If any Alliance Elf race is going to get paladins, it should be the Night Elves. You know. The race who we helped basically set up the first of a NElfadin in Legion as part of the expansion
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It should be both, they both make sense.
Especially Night Elves, whos entire culture is “faith in elune”.
The issue with that is with paladins, they are a conduit of Holy Light. They channel the Light through their body to use their faith, which is why Forsaken cant be paladins (in lore).
Sure, some Forsaken could call upon the Light as priests, but doing so hurts them. It would basically reawaken their senses, and feel the grotesque pain and anguish from their body rotting and the Light acting against their undeath.
With Void, we know they can be Shadow Priests. Its like the same idea in story. In gameplay, you cant limit a race by class spec because that would straight up kill a race.
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Why aren’t you people more grateful for the indie game company known as blizzard has given you more customization options for a race you never asked for? I am so glad that people who never wanted high elves are calling these people out.
But Shadow doesn’t kill Void Elves, they’re literally already infused with it, if Paladins are a counduit for their faith based power, it should be allowed with Shadow, same as Shadow is allowed for Void Elf priests or Forsaken Priests.
Priests channel the Light, whereas Paladins infuse their bodies and spirits with it.
There’s a reason why Undead can be priests and not Paladins.
These do not exist anywhere in lore. If you want to play a Shadow Paladin, go play a Death Knight.
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Shadow priests have been using Void. Literally, Shadow priests have a Voidform buff.
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Not even remotely the same, i was right to claim you didn’t know lore. Necromantic magic is not the same as Shadow magic.
Go look at the cosmology chart. Then try again.
So if Void elf priests use Void to heal, as claimed by some here, and not actually Light, why is that same power incompatible with being a paladin?
Who says they heal with it?
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I’ll just chime in and say I’d really like to see longer hairstyles for male void elves, braids with blue highlights mixed in wouldn’t go astray either. 
I know your reading comprehension skills are tough, as proven before in this thread, so please reread my post and tell me where I said they were the same.
What i’m not understanding is why if Shadow can be used the same as Holy, it isn’t also interchangeable with being a paladin.
I’m not saying you can’t have a paladin that uses the void instead of the light. I’m saying that the paladin class uses the light and therefore unless they added class skins are not going to be shadow paladins.
You know you can walk away right?
In my mind, Void elves have access to priest because shadow priest has the void powers and aesthetics in the kit. In reality, they are more like void mages.
Its gameplay > lore.
I’m not saying Shadow paladins is an entirely separate thing, but just as you claimed Void Elves use Shadow to heal instead of Holy, as Priests who are speced as holy usually do.
Why they can’t be paladins if as we know sofar, there isn’t a “class skin” for Void elf priests either.
I’m very sorry you don’t know what an implication is, so let me go slower for you.
If you want to play a Shadow Paladin, something that does not exist in the lore, go play as a Death Knight, since it’s the closest thing to an ‘Anti Paladin’ or whatever it is you’re trying to argue.
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Because it’s gameplay. shadow priest is their lore spec. the other two purely exist because of gameplay mechanics.
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That’s not a good excuse, if we wanna go there then the Alliance 100% deserves 2 more Paladins, as the Horde has 7 shamans and 3 Paladins to the Alliance’s 4 Shamans and 5 paladins.
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Gameplay > Lore is literally why we have Tauren Paladins and not just some more sun-based druid.
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