Why the alliance is so obsessed with the hight elfs?

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i don’t get it, there are really cool races in the alliance, like the night elfs, dwarfs, draenei and even the classic human race, but no, they want the high elfs so badly, like, why ?

even lore says they are even less hight elfs than the blood elfs (clear example is during the assault to suramar when the princess of the tall elfs clearly says she can barely recognize them), since they are half breed of human and elfs, and to make it even worse, high elfs are literally playable already, in the horde, Blood elfs are high elfs, just change their names to remember the tragic past of their people, but their race, still the same

i named my cat waffles, but it still a cat, the same logic with high elfs here, Blood elfs = high elfs

i mean, no metter how i see it, i can’t get it, people of the alliance is so obsessed with that race so much

the only way i would support that is that they made a new race that is what they actually are, half breeds of human and elfs, but not share the model of any of them, give them a new whole one, not just copy the blood elfs and put them eyes blue

does it metters at this point ? cross faction is a thing now, so, you can just be high elf in the horde and play with your friends in the alliance

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It depends on the person though I think it’s currently they want High elf Paladins. :telescope:

The High elves still often show up around the alliance from Outland and Dalaran with now the Windrunner family in the faction which could feel like a tease for some. Maybe the horde might lose Sylvanas to the alliance if she returns as that’s where her family resides? :thinking:

The Void elves should be a good replacement even offering powerful perks and now having elven and dark ranger tones. :octopus:

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It doesn’t help that High Elf npc’s have been sprinkled into the Alliance areas since Classic

Dalaran was the worst lol, I felt so bad for the Allys that wanted to play High Elves while having to hang around the Silver Covenant every day

End all be all I think it was a cool idea to give the Horde Blood Elves tho considering Blood Elves at start of TBC were “evil” until they broke away from Kael’thas

Also we have an interesting cosmic divide between factions now. Blood Elves are more Holy based and Void Elves are (spoiler) Void based

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bc the void elves are a joke lol.

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Wait, there’s a race in WoW that gets to smoke dope?

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I don’t know or care why “the alliance” wants them. I, however, can only speak for myself when I say I’ve wanted to be a High Elf Ranger since WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness.

Love their sprite
Love their voiceovahs
Love killin’ greenbois

Simple as.

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Honestly it’s Blizzard’s fault.

They spend close to twenty years telling Alliance players that high elves exist, but you don’t get them. Then after giving the blood elves to the Horde, spent an hilarious amount of time throwing the updated high elves models in their faces and telling them “If you want them, roll Horde”.

Then after years they finally throw the Alliance players a bone with void elves as a means to sell BFA (ironic considering what happened there), but because they pulled void elves out their butts that just reinforced the whole “If you want actual high elves, roll Horde”. Finally ending with them getting all elves the fair skinned, blue eye treatment when their sub numbers tanked.

Honestly if they had just given Alliance proper high elves during BFA we would be free of all this.

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Been saying this for awhile now, Blizz went about the whole High Elf Void Elf thing bass ackwards. They should have added High Elves first, and added the Void thing a little bit later, and if they wanted to give Blood Elves a similar treatment, add the Fel versions we saw in Sunwell.

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This is what I wish they did, especially after seeing them give the dark ranger skin as a customization by doing a questchain. But no. Also canonically there are fewer velves than helves… Also, there aren’t supposed to be as many belves as there are players rolling belves, so the population only matters to Blizz whenever they feel like it.

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I’d have preferred ogre and quillboar over belves. I loved the idea of the Horde being the beastman faction. Sadly that boat sailed over a decade ago. Now we can’t even get the ogres, who are nominally part of the Horde. We get cutesy foxlins and someone’s DeviantArt sparklelizard as races.

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I am still holding out hope Horde get Mok’nathal.

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That’d be nice too, especially after Rexxar’s Dad was talking about being more open with the Horde during the Orc heritage quest.

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Void elves are probably my favourite race in the game.

Tbh i dont care about high elves at all.
If i wanted to play a normal high elf, id just play a blood elf. Theyre the exact same thing.

I like my emo version

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Hopefully that is a hint of them joining the Horde and becoming playable.

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It is not hard to understand:

  • The Void Elves were a spit-in-your-face race, while the Alliance has an on-going High Elf militia group who are in almost every expansion active
  • Imagine you not playing a Zandalari Troll but a Zandalari Gnome. This is how Blizzard twisted their request while we got every race we asked for.
  • Imagine how often the developers teases them with High Elf NPCs, nods, winks - and then the game director mocking them in the public, one of the most requested wishes in the history of the game.

Just imagine you will be treated as an inferior player and faction player and you get the idea how they feel. Do you want to be treated like an Alliance-player from a biased developer team who spit in their face? No, certainly not.

:point_up_2:

The High Elves are playable at Horde as Blood Elves. The difference between a High and Blood Elf is political. The Void Elves, at least the first generation of them, are Blood Elves.

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Good question. I don’t understand the obsession with wanting High Elves on the Alliance - they’re a pretty milquetoast sub-group of elves whose entire identity revolves around their desire to be subservient to humans.

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Because millenials and zoomers play this game now, with their metrosexual man buns and skinny jeans, and soft names like “Taylor” and “Keegan”.

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I had a crazy idea as it seems difficult as ogres are so big and mok’nathal look like orcs but what if we got mok’nathal with twin ogre heads?

Ogrezonia is still out there to hopefully be explored. It was considered small but even the tomb of sargeras grew attached to the Broken Isles. :sailboat:

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Don’t even get me started on made-up names like Aiden, or Brayden, or Hayden.

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High Elf fans want to show how unique and special they are, by playing the same thing as everyone else would.

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