Even if I change to a “normal” skin tone, I’ll still be a Void Elf, and I want to be a Void Elf.
You did just then, and I did just now…
The low-res Night Elves with bleached hair and skin?
No thank you…
How would they even explain High Elves suddenly looking crazy different from Blood Elves?
Or maybe they would be Night Elves that decided to bleach their hair and paint their skin to infiltrate and spy in Silvermoon?
Not true.People are playing them cause they like them and it’s the way Blizzard is codefing the Elfs on Alliance side for future(have some foresight where they want to take the story).All you want is retconed Elfs from w3 without having any respect to where the company is telling/pushing the story.Let alone the shear disregard for other players,like me, who play Blood Elfs(12 years) for the sake what they represent+Void Elf players.
Excuse me but I want Void Elves And even if they added High Elf as an allied race I most likely would not change my main to a High Elf.
I’d maybe level a mage High Elf alt or something, just to have done it and get the Heritage Armor.
And even if I change my Void Elf skin tone to that of a normal coloration which I’ll most likely do for one of my two Void Elves just for the sake of variation I’ll still be a Void Elf. And want to be a Void Elf.
What was linked from the US Post was not accurate in the slightest, unless you are actually with a straight face saying that they are correct when they make the laughable claim that 90% of the Horde player base main Blood Elves.
It is an -opinion- piece. Not facts, it is just their opinion, and a daft one at that which doesn’t even pretend to be serious.
No they won’t. Just saying it will happen does not make it so. Also, with regards the Horde playerbase, aside from bots, I think you will find they are humans. If you mean playable mains (a meaningless term when people can play what they like) then most of the Horde playable mains are not Blood Elves either. The last official figure was closer to 30% closer followed by Forsaken and Orcs. We have no current figures, because no one does, and just because someone is posting on the US Forums does not mean they have the figures either. All that can be said with reasonable certainty (We don’t actually know how Allied Races have effected things) that that Blood Elves are the most popular race on Horde, but equally, for ‘most of the Horde playerbase’ to play Blood Elves would mean that 51% or above would be doing so.
Which they aren’t.
Never confuse your own opinion with fact is a good rule for life in general.
If you actually read that thread from the US forums, just about everyone is saying “But nobody sensible would want that? Thats utter madness to change an entire existing race just to suit you”
The OP of that thread, as I say, is just chatting bubbles, there is no substance or fact whatsoever.
Okay okay… First of all I am a high elf fan and Am happy with the customs. But that will not take away blizzard did halve work. We need normal hairstyles, tattoos, Ear length, and a glyph for an arcane racial for the void. And maybe a different voice. But I always Agree on high elf allied race. And for the people who are against it remember you don’t have to play it leave that to the people who want ^^
Ratios:
There are approx 4 Belf to every 1 Orc, Troll or Tauren at max level
There are nearly 6 Belf to every 1 Vulpera or Undead at max level
There are approx 10 Belf to every Nightborne or Zandalari Troll at max level.
Alliance
Night Elf: 28%
Human: 27%
Velf: 8%
Draenei: 8%
Worgen: 6%
Dwarf: 5%
Gnome: 4%
Pandaren: 3%
Dark Iron Dwarf: 3%
Lightforged Draenei: 3%
Kul Tiran: 2%
Mechagnome: 1%
Ratios:
There are approx Three and a half night elves to every draenei at max level
There are almost 5 night elves to every worgen at max level, and almost 6 Night Elves to every Dwarf.
There are almost 10 night elves to every LFD or DID at max level.
The ratios aren’t that disjointed, espeically when you consider the belf have no competitors so the ratios are true for them only. In alliance all of the above rules are true for humans as well as nelf, which means that one the whole, the faction is very much dominated by two races.
Interesting to note is despite the oft-repeated “Horde is just a swarm of Belf” the Horde is more ethnically diverse: you need stats from three different Horde races to reach the 51% figure, but only two from Alliance. Three races on alliance make up nearly two-thirds of the whole faction. The two most popular races of the alliance make up 55% of their whole faction, but the two most popular on horde make up 49%. Add in the next most popular race and the representations go to 63% for ally and 58% for Horde. Alliance racial diversity only evens out to Horde’s in terms of numerical balance of races when you begin counting the last few %s of racial representation (in this sample, the last 2000 or so players), prior to this point the alliance is always “one race down” in terms of the number of races needed to represent a % of their population similar to the horde’s.
So whilst Horde does have a clear dominator, from there the balance is generally equal aside from MHo and HMT, whereas alliance is fundementally dominated by two races with another two chalking up smaller numbers and then the rest are very small amounts of their population.
It’s sad people don’t seem to care for any other species than high Elves.
Not even threads including High Elves as an option, with options for every player race are getting this much attention.
I don’t say passion is a bad thing. But this is really strange.
well maybe because they are really good looking, superior to human kind, and thats what players actually want in real life, and they can have it ingame.
Thats the problem, they don’t want the selfish, cruel, mercurial elves that stem from our cultural legends, which is the Blood Elves, they want the nice sanitised Legolas-lite option (Without realising that those elves are also selfish, cruel and mercurial, because thats what Elves -are-)
They also for some reason think they should have Paladins, when such were a rarity, and the recruitment of Paladins was a thing only militarised by…Ta-da, The Blood Elves.
They already exist. Whilst I agree that Ion was wrong when he said Alliance High Elves don’t exist, he was correct that ‘Real’ High Elves do exist, and they are on Horde, and playable. People -should- however, be allowed to play the 10% of the Species that were traitors.