In honor of the many other topics out there for different races, tell me a story about what positive thing happened to you in relation to blood elves. I am eager to read your experiences.
I will start.
I saw this handsome statue on ebay of my favorite lore character of all time. I wonder if Blizzard still has any plans for him.
Buy it!
Or I will!
Ahhhhhhh!
Not enough money. I am broke.
Who isn’t these days.
It’s not a matter off “Can I afford it” it’s a “What bill can I delay” sort off situation here!
That statue is sickkkkkk.
That is literally my entire salary for a month. Sorry but I can’t do that. Now back to loving blood elves. One day Silvermonn will stand again. I know it.
If that counts, my first ever character was a belf rogue and I’ve pretty much always been maining one, as well as having the vast majority of my characters as sin’dorei above anything else.
I always loved leveling through Eversong Woods and Ghostlands, both for the ease and simplicity of quests, and because the zones are beautiful, just like the race itself.
I wish there were more similar themed zones, but I can only hope. At least now I can get the white transmogs from here!
Don’t worry it totally counts. Glad to have you share your story. I am glad many people still see how wonderful the blood elves are for the game.
They are cool
The Twin Kingdoms of Suramar and Silvermoon should rule Azeroth
Well with the might Vulperan Empire, but that is obvious
Vulpera have no land of their own since Vol’dun belongs to the Sethrak. Therefore they have no empire 
My very first character was a blood elf. A blood elf mage specifically.
I didn’t know what I was doing but loved leveling in that zone during WOTLK/Cata. Many memories .
the starting zone is what i like best other than the heritage set
and thanks to the said zone white gear being available for tmog
and uh they look great with pretty much any tmog?
behold the green initiate plate set
the unadorned mail set i believe has belt/gloves to match
but belf initiate/recruit plate seems to lack those on the vendor? atleast one in orgrimmar
also any vendor white weapon is unlockable for tmog same with shadowghast white leggos
but the real question is there is a certain 2h white sword(claymore something) still available from a weap vendor in eversong?
Thank you so far for everyone who contributed their experiences. I hope many more will follow.
One of my earliest characters was a female Belf mage. I loved the immersion of the starting zone and the story of the sun well and Silvermoon. I really felt invested in that character and the atmosphere. Quests like attending that party really built the vibe. Then on to Ghostlands - another great spooky fantasy zone with fun quests.
I could never emotionally invest in other Horde races personally. I was sad that in later years, because I mainly do pvp and the queue times were killing my game, I raced changed to Velf.
Eversong Woods is one of my all time fave zones, I’ll sometimes create and delete BE’s just so I can quest through the zone, whether day or night the zone never loses that aestetic.
I hope one day Ghostlands and the other half of Silvermoon can be rebuild and healed. It feels odd just having only one side of a city.
This, or at least updated - these are among the oldest zones in the game by now (as Vanilla had the refresh in Cata). And by this I don’t mean suffering the night elves’ fate of course 
I get it, the Scourge is effectively endless, but we should have still made some visible progress in 16 years.
this video was made by a youtuber that passed away sadly, but its pretty amazing
TBC content got shafted in Cataclysm. It makes no sense that Quel’thaals wasn’t able to recover after such a long time.
Not really if you think about it 
I mean when Ner’zhul landed as the “Lich King” on the top of the world, he had nothing to work with
Northrend not exactly Florida
Depressed Blue Dragons, the Nerubians, the Drakkari “Empire”, the Vrykul, the taunka and the few Human settlments on the coast
From his prison the Lich King used his telepathic powers to enslave many of the native life forms, including ice trolls and wendigo. With these servants, Ner’zhul created a small army for himself.
The War of the Spider against the Nerubians almost ended in a faliure.
The Plague of Undeath was the main weapon
But the creation of the Plague took some time before and during the Third War. Using his will alone, the Lich King spread the mystic disease to human settlements of Northrend killing them and causing them to rise again as undead under his influence
Yet, the nerubians proved immune to the plague - but their corpses could been reanimated
The Scourge was formidable, but hardly “endless”, even if you add those elves, dwarves, goblins or anyone who died from the Plague in the Eastern Kingdoms
Even necromancy have its limits
Have you noticed how most zombie movies take place only after the apocalypse is in full-swing? By the time we join our survivors, the military and government are already wiped out, and none of the streets are safe.
There’s a reason the movie starts there, and not earlier. It’s because the early part, where we go from one zombie to millions, doesn’t make any sense. If you let the creeping buzzkill of logic into the zombie party, you realize the zombies would all be re-dead long before you even got a chance to fire up that chainsaw motorcycle you’ve been working on. Why?
First, they have too many natural predators
Do you know why we, as humans, are at the top of the current food chain? Not because we’re hard to kill (well, with the exception of Steven Seagal). We’re not; we’re little more than tasty flesh bags waiting for an errant horn or claw to spill our guts like a meat pinata. No, we’re on top simply because we are so absurdly good at killing things ourselves.
We are simply too smart and too well-armed for any wild animal to hunt. Now consider the poor zombie. It lacks every single advantage that has kept humanity from being eaten to extinction. It wanders around in the open, it can’t use weapons, it can’t think or use strategy. It doesn’t even have the sense of self preservation to run and hide when it’s in danger. And, it’s made entirely out of food. It’s easy prey for any animal that wants it.
