As a hardcore Alliance player I think its time we finally did away with the high elves in the story, now before you press that dislike button that doesn’t exist hear me out.
High Elves have been for the most part a horde race for years, and despite that people Ally side still clamour for them (Despite already getting elves with an even better story than them with the most recent expansion), and why is this? It’s because Blizzard Keeps representing them being prominently in the Alliance each expac with the silver covenant and other individual high elves popping up from place to place working for the Alliance each expac. Despite having lower numbers and taking a more neutral role since recently. Alleria really should be the last one.
My proposal;
destroy the high elves during the next expac , every organization
Force the remaining elves to either Join the Void elves or their true Family the Blood Elves in order to survive
Replace every High Elf in the Alliance with Void Elves, and have them take their roles
More class choices for void elves, and flesh out their lore a bit more.
I approve of this idea. If Blizzard is not going to hand out high elves on Alliance like a number of people want, then commit to it. No more High Elves, all Void Elves.
They would never give the Alliance High Elves to begin with, and it makes we wonder why Blizz is surprised people are still asking for them despite baiting them with high elves each expac.
Ally should be thankful they got Void Elves; they are both blood and High
It’s time to remove Dragons in the game as well then.
Seriously though… Why do you yall care so much about ruining someone else’s enjoyment? Even if High Elves never become playable, they should stay in the game for the players that like them because they aren’t hurting anything by being there.
Or no, Blizzard should just butcher their game because a few trolls on GD get annoyed when anyone mentions High Elves. Get a grip.
I am wait for them to join alliance. then next expansion the great betrayal. They have been secretly working with blood elf’s for all the wrong alliance did to them. it would be fun.
I would say just give void elves high elf customization, like Alleria’s, could work like the Worgens. Out of combat? High elf form with those voidish blue eyes, in combat? Grape form.
On the fence about that one, would look too similar to the Blood Elf skin imo but if they added anything but just blue eyes and fair skin i’m all for it.
Well, then it would be with them, not really sure if I would like the idea of their hair suddenly changing style whenever them shift into void form. I think the essential would be having fair skin options and diverse hair colors but essentially the same customization options.
Your idea is to erase something we’ll never have to replace with something that will always remind the alliance that it can only have one version that came from the horde, like placeholder for High Elves?
The biggest problem for me, is that voidbelves, are a group of blood elves that came from the horde! !%!%#@#%
They have nothing to do with the Alliance!
I could have less disgust for the race, if they were not coming from the horde! But even to invent a better placebo the Devs had courage!
Are we going to accept those blood elves that have become corrupted with void garbage? Of course!
We could have accepted her petty cousins, who sucked Fel!
Voidbelves have been so porcally invented that it has no lore, relevance and its npcs has the expressiveness of a steak!
Every time Umbric talks, I feel like I’m talking to a blood elf idiot! Nothing he speaks inspires me if he wants to tolerate the NPC!
Voidbelves, use the same model that neither the horde and Aunt Blizz think people want in the alliance!
They are less numerous than the High Elves and there are no means of reproducing the accident that turned them from stupid bloosd elves into a stupid purple version that came from the horde like a bunch of beggars!
Use the &@@! of void!
They are always a reminder of ‘if you want something better, go to the horde, your loser!’
And yes, voidbelves are the most popular allied race because they are cute, ordinary and new but my left boot has more relevance than all 40 voidbelves put together!
Honestly, you can even remove the mention of High elves from the lore!
Voidbelves will always be a spit on the alliance and will always remind us of High Elves.
After seeing Alleria, this is how I thought they were going to do it.
Honesly, as a huge fan of the Tolken novels, it does feel like they put the blood elves on the wrong side. I know this is not D&D or Tolken, but Blizzard heavily took from those to make their own story. I do not in any way consider Blizzard to be master authors, and I feel calling a video game story " Lore " sounds a bit pretentious. Blizzard is a videogame company, not great authors, and even the ones they hired have to put game mechanics before story quality.
Honestly that’s what I was expecting when they showed Alleria. Then they showed the Void Elf PCs and it felt very bait-and -switch.
I really do wonder what is Blizzard’s real reason for withholding High Elves as playable. I know what they’ve said but they’re being way too stubborn. It’s like with wanting to hide shoulder armor. They gave the lame PvP excuse for years then finally came clean it would essentially hurt the Art Department’s feelings if people could hide the shoulder armor they spent so much time designing.
And the whole “there aren’t enough High Elves around” excuse fell apart the moment they added Void Elves which canonically are a microscopic population.
Did they? To look at high elf history of the Warcraft franchise, their original introduction was at WC2 where the playable/controllable high elf faction is specifically labeled as a splinter group from a reluctant nation on the fence of joining the Alliance.
Come WC3 we are introduced to high elves already quitting the Alliance after the Second War (which was WC2) and the playable elf units only amounted to two ranged spellcasters whose lore descriptions of the game manual states they are sourced from Dalaran, not Quel’Thalas. Additionally, if we follow the story of WC3 we are given an in-depth experience of what Quel’Thalas is but from the perspective of it being razed by the Scourge, let by Arthas, who was originally of Lordaeron of the Alliance of Lordaeron.
Into WC3:TFT we are introduced to an entire campaign dedicated to high elves but introduced as blood elves to honor their fallen people. The entire human/blood elf campaign here started off with Kael’thas leading his people to help the Alliance battling the Scourge but got fed up with said group effort and divorced his nation from the Alliance.
Then we get WoW and, well we all know what happens in WoW.
While it’s true when developing WoW that Blizzard intended and have marketed to the Tolkien crowd (due to the resurgence of the Tolkien crowd from Jackson’s LotR trilogy airing at the time), the Tolkien aesthetic was never one for the high/blood elves of Warcraft. Nor, as listed by my summary, have high/blood elves been steadfast allies of the Alliance or to humans in general.
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