How would you think void elves warriors are in the lore? I think they’re the Riftblades, but haven’t found much information about them. Would they be something like a Demon Hunter but instead of fel using the void? I’d like to delve more into it to see if it’s worth it playing one (when I choose a class I like feeling immerse in my character and warrriors have always been pretty vanilla to my taste), I like more like a mix between magic and melee, DKs are almost perfect, but currently they’re so useless damage wise, survival wise and they’re technically cripples mobility wise, which is why I’m getting bored of playing my DK.
So, looking for interesting alternatives, and a warrior fulfills the gameplay, but not the flavor, so I was thinking maybe a void elf warrior canonically could be interesting (DH was a close choice to DK for me, but I don’t wanna play horde right now and Night Elve’s model looks ugly to me xD)
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As far as lore goes, there’s nothing concrete. I always assumed that they were regular Warriors that accompanied Umbric and his magically inclined followers for protection. And since all elves have some sort of inherent magical nature, I just assume that the Warriors had at least some understanding of magic in general and the studies Umbric was pursuing in particular. Don’t forget, Alleria isn’t a Mage, yet she is the most advanced void using character we’ve met (among the friendlies anyway).
After the events of the Void Elf unlock scenario, I expect the non spellcasting classes that were part of Umbric’s entourage began learning how to incorporate their newly acquired void magic into their martial skills. Those classes probably now use their void magic to enhance themselves physically, empower their strikes (Entropic Embrace adds shadowfrost damage to attacks while active), and to gain tactical positional advantages (Spatial Rift).
If you want to go ham on the “magical warrior” theme, I think the Warrior class can suffice with the right transmog choices.
If you’re willing to wait until the Paladin class gets proliferated to Void Elves (but there’s no telling when that will happen), and if Blizzard hopefully adds some way to recolor the spells to be the typical blue-black of void magic, then you’d probably have an even more “magical warrior” themed character.
Outside of that, the most thematically appropriate Void Elf “magical melee” character I can think of is the Subtlety Rogue. It fights in melee, yet has lots of shadow magic themed abilities like Shadow Dance, Gloomblade, Secret Technique, Shadow Blades, and a number of different passive talents to change more of your damage to shadow rather than physical or nature (Replicating Shadows, Shadowed Finishers, Dark Brew)
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I’d object simplicity of common world of warcraft community, being known that “practically any race can be warrior.” And on a topical note with every race is there anything that actually is single-sided? I figure with the act of the invading legion void elves were to pick up weapons and use them whichever way they could. Whether that be physical and technique, spell casting, or if their factual lore was a bunch of conjurors.
Referenced to the sin’dorei in aspects it originally created a decent chain between the two factions.
Story-wise, I feel like sub rogue would be a more fitting melee for velf.
The Riftblades have mana, which in my eyes, imply they’re paladins, if anything.
They’re the only class that can use a shield/oh and a 2h sword, while having mana.
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I “mash the skip dialogue button” bumrushed the Legion Campaign with my Evoker until I unlocked Void Elves just so I could make a VE Subtlety Rogue and I have absolutely zero regrets.
The flavor and vibe of that race/class combo is pretty amazing. Now I am playing through Legion properly and paying attention to the story as I usually prefer doing.
I also made a VE Warlock for future usage.
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AFAIK weren’t the Riftblade just Spellbreakers before…well, you know.
Honestly, Lore-wise, there really isn’t a race where Warriors don’t fit.
Everyone needs fighters of some sort, no matter what Title a particular Nation gives them.
Warriors and Rogues are near-universal in almost every setting. Every nation has Fighters, every Nation has Criminals and hired killers.
I like to imagine that the Velf warriors were originally labourers or low level guards assisting the Researchers, but that the sudden influx of void energy gave them potential to be more then drudges.
The rationale for my bloodelf warrior, IF anyone else even bother to actually roleplay on RP servers these days, is a person from a long line of commoners, servants that followed suit when the Highborn left for the Eastern Kingdoms. Not a single magister in that bloodline. Since Arthtas massacred most people of Quel’Thalas the lower classes ended up being treated with more respect out of necessity. The same thing happened for real in Europe once the Black Death killed off half the population.
void magic they use instead of the sunwell which you need to read the lore on why they need it. even aleria windrunner was conected to the sunwell it gives them eternal life, we require air to live and we instinctually breath the elves require air and magic and since they existed as highborn night elves they require magic as we require air or food or water they cant just stop they have become biologically dependant on magic which is one of the reasons they willingly went into exile to keep on using magic or devolve and die. we seen the examples of what happens when they dont have a source of magic. the wretched all over quel’thalas and the withered in the case of the nightborn. void elves use void magic and feed off it like the other highborn elves do with their magic. them being a warrior isnt weird for the reasons i explained. hopefully that answers your questions.
They’d likely study and utilize the Void to a similar effect that Alleria did, as well as being somewhat similar to a spellbreaker.
In both cases being a more physically inclined class being enhanced by the Void, which in Alleria’s case made her more effective to combating the Legion. Any class could also follow this rationale.
There is no lore to swing a sword.
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Some people are missing the point (not all). I’m not asking whether a void elf can or not be a Warrior lol.
My question is what do YOU think is the way warrior void elves connect to their power (there’s not enough official lore written about, therefore it’s up to interpretation, which is why the question). Are they just like regular warrior that just go dumb while fighting with weapons but with a little more strength thanks to the void. Or are they beyond the tooltips and use the void to enhance more than just their strength when they fight.
I touched the Riftblades because just like Tauren paladins aren’t paladins but sunwalkers, void elf warriors could be that (since we don’t have void elves paladins I didn’t mention them as the likely Riftblades).
I personally like Void Elf Death Knights, because they are pretty much magical knights that connect to death while also using the void to empower themselves, not only swinging a sword, but also using cold, diseases and shadow magic (their racial even connects well with Frost DK). The reason why I’m getting bored of DK is not because of immersion, but because gameplay, they’re supposed to be unstoppable juggernauts, but in reality they’re squishy, don’t deal any damage whatsoever outside pillar of frost (I don’t like, nor play UH), and their mobility sucks. having the 3 big NOs it’s what makes them boring (3 big NOs being bad survivavility, no damage, no mobility), which is why I’m exploring other possibilities and looking to other people’s perspective on the lore, since I also enjoy immersion (rogues are not that attractive to me because they’re squishy and also can’t fulfill another role besides DPS, but thanks for those who mentioned them 
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