Definitely. Probably a bit less than shiny space goats, because my main is currently a priest and a shiny space goat priest would be a bit cooler than a hellfire red space goat, but yeah, I would like them!
3 Likes
It’s because nobody wanted the nightborn. Everyone wanted void elves. It’s an open and shut case of jealousy.
2 Likes
Hate them? We don’t even think about them.
1 Like
Says the person that did.
1 Like
The Alliance finally have option for High elves . 
Best thing ever happened.
Btw the Void elves are at 3rd place for most played alliance races .
- Night elves
- Humans
- Void elves
4 Likes
You do know there is a difference between a request and harassing. Would you like me to show you the meaning of both words, or you think you’re good for the dictionary.
Or would you like to link any post of actual “harassment” towards Blizzard from any of the pro’s.
5 Likes
I can’t speak for other players, let alone Horde players, but I can share why I am disappointed with them.
1. Their Lore - Introduction
Summary
The Void Elves are the followers of the Blood Elven Magister, Umbric (wow his parents must’ve had both Velen and Zul beaten in the prophecy department to nail that name on the head), who themselves were all Blood Elves, doing what Blood Elves do best, which is studying forbidden, taboo magic in order to get ahead and protect their homeland. Except this one specific forbidden, taboo magic was even so bad even Rommath went, “Woah, no, hold up. Not that stuff.” In order to add some pretense of justification they retconned Dar’khan shutting down the Sunwell with necromantic magic learned from Arthas, to void magic learned from… Arthas? Because the Scourge knew Void Magic, somehow… Its like the writers needed some bad, evil elf to associate void magic with and pulled up the wiki and chose the first name (conveniently forgetting High Astromancer Solarion existed).
Anyways the point is the Void Elves didn’t even exist as a concept until the last five minutes of their own recruitment scenario, and their transformation comes off as a flimsy pretext to make them as little like High Elves as possible visually speaking. Considering the Devs have often parroted that Alleria is the first Void Elf, why the rest had to look the way they did, as well as the fact they came from never-before-heard-of Blood Elves rather than the Silver Covenant being corrupted, makes it all come off as a very spiteful, “You Alliance want to play Blood Elves so badly? Fine! Here’s some Blood Elves! Enjoy, lol.”
2. Their Lore - Battle for Azeroth
Summary
Although we’re told that Void Elves were one of four races we were introduced to in Legion (again, Alleria supposedly being the first of them despite being nothing like the playable ones), they had no background, no culture, nothing. We were told they were a group of chill scholars that were becoming this elite band of soldiers under Alleria (as if she didn’t have elite soldiers waiting for her in Outland, but we can’t let the Alliance just play their High Elves, can we). Their main interests were studying the Void to find ways to use it for good.
And on the Alliance side of things, you could almost believe it. Every atrocity committed against the Horde during the war by the Void Elves had justifications, explanations about their precautions, goals of breaking morale so that fewer people on both sides had to die in the long run. It was a stunning stroke of morally grey that the Horde WISHES it could get. Of course, if the Void Elves had been Horde they’d have been void-nuking Alliance orphanages and puppies and kittens while sycophanatically chanting Sylvanas’ name.
So, they showed up a few times for the War. Well, that’s all good. Umbric even pays lip service to having never felt truly loyal to the Horde, and believing the Horde couldn’t be trusted with the power of the void.
So, where exactly were the Void Elves outside of the faction conflict? Where were they for all the Void Related storylines going on?
Nowhere. They were uninvolved. They may as well have been non-existent.
3. Their Lore - Wasted Potential
Summary
Just going to summarize this one quickly, but the vaunted power of the void was shown to be nothing more than purple flavored mage spells, and despite that our portal NPC for the expansion was still a High Elf for some reason. The Void Elves never did anything interesting or new with the Void. Their story was non-existent. They felt like they existed to give the Horde an Alliance race to feel good about killing (traitors AND corrupted).
If this was the route Blizzard was going to take, if they weren’t going to properly flesh out this new race, then they should’ve just added High Elves, because at least our High Elves have been present enough in our experience throughout the game’s lifespan that they wouldn’t NEED any development.
4. Their Heritage Armor
Summary
Looks like they ripped that stuff off the corpse of a Dreadlord and went, ‘This is ours now.’ Doesn’t look or feel remotely elven. Just looks like slutmog, and not very good slutmog either. The choice to go with pants over robes, when pants rarely look good on elves, feels like another passive aggressive jab by the devs.
