They aren’t even “taking” from Blood Elves. They’re copying from them, if anything.
I don’t see anyone complaining that Draenei received Blood Elf hairstyles a few years ago.
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Both sides have high elves it makes sense they share assets. The pandaren share all assets. No one complains about that. Blizz needs to revamp the allied system to the subrace system we asked for. That way people just pick between void elf and high elf. And blood elf and high elf. The high elf stuff is shared by both factions. The blood elf and void elf stuff isn’t. Blood elves haven’t gotten any void elf hair colors for example, even though they share the same model. Nightborne share a model with night elves, the horde hasn’t gotten any night elf stuff. Even though we effectively got dark rangers. The moonguard night elves seemed friendly with the nightborne too.
The elves are much like the maghar at this point. I basically see the void elf stuff as adding another clan.
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Exactly, I wonder why people keep saying that devs clarified these new customizations aren’t canon? Like, what?! Are they getting that from when they mentioned they weren’t going to introduce lore to explain those customizations? Cause that’s a whole different thing than “not being canon”. You can introduce canon stuff in the game without necessarily explaining where it comes from.
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“My pixels don’t feel special enough anymore.”
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If this is enough justification for you to ignore a player, you must have one of the longest ignore lists in history.
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They actually have, you can read it in Fenelon’s thread or was it one of the other Void Elf threads? But to summarize what the devs mentioned in a interview about the HE options:
“These we’re implementing are non-canon, for RP purposes.”.
Because the team DID, I’d have to find it but there was a brief stint in one of the interviews about the new customizations where they stated they were purely for racial RP, not meant to be taken as “real” in-universe. I believe it was the most recent one on hair color to boot.
As stated by the starter page, we are not those newly recruited BE/HE initiates, but rather the unfortunate underlings of Umbric’s initial research team.
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Which is just as valid to voice concerns about a races unique look being copied to the opposite faction.
Cause that doesn’t make Draenei look identical to Blood Elves. that was always the problem with this and you know that.
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Or… just don’t do that… because there’s already a race on the Horde that lets you play exactly what you want to play? They don’t owe high elf fans anything.
They haven’t been “dangling” anything over your head, you just chose not to play the faction they were in. They’ve been there the whole time.
Except void elves were an original concept from the start. They were never meant to share everything with blood elves. Void elves were the compromise. Pandaren were neutral to begin with, so it wouldn’t make sense to give them options to differentiate. Even Blizzard admitted making the pandaren a neutral race was a mistake.
If Blizzard would add unique options like San’layn, dark rangers, and felblood elves, then I might agree with you, but since blood elves are technically the pure high elf race, there’s almost no room for that option, and would otherwise have to be a separate race. Void elves have the luxury of basically having two forms and being able to look like a cool monster.
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Probably has the entire forums on ignore by now.
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And no one here said anything about voicing or not voicing concerns at all.
That’s not a problem. That’s something a certain group of people don’t like. But definitely not a problem, and Blizzard clearly agrees it’s not a problem with these recent options.
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I lol’d so thanks for that. 
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Find it. And even then I would think Blizzard will probably walk back on that considering they walked back on not having natural colors anyway. Heck, I wish we could go back to Azeroth and push the story futher just to prove which one of us is right or wrong. As it is, the lore is there for anyone to assume their void elves with fair skin is simply one of these new elves joining them.
Now why did I not think of that? Oh that’s right, because these customisations that people have been requesting, is not hurting me in anyway. Like seriously, go back to the Horde, go play your Blood Elf.
I’ll put it this way:
If people want to play a High Elf, they should be rolling Horde:
This is only an opinion of some. But people shouldn’t be forced to roll a faction to play a High Elf if they choose not to do so. That is why the Void Elves have been given these customisations, to allow people to play the fantasy they want to play out on the faction they prefer.
All from Ely’s quote:
According to a dev interview Ion gave several months ago, Blood Elves were originally unintended to have blue eyes in Shadowlands, but later on that decision was reversed following team discussions. If the art department was involved, what was the reasoning that led to blue eyes being added for Void Elves and Blood Elves?
This is another place where there was a race, High Elves, in the game which hadn’t really been represented on player characters. Blood Elves were the closest, but had felt green eyes. It was an opportunity where we had a number of elven races, and we could tie it back to their roots, letting players choose where they want to align and what fantasy to play out. We did have a lot of discussion about it, ultimately we might do more in the future, but for now we’re providing the option to have a few High Elf customizations available.
Yeah, pure. Using demonic energy, the fel radiation. Yeah, that is pure.
Blood elves were supposed to be moredemonic then high elves. Have different tattoos then high elves, demon skin (tougher bodies), and stuff. That was never put in game, they used basically all the high elf stuff the same as blood elves. And any high elf that came back to the city and took the name would be a blood elf since it was a cultural name shift.
It’s funny you say this actually…that was the ORIGINAL design goal for Void Elves in brainstorming, that they switch from normal Elves to a “Void form” the way Worgen switch back and forth, but the design team felt everybody would be jealous of Alliance getting two races with a form toggle, so they scrapped it for what we have in Entropic embrace…
That was the idea, it’s just not canon, people are meant to RP “High Elves” with it, it’s just that the idea itself is non-canon as far as Playable Elves go.
They said it in the hair interview I’m pretty sure, not really anything to walk back on, make it canon going forward maybe, they did change the Forsaken creation screen to be more in line with post-BFA after all.
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If this were really true then helfers wouldn’t have been clammoring for them.
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Well, it is the internet after all. You should never have to read anything you dislike or disagree with
What interview is this one? I can’t find it anywhere.
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