Night elves and humans. Void elves and humans. High elves and humans (yes, high elves are friends with humans). It’s all there, right in the game!
I think it’s more or less established by now that the RP aspect of this game, including the RP servers, are little more than an afterthought, unfortunately.
I thought that they, as mostly rangers, suffered less from withdrawal than other Thalassians, similar to the blood elven Farstriders.
Exactly. And even before that, most of those who rolled blood elves, but couldn’t stand being in the Horde, went back to other Alliance races, such as humans and night elves. There are exceptions, of course, and for those people, being given the Opportunity (may she rest in peace) to return to the Alliance would mean getting to enjoy the game that much more. Similarly, for those who tried blood elves because, well, high elves, and went back to the Alliance (a much larger number!), getting to play their (our) favourite race in our preferred faction, would make the game feel a LOT much more enjoyable.
Maybe on role playing servers, but all in all, on average, it’s pretty much 50-50%.
Maybe as customisation options, some would, but not if it’d mean that we wouldn’t be able to make fullblooded high elves.
I don’t think that phrase means what you think it means. Your argument is sorely lacking substance.
Just play through the void elf unlock and starting experience, and come back after you’ve done that.
That doesn’t mean all high elves are becoming void elves. There are also blood elves there. But you’re not claiming that all blood elves are turning into void elves. To be honest, we don’t quite know exactly what they’re doing or what’ll happen just yet.
More or less, yes. And that’s what we want.
Where?
Where?
They are also taller, should have different hair and beard styles, other racial mounts and racial abilities. They have different stories and living areas, and the main reason they’re thought of as identical to the Bronzebeards today is because they were never given proper models of their own, when, in fact, the differences should be quite hard to miss.
You sure look like you enjoy hanging out in here listening to this “moaning”, judging by your presence in here the last days. Thing is, we care about THIS game. These forums are about THIS game. World of Warcraft. That’s the game we want to play, and that’s where we want to play as high elves. High elves are alrady largely represented in the Alliance, and there are few places you can go in this game without running into Alliance high elf NPCs. These high elves have long and rich stories as parts of the Alliance. There are enough of them to make a viable playable race (and I mean “playable race” not as a distinct genetic race, but as a playable faction of that race, similar to how playable humans are Stormwind humans, and how playable pandaren are either Tushui or Houjin pandaren).
Pandaren have been used as an argument in support of allowing a race to be available to both factions. There are two factions of playable pandaren, Huojin and Tushui. They don’t really blur any faction lines (“blurred faction lines” is a weird argument anyway), as people fear adding playable high elves might. But when pandaren don’t, why would high elves? “But pandaren were a mistake,” some say, and claim that Blizzard have admitted that, and that they’re the least popular race in the game. Thing is, there was something unclear said by a formed Blizzard employee some time ago. Not official. And according to statista. com, pandaren overall make up about 4.7% of the played races, which is higher than goblins, nightborne and mag’hars, dwarfs, gnomes, void elves, Lightforged draenei and Dark Iron dwarfs, and even worgen in EU realms (Highmountain tauren didn’t show up on these statistics).
There are pros and cons for adding any race, and we’re here to plea the case as to why and how the pros of making high elves playable outweigh the cons, as well as to debunk some of the claims against the case.
You already got high elves tho. go make a blood elf/voidelf. there you go. No need to add even more recolored elves that look exactly the same otherwise
Yeah because you people are like the kids that constantly beg about something to your parents. And whenever someone tells you to shut it up, you refuse to do it and just keep throwing the usual argument about why.
This is called continue to deny that somethings you will not get and accept it. But continue to beg for it for an eternity.
When i see something that has not being done by blizzard for years, no matter how many community requests. I want those people to accept they will not get it. If you can’t take those kind of opinions stop argueing with me about it.
No, we don’t. There are no playable races that go by that name at the moment.
Blood elves do not call themselves high elves. Blood elves agreed to siphon arcane magic out of living beings. Blood elves joined the Horde. Blood elves exiled those who refused to siphon arcane magic out of living beings. Blood elves exiled those who were serious about void research. Blood elves did a LOT of things that the high elves didn’t. Void elves are no longer even the same race. They have the same silhouette, but different skin, void tendrils in their hair, they hear whispers, and they are not high elves. Nice try, though (not really).
And you people are like our annoying younger siblings who smirk and go “Haha! Told you so!” when it doesn’t even affect you.
Hopefully, we won’t have to. But we’ll keep making the case for why we believe it would be in the game’s best interest to add high elves as a playable race.
Got any REAL arguments as to why they shouldn’t become playable?
And this is why i normally avoid high elve topics. its just a group of whiny kids that think if they mention the same thing over and over they will get what they want because it will mean everyone wants it.
Like it or not blood elves are in fact the high elves race, and by extension the void elves as well. Just because they choose to name themselves differently doesnt make them a different. I can go gray and get acne, then ill change my race to less hairy monkey. that must mean i am no longer human right?
You seem to believe that a tabard is all that separates factions…
Like here.
Or here.
Or even here.
Good job…
Known, acknowledged and appreciated, as long as we remember that they’re merely the majority of the high elven race.
We know. There’s just that thing that high elves make up a completely different faction, or factions, even, than the playable blood elves. The high elven factions are parts of the Alliance.
Nobody’s claimed that. In fact, I actually specified this just minutes ago:
Yes i see that nobody is waiting for an Alliance version of a playable race thats been horde since tbc. Nobody wanted void elves either, lore wise they are a abomination and never should have been introduced in sucha way at all.
