During TBC you could tell they were scarred by the events that devastated their homeland while also trying to pridefully keep fighting on to survive and have the revenge on those who wronged them.
In Midnight, the NPCs I clicked on, felt like if they were 2+ human generations removed from the scourge attack and they sound so cheerful and starry eyed.
Is it just me that gets this vibe in Midnight?
Theyâre just awful, both the blood elf and troll voices. And yet here we are again, letting it slide like we always do.
I would say now they feel more like Pandaren without the Fur and fat
Doesnât help that at least 80% of the NPCs use the squeaky voices and only the minority the normal sounding onesâŚ
Iâve only heard two generic voices so far, from what i am told there are more sets than those but.. eh they sound very fruity?
Maybe they wanted to have more voice options for younger belfs.
The deeper voice lines are great.
The higher ones? Eh. Everything seems to have an upward inflection and it sounds grating.
Unfortunately the latter seems a lot more common.
Some of the new voice lines definitely feel a bit too colourful and light hearted for them. I do miss the darker undertones the original belf npc voice lines had. They have mixed in some deeper voiced ones to help balance it out but the more squeaky ones can definitely do with some toning down to fit the image of a barely surviving race a lot of people including myself had.
I donât buy the fact that a race as long lived as the elves would suddenly forget what they experienced in wc3 and BC and how they were shaped by it. There should still be some traces of them being hardened by those past experiences and it feels like thereâs a disconnect even with the Sunwell being restored after those events and the their now oddly, if almost out of place cheerful disposition.
Maybe they can mix in some more reserved voiced line sets to the mix to better remedy it.
That said, I can understand to a degree that a newer and younger generation of blood elves may not have that same outlook or lived experience. But, it seems way to disproportionate at the moment to be believable from what youâd expect in world building and their overarching original theme and story.
And before in WC 1-2
By that logic what the fel the Elves are doing in the Horde?
You know the coalition of:
Orcs - who attacked the Planet and allied themselves and aided the Trolls and sieged Silvermoon
Trolls - the age old enemy ( and no i donât think an elf cares about the Tribe. A Human is Human. A Troll is a Troll)
Goblins - who supplied the Orcs and trolls during the such invasion and prolonged siege
Undeads - look maâ! Rotting corpses walking around making biological weapons! Ex-Scourge? Scourge wannabees? Pick your poision.
+and those unplayable Ogre survivors who sometimes pops up
Who helped them in WC3? The Naga.
And the Night Elves. And⌠thats it.
So trust me it is better to forget whats happened because without that suspension of belife? Silvermoon and QuelâThalas would be neutral (and isolationist) at best and Alliance at âworseâ - something that almost happened, Theron almost jumped ships and returned to the Alliance
Be glad for the selective memory loss and barain damage the Elves have afrer snorting Fel powder from each otherâs as while sipping arcwine because that is the only reason the Red Coalition of Endagered Species at the brink of Extinction still have ElvesâŚ
Heavily dislike the one voice theyâre using the most. A lot of the NPC voices are fine, but thereâs a few - both male and female, albeit less common for the latter - that neither fit the race nor do I want to hear them at all when clicking on an NPC because theyâre that grating to hear. And yet itâs the one they used on most of the male NPCs. Shouldnât be hard for them to fix it, either.
They did a great job for some of them, like Astalor, though.
Yeah agreed. The race has a fairly stoic attitude,
Only thing I noticed, is that the men have grown more masculine. Maybe that happened a while ago. I donât play horde or bloodelves that much.
mellow is one word to use. I would use horrible and bland as all trump
Did you see the one belf that has a THICK texas howdy accent. that was the funniest voice ive heard in wow in a long time
The one with the pet battles? A friend of mine didnât realize heâs a BE until he used sinâdorei at some point⌠and I found him very immersion breaking instead of funny.
⌠not the word Iâd use⌠but I guess your comment is sarcastic.
Click on Sinâdorei child ; 
Baladash 
Balanore 
They sound terrible.
But notice another thing? So many NPCs â including Umbric and Valeera, have this weird âFâ instead of âSâ.
âNow ftrike!â :F
âThe miftreff willf it!â
Even Arator gets the weird âFâ instead of âSâ.
Is it the voice actors having issues with pronouncing S properly? Or is Blizzard insisting on this? Or is it just a weird thing with production?
Pay attention, as some tend to really sound like Daffy Duck.
Is it me or do Anduin and Arator share the same voice actor?
personally as a gay guy, iâm glad to see people calling out the performative nonsense
itâs surprising that some posters get so volatile when dei is identified as an issue and a legitimate concern to offer feedback on
i really liked the original vibe of the blood elves, i always loathed the dumb âjokesâ about the men being feminine which doesnât make sense when theyâre built like henry cavill and possess similar strikingly handsome facial features to him
if not for the dumb trust level system iâd post some of the official art from tbc to showcase that
the overly feminine voices, that strangely appear to be the most commonly used now, do not fit as far as i am concerned
Much as some of them want to complain about it being âOff-topicâ, it is a very valid point of contention given it has a direct effect on game development and presentation. If it didnât, then it wouldnât be talked about so much.
Think it largely came to how they are/were very⌠Fae in comparison to the other races, especially compared to the Horde races.
Donât worry, I am sure deep down everyone thinks that way about them.
Might be. I thought it was Anduin talking at the start, then realised it was Arathor.