No. Alliance has Void elves and Horde has Blood elves, the history of what High Elves were and are.
Adding these options is silly. They exist on the Horde side. I can truly see it’s not about Lore and it’s about appearance. I’ve even seen asking for Paladin class added to Void Elves.
Removing a void elves void, would make them Blood Elf who were formerly named High Elves. but that doesn’t matter because as long as it looks like a High Elf and has the correct class options, it doesn’t matter. Seen the replys on here go in circles of logic.
The point is that it limits any possibility about what High Elves could potentially be if they are a VE customization. I don’t think how that’s up for debate.
That’s the thing, I already pointed out that you can simply not like it.
There’s no such thing as the “right” compromise. I’m just pointing out how this would be one that would make some people happy enough. What I am saying that not because you don’t like it it’s not a compromise.
Again, the point of the compromise is that neither side get what they truly wants, and you are obviously dismissing the difference on the pro side between “at least have the look” and “being an actual race with unique aesthetics and racials and lore” as being the same thing, when they are obviously not.
I’m just presenting "a" compromise, not saying is the right one, and it’s not definitely not what I choose if I could, yet you still consider anything that’s not what you believe right to be the same, so see no difference in any position beyond yours and qualify all of them as “not a compromise” because you are unable to see the differences they make from a Pro HE perspective.
But again, if your point is that factions have to maintain utmost aesthetic exclusivity, I get why you wouldn’t like this compromise, and that’s fine, I’m just asking you to understand what compromise is, and that not everything that you disagree with fails as a compromise because you disagree with it.
You can disagree with a proposal while acknowledging it as a compromise. It does not make your point more valid to deny that.
But shouldn’t each side get a little bit of what they do want?
Why is only one side getting what they want, and the other side being ignored?
How is this a compromise?
I can’t acknowledge its a compromise. One side is getting something (even a marginally toned down something). The other side is not getting anything they want at all.
Once you offer the side against having the blood elf model/skin tones on Alliance something in line with what they want, then its a compromise.
Example. Half elves that use a modified rig. This would be a compromise.
All you are doing is asking for a slightly lesser request.
“I would like 3 scoops of ice cream”
–“no”
“ok. lets compromise. I only want 2 scoops of ice cream”
As a anti-helf person who wants my blood elves to stay horde, thank you, I do vastly prefer this solution. The very least they could do is give Velves white hair and slightly peachier skintone options. So long as they still have voidy undertones and voided eyes, I’m fine with it. Probably would make one to compliment my existing velves.
I wanted high elves but at this point with all the elves we have with the same model I don’t care as much. I would like to see something completely new and also pretty.
Of course because it is much better to have a bunch of deserter blood elves than who played with a power they don’t understand and never gave a rotten fig for the alliance (so much so that after leaving Silvermoon or Dalaram they decided to settle down or sought shelter from their cousins outside the Horde) than a group that chose to stay away from the horde and not condone Silvermoon’s blood elf rot.
Of course, a section of renegade citizens whose research threatened the recently recovered well of eternity (Holy version), could not stay on Silvermoon playing with the void close to something contrary to their holy nature.
Now we have a crack squad of blood elves that, like remoras, are looking for a shark to fix.
A starving band of Silvermoon playing with the void.
Something the alliance certainly does not need or should not tolerate.
At least warlocks don’t flaunt their presence like purple blood elves do.
Void belves only serve to make something of the game, ridiculous.
It just made blood elves and High elves ridiculous, with xerox that was done anyway.
But then, that was the planned compromise.
And wanting to give them something that makes them more like High Elves is useless, because they come from Silvermoon and have never had any ties to the current Alliance, but to the Horde and Kaelthas.
They would just be copies of blood elves from the horde, expelled from the nest and not copies of High Elves who preferred to stay away from Silvermoon’s corruption.
More then likely they are going to make a story line where you help Veressa with a quest. In the quest she steps down from leadership to go hunt her sister down. She tells her people that they may return to their blood elf brothers and sister because they are now safe, Or they may stay with the alliance and join with the void elfs.
This would make it all part of the story line. Blizzard will more then likely save this nugget to save shadowlands when it enters it’s mid expac slump.
(Commentary): I am suddenly reminded of numerous threads by Horde posters about how the Alliance shouldn’t get to dictate what kind of customization the Horde’s races do or don’t get. It was in regards to Blood Elves supposedly getting blue eyes. It’s amusing how the pendulum swings the other way.
If what you define as “your” side wants for the horde to not “give away” anything that remotely breaches your aesthetic, how can there be a compromise?
You dismiss any attempt at compromise when you are not willing to give anything a pro he player would want.
This I support. I mean if High Elves and San’layn can’t be allied races. Than I say they should atleast have unique customization options to both Void Elves of High Elf Options and Blood Elf San’layn Ones too.
I mean I personally try to be consistent. I might have not used -or liked- blue eyes on Blood Elves, but being against them would have been hypocritical, and I am legitimatelly bummed people are not getting a customization that seemed possible and for what it means on overall terms of player choice.
I do hope BE’s get blue eyes someday, and I hope HE’s become playable somehow, because ultimately, what feels most important here is giving people more choices to enjoy the game.
