So do the Shendralar, but Tyrande took them back without any pouty drama.
I don’t think surface traits are the most important thing that defines a race.
You’re right. Which is why they joined the Horde rather than the Alliance. They’re still Night Elves who joined the Horde.
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Ten thousand years of evolution around a separate magical well doesn’t make them night elves anymore, and it’s how high elves got started.
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Really feels like, at this point, they are trying to just let people just RP what they want. If that is the case, then there is no reason that they shouldn’t give more options to the Alliance for Void Elves, knowing how much people want to RP that for whatever their reasons. They have Wildhammer options for dwarves, after all.
At the end of the day, the game is supposed to be fun. Allowing someone to make their character look however they want was supposed to be the goal here. Forcing Alliance players to work with limited options on that model comes across as either apathetic or spiteful. There is just no purpose to it.
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It’s infuriating, I know.
Calling the Shal’dorei “Horde NIght Elves” is the same thing as calling the Qul’dorei “Alliance Blood Elves”, though.
It deliberately ignores what makes them distinct from the other.
In the case of the Nightborne, it’s their evolution by the Nightwell.
In the case of the Quel’dorei, it’s their political ties and social values.
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So that’s my whole point. Taking a race from one faction and putting it on the other with no modifications at all physically is dumb. If people want that, they should find a new game.
I already stated they drastically changed how nightborn look to night elves, they really don’t look similar at all.
Void elves are literally blue skinned blood elves, which is dumb.
Why is that dumb?
Blood Elves are canonically biologically High Elves. Blood Elf is a political name. The High Elves that aren’t us were only separated for 30 years.
Seeing the model you have today is more than enough physical proof to something that’s been canon.
I did say it was a cultural and political difference.
See below:
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Oh I’m sure they want people to RP whatever they want to make them happy.
I just also don’t think they’ll make Alliance high elf fans happy lol. Yes I am a pessimist lol. The impressive amount of hoops jumped just to make sure if you want to play a high elf you better roll Horde makes it unlikely to me that they’ll throw the poor sods a bone now lol.
When you say “the Quel’dorei”, that’s me.
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Because that’s my opinion. Horde is horde and alliance is alliance, I don’t want the factions mixed and the faction divide blurred, similar as to Blizzards stance since they’ve created the game. I agree and enjoy their opinion and share it.
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You’re not a Quel’dorei. That specifically refers to the group still aligned to the Alliance.
Only the Sin’dorei are in the Horde.
Why is allowing a race on the Alliance, that is already canonically on the Alliance, something that would blur the faction line?
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Quel’dorei is our biological label.
it would have been so simple to clear the problem:
- Making the Void elves as ALLIANCE High elves who wanted to follow Alleria.
- Adding High elves eyes to the Void elves.
But no, we have a Horde jerk as a Game director who use each opportunities to piss of Alliance players and we ended up in this situation of hatred.
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“Quel’dorei” specifically refers to a specific High Elf faction. Are you saying you are simultaenously Quel’dorei and Sin’dorei?
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No, that’s my biological race. Sin’dorei is a political name.
That’s a fact that I accept.
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Warcraft started as a game that allowed Warcraft RTS fans to immerse themselves in Azeroth. There are many of us still here supporting Blizzard. Immersion in Warcraft has been broken since TBC when Blizzard gave an Alliance race — the elves from Quel’thalas — to the Horde to bolster Asian player numbers with that faction.
High Elves are a distinct and necessary part of the Alliance. They should be playable.
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their “social values” are practically identical to blood elves save that they’re slightly more selfish