And if VEs didn’t receive non void skin tones natural hair colors wouldn’t be as much of a factor sort of like the non point you’re passing off as a point about BE options.
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Since we’ve touched upon the blood thing, shouldn’t blood elves and demon hunters have green blood options? We see a demon hunter bleed green in a cinematic and some of the demon hunter models have green blood on visible wounds.
i remember the days when they would say ‘normal skin tones would be a fair compromise’
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To be fair, for most people, they seem to be. A lot of the pro-high elf vanguard has moved on, leaving mostly the no crowd, the people who want to stir stuff up, and the contrarians behind.
And a few loonies who just want more customization in general or a few in particular.
But you have to admit the pro-blue-high-elf crowd is a lot quieter and more content than the halcyon days of Elf Threads.
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even antis dont post that much anymore tbf
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It’s usually just the usual suspects.
It’s more or less over. The high elf customizations (or RP tools) happened on both sides.
But I chill in these threads because there’s mostly fun, low stakes debate and they’re the dependably active customization ones.
And. I. Like. Customization.
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So far in lore they either;
A. Need to become void beings to harness at the level they use it as (playable VE is literally void beings).
B. Need to get extreme long time training and devour a powerful void being to harness the void like alleria.
It is debatable if the VE scholers at the rift has any of those. How ever nothing is stated yet if the natural void energies around them changes them from prolonged exposure or not, and if so, one would surmise that a change of some sort needs to be shown through customizations for that.
I mostly lurk.
Not a lot to add with 9.1 stuff coming and customization put on hold.
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Did we forget Dalaran exists?
Not Alliance territory.
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I have to laugh honestly because they really chose the wrong one to try to do the “Dalaran exists” thing with and I can only imagine it was a nod to the SC which isn’t Alliance.
I think I even bookmarked one of Mags posts on Dalaran because I found it interesting
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Likely they’re referring to the mage trainer of the SC yes. I believe they are a high elf.
I’ll give it a half point… they’re only kinda Alliance. They’re still Dalaran.
wait you mean the city that all horde/alliance mages start friendly with and allows the horde to live in isnt alliance territory? 
just to drive the point home
heres a nice SS of a dalaran ‘high elf’ repairing my horde trolls armor. also, if you pay close attention to details, youll see she takes horde/alliance armor work orders 
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Sometimes I want to make a Blood Elf version of Fenelon. I made a mockup of him sometime ago and he was beautiful.
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As I said.
Both of those were written some time before Legion, so no.
Some are, but not all.
It didn’t become entirely neutral until Wrath, and even still when people mention Dalaran it’s in reference to the Silver Covenant which no matter who it’s spun still align with the Alliance.
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They could definitely go for it too!
This is pretty much where I’m at, myself. They literally dropped everybody for customization, so unless I see developments or statements on the horizon indicating that new stuff is indeed on the way, I don’t find it very important to argue anything, just having conversations for fun, focusing on my wow related communities and catching up for 9.1.
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To be fair I was mostly joking at that point because he said “alliance territory”.
Though I personally do think of them (SC) less as Alliance and more of Dalaran. Mostly from the actions they’ve taken almost always being in service to Dalaran.
That said they are clearly Alliance leaning in their interests.
Hello. 
I’d consider myself one of the ‘old vanguard’ I guess. I am pretty content and enjoying the game now that we have gotten those skin customizations for Void Elves.
I do still want some kind of blonde/brown/black hair colors for VEs to finish the high elf customization - but am totally fine hanging out in the background till it does.
The way I see it, the hardest parts of the ask were given - eye color and skin color. Hair color is a much more small ask, one I believe will eventually come since every other playable race has some form of the three aforementioned hair colors. 
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Yes. I am sorry. This is one of these rabbit holes you better leave open for interpretation, unless we will start suspecting each other in being an alt of Ralph.
But this isn’t a problem exclusive to the Blood Elves. The HMT looked also better until the new customization options.
Communication on the internet has always been an issue. I became aware of this in an old editorial which focused on understanding the words being written. You can interpret a text differently but I do not think this is the case in topics like this one. Most of the postings have been straight-forward in their intention and what emotion they want to express.
I haven’t been following the reason why the data became defunct but it appears to be because they simply want to hide it from the people, can this be the case? Sometimes I read about collected data from paid services but even these ones are fast dismissed in the typical fanboy fashion or from Blizzard developers undercover. The only relevant source I really find quite truthful are the Jaison Schreier articles on Kotaku about Blizzard’s internal struggle and how much they despise Final Fantasy 14, calling the current situation just a fleeting moment until times are better again.
Because you can carry the weight as the most popular race which argumentatively changed the landscape by their looks and former racial abilities. Something needs to be done to give the Alliance an edge again and this would be a good starting point without changing too much. It would likely bring the casual “belf looks better than a human”-player to the Alliance. It’s questionable if this would have great effect on the situation but it’s way better than make the Alliance-racials OP.
During BfA they tried time and time again to give the Alliance an incentive to do a newly introduced feature but it failed every time. Ion brought this vicious cycle upon himself and I hardly doubt they will ever make the Alliance a worthy opponent again. Too many people switched to the Horde and mostly the wet noodles are left there.