Not entirely ignored.
But that is an excellent amount of time to build up and recruit more.
I’m excited to see what happens in Midnight and even TWW seems like it will have at the very least lore beats we may use.
There exists a segment of the player base that just want the Tolkien elf asthetic (from the movies) and don’t really give a hoot about if that is/was/should be a part of WoW. For them getting purpley elves was worthless.
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It’s been a part of wow since warcraft II and continues to this day.
The blood elves still even have it with the Farstriders (and honestly they’re not that far off otherwise if you know any of Tolkien’s elves.)
This is a fools argument and always has been.
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I didn’t comment on the validity, because its a boring, dead debate. The fact remains its what they want and to them purple elves were an addition with no value.
Eh, whether you believe it or not is whatever.
I’m commenting on it, not so much that you said it.
I wasn’t clear enough sorry.
What can I say?
Either you feel the Need to pulp the heads of each and every Void Elf you see with a club, mace, hammer, or the nearest available rock, with a Song of Pure Joy in your heart, accepting that this act is the fulfilment of God’s Plan and the most beautiful expression of your love for Him; or, you just …don’t and can never understand those who do.
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That’s kind of rich, coming from a Night Elf … 
I still think it’s going to happen 
That the Void Elves are going to wind up as trash fodder antagonists in Midnight I absolutely believe is going to happen. It’s just far too convenient for them to be the bad guys with the set up as it was presented to us.
That there is going to be a group of, “Good,” Void Elves who didn’t join the Knaifu Cult, I’m less certain about. Wouldn’t surprise me if Umbric moped in the background like Baine throughout all of Shadowlands about how it was such a bad idea to meddle with the Void, while Alleria is out there probably as some kind of Dawn Elf after eating that crystal in TWW.
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- I don’t see that much hate for VEs so I’m not sure what you’re referring to.
- Their lore is bad. However, they could allow Ethereals to join the Alliance or perhaps be a neutral race, so they could potentially be based.
Void elves, likely made outside Umbric’s group, have been enemies with most void based forces since we came to be.
Truth of the matter is that they’re void aligned elves. So some will be on that side. OUR group (Umbric and Alleria’s) though won’t be.
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theres a thread about void elves leaning more into the void aspect. i feel like that would dispell allot of the hatred if they became what they are meant to be.
insstead, this is a bandaid over a bullet wound that is the highelf community.
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You mean this one?
Shameless self plug. >.>
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never be shamed for having such a great post
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i think once midnight comes velves will be more appreciated. their bit of lore just sucks. imo they need more customzation, more tentacles, less baldness and NEED void paladins.
the dumbest thing about them was removing paladin. like why? just change their gfx abilities n call it void knight or just could had gave high elves and made a tiny bit of a story and called it even.
blizz does things the hard way idky.
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Yeah but you can make them look like Tolkien/Alliance elves. The purple and tentacles is optional so I dont understand the anger. Most of the reasons Ive heard so far are moot because they opened up the void elf character creation options. Ive seen allot of void elves looking like badass Alliance stereotypical Elves blonde & blue eyed decked out in PvP armor. As far as the lore/storyline, it doesnt matter considering warlock lore 
does it?
You mean Belves don’t have the city and their culture that the Helves that still call themselves Helves abandoned to be with humans? Even the name change was to honor Helves killed by Arthas, the Scourge and the Legion.
They have all the claim.
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Research your lore better, if the high elves came from the Night Elves (remember after the Sundering NE society split naturalist vs arcane, the arcanists left) and found the Sunwell, fought the Trolls, founded Silvermoon, then joined the Alliance THEN renamed themselves (not an actual RACIAL change) “Sindorei” aka “Blood Elves” but then some took off with Alleria across the cosmos to fight the Legion and came back infused with the void & a rename… im not sure where the confusion comes from about what High Elves are supposed to look like 
The city would be an interesting aspect to discuss about it, but I have always seen two major discussions point on AD with this:
- Gameplay-wise, they are High Elves turned Blood Elves. Fashioned in red now.
- The game does not reflect the old ways with the Blood Elves anymore, so who else is qualified to be called “the High Elves” but the remnants on the Alliance?
It’s generally accepted on that server, that the Blood Elves are the new paint of coat, while the classic WC2-fantasy being an Alliance-thing. And this was even more cemented with the many Quel’dorei-RPers, who went straight for the critical hit. Ever since Silvermoon has seen a drop in activity on the server.
The game will lose more players if it gets rid of factions. And people trying to attribute this to racism is weird and off. Seems like manipulation. Especially since similar or same races exist on both sides. It doesn’t work out, even under the slightest of scrutiny. But that’s typical for arguments in bad faith.
Give people the option to go neutral. Let them have new, neutral cities. But keep the other alignments. Give people choice. Removing everything takes the choice from others over a bad argument meant to force people to not share their real opinion and shut down discussion.
It’s not segregation in context of story. You just don’t like that you can’t have your way and destroy the fabric of the game.
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