But that broke down the clear and beautiful distinction of night elves and blood elves. One group were very anti-mage and the other was very pro-mage.
And what have they done for alliance night elf mages? Their introduction to the story was, for lack of a better word, appalling and they were just made to be a purple, yet poor man’s Blood Elf Mage. Canon fodder for the Horde player who quested in Azshara.
Then the next time they COULD have been used, was during MoP where they could have been the ones to lockdown Darnassus and keep the Blood Elf spies from entering the city, but no - that was given to Jaina instead.
I honestly like the fact that they brought so little to the Night Elves and the Alliance. It made it pretty obvious that the best Highborne masters of the arcane are the Nightborne And there is nothing I love more in the elven lore of this game than the affinity between the Blood Elves and Nightborne
(sorry for straying away from the points you made a bit)
But rather than Night Elf Mages, they could have expanded on the sisterhood of elune and introduced night elf paladins which would have made far more sense.
Plus given a Paladin Saber mount, which I would have been all over.
Night Elf Paladin would have been my new Alliance main character
I don’t know if that would have made more sense since the Night Elves do not use or worship the Light. The Taurens do through An’she, but not the Night Elves.
To be brutally honest the Nightborne are to the Blelves that meme of two Spidermen pointing at each other. Pretty much entirely redundant outside the character of Valtrois.
(I kinda imagine that Darnassian mages are always gonna be in the kid Harry Potter spot beaten beneath the stairwell xD)
Heavy armored Priestesses, who in the lore, serve just like Humans and Draenei Paladins, but they, lorewise, are followers of Elune, not the Light…just like the Night Elf Priest class in lore.
The Nightborne are still better at teleportation and controlling portals than any other race in the game.
The priest class is very varied and open unlike the paladins who solely use the Light. There is no way around it. It’s just like in real life. The words priest and priestess can be used to design people from various faiths whereas real historical paladins were all knights linked to Christianity.
Except for Tauren Paladins, by lore standards.
And Zandalari Paladins who serve the Loa, by lore standards.
The fact is Tauren Paladins were created from a sect of former Druids. Night Elf Paladins aren’t even from a different sector of their society. It is just heavy armored Priests of Elune.
Light of the Moon
Light of the Sun
Light of the Loa
You can’t be biased against night elves, yet support the others and make excuses for the others. I’m not a big night elf fan, but the night elf fans are right in Night Elf Paladins do make sense now. The fact they also exist as NPCs in the past and present is telling that the switch is long overdue and it’s time to flick it on.
But your showing it.
I’m against anyone telling a fanbase that they can’t have something because “I don’t like that race.” Night Elf Paladins aren’t for you, just like the Night Elves as a race. But they are for a lot of people who love the night elves and you are wrong now.
It is time to let the Night Elf fans have access to the Paladin class. Not the Shaman Class or the Warlock Class, because that is not lore friendly. Night Elf Paladins are now lore friendly and appropriate.
How? Because I think that Night Elven paladins don’t make sense? O.o
Thank you, starting with that would have made more sense than using the fact that I don’t like Tyrande to justify why Night Elven paladins made no sense to me. If Night Elven paladin NPCs exist, they should be available to the players as a class for the Night Elves. We could have quickly ended it there.
It should be common knowledge that not everyone was still playing the game during Legion or has been to the twelve different class domains and know all the NPCs there by heart
But it was a heavily talked about notice - anyway, this isn’t about NPCs anyway - it’s about what fits.
Night Elf Warlock NPCs have existed in the game, but that doesn’t mean I support them being lore friendly.
Hell, one crazed Night Elf fan wanted Night Elf Warlocks to have the following:
Green fire (whilst everyone else starts with red fire.)
Unique questing experience with night elf demon hunters only.
Demon Hunter features for night elf warlocks.
I don’t support this at all. What makes night elf warlocks so special that they get green fire, whilst Orc Warlocks don’t?
The same fan, trying to alter the Shaman class to suit Night Elves by “arcane-ing” it. So, Night Elves become the “Battle Mage Shaman class” because -Moon Guard.- Again, stretching it so much to try and justify something which is ridiculous.
To become a Demon Hunter is a set of rituals that are dangerous to the elf. Warlocks are just that…warlocks. They don’t do the Demon Hunter ritual to become who they are.
And there is nothing I love more in the elven lore of this game than the affinity between the Blood Elves and Nightborne 
