i’m legit surprised they’re doing this lmao. i’m kinda annoyed that they’re getting the same skin tones as belves but at the same time i’m happy for the people that actually wanted this.
i doubt this will effect the faction balance tho.
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Well, technically, they were Allies for a time. Just look at the Elven Archers in Warcraft II.
Same goes for the Ogres and the Horde.
Thousands of years ago. Allies with the Humans.
Who didn’t help them when they needed it most.
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WHAT IF
all the ally belfs is actually the traitorfang supporters going fulll ally?
lore saved
and i get too shoot traitors, nothing is bad
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Finally lmao.
Most people were happy to give it to both factions, as long as they got it. I was one of those people. Ever since TBC I wanted blue eyes, but I didn’t mind if they gave them to the other side as well.
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Ty for link tink, get your mechanised behind in my recent thread post and put up your support!
Same goes for other AR advocates.
Salty for what? my belf had blue eyes ever since i made her a DK lol, im just stating a fact 
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Around thirty years. And since then, there are High Elves (NPCs) in the Alliance. But I know. Details. 
Well the Horde was also in Charge for Quel’thalas one. They wanted to burn the city down.
So be careful with those lore explanations 
And btw, the FACT is, that blood elves were added to the Horde only because Horde players base wanted some “beautiful” race …
So yeah “Zug zug give us pretty faces” was the cause.
And please don’t start with the nonsense that it wasn’t the actual HORDE who wanted to kill all belfies. Cause I can say then, it was not the Alliance of Stormwind who didn’t help them back in the days. Peace.
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The Helves are 1000s of years old 30 years is like a weekend.
And you’ll know it didn’t end on the best of terms.
The Horde didn’t exist then.
Actually the Horde playerbase at the time were very anti-the inclusion.
But it did serve it’s purpose.
It was literally just the Orcs. The Alliance and Horde didn’t exist at the time.
Are highelfs jus reskinned voidelf? ecause thats not what anyone wants.
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Oh please dude Just read something about it.
And for the finale - I like the idea, that we’ll be able to customize our characters more. Tons of players were begging for it for eons, now it’s happening and I’m happy with it.
For someone who wants so desperately to play a HIgh Elf you seem to have very little knowledge of the lore that got us to this point.
But yeah, I’m happy for you that you can customize your character to look like us.
you could have used the correct underwears for voids elves when showcasing their new skin colours 
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You really believe that people would leave their faction only for void elfs with normal skin tones? That’s pretty ridiculous but whatever floats your boat, tho bare in mind that horde racials are overall better and that plays a big role, also Vulpera and Nightborne lol
Yes! Finally
We can put this issue to rest
On-Topic: Should have given high elves to the Alliance in the first place and focused on making them distinct from blood elves rather than creating void elves. That or have a high elf form out of combat and go void elf in combat like the way worgen work. When it comes to blood elf identity at this point it barely matters, since there’s more elves using dark magic Alliance-side now, and the blood elves practice none of the things that caused the cultural split in the first place. So I can see some deciding that they want to go home and joining the Horde is a price worth paying, while others stay with the Alliance. The main thing this devalues lore-wise is the void, since it goes from driving mortals mad and having even targeted use of it be treated as serious business to having those infused by it not even show cosmetic effects except a change in underwear.
For a start you think that the Exile was about Fel? It was never about Fel! The Fel Crystals were in Silvermoon to maintain the buildings of magical nature, a function the Sunwell used to perform. The reason for the Exile was the teaching Rommath brought back from Outlands, of how to drain mana from living creatures. Hitherto all Elves could drain from sources, and items, but not creatures. The proto-High Elves objected, and were Exiled.
Of course it was about Fel. By drawing mana from a living thing this produces fel, hence making the eyes green. Fel is spent life force. The proto-High Elves disagreed with that for this reason and hence Lor’themar exiled them. The Burning Crystals, warlocks and the like are expression of fel magic, but by drawing mana from living things they get tinged with fel. Every Blood Elf either actively did so or in current lore, what with the gradual softening of the race over the years, was around those who did. That’s what makes the distinction in the first place - that they made that compromise. That’s why every blood elf in the starting zones and just about every blood elf NPC has the green eyes. When draining mana from living things stopped being needed after TBC, exposure to the reignited Sunwell to which they’re all connected turns more and more eyes gold.
There being one or two NPCs in the Sunreavers with blue eyes is equivalent to saying the Horde has fel orcs because two of the guards at the Dark Portal are miscoloured red. Everyone who stuck around in Quel’thalas drained mana from living things or at best, tolerated it and stayed in their vicinity, turning their eyes green by way of exposure like radiation.
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^ this lol.
Agree with this. I still want that black hair option that the Rift Warden Acolyte NPC has!
Pure white too would be 
Well that should settle it at last.
Hopefully everybody will be happy with this?!