Actually none of the factions are the default choice for blood elves, because there has been bad blood between both and individuals liked different things. It was simply the horde that gave them a helping hand in TBC. More specifically Sylvanas and forsaken.
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Thank you blizzard, very exciting! Blond and white hair colors would make it perfect! And if you still have some love to spare, maybe a few new hairstyles! Fingers crossed! 
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Rommath the Grand Magister was actually travelling with Kaelâthas at first, he along with some other magisters who were also with Kaelâthas experienced it all first hand, Garithosâ suicide runs for the Blood Elves, his attempt at their execution, the escape to Outland, etc etc.
Kaelâthas did send Rommath and the other magisters back to Silvermoon at some point, where they conveyed the story. It is also why Rommath blames the Kirinâtor equally for the betrayal, as they, according to Rommath, just sat by and watched Garithos about to execute Kaelâthas, him and other Blood Elves who had maintained a friendship with Dalaran for thousands of years.
There is of course the added spice on top, with an Ironforge dwarf and armed Night Elves being sent to Quelâthalas to spy and potentially sabotage structures that were supposed to help gathering magical energy which the Blood Elves used to sate their addiction if only for awhile.
The Alliance basically held a sword to the Blood Elvesâ neck in the era of TBC while the Horde (The forsaken) offered a helping hand.
The Blood Elves were desperate at the time, they had just been massacred, they are suffering under withdrawals following the Sunwellâs destruction, scourge remnants still wander the lands and the Blood Elves are in a largely weakened state due to their withdrawals.
And the Alliance betrays them, like Garithos did⌠it is not hard to see why the Blood Elves would rather go with the Horde.
Though I am very, very happy with this announcement, I wonder if theyâll give something special to the horde (or specifically, the Blood Elves) in return.
In that case, the most logical thing in my opinion would be Dark Ranger customization options - or to make it âequalâ, some Undead Nightelves (like Sira and Delaryn) for the Nightborne? 
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Have you seen Alleria windrunner? Sheâs a void elf, in fact sheâs the most void elf of the void elves being the leader and all, and sheâs normal skinned (most of the time). And bloodelves having blue eyes kinda makes sense too lore wise because sunwell is restored. So both cases it makes sense lore wise.
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As a High elf fan Iâm happy you added them for both sides. This is great.
I just hope Void elves donât get green eyes, that would be kinda weird.
And blood elves should get a little something to make them stand out more, maybe red eyes?
Anyway Iâm so happy for this news Iâm legit jumping like a Night elf. I feel excited to unlock void elves now
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Yes please let us be able to play as paladins itâs the only class i know how to be a beast at.
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But why, it isnât an iconic class for High Elves, Their armed forces were always more Rangers and War-Mages, and for that matter, they still are to this day.
Which Horde Allied race would you then pick to add a class to and why? You canât just go adding classes to races without balanceâŚ
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Havenât you seen the paladin trainer in dalaran?
Right⌠and that is all?
Isnât there a warlock trainer too?
There is indeed!
High Elves, such fel-loving scum!
I donât mind if they can be warlocks but the thing is iâm more of aa paladin player.
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The point was trainers are utility NPCs, they should mot be used as basis for anything really. Well they are not even that anymore, they are useless. But alas.
High elf paladin would need more than âOh there is a trainerâ. Thing is its up to Blizzard to do it, and if they did that, it would come at destruction of void elf identity. While a high elf appearance-wise, you are still a void elf. Void elf paladins running around is not thematic for void elf identity.
Yes I have, I also know that one of Utherâs personal pupils was Mehlar Dawnblade, who was at the time a High Elf.
Yeah, heâs now a Blood Knight.
Youâre missing the point. I am not saying that High Elf Paladins cannot exist, we -know- they can, I have always said that. Heck, we know that -Blood Elf- Paladins can exist, as opposed to Blood Knights, we do after all see Tarenar and Gidwin on their quest to become Paladins. Tarenar is aspiring to be a Paladin, not a Blood Knight.
What I said is that they are not an iconic feature of the High Elven species, any more than Warlocks are. They exist, but the High Elves were famed for their Mages and their Rangers, not their Paladins.
