more. They still need to be developed which takes time and effort, which means there’s a limit to how many they put out.

Kyuu-bronzebeard · February 18, 2020, 9:42pm

Wow. Just bad because we don’t agree with you? And we’re not saying less options, we’re saying it’s not bad or lore breaking if they don’t have them.

There kinda is… Blizzard takes time to make them, releases them in twos, and has stated several things they look for in an AR. Some races don’t meet that and getting them this way is fine.

Hoping these are all customization.

Probably also customization. Though they’d both be fine AR’s to me.

Sure, these seem like races I’d want to see as AR and can’t be made into customizations.

Hey why not if they find a way around it.

They’re already going to do this. It’s crazy to think otherwise.

EDIT: for clarification.