Considering how badly some Alliance players in the forum have been acting over High Elves i really hope what Blizzard does is…
Do a story arc where the NPC High Elves make peace with Blood Elves resulting in #2.
Blood Elves get renamed on Character Creation screen and everywhere else to High Elf with the NPC High Elves moved from the Alliance cities to Horde cities.
So much this.
If you genuinely like High elves then it wouldn’t matter which faction they belonged to, it’s their story that you gravitate towards. If you only like High elves under the condition of who they’re allied with then you really need to think over the real reasons you want to play them.
There’s a difference between being drawn in by the narrative of a race itself, and being drawn in by what kind prop that race can play for your faction.
Saying “I like elves” is different than saying “I only like elves in a party of humans.” One shows interest in the elves themselves, and the other only shows interest in what kind of role those elves can play for another race.
and we have enough human bootlickers as it is
Its the damage the Peter Jackson movies about Lotr left behind, i still dread the amazon series, of what they could bring to us.
I still don’t know how this thread still is going on, like, we had months/years, since the allied race introduction of helf fans sayings they are so much more than blue-eyes, and that was not what make a high elf, and they have so much other(headcanon) differences, and just because blue-eyes could go to blood elves they act like their world is ending.
Because they know it is and can’t face it or don’t want to. If it was only lore/etc the whole blue eye argument wouldn’t even be a blip on their radar and yet, here we are.
Now, blood elves (being THE playable high elf) get to show their history in their eyes. Priest/Paladin infused with the light? Gold! Still using fel or the like? Can use green if you’d like! Heavy arcane usage or a non magic heavy class? Fade to blue/other options. Doesn’t have to be rigid like that but that’s just one way to look at it. Can have any combo you like and the choice is ours.
And that’s a good thing.
^^^ Why can’t this get through peoples thick skulls. Are they really that arrogant in their denial of it? lol
To some players a race is nothing more than their in-game model.
Many Alliance players, myself included, have wanted High Elves as an Alliance race ever since Vanilla, and currently the only visual distinction between High and Blood elves is that High Elves have blue eyes and Blood Elves have either green or golden eyes. Giving blue eyes to Blood Elves gives the Horde a race fantasy we Alliance have been BEGGING Blizzard for for 15 or so years. The claim the “Horde Favoritism” thing people through around isn’t true, yet they have continually given the Horde everything they want while ignoring everything the Alliance asks for.
A recent example of the favoritism is Allied Races, Horde wanted Mag’har Orcs, Nightborne, and Vulpera, so they got them. Alliance wanted Sethrak, High Elves, Vrykul, and a ton of other possibilities that were listed in various forum posts and YouTube videos, but instead we got Void Elves and Garbage Gnomes … giving blue eyes to Blood Elves after all of that amounts to the devs giving the Alliance a Sword of Sargeras-sized middle finger.
They try to use lore against those that have breathed and know the ebb & flow of it. Because those that actually know the lore - know that it is 100% Cannon that:
They were named Blood Elves for political stance and nothing more. Biologically, magically and genetically they are identical. By lore standards even in Burning Crusade there could had been Blue Eyed Elves waltzing Silvermoon who carried the name ‘Blood Elf’.
And why it can’t get through people thick skulls how meaningless this is?
is like saying all sports fans are humans but not all humans are fan of sports, lmao, who cares about this, they are the same race regardless, they are not different in the context that matters
the race fantasy belonged to the horde since TBC, that is 13 years ago
blue-eyes don’t make a race fantasy, all the high elf fantasy, their thematic, their kingdom and culture is and belongs with the blood elves all this time, its not blizzard fault that people have being in completely delusion since then
maybe because “everything the alliance asks for” is the horde race with another eye-color LOL
I think it’s funny that even though everyone is calling them high elves, the blood elves themselves would disagree.
The story that attracts me is that of the HEs that chose not to embrace Fel magic and never identified themselves as Blood Elves. Having the courage to stand up against their own people when they began doing something horrible is a very attractive story element.
Ion Hazzikostas, the Game Director of World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment; and multiple lore sources literally confirmed it. Multiple times.
all they did was have the courage to stay home in dalaran
Blood elves and high elves are the same thing, the majority just took a new name to honor their dead.
Blizz isn’t going to give the same race to the Alliance. Pandaren don’t count as they’re an exception and not the rule (and won’t happen again,) and Void Elves were altered to prevent this and are evidence of this fact.
Not hard to understand. If you want to play a high elf, we’re here on the Horde. If you want to play an alliance high elf, that’s too bad. If you can’t understand that that’s not OUR problem it’s YOURS.
then you are attracted to a story that literally never exist? that is funny
Cause this is completely nonsense, its something people made up in their own head, its called headcanon.
they are so awful that they didn’t want to honor their own people who perish against the scourge, waow what an attractive story element.
Bingo Spot-on.
To those that want to argue & bicker furthermore; here is the thread which was the iron-clad boot to the throat of ‘Give High Elves to Alliance’ which shattered that wine-bottle over the Horde ship of giving the Blood Elf race their full potential of who and what they actually are:
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Be that as it may, he’s not the narrative designer and probably isn’t as familiar with the lore. He also described them as the “light-haired, fair-skinned” race. That’s a dumb reason to not give the Blood Elves more/darker skin tones, but he’s the game director, after all. If his word is law, guess we gotta remove them.
And I didn’t say it wasn’t true. I said the Blood Elves themselves would insist that they’re not Hight Elves.
I mean it’s interesting that people go “OMG THERE’S HOPE AND IT’S A SIGN!” when the game director tells you no, then says blood elves will get blue eyes and then they do.
Pretty clear signal, lol