I hope it finally confirms something for Outland because this goes beyond Arator alone.
Outland was the central base where the Sunfury Blood Elves, Scryer Blood Elves and Illidari Blood Elves dwelled.
I can guarantee, just like the BFA novel focused on Anduin and Sylvanas, yet very little of that was shown in game, a lot more Blood Elf specific lore is on the way.
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I hope this means Felblood Elf features are on the way because I’d like to make this character a “Felblood Elf Hunter.” Shadowsword Felblood Exile, Bow still pledged to honour his late majesty, the Sun King, Kael’thas Sunstrider.
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Sounds good to me, Classic+ can dodge the whole debacle and just add high elves right off the bat.
I mean I can see highelves for classic+ cause the way I understood that they want to go a different route then retail wow wich could mean no tbc and no bloodelves.
But for retail?
Nope can’t see that. We already have high elves they call themselves bloodelves.
And the alliance got there own version.
So highelves for who? Both factions have them already.
And just throwing another recolour of an existing race? That wasn’t well received already with the earthen
High elves for the alliance are still possible at Midnight.
The horde could have forest trolls.
Nah it’s just not going to happen now and we have to face facts.
Hell, not even the cover art has a High Elf. It has Lor’themar, the Blood Elf leader and Umbric, the Void Elf co-leader
It’s time to call the high elf dream for retail. It won’t happen because Blizzard won’t swap Thalassian Elf for Troll. It will be another Night Elf model, so if High Elves did ever happen, Horde would get another Night Elf-based race. It wouldn’t be troll. Likely, it would be the Naz’dorei Concept aka - playable Naga on Horde side
Anyone who thinks High Elves will happen and Horde will get Forest Trolls is an idiot because history tells us how Blizzard do things. It will always be the Elf model swap.
That could also signal a merger .
Doubt it.
They have never merged races otherwise they would have done for Night Elves and Nightborne, Trolls and Zandalari, Tauren and Highmountain, Orcs and Mag’har, Humans and Kul’Tiran, Gnomes and Mechagnomes, Dwarves and Dark Iron.
When has that stopped blizzard from doing it ? 
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And there’s always a “never will.”
Got to stop being deliberately tone deaf and start calling a spade, a spade.
It’s not happening.
We’ve got Void Elves and Blood Elves, with specific and named “High Elven features” for both. In essence, we have the merger already and it’s in both playable Thalassians.
If Blizzard announces the High Elves and Forest Trolls as Midnight’s new Allied Races, I imagine there will be a lot of happy people compared to the Earthen announcement.
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How about midnight drops with actual new playable races instead of recolours?
And I don’t get what havin highelves gives you you don’t already have.
Except the word “high” on your character. Might be an ego thing
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if we’re going to take earthen and dracthyr as an example I’d say its more likely expect them to release a third neutral race that will not get any lore expansions beyond its introduction and have 0 lore in why they join either of the factions (they just do)
History is unfortionately not a good arguement for painting a pretty picture futurewise.
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If the high elves are a neutral allied race, the lore will be directly in-game (elven reunification) to unlock them like the earthens.
high elves as a neutral race is only really possible if they go with lodge elves of the forests, but even these elves aren’t fully neutral, they’re horde hostile and alliance friendly (example: hinterlands lodge)
I don’t think they could write statisfying lore that makes sense as to why high elves are neutral so ideally if its gonna be high elves, hard alliance or not at all please.
There is no point in high elf on horde (neutral means you still pick a faction after all) cause that’s what the blood elf basically already is.
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If Silvermoon goes neutral, neutral high elves make sense even if they have to choose a faction. They return to live at home.
