That’s why people hate them. Oh and the constant crying that nothing is good enough that comes from a portion of the elf player base.
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Of course people are going to complain that it isn’t good enough when Blizz seems to go out of their way to ugly them up on purpose, just like they did with Kul’Tiran humans.
They gave Horde tall buff handsome sexy trolls at the same time they gave Alliance fat humans, and they gave Horde cute fox people at the same time they gave Alliance diaper gnomes. There’s clearly a pattern of giving Alliance the crappier options, but people have mostly stopped talking about it since cross-faction play was enabled.
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Jealousy is not attractive.
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We’re all just waiting for High Elves.
The only true Void Elves are the ones using the Void skin.
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I apologize, but I’ve never been able to see Kul Tirans as anything but a meme race since encountering a female Kul Tiran named, ‘Karen,’ (the a and e both were special letters), in the guild, ‘Home Owners Association.’
Also there was a female Kul Tiran monk named, ‘Pam,’ and at the time I got the reference, having rewatched Archer not a few weeks beforehand.
That having been said, the Kul Tiran memes are choice. Legolas and Dritzzt are overplayed.
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Neutral races, as a whole, are bad. Giving the thalassian elf model to Alliance was bad. Nonsensical story telling of them back peddling and completely removing the void aesthetic from void elves to appease a group of people who couldn’t stop yelling about high elves and getting a carbon copy of blood elves and mugging them for their options was also bad. The entire situation surrounding void (read: high) elves was dumb as hell.
Blizzard should have doubled down on the void aesthetic, changed their silhouette and body type a little bit, and expanded on the void theme with proper story telling. Then it would have been fine / good.
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As someone who has always mained a Shadow Priestess, I feel I have always been a Void Elf in my heart.
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Beat me to it, thanks 
— But yeah, honestly they should’ve just made Blood Elves neutral people, declaring their city as a safehaven for all, outside the squables or conflicts of the factions – even despite their leaders & masses being loyal to the Horde & given them a void-aesthetic customisation later on (Like how Draenei got with the Man’ari).
Another thing to note, is that for the ‘Similar models’ trade-off, it’s not entirely a ‘Trade off’ anymore, is it?
- Night Elves & Nightborne have pretty noticeable differences.
- Void Elves & Blood Elves however, due to Blizzard’s catering – A lot of the times it’s impossible to tell them apart without a mouse-over to see the race & faction. It’s like comparing an Alliance Pandaren to a Horde Pandaren. lol
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Absolutely!
I can’t wait!
This. All questions I hope will be answered.
Seems so.
Look good and close. It’s changing. I can’t wait to hear more about it.
I suspect she’s going to go more blue as time goes on.
Sure, but it also doesn’t mean they can’t? I’m suggesting that it would happen through TWW moreso than I am saying its happening now. Void Elves existing within Dragonflight suggests only that Blizzard sure hasn’t forgotten them.
As if they might in fact be holding that back for a specific event… >.>
No offense taken, but I disagree. Just because its not used effectively doesn’t change anything. We’ve actually done a few things since our introduction, it just hasn’t been well used. What we are does not only amount to purple. (Hell if a color is actually associated with us it would be Blue anyways).
I didn’t think you were, or that I couldn’t, or that you intended to say we couldn’t be satisfied. (which I’m not actually. There are huge swaths of lore we still need.)
I agree, but this is also just where we are and where Blizzard has decided to go with it.
No reason to cry over spilled milk.
Bah, pessimism I say. There are so many possible ways they could go with it, and I think the tie between Xal and Alleria will lead to something.
I hope, dearly, that you are able to find something of worth in the coming expansion.
I very much get why and how this ‘hurts’ you. Its hard at times to see anything positive with how frustrating some parts of WoW are. Especially when it seems like it could have been so very good.
(Also thank you. This talk has opened my eyes on a few things I’d only kinda thought about.)
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Too many void elves are forum whiners with weird obsessions.
I know many folk who have stories for their elves that are still in transition or have had a different path to being a Void Elf.
The customizations used are not indicative on who is or isn’t a Void Elf.
(Also the devs recently confirmed that all customizations are canon.)
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Mainly I think it’s because of the “Elf” part. Partially because you’re a little prissy and posh. I also feel you could account a lot of it for how you jump.
Also, because you’re elves.
Yall be like “These addicts are bad!” While hanging out in a cr@ck den with other elves. Between BEs and those elves that literally shrivel up if they go too long without a hit, its kinda hilarious seeing the hate to VEs
wonderful coming from a green skin who drank demon blood
Whoa ease on up the racism
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as soon the orcs apologize for what they did in pandaria… or kick Firepaw really hard
Personally I don’t like them because their lore is flimsy at best and makes no sense.
Blizzard started with the idea of blood elves on alliance then worked backwards and it shows
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The Blond Blue eye fetishists can pry my tentacles from my cold dead hands.
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I’d imagine The World Soul Saga will be quite heavy in void lore, so the lore bit is a little ways away.
Agreed, it’s the same as one of the reasons people are often homophobic, and I unironically believe that a lot of anti-elf sentiment is linked to homophobia (or at least anti-male elf sentiment, which is really the main kind). It’s no coincidence that for a long time the only way to make a hot guy character in this game was to make a male blood elf, which is also the type of character that seems to get the most random hate.
Incidentally a lot of the elf players who are the biggest haters of sharing customization options between blood and void elves are people playing female elves, and both female blood elf players and female void elf players have an abundance of great customization options so their opinions can’t be taken seriously. The real inequality is between male blood elves and male void elves; male void elves clearly have worse hair options, and anyone who looks at both of them in an unbiased way (like one other poster who agreed with me earlier) can see it!
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