8 Likes
Nightborne are an atrocity.
I’d be mad about that and take it out on void elves.
1 Like
That’s why… if they stayed and embraced the void I wouldn’t hate them but the crying on the forums for high elves and destroying the void elf theme
5 Likes
I don’t see any high elves. I see gross purple elves, but not the alliance high elves we actually wanted. To be honest, both the horde and the alliance hate void elves. Horde hates them because they are Thalassian elves on alliance, and alliance hates them because they aren’t uncorrupted High Elves. Honestly Void Elves never should have existed.
3 Likes
The Alliance ones were already bit edgier , thats why they got Blizz to cave in and give them more stuff like belf skin and hair tones .
It is like a disturbance in the WoW as if millions of Karens screamed out .
5 Likes
Cept that the Blood Elves aren’t the owners of those skin tones or hair colours. It was just easier to copy and paste because both Void and Blood share the same model.
2 Likes
Honestly wish blizzard never gave in to all this high elf crying… void elves potential was great… now it’s just wasted on adding high elf stuff instead of void elf stuff
10 Likes
The void theme sucks. It’s polarizing and hardly anybody likes it. Who cares if we are trying to push away from that? It’s for the best. The people wanted regular high elves anyways. Void Elves were a huge mistake.
well, you do have tentacles. 
I kid though. I love void elfs.
1 Like
That potential disappeared long before the customizations or the ideas of allowing people to play as a Alliance High Elf through the Void Elves.
Let me put it this way, the Void Elves were introduced as fresh new race with no real concept behind them. The story behind them still doesn’t exist, and in patch 8.3, when we were fighting N’Zoth, with that patch sort of being towards a “Void Theme”, Blizzard never expanded the potential for the Void Elves even further. They left the Void Elves with nothing.
Then sometime when Shadowlands Alpha was being dataminded, people thought Blood Elves were going to receive Blue Eyes. But Ion then confirmed that the Blue Eyes were not for the Blood Elves, and that is when an all outrage here on the forums occurred, leading Blizzard to change there decision, and with doing that, they also decided to give the Void Elves non-purple skin tones.
Then people, such as myself, saw the potential to maybe further include more High Elven customizations, with normal hair colours and stuff. The real people acting like the Karens were the Anti’s, because they were too busy trolling on peoples request that Blizzard decided to ignore them, and allowed for the request to be received.
3 Likes
Life long Horde member and I don’t hate velves. I think they’re a very cool race when they don’t look like a stupid helf.
7 Likes
It went nowhere. Blizzard couldn’t be bothered to write them as anything more than purple mages, and anytime a void related storyline came up, they were absent from it.
Ulduar has a fake Old God? Why should Umbric know? Its not like the Void whispers to him constantly. Let’s just have Brann lead the Alliance to the raid.
N’Zoth is slapping eyeballs on people’s foreheads? Thank the Light we’ve got human shamans to get rid of that for us. Not like the Void Elves would know a thing about it, or should be learned about it to study it and look for other agents in Alliance lands.
Azshara pulled a Moses on the Horde and Alliance fleets and has Void Mages with their own subzone? Well, why should the Void Elves have anything to do with that?
Ebonhorn is going to lose his sanity to the Whispers, and a cure is in Karazhan? Well of course it is. Its not like the Void Elves should have any vested interest in something like that.
N’Zoth is assaulting Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms in a massive campaign with void mages and void knights? Why should the Void Elves take any interest in that at all?
Potential means nothing if its not capitalized upon. For all the, ‘potential,’ Void Elves had, given the route Blizzard went, they should’ve just added High Elves. We, the players, deserve better than what we got. If you like Void Elves, though, keep liking them. I’m not saying you can’t, just that you should want better for yourself.
6 Likes
Personally I have not dislike of Void Elves. I dislike the sentiment that is being shared around that they are not actually void elves and are in fact becoming high elves. I found the idea of having some more dynamic sub races or off shoots of long standing races was a great idea. There was a ton of potential to do story lines which incorporate the establishment and growth of new cultures like the Void Elves.
Sadly Blizzard very far removed from doing stuff like that. The story focus is much more narrow now.
4 Likes
COMMENTARY: yeah this is so dumb… so void elves can trash talk to blood elves cause they both speak Thallasian but nightborne can’t speak to night elves
3 Likes