Quel'dorei High Elves as an Alliance allied race

Yes, but by that definition the High Elves are Night Elves too, they were just isolated from the parent culture, and changed. Honestly, put a Nightborne next to a Night Elf character, and you can see defined differences, I think it is largely facial, but they also seem to stand slightly differently, and there is something a bit more ‘claw like’ about their fingers and toes. I mean you can clearly see they were the same people, but there is a difference.

I agree with the war-paints looking awesome, but we see Elves with war-paints/tattoos in four different places, we see the High Elf Ranger portrait in WC2 with warpaint, thing is, 90% of them later died, and of the survivors, 90% of -them- are Blood Elves, We see Kael’thas on the TBC box art, he -was- a High Elf, but was the very person who renamed them as Blood Elves, we see Rommath who has tattoos, and we see Alleria.
Rommath and Kael’thas were both Mages, maybe Tattoos are their thing, The WC2 Rangers and Alleria were both, well, Rangers, so maybe Warpaints is a Farstrider thing (Which seems pretty likely) Yet we don’t see any High Elf (Or Blood Elf) models in game with Warpaints apart from her, and she left Azeroth before the Exile, so it might be a ‘Thalassian’ thing, or a ‘Ranger thing’ but it isn’t a ‘High Elf’ thing, if you see what I mean. I think a warpaint option would be pretty neat, but it would have to be a customisation for both High and Blood Elves to make any lore sense.

Now I can see the logic behind different hairstyles for High Elves, after all, we are often influenced by what is around us, Humans in their case, and a hair cut is a simple transitory thing to change, unlike a stance or culture.

Indeed they can, but everything you said about High Elves getting Druids and Shamans equally applies to Blood Elves also, who don’t get them.

The closest thing High Elves would have to Druids is the same as Blood Elves, which is Hunters, as we both agree, the Farstriders are the vestiges of Druidic magic in High/Blood Elven society, with their nature affiliated abilities.

I’ll grant you this, we do see -one-non Kaldorei Elf with Druidic abilities, the High Botanist Freywinn in the aptly named Dungeon ‘The Botanica’, However he is a) a Dungeon Boss, b) Unique, and c) most definitely a Blood Elf, not a High Elf.

They’re not though, they are biologically identical to Blood Elves, a change in political allegiance does not change how you look or stand, and we’ve already covered tattoos/warpaints. Haircut differences make sense, but otherwise they are identical. You could put a High Elf who had been exposed to Fel next to a Blood Elf who has not been exposed to Fel (and both exist) and you would think the High Elf was the Blood Elf and vice versa. They haven’t had time to build their own culture, in fact as Blizzard state, they don’t -have- their own culture, they are defined by what they were, not what they are.

Thing is, they are exactly the same people, just with a different political affiliation, I mean they are literally the same generation of Elves as the Blood Elves, with the exception of any children born post Exile, who would not yet be adult. Even those High Elves who first flocked to the nascent Dalaran City once it became a magical seat of learning would be the same generation as people like Alleria, and it seems, Lor’themar, Liadrin, Rommath, Kael’thas and Halduron. Elves live long enough that it is entirely possible, and probable, that some of the Elves who first taught Magic to humans, and predate the very existence of Dalaran, are still alive now. Some may be Blood Elves, some may be High Elves, but they’re the same people. Blizzard’s official sources confirm that the Elves who first built Dalaran’s magical defences are now Blood Elves, so even the High Elves who moved to Dalaran later are the same people. The only Generation born since the Exile as I say, would be teenagers at oldest.

That’s not saying they should not be playable on Alliance, but I am saying that there are not physical differences between Blood and High Elves.

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Alliance been asking highelves because they are presented in game for e.g. silvercovenant in the alliance. So why not make playable, if they already are part of us?

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I don’t know if we’ll get High Elves in 2019 or later. But with the rumors of Activision stepping in for Blizzard to make more money, I can see two futures for WoW : either reduce the work on it (which would hasten its demise when it’s apparently leaking players like a sieve does water) or try to give them what they have vocally wanted for a long time.

I can’t speak for what the Horde players want, but it’s clear that there is a very vocal and relatively important population of the Alliance playerbase using the forums who clamour for High Elves to be playable. I think that if Blizzard truly need more money or earn the goodwill of Alliance player in future patches, High Elves could happen.

