#Quel’dorei2025 💙

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Ah, so You have no source to back up Your claims about Umbric’s past. Sad but not unexpected - if there was anything about it, it would have been on the wiki.

I went on and read the entire questline. The only mention about a kind of energy source tainting Sunwell is here:
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Sunwell

Kael’thas Sunstrider says: The soul of our people, now a desecrated font of decay. It worsens with each sunrise.

Decay =/= void. Either point me to exact place You got that information from, or I call it headcanon.

Mages were part of the forces that Kael’Thas brought with him to help the remnants of the Alliance of Lordaeron. Or do You think they only recently started using mages in war?

Again, source or I call it headcanon. I gave You exact source where it is written explicitly that the reason for their research was for defence. If You say they wanted to use it as a source of magic for their addiction, back it up with a source (but please, more specific than “it’s somewhere in a long questline”, or “it’s part of their story”).

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ooogah boooogah give us high elfs. 2026

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Don’t bother writing your highly intellectual posts in my threads, clown

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Not sure about that chief, Its more likely you’ll see her in the windrunner spire dungeon as a echo of the past sort of deal based on what I have seen and heard so far.

Even if sylvanas returns, shes been defanged and blue-washed, the goth queen is gone.

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He studied the Void and was banished for it.

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Well if Blizzard wanted to make Silvermoon fully Horde, they could made the Windrunner Spire and Windrunner Village a Hub area for Alliance for Midnight. But I don’t think Horde players would go for that either. Would have been a lovely resort, see the entire eversong forest at top of the spire.

https://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2025/august/newDun01.jpg

https://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2025/august/WoWMidnightGamescomRevealEversongWoods005.jpg

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I’m fairly certain - the lead narrative and world designer basically confirmed that she’s coming back

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I dunno everytime they answer that question they pan to the windrunner dungeon.
and this is blizzard.

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Not for that Q&A

It was asked directly and the answer was:
We will be seeing some of Sylvanas during Midnight - that is reasonable to expect.

And they know that Sylvanas generates more excitement than Alleria or Vereesa. She just does and I’m not even a Sylvanas fan, but the fact is - she has a far bigger fanbase than Alleria or Vereesa combined.

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which could still mean she only shows up in the windrunner dungeon
like for your sake hope she comes back, but I suspect its going to be a small echo of the past somewhere in the dungeon or a ghost or something.

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I hope not. Already we had the inglorious end of garrosh and arthas (terrible) and kael thas… if they show just a cameo by sylvanas would be so disappointing…

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I am just cautios with expectations, because until they show her model or anything actual, they haven’t really promised to bring her back in midnight.
Saying “oh yeah hehe we’ll see some of her” in midnight and then do a cheeky sagway to the windrunner dungeon or some such does not fill me with confidance they’ll actually take her out of the maw.

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Deleting WoW over High Elves? Quite the ultimatum…

Blizzard has explained this subject more times than we can count, and still the demand persists.

The Alliance already has Void Elves, a creative compromise born precisely from that request.

Claiming ‘millions’ are waiting might be a touch exaggerated, but your passion is clear. :slightly_smiling_face:

And yet… here we are on 28 August, and your account is still active. Seems Azeroth hasn’t lost you just yet. :grin:

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Sadly elves cannot be trusted to honor their ultimatum, so instead of deleting WoW they now reside here replying to the 2 or 3 people who defend their fringe opinion with hollow compliments rather than any meaningful contribution to the continued topic.

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So elves can’t be trusted to honour an ultimatum, yet here you are, honouring the thread with another reply.

Curious how ‘fringe’ opinions manage to keep the conversation alive while others insist they’re meaningless.

If the topic truly didn’t matter, we wouldn’t still be talking about High Elves after all these years… and yet, here we are. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I haven’t said I would stop posting here?
:dracthyr_shrug:
huh? what?

Oh I am just here to be pass the time really, reading unhinged takes on the forum is about as much as I can do to pass the time between tasks at work.

I for one am not saying it doesn’t matter, but also the ask for them is kind of spread out over some 3 different threads, we tread the same talking points with no real progress towards anything so everyone just repeats themselves over and over and over again to what end? I dunno.

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I haven’t said you would stop posting either. In fact, it’s rather telling that even those who claim the topic is repetitive still find themselves returning to it. If nothing else, that alone shows the subject has more pull than some care to admit.

As for passing the time, fair enough…we all need distractions between tasks. But perhaps the reason the same talking points keep resurfacing is not because people enjoy repeating themselves endlessly, but because the question of High Elves simply refuses to go away.

You’re right that we tread familiar ground, but sometimes persistence is its own message. The fact that players are still asking for the same thing after so many years may not be “progress” in a strict sense, yet it does underline that the demand hasn’t faded. And in the end, in this community, persistence tends to speak louder than ultimatums. :wind_face:

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Its not just high elves though.

we get the same topic with other sudo popular fan demands such as naga, tinker class tails for worgens and many others.

And its the same story everytime, the same reasons are brought up on both sides, no one really comes with a compelling reasons to actually convince people and the topic dies down again until the next time a hint of a chance emerge.

So far this thread alone is mainly just repeating that high elves are alliance loyal and should be playable for that reason alone, and people repeating that they are playable but they are called blood elves now.

I don’t see a compelling reason to back the high elf request, because from my perspective its asking for a nothing burger which ultimately will satisfy no one but a vocal minority who behaves fanatically.

Would I personally like high elves to have been alliance and ogres to be horde as was the original plan in TBC? yeah, that be swell.

But we have void elves now, arguably a downgrade but they added the skin tones and eye color etc.
They can look as much like a high elf or blood elf as you want, yet still its not enough for some because sometimes they turn purple in combat, which is apperently such a massive distraction when they play pve or pvp that the void elves are simpley insufficent to these people.

I barely notice my void elf turning purple in dungeons and raids, because my eyes are not on them and I mainly rp in this game which rarely involves any direct combat with pve or pvp that could trigger the form, so for all intents and purposes I already have my high elves.

I don’t grasp what net positive adding high elves, exactly as they are, name and all, gives to the game, I dont think its going to solve sub numbers and arguably it might do more harm to the faction balance by tipping it even further towards alliance. A majoity of players want to play eye candy and alliance have more eye candy than the horde, so people flok there to play their eye candy character with their friends or guild who is also playing their eye candy characters.

Resolving the faction divide with shared guilds and groups is going a long way to fix this, and perhaps some day in the future you can roll a blood elf and enter stormwind unharmed because the old faction dividing systems are gone.

But that day isn’t today.

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I agree that the introduction of Void Elves has already given the Alliance what it needs. The lore link is there.

Perhaps the most reasonable step forward would simply be to equalise the customisation options so that both factions can reflect the same range of appearances.

That way, those who want the “classic High Elf” look have it, and the endless debate finally has a practical conclusion.

In the end, it seems that many players are not really asking for new models at all, but rather for the name “Quel’dorei” / “High Elves”. Yet that designation, by lore, is shared across both factions. Any proper implementation of the name would necessarily apply to both sides, which makes it less about exclusivity and more about recognition.

Of course, knowing this community, even with the name in place we’d probably still see threads about it for years to come. :grin:

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