I think you can easily become a Shadow Priest if you have the will-power to do it.
If Inanis, a High Elf Shadow / Void Priest can do itā¦then I donāt see why a Blood Elf should struggle (not counting Rommathās laws, but if a Blood Elf went to Feralas, for example - providing they have the will-power and mental strength to do it, they could become a Shadow Priest without becoming a Void Elf.)
I donāt buy Blood Elves struggling to wield the void, on their own will-power and mental strength. Rommathās laws - yes, they would struggle becauseā¦Rommathās laws, but I think, if Inanis - a High Elf can do it with her own will-powerā¦then Blood Elves would be able to do it as well, with the same amount of ease as a Night Elf, Gnome or even regular Draenei.
He didnāt say itās impossible. Just harder for them.
A Void Elf has a natural affinity for Void. A Lightforged Draenei has a natural affinity for the Light. A Blood Elf (aka High Elf) has a natural affinity for magics in general, but with the tendency to affect their body (see the eyeglows, etc.)
On the contrary, a Manāari has a natural affinity for Fel, etc. (granted, they are demons but you get the point.)
Itās not a case of āthey canāt be thatā, but a case of āitās harder for them to practice their natural oppositeā.
Edit. This also applies to resistances of the attuned magics. So a LFD is more resilient to Light being used upon them. A Manāari on the contrary is harder to quench with Fel, etc.
Yes Void Elves, because thatās a race that has been requested to be part of the Alliance for 18 years.
I am happy you conveniently left that out when it comes to my own personal view.
So yes I will talk to compromises not being given at all, because please date back to where there was a request by the community for void elves predating their implementation.
THe hypocrisy is palpable. Through all my interactions with you it comes down to you not wanting the race added to the other faction or any change to void elves as it would take away from your own game experience. So no, you donāt look for middle ground or compromise. Itās all: āme, myself and Iā when it comes to your views of the game.
To prevent further escalation Iāll put it like this:
To each their own opiniated view and Iāll leave it at that.
No, I havenāt - I just donāt think it would be any harder for a Blood Elf specifically, than a Night Elf. I think a Blood Elf would have an easier time of wielding and casting the void than a LFD, but itās not as easy as a Void Elf or Forsaken.
Again, Iād say that the Blood Elves would be on an equal footing of using void magic as Night Elves (Shenādralar have studied the void during their time in isolation), Gnomes, Nightborne etc.
What hypocrisy? I ask only for the respect every other core race in the game is entitled to, that if you want to play a faction locked race you play that race on the faction it was created for.
I object to changes to Void Elves because Void Elves are not a mistake. They are their own race, void infused thalassian elves distinct from Blood Elves. All your suggestions are based around trying to find ways to ignore that the race you are playing is the race you are playing.
None of your suggestions are ever going to be good enough either. Youāll still have the nameplate, still bleed purple, still have the Void Elf jokes and flirts. So the logic of your incrementalism is that they will all have to go one by one.
The compromise exists because the factors you clearly donāt care for, that the Blood Elves are the true High Elves, of the importance of faction differentiation (and of course if you argue that the factions arenāt important then youāll have to explain why it is so important you can play an Alliance Blood Elf) were judged as being of value. You got a variant you can achieve 95% of what you wanted with. Most folks could, and probably have, taken the win. And that of course is why I donāt look for compromise. The compromise has already been enacted.
Now youāre just being greedy and masking it as reasonableness in an attempt to split the remaining distance.
I have to disagree. Blood Elves are light-infused and we know that being dominated by one form of magic makes it more difficult to wield magics opposed to oneās nature. I absolutely think a Blood Elf shadow priest will find it more difficult than a Night Elf Shadow priest to wield those magics.
After all we do have precedent on this and it seems to be just how magic works in WoW.
When one is out of Rommathās laws, I donāt think the Blood Elves would struggle. I mean, if weāre so adamant that Blood Elves are High Elvesā¦why can the latter wield shadow magic better than the former?
I donāt know that they can? High Elves are connected to the Sunwell, same as Blood Elves, so they are equally light infused. The logic of WoWās magic system implies they must face the same difficulty.
I also think Rommathās laws were to do with how deeply Umbric and his followers were delving into the void than anything else. Still I will admit a lot of my thinking here is based upon extrpolation from other forces. The only thing I will hold fast to is that as Blood Elves and Alliance High Elves are identical they will face the same level of difficulty no matter what that is.
Hmm, we can only hypothesise there. Given it looks like she led some form of Old God cult it is possible that she acclimatised to the void through practice? Logically a cult wouldnāt be led by a novice after all.
Exactly - which is why I donāt think a Blood Elf would truly struggle on the same levels as a LFD would, to wield the void.
I think a Blood Elf like Shinfel Blightsworn could probably take on wielding the void quite easily, but could that be due to her skin and blood being tainted by Choāgall ?
Oh, I honestly didnāt know about that option what youāre saying here. Nice!
And also, yes - your idea seems cool, to have the racial leaning towards arcane magic using just barbershop for example (similar like druids can customize the glow of their moonkin form)
I think a Blood Elf would sturggle less than a Lightforged Draenei, but struggle more than any other race.
Shinfel, as a Warlock, probably has experience in dealing with darker magics opposed to the light and so could probably tolerate it. Still, I feel we are getting lost talking of individuals when the real focus is on generalities.
A Blood Elf is infused by light magic, and it is also no accident that when the Void Elf compromise was enacted the void was chosen as the force underlying Void Elves (because Blood Elves use the light). I have to imagine that anyone who has light energy thundering into them at every second would find it more difficult than most to use the void as a Shadow Priest. With practice and acclimatisation it can be possible, of course, but I do think they would face a harder time than a Night Elf who isnāt infused with magic at all.
Yes. They all are. Thatās the point. Being infused with a type of magic is distinct from wielding it, but we know that wielding a type of magic that is at odds with your infused nature can be difficult.
The classical example is the Undead Priest wielding light magic, which apparently burns them but which they wield regardless due to its utility.
I think Humans would wield the void with greater ease than a Blood Elf and would wield the light with greater ease than a Void Elf. There are Blood Elves who can use shadow magic, and Void Elves who can use light, but likely with difficulty. There is a single Void Elf Paladin, just as there is a single Undead Paladin, but both are probably exceptional individuals rather than a template for players.
Imagine spending 2 decades of your life throwing a temper tantrum because you didnāt get the video game elves in the color you wanted.
You canāt even compare it to brats kicking and screaming in the store after they were told no, because they would have literally grown into young adults by now, thatās how sad helf fans are.
When your time is up you will regret not making better use of it
He goes psycho every time he sees āvoid elfā instead of āhigh elfā ingame mouse over and forum signature. Then he comes on forum and makes another high elf thread. And itās not just replying to himself all over again. He also makes US account and even pays for its sub to do same thing on US forum.
The joke was about the blood elf race, not humans in real life
Iām not banned from the American forum, I have a thread there too and my thread is very popular
Why do you come here and engage in slander while hiding behind a Classic WoW profile?
Iām not āheā Iām āsheā
If you have an active subscription on the European server, you can create a character on the American server and post here on the forum. You only need a character that is level 10 or higher
Thatās why I made a blood elf there - achievements, and a collection that is not shared between the US and Europe
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