The very fact that BFA introduced new High Elves, even in positions which could have been given to a Void Elf (the mages shielding the airship over Arathi, or the one overseeing the Warfront portals) makes me think that they have chosen to not pull the plug on them.

Furthermore, High Elves have the advantage of being deeply ingrained into the Alliance : players knows them, have interacted with them a lot, they have a leader (Vereesa), a second in command (Auric), their own army (the Silver Covenant) with bases (the lodges of the Eastern Kingdom) which could be expanded easily if the extansion truly goes forward with Eastern Kingdom -sans Quel’thalas- to the Alliance and Kalimdor -sans the Mists Archipelago- to the Horde.

Basically, the High Elves are in the same boat, for a new Alliance race than the Dark Irons : seeded long before hand and making sense; others are either asspull (Draenei, Worgen, Void Elf), or don’t really make sense as a distinct race (Kul Tirans being so enormous or minuscules, for instance; or those abomination of Cyber-gnome hinted for 8.2).

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All they basivally have to do is enable blood elf skin tones for void elves too and you can happily have your ‘‘high elf’’.

That doesnt work. Only Windrunner is capable of not being purple. The rest of them isnt. The Velfs have a different background with the void than hher.

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Or Allow sin’dorei to be able to leave the horde and to rejoin The Alliance where both Jaina and gen apologises to them and where they also state they had no idea what garithos were doing before it was to late. That would be an option for the nobel Sin’dorei there sees reason above a faction.

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Unlikely. *Genn
If sin’dorei get to leave the Horde, they should also get the options to use high elf appearances. I’m not sure if high elves should have the same racial abilities as blood elves, though. Blood elf racials are kid of tied to their history as blood elves.

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High Elf racials should be different from the Sin’dorei. Most of those are tied to the story of the Blood Elves, after all, and the High Elves have been different.

I think that something about them using less mana for their spells (because they try to use as little as possible of it to sustain themselves), perhaps a bonus in leatherworking (since they had to learn how to survive in exile without most of Silvermoon’s ressources), those kind of racial abilities, would make more sense for High Elves.

We already are.

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Rofl defiantly not. You won’t steal our race alliance keyboard warriors. Stay on your own lawn.

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Indeed we are. Indeed.

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Nice trolling.
Actual high elf appearances. You know, the blue eyed kind. Do we have to go back and learn colours? I’m actually a kindergarten teacher. I can help you.

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There is zero biological difference between them. Zero. With access to the sunwell both races will gain golden eyes at one point in the future. All that diverts them is the color of their Tabards. end of story.

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Which also happens to be actual Blood Elf appearances. They do have green, blue and golden eyes. If anything, Blizzard would add blue to eye colour customization for Blood Elves, just like they did with golden eyes in BfA prepatch.

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No you stole ours The elves belongs within The Alliance and not with the scourge.

They were never part of the World of Warcraft Canon in the alliance to begin with. If you wan to live your wet tolkien faction dream of a stereotype good guys bundle, go play Lotr Online. Sin’dorei have been part of the Horde for 11 years now. Get over it.

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That made no sense

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It does. Blizzard ditched the classical high fantasy team up long ago. Orcs, Trolls, Undead, Elves and exotic stuff like Vulpera cann all be part of the same faction. Just like Humans, sidekicks, Werewolfs and spacegoats. This is the reality of Warcraft. Either accept it or leave it through the exit door. Blizzard will not cater to your subjective feelings just because you rant about it daily.

High elves were. In vanilla, there were Alliance aligned high elves. Fact. Not anything to debate.

Vastly different elves. Not interested. Alliance high elves are FAR more akin to Horde blood elves than to LotR elves.

Very true. All the while, though, high elves have remained with the Alliance. Get over that.

Curently, blood elves in-game are represented with either golden or green glowing eyes. High elf models have blue eyes. Both the golden and green glows have been explained with lore that’s neatly tied with the blood elves, and not the high elves. Golden eyes might become a thing for high elves, but that’s speculation for now.

Speculation. Maybe, maybe not. But it’s unlikely if high and blood elves don’t remerge into one people again.

Except, of course, for eye colours. Exposure to fel energies that the high elves refused, left the blood elves with green glowing eyes. Exceptions do exist, of course. There’s even at least one Alliance friendly blood elf. How the new state of the Sunwell might affect high elves remains to be seen. If you know of any instances of golden eyed high (non-blood) elves, I’d love to learn about them.

Not really. See above.

You wish…

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Oh so you’re somone there’s working for blizzard are you maybe ion?