Well, technicaly, nothing is ever really “off the table”, is it?
Playable Mag’har came two expansions after WoD through a magical portal from another time and reality.
It just seems so little to me. We know for a fact that Blood (/ High) Elves and Amani Trolls are fan favorites, that people asked for them for a long, long time. To appease only of these fanbases with a handful of hairstyles and skin tones - in an expansion that has their very home zones as a story setting - that sounds criminally underwhelming to me. It would be such an easy win for Blizzard to gain sympathy in these fanbases. But hey, let’s see, Midnight is not over.
My personal opinion is that they should just merge these similar races for good. I still find it ridiculous that we have two tauren races with a one handful of customizations and different antlers / horns each. FFS, if they threw all these AR customizations in one pot with their core race, there would be hundreds, if not thousands of new customization variations.
That’s actually working in favor of my argument. We have chubby humans, bodybuilders - but no thin humans. Body positivity is about accepting all variants. Also, the “thin humans” are also not really looking “healthy”
The sub-race system was mentioned for the first time in the batch of media interviews accompanying WoD’s announcement. Mag’har Orcs were one of the two races mentioned by Ion at the time. The other of course was Alliance High Elves, but this was before they actually thought through the implications of that (and we got Void Elves two expansions later, along with citations of faction diversity as to why).
Blood Elves are High Elves. Whatever customisations Blood Elves have are de facto High Elf customisations, so there was nothing Blizzard could add on that front to Blood Elves. Perhaps a case could have been for Void Elves to get such customisations, had they not already received them. As for ‘easy wins’, Blizzard I hope is getting warier of launching unnecessary new races. Earthen weren’t exactly a resounding success.
Unfortunately it is not that neat. The existence of racials complicates matters immensely. Furthermore, you’d really only be able to merge the Draenei races, Tauren races, Orc races, Gnome races and the Bronzebeard and Dark Iron. The Kul Tirans use an entirely different model from Humans, as do the Zandalari use a different model from ordinary Trolls. The Vulpera and Goblins are different species. Earthen are neutral with the Horde and, skeleton aside, are radically different from Dwarves and the Void Elves and Nightborne are on opposing factions from their parents.
In other words, almost certainly not happening. Perhaps that is a good thing, we need far less marginal variants in this game and more customisations instead. So long as those customisations respect the core fantasy of the race.
Is it spite, or is it genuine cynicism that drives you to say these things? I wonder.
In my experience most Helfers are genuinely fond of most W2-W3 centered races.
Of things both old and new, as long as they carry a similar spark that the older franchise had. Some integrity, if you will.
The problem, as usual, is that they’re doing it in the typical uninspired Blizzard fashion. They know that people wanted the real hunky Amanis, yet here we are.
Nice bait, Kil’jaeden.
Overintellectualized it into oblivion, more like it.
It’s all so… silly and unnecessary in the end.
You’d think so, but no. I reckon they will keep at it, god forbid they actually admit to doing something wrong.
From the standpoint of unification, likely having shared customization becoming available between the thalassian elves, is it really that strange to think it might happen?
I cant rule out the possibility of there being some shared customisation between blood and void elves. I dont know how likely it is but I cant completely rule it out either.
My comment was more about them saying it should be expected. Our only known void elf paladin doesnt have them so I wouldnt expect to get them just because of paladins.
One could paint the entire Exodar twice with the things you don’t see.
I have to admit, I’m excited for that part of story, maybe the Sunwell only reacted that strong to Alleria because she had absorbed a Void god. Whatever they do to the Sunwell at the end, turning it back into a Lightwell would be kind of boring.
My money is on the Amirdrassil-treatment, if we’re seeing a step-by-step awakening of the World Soul, maybe it’ll become an Azerite Well.
Still, I have to admit, “Dawnwell” also sounds kind of epic.
The Sunwell will be destroyed. It’s already in the beta. And the next well is gonna be the Dawnwell. So the void elves will no longer be a threat for it.
