Such a large community it took 10+ years to steal a Horde race, someone pointed out to me the other day the more likely scenario of Blizzard just after all this time falsely believed the rhetoric of no one caring if Blood Elf visual uniqueness was lost
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They got facial jewerly expressely designed to hide the issues with the model, another set of gray hair colors and the only legitimate good stuff they got were the eye feature and the hand arcane effect. No additional eye colors (I mean, arcane comes in several colors too dudes), some new haircuts with tons of issues and all the faces keep the “angry grandpa” effect (that have to be hidden with jewerly or else).
Some things got improved but tyhe hardocore issues stay pretty much present.
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And that is a good thing?
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You could reduce it to that if you want, but many NE fans asked for Highborne-like customization far before Nightborne were ever introduced.
Mainly to look akin to Azshara Night Elf types which she looks very different from Nightborne looks.
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It will prove that the whole having a carbon copy race with pretty much copied customizations isn’t going to help Alliance despite what has been peddled on the forums, so yes, it will be a great thing.
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So the alliance is just trash and they should quit the game or go Horde? That seems to be what is happening and will continue to happen.
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After how Blood Elves were treated I’m a little less empathetic to the Alliance plight.
Maybe if the Blood Elves actually got a customization pass instead of having half their customization time and most of their assets given to the Alliance clones with nothing in return I’d have more empathy but right now I can’t empathize.
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Came across this old blue tracker btw.
Crazy how long that’s been going on for and is finally coming to a head in 9.1.5.
Also OG Alamara 
miss da dude
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I don’t think any of these customization options are meant to tip faction balances. They’re simply more options for the players of those races.
Blizzard, if they decide to deal with the faction imbalance, will deal with it in another way.
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Well I have no empathy for Blood elves plight in customization options since blood elf posters are very petty and toxic.
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I didn’t say that, I said from the get go that having our race copy/paste to Alliance wouldn’t change anything but Alliance players and Void Elf players kept saying that it would shift the balance so much that they had to have it and when it doesn’t, it will feel good.
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It has been acknowledged by the devs. But they continue to do nothing about it. Meanwhile horde fanfics thinks it’s good for the health of the game. Crazy.
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That’s a funny way to spell Alliance.
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Oh! I’ve written a few of those about my elven OCs. Better writing than Blizzard if I do say so myself.
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Who are you describing High Elf fans?
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My man, we all have to be honest here: and no customization nor cosmetic feature will magically solve the gameplay issues currently affecting the Alliance fanbase.
If anything, the people using this “argument” to justify their shameless poach of Horde cosmetic stuff should be chastised taking into account they are reducing ALL the players involved to superficial ninies that only need a “pretty” /insert race /racial cosmetic feature to go back and play in their “beloved faction”.
I find that notion disrespectful to the raiders and high rating arena players that got negatively impacted by the lack of player participation on Alliance. To believe they only left because there weren´t “pretty enough” elves on the Alliance is degrading.
Those issues need gameplay focused solutions, no more and no less.
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Hope you get more pixalated/painted on jewelry for your future customizations. 
Lol, nothing will help that side, they can’t even do consumption properly on a big server like Proudmoore and I say that as someone that kept saying let it level up and they kept attacking it and that happened multiple times and that’s in super casual content.
Speaking of, the Blood Elf Heritage Armor robe uses a low quality texture.
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They are testing internally cross-faction play, they have acknowledged it. But they are not ready to do that.
It is like the change of all servers to PVE with War Mode. It is a change that cannot be undone once it occurs, so they are still mulling it over.
http://lorekeeper.net/en/world-of-warcraft-visions-of-nzoth-interview-with-patrick-dawson/
Jan 12, 2020
[Ezgi] My question is not strictly 8.3 related but it has some kind of relation to it. As we know, from a lore point of view, that Horde and Alliance decided to “break the cycle.” But as we know from BlizzCon, there will be no faction merge or “Let’s be friends and play together!” situation. Do you have any plans to address this or maybe even ease the faction restrictions? Will we see any progress towards “breaking the cycle” in 8.3?
In terms of breaking the cycle, that was definitely a really powerful story moment for us. It doesn’t come with any gameplay changes as of now. In the future, you never know what is going to happen, where the story is going to take us, and what makes sense for the game.
To me as a Horde player, I actually still enjoy going out in the world PvP and smashing Alliance. That feels good! And I think there is a large part of our player base that still needs that, and we want to serve that too.
In terms of cross-faction though, we’ve experimented with that a little bit internally to see what it’d feel like. We don’t have anything to announce today but it’s a cool idea.
Like I said, they will handle it in a different way, if they decide to.
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