The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

Alamara-goldrinn · February 20, 2019, 4:27pm

Baseless speculation.
And the one with a population problem is the Alliance anyway.

Mowachassa-dalaran · February 20, 2019, 4:28pm

You could still play Blood Elves. This sounds selfish.

Nicodemùs-argent-dawn · February 20, 2019, 4:28pm

Your side can afford to lose a bit of population but I very much doubt you’ll lose any significant number of main horde players.

Why would you when you have great racials, a great pool of players for raids and mythic+ etc?

Abendroth-zuljin · February 20, 2019, 4:29pm

Then why don’t you play blood elf and rp as high? You’d have the best of both world!!

Nicodemùs-argent-dawn · February 20, 2019, 4:30pm

I don’t want to play a Blood Elf.

I can’t RP an Alliance High Elf while being in the Horde faction.

I don’t want to play Horde because I don’t find their content enjoyable.

Abendroth-zuljin · February 20, 2019, 4:31pm

The nightborne werent even in our minds before they came out with suramar, it was designed from the start to be horde once the expansion was over. Saying we asked, and got it, is not a good argument…

Nicodemùs-argent-dawn · February 20, 2019, 4:32pm

BS

There were plenty of calls by Horde players for Nightborne to join the Horde.

Delusion-ravencrest · February 20, 2019, 4:32pm

Yeah, rp a high elf, join your fellow Alliance members, fight the Horde and walk into the gates of stormwind. Game mechanics won’t let you.

Abendroth-zuljin · February 20, 2019, 4:38pm

Maybe. But as far we know, all those demands were useless because it was already decided as such.

And if you believe that blizzard came up with allied races only after player demands, you’re vastly overestimating your weigth in the devs projects.

Nicodemùs-argent-dawn · February 20, 2019, 4:41pm

Doesn’t change the fact that Horde got something they asked for… in fact they’ve gotten pretty much everything they’ve asked for outside of Ogres. And with the Kul Tiran models Blizz can likely re-purpose them for Ogres, and probably will considering the amount of effort invested in them. Double dipping and all that.

Delusion-ravencrest · February 20, 2019, 4:44pm

I think ogres are requested by a small niche group but I believe that they should be added. Or at least Mok’nathal as a smaller but visually identical substitute.

Delusion-ravencrest · February 20, 2019, 4:46pm

Oh yeah I bet Horde will get vulpira too. Been requested much more than ogres.

Abendroth-zuljin · February 20, 2019, 4:47pm

You’d only have point if the nightborne weren’t designed at the start to be horde.

It’s like if right now I was asking for Nazjatar to be the next area and when it’s announced to be the case, pat myself in the back saying I made a difference…

Nicodemùs-argent-dawn · February 20, 2019, 4:49pm

Sorry no. My point stands. Predetermined or not, the Horde asked for the Nightborne before anyone knew what was decided. They’ve basically gotten everything asked for besides Ogres.

In any case, we’re getting distracted here. We want playable Alliance High Elves and we’re not going away until we get them or the game shuts down. So buckle up and get comfy honey, you’re gonna be here a while.

Delusion-ravencrest · February 20, 2019, 4:51pm

Well, they clearly didn’t mind giving horde purple elves so now you can’t argue either faction is the one of purple elves. Yet they are still happy to keep a double standard when it comes to the Alliance getting elves with a human-like complexion.

Abendroth-zuljin · February 20, 2019, 5:07pm

What we need is a mediator, someone that can objectively see if adding high elf is a good or bad thing. Something like what blizzard could do… wait a minute!!

No but seriously, do you honestly that 10 years of these demands are ignored without a reason? And that another 10 years would change anything?

And if anything, void elf being the most played allied race is kinda proving to them they’ve made the right choice…

Nicodemùs-argent-dawn · February 20, 2019, 5:14pm

The allied race system did not exist ten years ago.

Void Elves being popular has nothing to do with High Elves. And I am fairly confident that as popular as Void Elves are, High Elves would be just as popular if not moreso.

Void Elves are successful as an allied race, but they are also a failure at placating those who have been asking for High Elves.

Void Elves also do not prevent High Elves from being an allied race.

Nyshant-wyrmrest-accord · February 20, 2019, 5:16pm

This question is asked and I’ve answered it a lot.

I’d like to see the opposite.

Explain to me your view of design philosophy on the races that have been released.

I’m curious to see your understanding and reasoning of developmental policies.

Abendroth-zuljin · February 20, 2019, 5:17pm

Yep and 10 years ago worgen wasn’t. Goblin wasn’t. Pandaren wasn’t. They aren’t allied race. Why would they need allied race to put high elf in if they’re been in the alliance for decades?

Abendroth-zuljin · February 20, 2019, 5:18pm

None of those are carbon copies.