The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

Community General Discussion
17532

they definitely are out of touch. While calling the alliance the “boring good guys” faction is a bit of a meme when it comes to what races we want yes this is accurate. We don’t want new and exciting. We want bland and boring because that is what we are interested in.

17533

okay. If you don’t need high elves to be playable that is fine. Leave us that do need them to be playable alone though.

17534

“Need” is a strong word really. It’s more about what players desire to see, and the fact is that the most popular demands throughout the last 12 years have included High Elves, Broken, Wildhammer, etc… but we didn’t see a single one realized … while the most popular Horde requests being Goblin, Mag’har, and Zandalari Trolls were all realized.

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17535

I too play both factions, and it would be neat to have playable High Elves on the alliance.

For clarity’s sake “alliance high/blood elves” is nonsense, as the cultural ideological differentiation between High and Blood is paramount to our request, hence grouping them together misrepresents the points pro High Elf people sustain.

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17536

Saving for later. :selfie:

17537

i group them because they are the same. and to avoid confusion for people coming into the topic so they dont say something like “but high elves are already playable and they are called blood elves now”

17538

A common term used around here is Thalassian. It’s used since High Elf can denote both the race and the Alliance faction. Blizzard has used it before so it feels appropriate.

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17539

okay? I don’t see why or how it could be useful unless of course you get off to the thought of that sentence.

17540

Orly?
Then what, pray tell, is so prominently displayed, at Blizzard Headquarters in Irvine? you see it the moment you’re on the property.
Hint: it ain’t a Moonpool.
flips hair

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17541

Its pretty interesting the comparing the Horde and Alliance Allied races

Horde asks for Nightborne, they get Nightborne
Horde asks for Highmountain Tauren, they get Highmountain Tauren.
Horde asks for Mag’har, they get Mag’har.
Horde asks for Zandalari, they get Zandalari.
Horde asks for Vulpera… TBC

In comparison…
Alliance asks for NIghtborne…
Alliance asks for High Elves, they get Void Elves
Alliance asks for Broken, they get Lightforged Draenei.
Alliance asks for Vrykul, they get fat Kul Tirans.
Alliance is getting Junker Gnomes no one asked for.
Alliance is getting “Lightforged Undead” no one asked for.

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17542

Both factions asked for Nightborne IIRC, and there was quite a salt mine when they were made Horde only. Most assumed they’d receive the Pandaren treatment.

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17543

Everyone asked for Nightborne, and if I knew they’d do it half hearted I’d have traded you for Void Elves in a heartbeat.

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17544

Ok, nothing wrong with that and you are entitled to your opinion.

But just some food for thought, something simple. Draenei have a heal that offers 20% health over 5 seconds every 3 minutes (widely panned as terrible from the start) and Blizzard says well racials are just for flavor (keep in mind this is their MAIN racial active ability)…ok no big deal.

Now here come Zandalari who now get wait for it…100% regen over 6 seconds every 2.5 minutes as ONE OF their main active racial abilities.

Just let that sink in for a minute. Think about what it implies about racials and how absolutely IMBALANCED that one small thing is.

That is just on the surface and new, just one in a long list of things are are very very out of balance and show how imbalanced things are between how the factions are treated. Things like this are a DIRECT REASON the Alliance is dying.

I am not saying the Zandalari shouldn’t have interesting racials, but what happened to them being flavor for the races, what happened to balancing them even somewhat closely? Oh and btw while we are at it we will pull out Zandalari paladins out of our butts because…gameplay.

Won’t even touch the ridiculous mismatch between the Zandalari and tall fat (i mean “hardy” KT folks) people fantasy or execution as the races have been implemented. Dinosaur form or stick people (wickerman or whatever they call it) forms…seriously?

Edit: Forgot my last point about racials recently and their “flavor”, when they handed LF Draenei their bomb racial (Light’s Reckoning) and it was actually effective… they almost IMMEDIATELY nerfed it, and not by a small amount but 50%, they nerfed it so far that it is basically a non-factor in anything and is now completely inconsequential as a racial while they allowed Zandalari to go live in its current form.

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17545

Modified my post, yeah I remembered that too.

17546

And Horde getting Vulpera while the Alliance getting mechagnomes will be legendary levels of memery.

I mean… a small furry race will basically be popular as hell… it’ll seal the fate of Alliance numbers even further. :rofl:

17547

tbf high elves are already playable. they are called blood elves now tho and are a core race of the horde and part of their faction identity. blizzard cant just copy paste them. the alliance blood/high elves are almost extinct as well

17548

which while I know the demand was there at the time I knew before allied races were even datamined as a thing that nightborne would go horde. There were hints in the story and world quests and such that suggested it. The blood elves were much friendlier than the night elves were towards them.

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17549

Yeah I had the same feeling when I saw the Nightborne talk to Liadrin on the Vindicaar.

I was right.

But I was also wrong about High Elves and Void Broken… much to my disappointment.

17550

tbf, night elves still dont trust the few alliance high/blood elves either

17551

But yea… Horde getting Vulpera…man that would be a bigger screwup than Void Elves in my opinion. There’s no way they’ll do it. Not with current population issues.