At this point, yes. There’s no reason to add High Elves to the game. But to me and it seems like many others, it was a missed opportunity.
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They just wanna play human without being labeled a human.
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I don’t know if this has been mentioned already… but high elves are the closest model in WoW to mirror the common elf races in nearly all of traditional fantasy - i.e. novels, movies and other video games like Lord of the Rings, the Witcher, Dungeons and Dragons, etc.
And let’s face it, most of us playing this game are giant fantasy nerds.
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Because they want to play blood elves because they’re “pretty” but don’t want to play horde.
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Blood Elves were literally shoehorned into the Horde to appease China/Korea (we don’t know which one, the dev only knows it was one of them) so they could play with their girlfriends on the Horde. There’s literally a developer who admitted it.
They were not Horde prior to BC. They were an Alliance race that got shoehorned onto the Horde to appease an Asian market’s desire for a pretty race on the Horde. The Alliance have a right to (still) feel shafted over it.
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The majority had already left the Alliance well before BC. When Sylvanas was in the UC, that should have been the biggest hint they weren’t going Alliance. She was our Ranger General. And ended up being the one that brought us into the Horde.
It’s not really shoe-horned when it works well with she and the Forsaken helping Silvermoon after it was attacked.
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At this point it’s not even about wanting High Elves so much as a very confused ‘but y tho?’ as Blizzard bends themselves into a pretzel to avoid adding them as even an allied race. The time has passed to add them, I believe, but it was genuinely confusing to see that first batch of allied races in late Legion.
Given years of questing and lore, the logical assumption for an allied race for Alliance, initially, would be Broken and High Elf. Hordeside, the obvious choices were Taunka and Ogres (or Mok’thanal). Instead we were given three allied races that had been helped closely by both factions, so joining either made little sense… and an allied race made up on the spot with an origin that was ridiculously contrived.
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I’ll give you.
The Highmountain seemed rather weird. Then again, you should not think of your character during legion, as someone representing the Alliance or the Horde. But as someone representing a neutral class order.
But the Nightborne, while helped by Alliance champions (Who at that point were representing a neutral made faction, aka, class order), yes, were essentially bullied by the Alliance representatives that would be the Night Elves, while the Horde representatives that would be the Blood Elves, extended a friendly, welcoming hand while sharing a tale of a similar struggle with magical addiction.
If anything, it is a surprise that the Nightborne even tried to join the Alliance first, as far as the story is considered - with the Blood Elves not only being more welcoming, but also the direct descendants of the Nightborne, or in ancient times, Highborne.
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Can’t speak for everyone, but personally, High Elves are just one of those things that harken back to the RTS. Even if you started with Wa3, you were likely to go then play War2, and you could see High Elves as part of the alliance, when it became more than just “Humans v/s Orcs” and instead, about a coalition of races on both sides.
I think the want for High Elves for many stems from that place that makes us want Amani Trolls and Ogres as playable races.
And sure, while most of the once High Elves became Blood Elves, the fact remains that many HE’s remained on the alliance, never left, never became BE, and we have seen them through all of WoW. We first knew High Elves as part of the Alliance, so even while most of their population has followed a different path, the desire to have some of that nostalgic fantasy remains.
They had such a perfect set up for it in Legion; we saw the Silver Covenant again in action, as part of the Hunter Class Hall and the Suramar Campaign, and of course with Dalaran being the hub once again, High Elves were again one present fixture of the world.
Then we had Alleria being reintroduced on 7.3, THE iconic High Elf character. So we had the most High Elf visibility since WotlK, with the return of Warcraft’s OG High Elf Ranger.
Instead of “Void Elves” as a whole new concept out of the left field, it would have made so much more sense to have Alleria and Vereesa work together to unify the scattered remnants of their people on the alliance and finally unite under one banner.
And with Alleria now becoming a master of the Void, it would have allowed to introduce a the void as a whole new theme for High Elves on the alliance, helping to separate BE and HE further ideologically. Void could have been that “new theme” that made High Elves more unique.
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alliance players are obsessed with lore and lord of the rings and whatnot. void elfs aren’t lorey enough so they need 300 more kinds of elfs which all differ in minuscule cosmetic ways so they can have enough lore
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I believe I have fixed the statement.
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“Not lorey enough” would be an understatement. They were literally pulled from someone’s rear as a “here’s the thing you’ve always said you wanted… BUT” moment.
People don’t want 100 flavors of elves. They wanted High Elves. Instead we got discount blueberry Blood Elves.
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the differences are so minor as to be insignificant
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I would legit rather play a grummel.
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Void Elves are not High Elves. They’re tainted Blood Elves. There’s a post up above me (fairly lengthy one) explaining why.
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seems like an RP issue that can be resolved by RP methods
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Sounds like you just want to ignore the problem to pretend there is none.
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Belfs are a pure bloodline. There’s no mixing with other races. Velfs too. Human, Dwarves, Orcs, all of them. There are no crossbreeds in the game.