The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

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Isn’t that an urban legend?

I don’t think that has any weight anyway. Void elves are spreading like rabbits despite coming from a tiny population that makes high elves feel numerous.

Plus, once they set up the 1-per-9 ratio of high to blood elves, they kinda shot themselves in the foot. The more blood elves they use, the more high elves we get. If they try to make high elves so small that they are unviable, the blood elves become too small as well.

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That’s really assuming Void Elves are supposed to be a High Elf compromise, which I think is actually a wrong assumption to make and really does no favors for the race in itself.

I think their addition is really more to showcase how tolerant and progressed the Alliance has become in its ideals. By having Void Elves, the Alliance now agree to the idea that someone can use dark magic for the ideals of honor, justice, and nobility. I really do think that’s the path Void Elves will be set on, and the (admittedly damage controlling) statement by Umbric that Void Elves believe wholeheartedly in the Alliance ideals despite what they do will demonstrate that.

It also somewhat undermines the Blood Elf narrative a bit, that the Alliance will always see them as vermin or be racist to them, when such is not the case anymore (if it ever really was) when they accept void-corrupted Blood Elves without a second thought.

Frankly, for however much Blood Elf players love that Alliance got Void Elves as some sort of schadenfreude, it surprises me they don’t see the race concept in itself as far more damaging to their narrative as the High Elves would ever have been.

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17367

:+1::+1::+1:

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17368

Can’t wait to see how they’ll react once we have to deal with the elephants in the room like the defecting blood elves or the void elf goal to bring their people to the Alliance…

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17369

If Highmountain didn’t get to be a Tauren option, given their main difference were the horns, I doubt Wildhammer will just get added to dwarves

I’m fine with them being an Allied race provided their equivalent is Dragonmaw orcs, bringing back those tattoos they used to have back in Cata that got removed in WoD when they forgot to add them to the updated orc models

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17370

This thread is fascinating reading through it.

But i do have one question and i am being serious, are there really people out there that can’t see how biased Blizzard is toward the Horde after everything that has gone on over the years? People that deny WoW is about the Horde and the Alliance (a dying faction i might add because of this very problem) exist only to react to the Horde provide story foils for and have since the games inception?

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It’s not about the lore or the implications of the Alliance accepting Blood Elves. The anti-Helfers are NOT that deep in their thinking. It is strictly about their entitled claim to the fair haired elf model in the game. That’s all it is.

Why else would they run in circles with the same limited (and often incorrect) interpretation of the lore around the Quel’dorei? Lore means nothing to them. Models … MUH MODELS!

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17372

“What you mean, you want those BOOERING Windhammer Dorfs? Why you don’t ask for something kool like Lightbound Dwarves?”

17373

Don’t give them any ideas

17374

What about Fel Worgen? Lightforged Night Elves? Skinny Pandaren?
Or maybe Junker Gnomes? Oh wait…

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17375

Truly this is the darkest timeline

17376

How about Nightforged Light Elves?

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You know, I once played in a D&D campaign that was entirely Dwarf based with two main factions.

Under Dwarves, who lived deep beneath the mountain the campaign took place in. They were basically the equivalent of Dark Iron Dwarves in terms of appearance, though in terms of personality, insanity was a genetic trait.

High Dwarves lived in upper third of the mountain, and had white and blond hair, fair features, etc…

The peak of the mountain was basically a massive diamond and the High Dwarves had shaped it into the Temple to their God. Much of their city, below the temple, was made up of alabaster, white and black marble, etc… Mirrors and shafts were used to keep the entire city lit up bright as day. The mines of the High Dwarves had a lot of precious metals, magical metals, and gems, so they had a lot of spellcasters.

It was a pretty neat concept. Basically imagine a bunch of dwarves who wore long sweeping robes, groomed their hair and beards with great pride, and who were philosophical and cultured. Kind of like the dwarven equivalent of elves, though no where near as arrogant, and still a pretty rambunctious lot.

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17378

Lightelved Night Forges?

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There are plenty of ‘Horde Bias’ conspiracy theories posted in this topic, it comes up all the time!
:alien:
:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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17382

Day 5242,

Blue team elf pally still not playable

:bearded_person:t6:

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More than 14 years :slightly_frowning_face:

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This, exactly. Blizzard is extremely biased in regards to the allied races they’ve dished out between factions.

People bemoan how unfair it is to consider High Elves and Ogres as an allied race pairing, because one is obviously far more appealing than the other. Yet, Blizzard did exactly that by pairing Kul Tiran and Zandalari together, and as predicted the Zandalari just win out completely because their model is far more appealing than the Kul Tiran’s “fat human” fantasy, plus they get Paladins. Heck, the disparity is even huger than Void Elves and Nightborne.

And, well, the Horde will never be at risk of being less popular than Alliance. In fact, it’s the Alliance that desperately needs help being a more appealing faction to play and Blizzard’s current practices are not helping whatsoever.

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tbf, copy pasting a core horde race wouldnt change this. in fact that would probably upset more people if alliance got a copy paste while horde got a new awesome AR

same can be said for wildhammer dwarves. wasting an AR spot for them(dwarves with just tattoos im guessing) would upset more alliance players while horde got w.e new races we come across in future expansions

the only reason horde is more popular is because of the racials :smile:

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If silver covenant high elves become playable within a year from now, I’m already convinced it will be be because of how big these discussion threads are. I’ve seen some nice artwork too, very creative guys :muscle:t6:

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