Why are we like this?

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Why is the community in general, so toxicly bitter over the dumbest things?

For instance, Mag’har have the most customizations of any AR, even without counting what they copied from Orcs like the posture options.

Zandalari initially weren’t to be given Paladins, but people complained and now we have them.

Yet the ONLY time people complain about Allied Races getting anything is when it’s for Void Elves.

Lore wise, there is no reason why anything beyond Green/Yellow/Violet Eyes, Blueish Skin tones, Gold/Red Jewelry, and Void tentacles should be unavailable to Blood or Void Elves.

Like give them both the natural hair colors, give them both the cool ombre hair colors. Give them both the ear options, etc.

There is no reason that we should be fighting about races getting more customization options especially when it makes sense in the lore.

Take the new Arcane eyes for example. Not a soul is complaining about Blood Elves getting them, or how they took a Void Elf facial hair. Just that how dare Void Elves want hair colors. All because “Blood Elves have asked for years for Arcane eyes”…cause you know asking for High Elves is a NEW thing right?

Technically even Paladin shouldn’t be kept from Void Elves since lore wise. The ONLY race that Light or Shadow is too unbearable for, is the Lightforged, and they have Anchorites in the game that use Shadow magic. So like…mute point, even Hugh Elves can be Paladins.

It’s just like, why is everyone so toxic and butthurt over something so inconsequential, especially when it actually makes sense. Not to mention they’ve already said Allied Races would be getting more options moving forward, but the main focus was for Core Races so far.

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Wasn’t that because there were Zandalari Paladins in the past already?

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More options for all!

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I feel for you, really I do, I’m on your side here, but this thread is about to get real toxic real fast.

That said I do still want natural hair styles and colors.

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The people who are violently against it just don’t like to see other people happy

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Anti helvers are just bitter and weird.

Specially on GD. Their entire purpose is to s on high elf fans pretending that high elves aren’t a thing because for some reaosn they take them as an insult to belves, despite being in lore since forever.

Is a very weird community and is not “all horde” really. It’s just the anti helfers who seem to hang out mostly at GD.

Most horde I follow on twitter seem more than happy to let velves have high elf options.

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The only case initially for it, was that in MoP the Prelate NPCs used Paladin abilities. But for that matter, Blood Elves use druid abilities…sooo…idk.

The initial in game lore during beta had an NPC saying their old Loa who essentially granted the potential for Battle Cleric/Paladins was killed. Meaning no more lore wise could form anyhow. But it got changed due to mass complaining about the Prelates.

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Far as I’ve seen some folk act like it’s THEIR race . . . like, they invented them and loaned them to blizzard for WC3 or something . . . At least that’s how some of them act, riiiight before they call us greedy and delusional.

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I can’t imagine anyone honestly caring about what customization options a different race gets, I feel the people most vehemently against it are trolls/angry people who don’t want others happy, even at no cost to themselves.

I for one can’t stand elves, I have a single elf character and that’s because I didn’t like the other race options (at the time) for it, now I rerolled it to a kul tiran. However, I could care less what they do/don’t get, it literally doesn’t effect me in anyway. Hope everyone gets what they’re asking for, within reason.

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Yep.

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A lot of players in wow act as if they created the races. Like when they call human players “uncreative”. As if they created their chosen race. It’s always funny.

But yeah belf players in particular get VERY overprotective.

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Fighting Void Elves is not that toxic.

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No there were Zandalari NPCs who were paladins from the Loa Rezan. There were NPCs who lost their powers once he was killed and Blizzard was originally going to go with that for the lore.

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Oh this is a thinly veiled, why aren’t more people supportive of the HE community when we just got a compromise skewed in our favor thread.

Mixed with villainizing people for valuing uniqueness got it.

And how has that worked out so far for core races who remain lackluster in general? And specifically for BEs the core race VEs parallel, you know VEs with two visual themes and BEs with jewelry only one gender can use?

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So you think people are against Void Infused Paladins because of being Toxic and not because of the absolute abomination of lore that would be?

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VULPERA SHOULD BE DRUIDS AND PALADINS.

No questions about it. GIVE ME IT.

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Its…honestly impossible to read some people. I just outright ignore them if trying to reason isn’t good enough for them.

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Lightforged Shadowpriests exist in the lore known as Anchorites. Lightforged beings are the only ones who lore wise have near fatal reactions to coming to contact with the Void magic.

Also at once upon a time, a Holy priest forsaken was considered a lore abomination, mind you.

Not to mention not all Void Elves lore wise use the Void, they just study it. If you look into the lore a good chunk of them are scholars who hated the idea of restrictions on knowledge.

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Stop with these threads already. We get it. You get given a dozen options and you aren’t happy.

It’s not inconsequential when you are giving one faction 90% of the options of another faction’s race.
What are Blood Elves? The new Pandaren? Available to both factions.

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Anchorites are the name for all priests. Also which ones are shadow in lore. Also Paladin <> Priest.

That is not correct. There are scholars in the rift, but they are not void elves. Void elves are the one that were partially transformed into void creatures.

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