I think it’s perfectly acceptable to play a high elf using a void elf model. You can get pretty close using the silvery skin and hair option, and there’s several regular hairstyles available.
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Yeah, agreed. I wouldn’t do either but with the right mog ( as in just cover up everything except your ears etc.) you can get pretty far as a void elf and at least you can actually speak Thalassian. It’s easier for me to imagine that being a high elf than the Schwarzenegger behemoth that is the human model in this game.
Well, for starters, humans aren’t purple.
I think being exiled for dabbling in dubious powers and allying with the other side is quite a good story, but for it being Blood elves who have both warlocks and shadow priest to get exiled and welcomed to a faction who’s majority reveres some form of light, is a little sketchy. But I still like it.
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and void elves arent hulk ?
it goes both ways but if a slight miscolouration is more problematic than an entirely different model I question the overall priority in terms of display
I personally think it’s just this massive and rather ridiculous bias going against VElves. It’s like everyone thinks it’s cool to blacklist an entire race because it’s dumb to the point it becomes meme-worthy.
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Imagine playing Alliance
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TBH OP, you do you. I’m sure you’ll find a crowd to chill and play with regardless.
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Oh, males. Well, yeah, as far as I’m concerned male human models aren’t good for anything at all.
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I rp as a high elf on a void elf character, I havent gotten any…slack for it except from white scarlet guilds(mainly because my TRP takes ages to load) who basicly scream witch shrugh but it’s a way better way than running around as a human model.
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Personally I have less issues with the fact that some use Void Elves as a means to portray High Elves than I have with the fact that it is done in the first place. I’m not saying that the possibility to do so isn’t there but I feel that so many do it which doesn’t really add up with the seeming fact that the number of High Elves that remain just that are slim - perhaps even more so than actual Void Elves.
However, it is no worse than roleplayers that use female character models to portay effeminate male characters for instance. By all means, play an effeminate character but I feel that simply writing a description in TRP about it is more than sufficient. Similar thought that I have about the use of Elixir of Giant Growth. I get it, you’re tall; use your imagination rather than posturing about like massive abominations.
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I can’t see how the small numbers of High Elves, Void Elves or whatever race for that matter within lore, should have of ramifications on the RP’ers portraying the races. afterall; we RP’ers doesn’t represent the majority of the races in lore, we’re a minority of the entire population of Azeroth and beyond.
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As mentioned before, just rp as you want and ignore any ragers who clearly have nothing better to do than rage about every little thing.
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A cabal of Blood Elves who got tricked by a faction of corrupted Ethereals and narrowly escaped being turned into Void beings fully, only to be saved by an Alliance Champion and Alleria Windrunner. Being exiles from Quel’thalas, they decided out of necessity and also gratitude towards Alleria (and the Champion) to side with the Alliance…
It ain’t J.R.R. Tolkien, but WoW has worse stories floating out there that were even the fuel of entire expansions coughsWarlordsofDraenorcoughs.
If you want to go through the trouble of getting Orb of the Sin’dorei and all that jazz, go right ahead. Or you can just explore what possibilities Void Elves have.
Edit: why the hell it says I am 110 level?!? o_O
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I believe I see where you are headed with it but nonetheless I’ll keep to what I said. In the specific case of High Elves, from what I’m aware, the information in recent years about their condition has been somewhat slim. You have Alleria, whoever remains in Outland and the Silver Covenant, perhaps a few in Stormwind City. That’s it if I’m not mistaken which leaves them as a minority race. Then there’s the added question if any High Elves decided to do as Alleria and turn to the Void - like the Void Elves.
Then we add in the numbers of roleplayers. While (potentially) the High Elves are a minority race, suddenly there’s 50 of them around Stormwind. 100. 200. You see where I’m going with this?
Bottom line is just because something could be possible to do doesn’t mean that it should be done.
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agreed, but do we have an exact number on how many High Elves are left? is it really in those low numbers of hundreds? or is it in the thousands?
A similar subject could be Dark Trolls, we meet one Dark Troll in Zandalar that claims to be the last one alive, but that doesn’t have to be true, though in the Dark Trolls case, I firmly believe if the mentioned Dark Troll isen’t the last, its one of the last.
Why is this even an issue? And what are you saying, mr. Goblin? That players should/must not play a certain race or even class for that matter because how many of said race or class are lurking around is not known?
So what, we start restricting what people can play based on ‘it’s rare’? How many people do we allow to exist? Is it a first-come first-served basis, or do we judge based on who contributes more to RP? What if you dislike that person for OOC reasons? Do you ensure to go tell everyone that they’re badrp because they just made a HElf vs they’ve been RPing since TBC?
I understand the argument and overall agree; when 80% of Stormwind is covered in elves, it’s not really the human capital and the immersion of it being a human capital is kinda gone.
But frowning/shunning people’s interests [in HElves] because of it is lame & typically rude, and there is no real method of ensuring that ‘lore numbers balance’ is maintained.
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Do peole even care about race numbers anyway? If so, they show it poorly.
Last I remember, Helf population of SW is about 10,000, wasn’t it? Don’t remember where that’s from, maybe wowpedia. Way more helves than velves, that’s for sure.
Its the whole Blood Elf problem, after the Scourge went and destroyed Silvermoon, it was said that ninety percent of the High Elven population was slain, then the Blood Elves split from the High Elves, dividing the race further, and now we have Void Elves, splitting the race even more, we have little to no numbers on the exact numbers, but we’re told that the High Elves were near extinction after the Scourge Assault on Silvermoon… which makes it problematic on deciding how the Elves actually fare now at their current state as a race.