The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Fliktarg-thrall (Fliktarg)]

wasting an AR spot for them(dwarves with just tattoos im guessing)

this is why you are not the one that designs characters and races in this game. You are not creative and often lack a full understanding of them.

[Fyrebusche-kiljaeden]

tbf, i dont think they will based on the devs most recent comment about them

That said, obviously I understand you would love Alliance elves…you’re an Alliance player, and want to be a fair-skinned, light-haired, blue-eyed elf. Sorry? The Horde is there and waiting for you. Eye color is not quite the same but maybe contact lenses in the future, you never know? Anything is possible in the future, but no plans in the near-term to add High Elves as an Allied Race.

If silver covenant high elves become playable within a year from now

but maybe they will, you never know. its possible

[Belitt-sargeras (Belitt)]

If we ever do get Wildhammer in the game I can finally make a character similar to this guy:
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/544/956/large/anthony-lacroix-ts-09.jpg?1530120545

Warhammer Trollslayers still scream BAMF.

[Zootopia-moon-guard]

i like your transmog

omg youre using my face too!

[Grimtale-sargeras]

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

Why are you not upset about Void Elves they’re exactly that but with far less build-up and do far more damage to the Blood Elves’ belief that the Alliance hates them and are racist to them?

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

But wasting an allied race spot on fat humans that only 1% of the population find an appealing option is A-OK?

I don’t think you really know what Alliance players want or ask for, maybe it would help to support these claims you make?

[Grimtale-sargeras]

tbf, i dont think they will based on the devs most recent comment about them

Yes, we’re well aware of his condescension and personal disdain towards us because he swings for the red team.

[Motors-korgath (Motors)]

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

It is only a theory if there is no proof behind it. There is A LOT of proof behind the Horde bias claims. Anyone that needs proof doesn’t have to go far to find it.

I know that some people would like to think that there is equal treatment, but unfortunately that is impossible to be the case, just as parents say they love their children equally…that too is not the case and each parent will have their favorite, so with Blizzard they have their favorite.

The problem in Blizzard’s case is that it is overboard and killing one of the factions and they are doing nothing to stop it. That is bad for their game.

[Trystian-moon-guard]

horde bias only exists in your head, my dude.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

“Hope fully we never have to suffer new and interesting races like Void Elves!”
-A Void Elf

This will never not be funny.

[Mowachassa-dalaran (Mowachassa)]

Isn’t pretty clear that we don’t want more “cool and new” stuff? I don’t know where the fun part is. We like organic races more.

[Nicodemùs-argent-dawn (Nicodemùs)]

It will also never be relevant.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

It will always be relevant. Void Elves wouldn’t have existed without Alliance High Elf fan desire.

If you feel Blizzard missed the mark, that’s a separate topic. Fact is, I see more and more of you making Void Elves everyday.

“Void Elves were not a High Elf compromise!”
“I play a Void Elf because it’s closest to High Elf!”

Looks to me like they did exactly what Blizz intended, really.

[Nicodemùs-argent-dawn (Nicodemùs)]

No Lydon.

It will never be relevant.

The choice of race played currently has no bearing on the validity of a race being requested, nor the criticism levied against the race being played.

I can like Void Elves (and I do, a lot in fact), and still criticize all the flaws they have and hope we don’t get another race we didn’t ask for.

I play a Void Elf because I like Void Elves (even despite their issues), not because they fulfill the desire for High Elves. If that were the case I wouldn’t be here.

So take your snarky somewhere else.

[Mowachassa-dalaran (Mowachassa)]

“Void Elves were not a High Elf compromise!”

Considering their responses, yeah, they weren’t.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

Your feelings are rather irrelevant on the matter.

It’s the actions that speak. Void Elves are easily the most successful Allied Race, by any metric, by a country mile. Zandalari will likely become the closest.

If their intention was to be a compromise instead of getting High Elves, which all official reaponses regarding them would indicate, it doesn’t look like a failure on their part when they have been so rapidly adopted by players, doubly so when done by the loudest voices in the High Elf thread.

[Nicodemùs-argent-dawn (Nicodemùs)]

You’re not even trying Lydon.

Void Elves being successful as an allied race has no bearing on the validity of a race being requested, nor the criticism levied against the race being played.

Void Elves are a success as an allied race. This is true.

Void Elves are a failure as a “compromise” for High Elves. This is also true.

The fact that High Elf fans are playing Void Elves doesn’t change that. Had Void Elves been successful as a “compromise” this topic would have vanished long ago. I’m not sure why you don’t get that.

Stop being obtuse.

[Ashlerian-ragnaros]

I play a Void Elf because I like Void Elves (even despite their issues), not because they fulfill the desire for High Elves. If that were the case I wouldn’t be here.

Definitely not because they’re like blood elves, just blueberry colored, and in the Alliance.

[Drede-cairne (Drede)]

If their intention was to be a compromise instead of getting High Elves, which all official reaponses regarding them would indicate

Their responses are that they wanted something now that people where unfamiliar with.

Or are we cherry picking again?

But no, it doesn’t matter.

If anything it gives the argument more weight because he can honestly say that a Void Elf does not fulfill the spot of a High Elf. That they are different. And that Void Elves are their own separate thing.

[Mowachassa-dalaran (Mowachassa)]

If their intention was to be a compromise instead of getting High Elves, which all official reaponses regarding them would indicate

“The Void Elves were a case where we didn’t want the Allied Races to be something you were always familiar with before. We wanted to introduce new ideas, and new opportunities,” Steve Danuser.
High Elves are not a new idea, and are exacly something the players were familiar before.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

Everything High Elves were doing in the Alliance previously, I have seen Void Elves doing equally or better, and while looking cooler.