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i want they add red eyes aswell . it is alot cooler to be a dark ranger then high elf âŚ
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This misses the point by miles. Belf players want to retain their identity. Offering them customisations so they can masquerade as a different race isnât doing that at all.
I know helf and belf are very very similar but what belf players are saying is âhey, we are the core race here, in an expo that promised core races customisation, can we have some just for us like other races are getting please?â
Saying âhereâs some stuff so you can play dark ranger wannabeâ isnât it. Thatâs like addressing dwarf requests for more beards and hairstyles by giving them an earthen skin and going âthere you goâ.
Besides, I see the offer of undead belf seems to be offered as a âdealâ regularly by alliance. Is the request that demanded by the belf playerbase or is it a case of âI think itâs cool so you would too?â.
I think in this situation blizzard and players need to listen to belf players carefully. Not to say strip back what is promised to velf at all, but listen to their requests for retaining identity like- paladins, green and yellow eyes, hair colours. Etc.
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That is the very funny thing about most of this.
These suggestions have mostly always come from the âWe want High Elvesâ crowd.
Sanâlayn, Dark Rangers, these two suggestions while mirrored by a small group of Blood Elf exclusive players, are mostly squealed out by the ones who want playable High Elves. More elves⌠just elves.
But yeah, there is a reason I found the existence of High Elves to be a waste and in some sense insulting as one who likes their lore in itâs entirety, from High Elves to Blood Elves.
Right now though, I donât care much.
No sensibly built argument or anything will reach blizzard as have been shown.
We do get blue eyes for Blood Elves, is that really a result of well-reasoned arguments made in support of it? Or is it just because people have whined long enough and blizzard just decided to give up and throw everything out there.
It is a shame this is the end result, and it have unfortunately jaded me. So right now, if it is the route we go, just give everything.
belly jewelly for blood elfs ?
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Yeah the lore seems to be rejigged to whatever is needed these days.
It almost makes me happy blizzard rarely updates gnome lore, it means the chances of what I understand to be the case is unlikely to be pulled from under me.
It does make me jaded if they ever do add a tinker classâŚtheyâd monkify it and make it available to all, when itâs so clearly a gnome and goblin and perhaps dwarf thingâŚnot sure whether Iâd prefer they donât add it and bastardise what itâs supposed to be, or whether Iâd join the gameplay train.
I mean, the helf velf thing is hardly the biggest lore WTF ever, but it does show blizzard are now completely okay with contradicting what theyâve said re lore (ie blood elves not having blue eyes due to how they evolved, yet now they can, yet we always knew they could anyway if lore was correctâŚitâs confusing as heck).
Just strap in my good man and enjoy the ride I guess.
Oh, and look forward to seeing the 2-3 members of your party are nearly always smirking pale elves on alliance as well as horde. Happy days.
Bgs are gonna be a bit blander now for sure. âwhich pale elves are ours??!â
âItâs only a minorityâ Do you have any numbers to support that or is it just your perception? And how do you know they are âBlood Elfâ only? Are you sure it isnât just wishful thinking?
You tell me. The Sunwell is cleansed since TBC, a gathering of Light and Arcane Magic radiates from it and the Sinâdorei took a step back from the Fel crystal thing. Given what we know about magical influcenes on Elves, should their eyes really stay green from a story perspective?
Or you could say âBecause people were asking for it for a long time and they already were High Elf NPCS in the Alliance, so they finally found a way to please these fans without taking anything away from the Blood Elves.â Except⌠pride from the Ego of some âHorde fanaticsâ, seemingly. 
The only time they contradicted themselves was when Hazzikostas said there were not enough High Elves around and then introduced the Void Elves, founded by⌠a dozen Blood Elves? At that point, they basically legitimated playable High Elves - the biggest plothole was for a long time that they were High Elves in Telogrus since the Recruitment Questline of the Renâdorei.
Though I still think the Renâdorei origin story was a big disappointment and beyond ungraceful, Iâm happy they at least fixed THAT High Elf-plothole and found a real compromise.
Those you canât attack and who do not turn purple from to time to time. 
Do Pandaren also confuse you?
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