Greetings, fellow roleplayers.
I have been wanting to write this post for a while now, in search for opinions, solutions, and possibly even a response/fix from WoW Devs, although I know the latter is rather unlikely to happen, providing the issue affects 50 players at best.
Allow me to explain the issue here.
I’ve been roleplaying a Quel’dorei in the Alliance for quite some time, years even, a bit before the Void Elves were even introduced into the game.
In order to RP this Quel’dorei in proper manner, meaning that I actually looked like one In-Game, I did the following: (If you know about the trick with orb+prism, you can skip ahead of the steps.)
1- Understand how the Orb of Sin’dorei works, or used to work, back then. The way it works, for those who don’t know already, is that it would change your race to Blood elf, with the exact number setting that you had your character customized with. This means that If I had a human with “Face number 4”, when turned into a Blood elf, the changed face would also be “Blood elf face number 4”. This worked the same for every bit of customization, hairstyle, hair color, etc.
2- Now that you understand how the orb works, you go ahead and make a character with the desired BLOOD ELF configuration, but with an alliance race. You can use a dwarf, human, etc. Whatever you like, just make sure you choose the right customizations based on the number that the blood elf counterpart showed.
3-Open a trial wow account (WOW 2) on your bnet, and make a rogue, level it to lvl 5 or so so that it has invisibility, and leave it in Stormwind, for example.
4- Log your main account with this placeholder character that you’ve done. Invite the rogue from your secondary account, use the orb of Sin’dorei and give your appearance to this rogue via Reflecting Prism.
5- Remove the appearance from your rogue, and use prism again, this way both characters have the prism image of the desired Sin’dorei look. Now you just have to put the rogue in stealth, and following you around, so that you can use your prism on him to renew your coveted appearance, and this way, RP as something more akin to a Quel’dorei.
This worked perfectly. It was INCREDIBLY BOTHERING, yes, the Prism itself only lasts for 5 minutes, so a Weak Aura that blasts your ears not to forget (or else you lose your appearance and have to re-do everything) is mandatory. But hey, at least we were able to RP our characters and have them look ALMOST completely Quel’dorei, if it weren’t for the eye color.
With the introduction of Shadowlands customizations, we traded all that we could do before, for the eye color, and skin, arguably.
Now, since the Sin’dorei have trillions of options to choose when customizing their characters (jewelry, bracelets, collars, tattoos, etc etc etc), there is no Alliance race that can match it. And since there’s no matching customization options, the results of the Orb of Sin’dorei is absolutely cursed.
I managed to make a dwarf, who has tons of customization, and managed to make it look MORE OR LESS accurate to what I once was able to do, but here’s the funny part.
When you use a Reflecting Prism on someone with Orb of Sin’dorei, the suddenly grow demon hunter horns, they lose their boots sometimes, and more stuff that wasn’t there is added, such as blindfolds, green eyes, etc!
Essentially, I am no longer able to make my character look like it used to look, and everyone that knew me is just… Confused. I lost my will to keep RPing that character just because of that, because I can’t make it look like it should. For me, the Shadowlands customizations actually removed some of my freedom for this particular case.
That said, I don’t know what to do anymore, I tried everything, and nothing works.
The solution to this is simple, give us all of the blood elf hairstyles and hair colors, maybe? That way we could actually make beautiful characters on the Alliance side. Now we’re locked to whatever little Void Elves can offer.