As in real life, not all people have the same shape of ears, nose, mouth etc.
So it makes sense, they added this option.
Many other mmorpg has this kind of customization, so why not WoW?
Tho I’m playing Alliance, this is in my opinion good step.
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Highly doubt blue/red/purple eyes and small ears are intended for players. Time will tell.
Original belves in Vanilla had purple eyes, but ever since they started feeding on fel magic it stopped making any sense for them to have an eye color other than green, or gold after they cleansed their little shiny puddle.
Blue eyed belves, however, make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Not Half-Elves, just giving people more customization.
Draenei aren’t Half-Draenei because they get to choose the length of their tail.
Short tailed draenei have never been said to be half-draenei. Short ears, however, have have always been half-elves’ trademark.
I can understand why some people are not liking it.
arent elves with small ears just called humans?
Sure, but true “Half-Elves” would likely have some more physical traits than “shorter ears”.
If they ever made playable Half-Elves they’d probably have even shorter ears as well as less-glow or no-glow at all to their eyes.
In addition to a “thicker build”… Something between Human and Elf.
Until Blizz says “These dudes with shorter ears are Half-Elves” then they aren’t Half-Elves.
It doesn’t matter what Blizz say or how they will justify it (if they ever do), some people will still view it this way and rightly so. Because Blizz themselves have made half-elves with short ears, and always described both night and high/blood elves as having long ears, with a fair sking color. And this is why both short-eared and dark-skinned blood/high elves make 0 sense.
All we can say is that Blizz are doing sh!t. That’s all there is to it.
Creating all these options only for NPCs doesn’t make any sense in an expansion that has “more customization” as a selling point. Just sayin’. Time will indeed tell.
Well, they are the ones who decide what is canon or not.
It’s not that much of a stretch of current lore to say elves have different ear lengths.
Some humans have big ears, some have small.
And the shortest ears on display are still very big compared to most elven fantasy ears.
Also, I would recommend you do not use numbers or symbols to get around the filters. People have been given very short forum vacations for it.
4 hour silences and the like.
They are upgrading the eye model.
There are a lot of NPCs with eyes who use the same model as player characters.
High Elves get the blue eyes and Dark Rangers get the red ones.
But I’d imagine at least one of the blue set might be for Blood Elf DKs.
Not sure who the purple ones are for though, they might be for players.
Modern aesthetic surgery has come long way.
Didn’t they upgrade the elf eye model recently though? I’m fairly sure they did. They were more glowy before. Why upgrading it again? They seem the same to me, just with different colours.
Sorry, could have been more specific… Yes, they’ve made changes to the current one. But they are still locked to the “face” so to speak. So the “change” has been made, but in the current game it’s still part of the “face model” if that makes any sense. Which is also why you have to change your entire face to get a different eye color.
In Shadowlands they’ll completely “detach it from the facial model”, to enable picking eye colors with all faces.
And they’ve made blue ones for the High Elf NPCs (and Blood Elf DK’s I guess) and red ones for the Dark Rangers.
Because if they didn’t make new ones for these guys (who are still just NPCs) then I imagine they wouldn’t have eyes at all if they just put them in the game without making these new eyes.
As the files for them wouldn’t exist.
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Oh I see, didn’t think about that. Well, I guess the only thing is to wait for confirmations! 
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Not really. Halfling ears tend to be shaped more roundly like a humans and then end up in a point, indicating elf heritage.
Having purely pointy ears, although small, still shows it’s a pureblood elf.
Like a cats Vibrissae? That would actually be pretty cool.
The small ears probably are, the others not so much, though it is annoying that we have had two releases now of ‘Blood Elf Customisation options’ that are not in fact all for Blood Elves. We won’t know till they go live.
Reminder that the Fel Crystals were in Silvermoon as an alternative energy source to keep the magical buildings afloat, a thing that the Sunwell used to do. The Blood Elves themselves did not drain fel magic to survive, a person who did so would end up a Felblood Elf, such as Selin Fireheart. The Blood Elves drained Mana from living creatures, not Fel. The eye glint is just the effect of being close to Fel for any length of time. Blizzard did in fact confirm that any Thalassian Elf, Blood -or- High Elf who went to Outlands for example, in lore has fel green eyes. One of the quest givers at the Alleria Expedition actually confirms this in her text, that she realises she is visually indistinguishable from a Blood Elf, but is not.
