Why High Elves Didn't Work - A Restrospective

[Lanithor-wyrmrest-accord]

I’ve got close to 80.

[Sarallesta-sargeras]

Wel… Damn. I need money to have a second WoW account. I am struggling to keep at 50 because of wanting to level new toons.

[Rawrlol-moon-guard]

Everyone knows High Elves didn’t do their work because they are too high.

[Lanithor-wyrmrest-accord]

I got two accounts in classic. Three in mop. Five in WoD because I ran out of stuff to do.

[Sarallesta-sargeras]

I have only have the one active account. Over the course though of my WoW Lifeline, I had a total of 8. First one was actually pernamently banned in Wrath after I got caught buying gold online with RL Money. And I regret doing that ever since. And the other 6 had poor security between the end of Wrath to end of MoP so, kept losing accounts because of that. And then this one is Number 8

[Lanithor-wyrmrest-accord]

That’s a bummer.

[Sarallesta-sargeras]

All because of one mistake that I knew was against the EULA, but I did it. If that didn’t happen, I would still have my original Warlock My beautiful Female Orc Warlock

[Hornyvixen-area-52]

well its a good thing they are adding high elf options to both blood elves and void elves in shadowlands, aint it

[Lanithor-wyrmrest-accord]

That name is amazing.

[Orcnroll-illidan]

@Hornyvixen-area-52

its a good thing they are adding high elf options to both blood elves

Except Blood Elves already had that for 13 years now. Blue eyes don’t define the race, many other factors combined however, do.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

You might as well be a Troll with this type of post.

[Yifftron-thrall]

This guy gets it.

[Hecatone-burning-legion (Hecatone)]

He was. He was also alt trolling on three alts.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

He has a lot of time on his hands tonight then, lol.

[Hecatone-burning-legion (Hecatone)]

He was offering evidence that you three were the same person except he proved you weren’t, he doubled down anyway. I don’t know it’s weird.

[Hecatone-burning-legion (Hecatone)]

It might be my favorite trolling attempt in recent history. He was fully committed to it.

[Selesnya-wyrmrest-accord (Selesnya)]

Joy, this thread again.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

High Elf Hopefuls have mostly been silenced by the overwhelming majority of players who are simply happy to look “close enough” to a High Elf, and have all but abandoned the notion of a full Allied Race, racials, etc. As I had always maintained, the argument would essentially vanish if one or both sides were simply given blue eyes.

Despite the insistence that people wouldn’t be happy with just repainted Void Elves, that is in fact what has taken place, and surprising no one, has placated the majority of the player base, Alliance especially.

“Overwhelming Majority.” You may speak for 27 people, but you most certainly don’t speak for the rest of us. Making that claim is highly disingenuous and you know it.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

Fast forward to 2020 and here we are. Fair-skinned, light, blonde-haired, tall majestic elves, now complete with blue eyes. This is a Blood Elf. Void Elves will get some options that move the needle closer to what people consider a “high elf”, but I feel once the honeymoon phase is over, they will be back to asking for more Blood Elf options like blonde hairs and some of their new customization, etc.

Which is not only perfectly acceptable, but likely to happen. Alleria, their racial leader is blonde so it stands to reason to request it.

The varying shades of red and browns aren’t great choices and I’d rather see other, more original colors for Void Elves, lighter mind you to bring the color palette up a bit from just dark blues and purples.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

(for Alliance who want to pretend their Void Elves are High Elves).

IE roleplaying.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

I’m aware there are still those who take this and just continue to ask for other hair colors, sytles, racials, etc, to get closer and closer to a “proper” High Elf

And again, aside from racials, this is perfectly reasonable and likely to happen.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

but for the overwhelming majority of players on both sides, this is “it”.

And again, you don’t speak for everyone.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

Nope. It wasn’t enough. The “High Elf Fantasy” has now been 99% rolled into existing Blood Elf or Void Elf fantsies for players. These new customizations are the lowering of the nailed High Elf Allied Race coffin into the ground.

They’re referring to their ties with and role in the Alliance, not Quel’thalas.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

It seems that nothing here ever really mattered except getting the fair-skin and blue eyes. Alliance are proclaiming “victory” here in droves, despite the fact there is no High Elf allied race, no mount, no racials, no braids, no paladins, no warpaint or tatoos, no new hairstyles, etc for Alliance players. It’s repainted Void Elves and that’s it. If that makes most people happy, then the actual people invested in grander High Elf schemes or lore are either easily placated, or terribly few in number.

…Because they stated in the actual Blue thread that neither the Blood Elves nor Void Elves new cosmetics were finished yet.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

Nope here also. They didn’t cave or add High Elves, and instead just boiled it down to extra cosmetic options mostly for Blood Elves, and a few for Void Elves. If you consider this a “high elf victory”, then I suppose Blizzard was right in doing it this way instead of listening to the vocal minority clamoring for a full and proper High Elf Allied Race.

It’s also a goo thing they never listened to a vocal minority who didn’t want the Void Elves to have what they’re having added in the Shadowlands.

I thank Blizzard and commend them for not listening to this hate group and making an objective decision, and if this means the end of the High Elf road, so be it as they never caved into you guys either.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

-New skin tones, specifically dark and caramel shades

Which Void Elves are also getting.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

-New earrings
-New facial hair (beards!)
-New hairstyles
-New ear shapes/types (including a half-elf-like option)

You don’t know that Void Elves aren’t getting any of this in the Shadowlands. They very well could get many of the same things as well as they share a model, so assets can easily be traded between the two races, just as skin tones were.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

-New 3D modeled necklaces
-New bracelets

Again you don’t know for sure that Void Elves aren’t getting these and the bracelets are fairly lackluster.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

-New eye colors, including multiple shades of green and gold, including blind eyes and odd-eye combinations

Yet again, not only do you not know the final product, but the last female in the
flesh colored preview has violet eyes. Both races could have more on the way.

@Lydon-emerald-dream

With these new customization options coming in Shadowlands, we finally see and idea of a “High Elf Allied Race” thrown out, and fair-skin and blue eyes put up as a placation, one that most have accepted.

We see why High Elves, did not in fact, work.

And we see yet another unnecessary thread related to High Elves, this one especially so.

You make a lot of assumptions in your post and your hatred and spite is thinly veiled.

Posts like these are toxic and unproductive, neither of which are what the community needs.

[Hornyvixen-area-52]

to you they dont define the race

[Starlagosa-dentarg (Starlagosa)]

Why punish yourself by replying to someone who clearly isn’t interested in honest discourse?

[Bigkatbruh-garona]

Remember when horde got high elves and the alliance spent 13 years crying about not being able to make more toons named legolassssxx. I am high elf. Void scum are void scum. Those monsters serve not the alliance but an old god in trade for that disgusting “power”