The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

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4771

smacks with newspaper bad!!

4772

Not wrong. But if that does happen, it would require a lot of particle work and renaming
which would just open the door for Paladins for really anything.

4773

Water paladin though. Tides blessings, upon you friend.

4774

Since blizzard couldn’t tought a way to make them look different enough from blood elves, i’ve been thinking about a idea of arcane forging, at first this looks extremely silly (the name is stupid but i couldn’t think something better), but this could be a path that some of them took to sate the arcane thirst after the Sunwell destruction, and it could open the book for some customization options such as unnatural hair colors, arcane markings and intense glowing eyes.

4775

Harder plz <3 I want to be tied up with void tentacles :):heart_eyes: !

4776

Storm elves. Where are those old concept art?

4777

Im talking about arcane stuff not storm stuff. Edit: Maybe this idea isn’t anything new then.

4778

Blood Elves these days grumble grumble

4779

The general idea was messing with the magic from Isle of Thunder after Jainas staff got lightning powers.

I liked that concept though


4780

Did they change the names and icons when velf shadow priest go holy?

Adding heavy armor changes nothing, all the light requires is faith and determination

4781

I mean they dont do them for Forsaken. It’s just gameplay mechanics, because you cant limit a race to a single spec.

4782

You know though, it might be cool if they did.

If they did decided to pursue the unlikely scenario of Void Paladins, maybe we’d see other race specific changes to spells/skills. Like Night Elf holy priest spells being the more soft blue-white light of Elune rather than the typically yellow holy light, for example.

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4783

It was one of my three concepts about how high elves could be changed in ways that make sense.

I’m not sure if anyone made fanart of it, but I’m no artist.

In short, The idea was that the high elves would use the Storm Stave of Antonidas as a power source, since that storyline never went anywhere. To control their new power, they’d rely on their wildhammer allies and get shamans as a way to further cement their own niche apart from blood elves and night elves.

About void paladins, there’s some trouble beyond changing effects and skill names: the sets. Most paladin sets wouldn’t fit a void-based paladin.

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4784

Meh, that’s what transmog is for! :slight_smile:

And surprisingly, there are quite a few Paladin sets that would look quite nice for a void themed Paladin.

Sets that work for void themed pally’s include:

Soulforge,
Light’s Vanguard (normal mode color),
Radiant Lightbringer (raid finder color),
Cruel Gladiator’s Scaled Armor,
Primal Combatant’s Scaled Armor,
Reinforced Sapphirium Battleplate (normal mode color),
Eternal Curator’s Protectorate (heroic mode color),
Sanctified Lightsworn Plate (25 man heroic color)
Deadly Gladiator’s Scaled Armor
Hateful Gladiator’s Scaled Armor
Brutal Gladiator’s Scaled Armor
Crystalforge Armor
Gladiator’s Scaled Armor

That’s a fairly impressive list of pally specific sets that would work if you ask me. And that doensn’t even touch on non-set armor. There’s even a purple recolor of the Judgement set!

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4785

Purple recolor T2

4786

IMO the base problem is that the Paladin Archetype is waaaay too limited to light centric lore, so adding even things like Sunwalkers and Prelates create opposition, even when they are using light, just another source of it.

As long as Paladins aren’t more encompassing as an archetype (I.E. something more akin to a “Holy Warrior” where the source of the power can be anything considered “holy” it’s hard to see them deviating from what they are.

It’s the same issue with Monks, their fantasy is just too based on one concept rather than being a more generic archetype like, let’s say, Priest or Hunter are.

4787

OT: love your xmog!

4788

Is this where we start blaming Legion class hall campaigns?

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4789

Agreed. Honestly, Death Knight would be closer to what one would expect of a Void Elf, “Paladin,” than anything else, and that’s partly due to the nature of how Death Knights were introduced to us. They were Paladins who fell from grace and embraced the power of darkness/shadow/undeath and became these powerful forces of destruction.

Of course not all Death Knights were created from Paladins, but when Arthas was the one we saw as the first Death Knight, that idea really resonated with players in general. To think that Void Elf Blood Knights would instead become Void Knights (using Death Knight as a class), hardly seems far-fetched. Arguably the powers of undeath and blood magic would be derived from other topics of research the Magistry was not keen upon, and which Umbric allowed.

Or they could just have been Death Knights with Umbric’s group. Either way allows for some interesting interpretations by players.

4790

Could you provide a source to this information that states this officially?