Sure they do. Picture this Scenario, You’re a Thalassian Elf of the neutral nation calling themselves Blood Elves, you live in Dalaran. One day the Blood Elves join the Horde, and you and your buddies fall under the command of a guy called Aethas Sunreaver. So you do Sunreaver things in Dalaran. TBC Ends, the Sunwell is reignited, and Silvermoon gets rid of the Fel Crystals. (This is the lore of what happened, they ain’t there anymore, but lets face it, they won’t update Silvermoon ever…)
You’ve never seen a Fel Crystal, you might not even know what they were (Plenty of Blood Elves didn’t) but most importantly, you were never exposed to Fel Energy. Just because you are Horde, and a Blood Elf, doesn’t automatically change your eye colour, which would be identical to that of any Silver Covenant High Elf. I mean there are named NPC’s who did just that! Lived in Dalaran, were never exposed, and still have Blue eyes, but are still Blood Elves.
The main one that crops up is Lanesh the Steelweaver, as he is in a few expansions. First time we see him? Blue eyes, next time we see him after having been kicked out of Dalaran and living in Silvermoon for a while? Still Blue eyes.
He is not an error either, during the Purge of Dalaran, some of the randomly spawning ‘Terrified Sunreaver civilians’ do indeed have the Blue eyes of someone who lived in Dalaran. This too is not an error, as the same mobs spawn with Green eyes, so it isn’t like they forgot the coding, I mean it would take -effort- to make some of them have green eyes and some blue eyes.
So yeah, Blue eyed Blood elves not only make lore sense, but they already exist in game.
This is mainly why I am a bit sceptical of Ion, he’s into game mechanics, not lore, so I wouldn’t take his word on lore to be gospel, when he is demonstrably wrong.
Still, we’ll see what comes, I don’t think we’ll ever be able to take any of the Wowhead releases on Blood Elf customisations as 100% accurate, until everything goes live and we can see for ourselves…
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Elven women laugh at men with small ears.
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Just throwing this out here
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667785059062775813/713407575609049158/938503.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667785059062775813/713407530759356426/Half-elfmagicuser.png
Male blood elf with short ears compared to male half elf with short ears.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667785059062775813/713407662171357274/938434.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667785059062775813/713407536321265684/Half-elffem.png
Female blood elf with short ears and female half elf with short ears.
The short blood elven ears are still twice, if not thrice, as long as the half elven ones.
Hum, wonder where you got your data from. It’s been ages since I read the novels, but if memory serves, blood elves did feed on fel magic after Kael’Thas joined Illidan in the hope to cure his people’s addiction. Illidan promised him that the fel energy would satiate the elves’ hunger, and that was when they started feeding on it, with their eyes turning green. The feeding on living things was before that. As for the Felblood Elves (again if memory serves), they were Elves who drank demonic blood, the same way as fel Orcs, and this has yet nothing to do with feeding on fel magic. Felblood Elves only appeared after Kael’Thas sided with Kil’Jaeden, this latter being the one to offer them to drink demonic blood, imitating demon hunters.
As for your blue-eyed Blood Elves argument, I’m not really sure I get the meaning of it. Lanesh the Steelweaver has been a subject of numerous debates, and many players have tried to give consistent explanations as for why his eyes are still blue. Most famous one says he’s simply a High Elf who sided with the Blood Elves, the same way Valeera the green-eyed Blood Elf went back to the Alliance. I’d be prone to think the same about the blue-eyed Elves we see during the purge of Dalaran, although I really don’t remember this part of the event and can’t even find those NPC’s on WoWhead… wonder why ?
If not so, then it’s doubtlessly an error in my opinion, because Blizz themselves confirmed that the Sunwell, after being cleansed, became a source of “holy arcane” energy thanks to the sacrifice of a Naaru, which has also been said IG, and explains why the blood elves’ eyes turned gold, and simply can’t turn blue anymore. No matter how we twist the lore, to me blue-eyes Blood Elves should no more exist.
EDIT : Speaking of elven presence on Outland, forgot to mention the Elves in the Allerian hold, who have blue eyes even though they were exposed to the fel energy as well. Another proof that their eyes can only turn green when they explicitely feed on fel magic, because else everyone’s eyes would turn green, which makes no sense.
Thanks for the pictures but… is that meant to be a proof or something ? Those are mere amateur sketches, and your estimation, in addition to being irrelevant, sounds quite far-fetched as well (twice or thrice ?).
Let’s just stick to the main lore : fair-skinned beings with long ears. Neither dark skin nor short ears have EVER been mentionned, except for short ears to half-Elves.
These are still longer ears, i mean, longer then the human ones 
I’m ok with this tbh, i never liked giant ears, nor i like these littler ones, bust more customizations it’s always ok for me
You’re right ofcourse, half elven ears are in-lore atleast aslong as their head and blood elves are not blood elves anymore but both blood and half elves.
Is that what you want to hear?
Because I posted sketches of how Metzen’ (??) drew half elves (with tolkien-esque elven ears), compared to shorter but still longer then half elven blood elf ears.
Then again, I doubt discussing this with you is smart because you seem to think dark-skinned blood elves are a bad thing too?