They should, they still look super silly with them especially when they are glowing or bleeding weird colors.
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This should have been an undead customization for sure.
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Just delete void elves please !
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If this is all true then why do we have Void Elves?
Void Elves were, correct me if wrong but, just Umbric and his followers plus Alleria. There is no way Umbric had over 1,500 Blood Elves following him to be banished from Silvermoon when their total population was roughly 11,322.
In game and what little lore I have seen of them it feels like there is at best 50, MAYBE 100 void elves.
I am just arguing against Blizzard’s point here, not you mind you. Good math and all. And thanks for posting the info.
(Note: Not arguing against void elves, just that if Blizzard didn’t want to do the whole high elf thing originally because “but dere population is da low” then how the frick did they get off saying void elves were fine?)
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There doesn’t need to be. Your character is a special hero and any race/class/skin/whatever combination will work. Just my opinion of course, but one that I see Blizzard leaning into lately and I’m all for it.
Ion say it’s a crack squad.
There is absolutely no reason for Void Elves to be around. Numerically they’re non-existant.
Some people extrapolate the wayfarers to mean there are defectors joining but there has been no canon event that pushes it over.
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Exactly.
They cannot argue that an allied race requires numbers when they quite literally just made lore about a tiny little cult and turn it into an entire allied race.
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It’s honestly amusing when the Devs contradict themselves.
Population should be irrelevant when it comes to adding a race.
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I definitely agree for allied races. Allied races feel more like smaller allies compared to OG races where they, or at least should, seem to have some control in their overall factions when their leaders always partake in the main story.
Primarily because their leaders are leading larger groups of people etc. Whereas compared to Alleria and her small crew.
Blood Elves actually have the largest population of the core Horde races which is kind of funny.
But my main issue with the population argument is Blizzard themselves don’t even have an accurate account of how many of there are of each race, this allows Ion to flaunt his ignorance of the lore to say “Well this group can’t be playable because their numbers are too low but this group who have even lower numbers can be because that’s what WE want”
It’s so annoying.
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Void elf population and lore was mostly for the original population being former exiled blood elves. Then the starting zone showed interesting from other groups such as interested blood elves and high elves.
Basically the void elves are a new race, and are basically recruiting from 100% of the current living blood elves and former high elves. It is why they make sense lore wise, as they are a growing new race in the world. And teaching other elves how to be like them.
As they are learning from the same Ethereal that taught Alleria her void powers. And she teaches them how to control the void and the negative aspects which is the voices reminscent of schizophrenic mental diseases irl. The audio hallucinations that often comes with void/shadow magic, especially the powerful kind.
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Please stop whining
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Yeah aren’t there NPC lines from the Battle For Lordaeron of Horde NPCs remarking on how they are surprised by how many Void Elves there are/how many Blood Elves joined them?
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Yes lorewise. Since burning crusade they have shown that some blood elves wanted to rejoin the alliance. I think that was one of the references of blood elf shadow priests, using mind control to control rowdy citizens that complained about joining the horde.
In MoP the blood elves were thinking of leaving the horde and join the Alliance. But there was an incident where a Magister helped nuke theramore, and Jaina killed some sunatriders.
This later would be referenced in the Slyvanas quests by furious blood elves toward Jaina attacking her.
With that incident and hostilities toward blood elves after The reagent lord further solidified his stance on staying in the horde after re evaluating the situation.
We have had hints of blood elves going to the alliance setup for quite some time.
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Honestly I feel like certain races have more in common with eachother goals-wise than factions do at this point. Tauren and Night Elves, for example, feel more alligned in similar goals than Night Elves and Humans or Tauren and Undead. Or if Gnomes, Dwarves, and Goblins got together they could invent some seriously cool stuff. I also really wish that Nightborne had been a neutral race instead of going full Horde after Alliance helped them out just as much all expac.
Idk, but factions have felt really weak and annoying for some time now, to me at least.
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The good thing is you can ignore that stuff now for the most part at least in dungeons raids and rated pvp when the fix all the bugs.
I still like the horde for the transmog though. If I could transfer all my alliance characters I would probably for the mogs, mounts and I just enjoy horde cities more…
My dwarves, gnomes, dranei, night elves in horde transmog would be cool.
And I hope they make more crossfaction stuff.
Alliance transmog and general feel a bit too much lawful good at times. The horde feels more embracing of chaos and antiheroes which I am a fan of.
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They will never go Alliance but rather “Neutral” at best.
They already did as void elves…
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The Horde does have better colours for the transmogs.
While I think it unlikely, what about the rumored allied race preorder bonus? What if the reason Horde got one option is because the second option is not playable just yet.
Might explain the bare minimum of effort put into it as well.
Perhaps when/if we travel to the Lifelands, they could use the opportunity to add forsaken druids and give it a decay theme. It’d make sense tying it to Life as well as that is what performs the action. Without life, there is no decay. Salt, cold, vacuum, arid, all enemies to life that stop the process.
I’d love to see Paladins able to pick which cosmic powers they want to link themselves to and having a variety of spell effects and perhaps differing paladin orders to represent them all. An option players can pick and choose to best fit their own character.