Um.
Excuse me.
Yes they are.
To be specific, the Elves we know are a reflection of the English people.
With heavy influence from Robin Hood, of course.
Sounds like a lotta WoW players are nuts.
Everyone, we should wait to see what they will give to the Void elves before screaming further.
After all, MAYBE they will gave them a more human skin with blue eyes too.
Wew lad… don’t even get me started on the people that go insane with me because i am a horde player who thinks high elves are an okay addition
everyone deserves to have their own opinion
Xpac is over, there is an XP buff for alts.
Who even cares.
And for the record, High elves are more than just Blue eyes.
Don’t even pretend that Blood elf blue eyes means ANYTHING.
Third Screenshot. That’s a true blue eyed elf.
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If you saw the people I had to carry, you would understand. I won’t pug Curve until the last month of the patch, and I won’t heal to get better groups in M+. I will just be content with my 5-mask loot because I don’t have to rely on other people’s competence and the tender mercy of RIO.
Gotta love how its the male human paladin that makes the rest of the Alliance look bad. Shame he doesn’t know the lore on why the elves left the Alliance in the first place or he wouldn’t be making a donkeys rear out of himself right now.
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It doesn’t matter. However, some people have associated the existence or lack of existence of the Silver Covenant with whether or not Blood Elves have blue eyes. This is a false dichotomy.
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If Blood Elves can have golden eyes from the lack of fel corruption, then there are bound to be some blue ones out there. Not all of their eyes are green and once that happened, the argument stopped for High Elves having the monopoly on blue eyes.
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I’m not sure what posts you’ve read, but I haven’t seen anyone here making a big deal out of blue eyed Blood Elves.
What I have seen is posters spamming threads like this one trying to incite a certain group of players, when you don’t even realize that blue eyes isn’t what makes a Thalassian elf a High Elf.
I myself want both blue eyed Blood Elves and playable Alliance High Elves. Eye color doesn’t make you a different person all of a sudden.
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A lot of players for many years have been campaigning to get high elves added as a playable alliance race. In the lore there are still elves who refer to themselves as high elves and are loyal to the alliance, most densely found in the Silver Covenant faction, led by Vereesa Windrunner. And the way they have typically been distinguished from the majority blood elf population in game is their blue eyes. As opposed to the blood elves’ green (and more recently gold) eyes.
So for many players, seeing blue eyes be added to the blood elves as an option is basically the final nail in the coffin of the possibility that one day blizzard might give the alliance playable high elves. Not that they’d ever given any indication that it was a possibility of course. Quite the opposite in fact. But still, final nail.
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Its a crowning insult to the die hard Alliance players who constantly want High Elves to rejoin their faction, yet fail to understand that they have since evolved into the Blood Elves and that bridge was burnt when they received Void Elves.
Now the Horde will be stronger than ever…because of blue eyes.
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They confirmed allied races were not getting new customizations at Blizzcon.
they have a history of SAYING a lot of stuff they don’t follow through with.
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Like making WoD and BFA fun…
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It’s more that Alliance players feel like they’ve been given sub-par Allied races, especially after a few wanted High Elves (what Blood Elves used to be) and got Void Elves (what used to be Blood Elves). So a lot of people see it as Blizzard playing favourites with the factions while, as most would say, “slapping them in the face”.
Personally, there are too many elves already and if we were to get more, I’d hope they’d make them something more interesting then ‘slightly altered Blood Elf model’ like we already got.
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like “nothing currently in the works for current races, only working on allied for now”
suddenly gold eyes.
etc
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Technically all blood elves had blue eyes when they originally became blood elves. The green eyes didn’t happen until after Kael left for outland after the sacking of silvermoon and his fight with Arthas in northrend when they first changed their name to sin’dorei
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To understand the outrage, you have to understand what lead up to it, and the history of Quel’thalas in the world, and as a fixture of the game itself:
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High Elves are a race almost as old as Warcraft itself. They were a major player of the Alliance of Lordaeron in Warcraft 2. Their story progressed in Warcraft 3 and we got the Blood Elves, but they still remained associated with the Alliance through certain game units-- like the Blood Mage hero. When World of Warcraft became realized as an MMO, the question of when these would get added to the Alliance was a very real question.
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The Blood Elves actually joined the Horde. By many this seemed like adding an Alliance race to the Horde, and given their roots in Warcraft 3 as units of the Human army, makes as an argument.
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Blizzard spent the next decade fleshing out the divide between High Elves and Blood Elves. This was an effort to root the Blood Elf Sin’dorei with the Horde fantasy and answer the question about the remaining HIgh Elves. This was fleshed out most obviously in Wrath-era Dalaran, where the Blood Elf Sunreavers represented the Horde, and the High Elf Silver Covenent Represented the Horde. Wherever you saw the Sunreavers, you saw the Silver Covenent-- Argent Tournament grounds were an example of this.
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As more races were added to the Horde and the Alliance, but were not playable, the question became how to give these to the players. In BC, The Mag’har Orcs in Outland joined the Horde and the Broken Draenei also joined the Alliance. The Taunka joined the Horde and the Frostbourne Dwarves joined the Alliance in Wrath. In Mists of Pandaria, the Hozen joined the Horde and the Jinyu joined the Alliance. In addition to new races, there were tons of ‘old’ races that were already in those factions, but not playable. Wildhammer Dwarves, Revantusk Trolls, Ogres and, of course, the High Elves.
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“Subraces” became the feature to encompass access to all these new races. This was finally realized with “Allied Races”.
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Immediately on the heels of Allied Races getting revealed for BfA, requests for races other than the four initially announced were being made. Mag’har Orcs (although the AU variety) and Dark Iron Dwarves were met afterward. Void Elves didn’t meet the expectation for some Alliance hopefuls, and Ion finally answered it with a very dismissve “Horde is waiting for you” by insisting that the High Elf fantasy they wanted was actually on the opposite faction.
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Despite the fact that people within Blizzard insist that High Elves are now a Horde fantasy, there are still prominent High Elves in the Alliance. Both of Windrunner’s sisters, major players in the Alliance, are High Elves. The leader of the Void Elves, Alleria, still maintains the appearance of a High Elf. And yet, the Void Elf story involves radicals coming out from the Blood Elf population in SIlvermoon, and the ability to alternate forms like Alleria is not available to them.
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Blue eyes on a Horde race indicates Blizzard’s commitment to double down on this inconsistency in their own lore and to come even closer to closing the door on a feature that’s been requested for almost as long as the game has been alive, and it’s because of revisionist ideals about what faction identity actually is.
Blizzard is insisting that a race with ties to the Alliance is now ONLY a Horde fantasy.
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This isn’t exactly true, because High Elves had various eye colors. Purple/pink, gold, white, blue. Lor’themar was described as having brown eyes before.