The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Fyrebusche-kiljaeden]

They talked about it. They certainly didn’t say it would happen in the near future and they didn’t particularly say how it would be implemented…

they said its happening in the near future. 100%

[Callistus-wyrmrest-accord]

Like, that’s the kind if power that reignited the Sunwell. It’s not something a mere mortal, not even a spellcaster mind you, should be able to just keep under wraps.

Locus Walker was pretty surprised. He said the same thing.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

I’d be ok with that. Highmountain, Lightforged, Mag’har, Dark Iron even to some extent could have just been extra options for the base race.

Many of these AR don’t exactly stand alone that well anyway.

[Callistus-wyrmrest-accord]

Alleria is an interesting one. She’s a rarity in that she is a character who has been granted great power at no price, yet.

Well. If you read Three Sisters it’s not like she’s having a great time.

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

Yeah. Fyre just makes up stuff.

I think “Fel Volcanoes and Fel ash” may be the best though.

Why would Outlands Volcanoes be Fel?

There IS a fel “volcano” in Shadowmoon tho, so for me the wild thing is that she thinks -with no evidence of it- that emanations of it reach Terrokar and have seeped it in fel.

[Brojerky-illidan]

Murlocs for me.
I just want to be a fishman.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

See that is what’s frustrating. I think it’s stupid that Three Sisters is the only media that depicts this.

Like, why weren’t we seen a mirroring whisper when Anduin and Alleria and co. confront Sylvanas in Loraeron’s throne room?

“See what she has done?! Kill her, kill her now before all is lost!” playing right before her line “I should have killed you, when we last met” would have had so much more weight to it.

It’s not even that Alleria has paid no price, but that she is rarely even shown to be struggling against her power at all.

[Fyrebusche-kiljaeden]

As for “corruption-” Well if the elves in the Allerian Stronghold got corrupted, then what’s stopping the corruption in Nagrand and the Mag’har when Thrall came to Nagrand shortly before the Cataclysm? They seemed normal and uncorrupted.

nagrand is much further away from shadowmoon then allerian stronghold and clearly the landscape hasnt been corrupted as much as other parts of outland

[Callistus-wyrmrest-accord]

they said its happening in the near future. 100%

Ugh. I hate it when you write stuff that wastes my time like this.

Normally I’d write the actual developer comment. But since they talk about this for minutes, I’m just going to link it.

We definitely want to do more with increased character customization, we think this is an area where there is a ton of opportunity for us to do better, eye color is a perfect example of, “We want more options there.”

……

“This is something that we definitely want to do better and we’re going to be working on in the not to distant future.”

[Bladinas-scarlet-crusade]

nagrand is much further away from shadowmoon then allerian stronghold and clearly the landscape hasnt been corrupted as much as other parts of outland

I’m not the one who’s making huge jumps in logic here.

If the Fel spreads to Terrokar, what WOULD stop it from spreading it to Nagrand?

[Lavinya-moon-guard]

KInda, but even now they seem to be drawing away from the “whispers.”

Not like we see much of Umbric… or the Void Elves at all… but the Island Expedition team definitely has a few screws loose.

Highmountain, Lightforged, Mag’har, Dark Iron even to some extent could have just been extra options for the base race.

Not like Nightborne or Zandalari and Kul Tiran had to be brand new races either.

Nightborne could’ve as easily been added to the Alliance, and the Zandalari could’ve just been a straight back option for Troll like the Orcs got.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

You guys are taking the sub discussion me and Nyshant had a little far.

I think we agreed that fel corruption and radiation was handwaved in certain cases (Outland High Elves, Mag’har, Alleria/Arator/Veressa) and used as an explaination in others (Blood Elves around SMC’s old Fel crystals).

Fictional universes are difficult because the writers are playing god. Unfortunately, humans are not god, and rarely think of every little thing like we can later nitpick as we do.

You got to be ignore some stuff, especially as minor as this.

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

nagrand is much further away from shadowmoon then allerian stronghold and clearly the landscape hasnt been corrupted as much as other parts of outland

But Hellfire (where maghar ALSO live) Is not seeped in fel?"

Jesus Christ

[Fyrebusche-kiljaeden]

tbf, dont they live up in the mountains? cleaner air and ground water up there im sure

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

Not like we see much of Umbric… or the Void Elves at all… but the Island Expedition team definitely has a few screws loose.

We have seen more of Umbric and others during the War campaign, and yeah, the Void really doesn’t seem as urgent a threat there.

You guys are taking the sub discussion me and Nyshant had a little far.

I think we agreed that fel corruption and radiation was handwaved in certain cases (Outland High Elves, Mag’har, Alleria/Arator/Veressa) and used as an explaination in others (Blood Elves around SMC’s old Fel crystals).

Fictional universes are difficult because the writers are playing god. Unfortunately, humans are not god, and rarely think of every little thing like we can later nitpick as we do.

You got to be ignore some stuff, especially as minor as this.

True, but it’s not like there aren’t possible explanations. That groups like the Maghar and the High Elves can exist on Outland without getting corrupted implies that Outland is not “bathed in fel” specially when those groups have settled in places with little apparent fel corruption.

tbf, dont they live up in the mountains? cleaner air and ground water up there im sure

But you can’t use that logic to explain why High Elves in terrokar have blue eyes.

Dear Lord.

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

I had to flag Fyrebusche for that. There’s no way she’s not trolling.

[Callistus-wyrmrest-accord]

Why do you keep extrapolating real world events to WoW?

I went and fought a giant fire elemental inside of a volcano in classic WoW.

I essentially Fought. The. Volcano.

I jump off cliffs all the time and I’m fine.

Everyday in real life I deal with people who have fallen ten feet, had their ribs broken, a lung collapse and got a traumatic brain injury that essentially makes them a different person.

[Lydon-emerald-dream (Lydon)]

I don’t like how he says height is tricky.

It’s not. They could easily give players a hidden buff that scales them up or down similar to how potions or toys do that retains normal collision boxes.

It wouldn’t have to be as extreme as the examples he gives, like a slenderman figure, but a scale slider that goes maybe up or down 10% would do a lot to vary one to another.

I mean hell, when I stand next to Zandalari I think of that 5’11 vs. 6’0 meme every time. There’s wiggle room there.

[Callistus-wyrmrest-accord]

He’s talking about… like… Aion style slider bars and the nightmare creations that can come from them.

[Fyrebusche-kiljaeden]

I had to flag Fyrebusche for that. There’s no way she’s not trolling.

pls dont insult me and call me a “troll” for having an opinion. the flag button is literally there so you dont have to announce your intentions and insult people