If they make high elves as another allied race for the Alliance its basicly taking a huge dump on the customers who dont want any of that. You got your high elves for the Alliance with void elves.
Seriously nobody except you and your group of whiny loud tiny minority wants high elves. Especially after already getting them in the form of void elves.
All i am hearing is “WAAAAAAAAAAAH I CAN’T MAKE BLONDE BLOOD ELVES ON THE ALLIANCE”
Sadly, you are largely correct, there are some concessions however, like the removal of Sharding from RP Realms, and the Elixir of Tongues potion (Which is an absolute GODSEND!)
Well. Yes. I mean they -were- Farstriders, indeed probably still think of themselves as Farstriders, much as Vereesa calls herself Ranger-General (Cheeky Minx, she never earned any rank above that of ‘Farstrider’) Whilst Farstrider rangers suffered less from the withdrawal than other Thalassians, indeed seem to be generally more physically robust and resistant to disease and suchlike, they still -did- suffer from Withdrawal, they weren’t simply Immune. The irony being that Blizzard themselves show this. The Rangers at Quel’danil just ‘Lolnoped’ their way out of any consequences, the Rangers at Quel’Lithien rather famously and tragically -did- succumb to the mana addiction, when it was weaponised against them. I’m still trying to remember the circumstances there. It was definitely a trap for them, I just can’t remember who by. Part of me wants to say Nathanos, but that doesn’t make chronological sense. He’d already gotten what he wanted from them, as we see in ‘Shadow of the Sun’ There isn’t even an element of silencing witnesses, as, well, they’d already -told- Lor’themar what happened. I just seem to remember that -somebody- just happened to leave a vastly potent magic item lying around, that they couldn’t resist snacking on, and turned them all (apart from three) Wretched. They’re more resistant, they’re not immune.
Yes, Void Elves have given another avenue there also. Most people went with Human, as the only principal difference was the lack of pointy ears, but the right hairstyle and you can disguise that. Void Elves need a -bit- more suspension of disbelief to pull off, but still can work.
We should not be this sad about an absolute legend and trooper of a robot, that served above and beyond the call of duty, and survived far longer than it was expected to. We should not. But the last message received from it “My Battery is low, and it is getting very Dark Now” was just…No. I’m chopping onions, that’s what it is, nothing else…Now You’re chopping onions as well. Its the fact that they tried sending it -music- to try and ‘wake it up’. That’s what you do to people in a Coma, not a machine! Just goes to show what an integral (Understandably) part of the lives of the crewing staff at NASA, that Opportunity had become. I mean they beamed David Bowies’ Life on Mars’ to Opportunity. Seriously. “Is there Life on Mars?” sent to the only entity on Mars. If that doesn’t make you well up a little bit, then you have no Soul.
Oh yeah, definitely on RP Servers, but this is typically where this request would yield the greater result. I mean if you look at the US Threads, the request is coming from RP Servers.
Even Blizzard don’t have a concise view as to what a Half Elf looks like. Arator the Redeemer is a Half Elf, who looks like a High Elf, no difference. Kalecgos apparently takes the form of a Half Elf, however his model is absolutely Human.
It would make more sense for Alliance to get the customisation -option- of Half Elves, given that they are more likely to occur, and avoid the whole “Nope! Not touching that with a bargepole” aspect of how Blood Elves and humans would breed. I mean even Elisande touches on the subject, and she has been isolated for 10,000 years. Its clearly fairly obvious that HIgh Elves are bumping uglies with humans these days, so as well as the ‘pure’ version of High Elves, a customisation option for Half-Elves would make sense.
Ive seen helfs in the velf starting area learning to become new velfs soo yeah suck it up and get over this helf thing… velfs ARE helfs confirmed with evidencie, end of discussion.
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No. You see High Elves (and Blood Elves) learning about the Void. They are not training to become Void Elves. You can’t. That’s like someone training to become The Hulk, or Spider-Man. It was a unique accident. The Void Elves cannot repeat that accident. The Number of Void Elves that exist is the most of them that there will ever be. You can’t make more. Even the Void Elves don’t know the exact circumstances of the accident that made them what they are, and the only entity in the cosmos who -did- know, is now destroyed. No more Void Elves. Once they’re gone? They’re Gone.
I think your account should be locked as you’re just here to say bla High elves are already playable they’re called blood elves and how this thread should be locked. When first we wants The High elves from Dalaran and other places with those elves there refused to drain the life from living creatures for mana.
I beg to differ. Quite a few people happen to be, and this thread is about that very idea.
No.
Bwahahahahaha!
Love, love, love it! We take what we can get, but this is a HUGE deal, telling us that role players haven’t been forgotten.
Yeah, I suppose it matters the most to us role players. Not that that would stop a large portion of Alliance players to roll high elves too, if they were to become playable, seeing as they would add a lot of strong Alliance flavour to the playing experience.
Did you see Vereesa’s twins in the comic? Eehwrg!
Unless they can actually breed. Perhaps breeding with high and blood elves might even result in full void elves. But you’re right. High elves and blood elves won’t become void elves.
Because sadly, lore and RP are just a minor point of interest for the major part of the playerbase.
Most peoples are waiting for new skins more than anything, and releasing Blood Elfs with blue eyes for lore reason instead of a race that could offer a new skin would definitely backfire.