To be frank, I am tired of this endless crusade for High Elf advocacy and blue eyes for my faction. Never thought we were so egotistic and narcissistic.
I am not for the Horde but the faction deserves more to it than just being seen primitive & stereotyped as “orcish brutes” sorts.
To be frank I am more than happy void elf was added to alliance as we needed a darker faction within our ranks that isn’t all light/holy/ goody etc.,
Let the blood elves have their own sets by right, let the horde people enjoy what they’re being given.
We in the alliance have much more and still more of the cosmetic diversity that all races emphasizes together.
I don’t want a pink-hue skin option, we’re fulled with the void, its a reason why we’re the way we are. We’re technically a meta-form of high elves just as blood elves are with fel & light changes. So too are the other races.
Expect more further customizations for races throughout SL, that’s more than enough to feel immersive
PS: Don’t like Horde but I support you guys having blood/high elves, blue eyes within your ranks. I am happy we have our elves.
PSS: Both sides are balanced with Elf races, 2/2 Night Elf Void Elf/Nightborne Blood elf
Even if they inclusion did happen towards Alliance it would create another catastrophe of forums being flooded, mostly from Horde as a sense of unfairness and likely to experience faction imbalance once more.
Even in lore, the remaining high elf population are far too few and most are either joining back their blood elf brethren or void elf faction.
The main reason is people want to play the Elves that have been part of the Alliance since its formation and have been shown as part of it since Vanilla.
Getting the exact opposite in Void Elves and Blood Elves potentially getting eyes that don’t actually match High Elves anyway or share the Purple Eyes isn’t going to change that.
Naaaa, the main reason is people just wanted to play a Blood elf without being Horde.
Once a race is added to a faction it’s never best practice to request the exact race to the opposing faction. This never should have gained the momentum it does today.
High Elves, now called Blood elves are Horde. It’s that simple.
Pretty sure thats not the case atall.
Can you imagine if the Horde didn’t have orcs, and they were added onto the Alliance instead?
Its the same concept.
High elves were a core alliance race back in Warcraft 2 and 3, its what attracted a lot of people to the faction.
I can bet you if Orcs wern’t on the Horde Horde players would be in an uproar about it.
People where actually fine with Void Elves until they learned they where a random group of Blood Elves. Then the High Elf request went into full steam.
Void Elves…
And the ones still called High Elves are Alliance.
those elves were Kael’thas and his group who ended up in outland. Not the Horde bloodelves we have today.
Kael’s elves were persecuted by Lorderon, which was a Horde city, the forsaken are the people who did that to the bloodelves.
One incident of a human being a racist jerk, does not equil the decades of atrocities the High elves suffered at the hands of the orcs and the trolls.
Not all elves left the alliance, we’ve been showen that High elves are still a part of the alliance ever since vanilla and reminded of it in every single expansion.
Joining the Forsaken, is obserd, those are literally the same people who marched against Sivlermoon and genocided your race. Thats not a hatred that could realisticly be shrugged off.
The whole ‘blood elves joining the horde’ situation was very poorly written and forced as a way to put a pretty race onto the horde and boost horde players numbers. It worked, possibly worked too well as now Alliance are the dying faction in popularity. But from a story driven perspective it was really weak writing and a bad move in the long run that has forced a bunch of jarring retcons.
Touch wood, we have been given more character customisation for main races.
Perhaps with love and patience the same will come to Allied race (cough Blood Troll features for Zandalari, High elf appearance for void elf’s are some cool ones in my opinion)
But the writing has always been second place to game mechanics. The writing went out the window the second The Burning Crusade was revealed.
But in the process of bad writing we got some awesome things. Draenei are a catastrophe in writing/retconing but in the end they are far more interesting and colorful than High elves.
You lose some, you win some.
Once BE went Horde the discussion should have ended.