If you’re saying, “Sure, but it’s not like my city is full of bears that can come eat all the zombies,” you need to think smaller. Insects are a major pain in the 
for living humans, and in some cases, being able to swat away flies and having an immune system is the only thing keeping us from having our eyes and tongues eaten out by maggots. Zombies in any part of the world with a fly problem are going to be swarming with maggots in short order, meaning that most of their soft tissues will be infested, and their eyes will be very quickly useless.
Lets scale up a bit: In America alone, they have bears, wolves, coyotes and cougars, all of which can put well-armed, thinking, fast-moving humans on the menu, if the conditions are right. To most predators, the “right conditions” are when the animal is weak or infirm, or otherwise generally unable to defend themselves, like a walking corpse. Hell, just think of the millions of stray dogs out there who’ll quickly learn that zombies are an easy meal.
Now imagine zombie hordes wandering Africa. Between lions and cape buffalo (and hippos, and rhinos, and elephants), we’d finally have a disease that Africa is better suited than the rest of the world to defend itself against.
Second, they can’t take the Heat
It’s generally accepted by zombie experts that they’re going to continue to rot, even as they shamble around the streets. What the movies fail to convey, however, is the gruesome yet strangely hilarious effect the hot sun has on a rotting corpse.
The first concern is putrefaction. Thanks to the plethora of bacteria we use in our colon for digesting plant matter, called gut flora, our bodies are ripe for decay the second our heart stops. Since heat speeds the growth of bacteria (which are plenty happy to start feasting on you once your immune system is no longer a concern) the zombie’s got a looming expiration date the very second it turns.
Dead bodies bloat because of the gases created by the bacteria, meaning that in warmer areas even Abercrombie Zombies are going to start getting fat in the first few days. After a few weeks of this, the nasty, bloated zombie army is going to start doing something that is simultaneously the most awesome and disturbing thing a zombie can do: they will start exploding. The warm, moist conditions in the tropical and subtropical parts of the world (or even just summer in the temperate parts) speeds this condition, meaning a July zombie outbreak pretty much anywhere would be over in a few weeks just by virtue of the rampaging monsters bursting like rancid meat balloons.
At the other end of the heat spectrum is dry heat. If you’re in Phoenix or the Sahara when the apocalypse hits, the zombies might begin to mummify in the blazing sun and heat. While the normal symptoms of dehydration are not a concern for a zombie, there is the problem of desiccation. With no reasonable means of replenishing the water in their cells, zombies walking around in the Texas heat all day are going to suffer cell damage due to direct sun exposure to their skin, and thanks to the drying effect wind has, the Southwestern dead will stumble around more and more ineffectively until, at some point, they simply drop and wait for the scavengers to come pick them up for the annual Slim Jim harvest.
So they’d better hope the outbreak happens during the winter, right? Well…
No
They can’t handle the Cold either
Zombies are dead meat. No arguing that; it’s their one defining characteristic. But everybody focuses on that “dead” part like it’s such a huge deal. They often forget about the “meat.” Do you know what else is dead meat? Steak, hamburger, possibly even that red grease mush inside of Taco Bell food.
When flesh is alive, it’s got all sorts of defense systems to keep it that way. When it’s dead, you have to throw it away in about a week even if you seal it up in plastic and keep it at a carefully modulated temperature. Now, your first inclination may be to think of cold as dead meat’s friend, after all, the surest way to defeat that week-long deadline is to freeze steak, keeping it fresh for months. But don’t forget: Unregulated cold does awful 
to formerly living things. If you live far enough north, the zombie apocalypse will probably work itself out the first time it tries to go outside. The first zombie-killer is the simple fact that the human body is mostly water, and water freezes. Once the temperature drops to freezing (or near it with a high wind chill), zombies will become significantly more rigid.
After enough exposure, a dead body is going to be frozen solid and not chasing down any screaming victims, no matter how delicious and Rascal Scooter-bound they might be. It’s also safe to asume that zombies wandering around in a wintry wonderland are not going to be wrapped air-tight in plastic like we do with food, so freezer burn becomes an issue. Seriously. The same thing that ruins your ice cream also ruins the Undead Onslaught. The freezing of the flesh at night, combined with partial thaw during warmer days, then refreezing again sets up the perfect conditions for the onset of freezer burn, which results in the cells dehydrating as water evaporates, even when frozen solid. Freezer burned meat isn’t just dead, it’s destroyed.
Not to mention they can’t heal from day to day damage
One advantage to having a fully-functioning central nervous system is that it also does a damn good job of letting you know you’ve been damaged. It does this by way of pain. Think about all the paper cuts, stubbed toes and nut shots you have suffered in your life. Now imagine they never healed, just sat there and rotted while you continued to rack up other paper cuts, stubbed toes and nut shots. Pretty much every wound you’ve ever had would end with an amputation. One thing we know about zombies from Romero and Fulci is that they are a clumsy lot, walking into doors and helicopter blades without a second thought about what kind of damage they are suffering.
While complete insensitivity to pain seems like an awesome superpower in theory; in real life, you wind up being more like Mr. Burns than Wolverine. Congenital insensitivity to pain is a neurological condition that some people are born with, meaning they don’t feel pain. They can feel everything else, but the absence of pain means they accrue damage to their bodies but are unaware of it. Even with the ability to call for help, loved ones watching out for them and our coddling society, this can still lead to all kinds of terrible things, like infected body parts and bitten off pieces of tongue.
All the dings and bangs zombies will suffer after tripping, walking off of bridges and stumbling around on dark cloudy nights will eventually leave them limbless, toothless and with every bone in their body broken. Seriously, in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse, just stay inside, watch all the episodes of 24 back to back, then walk out on your lawn with your Corpse Rake and tidy up (you will have to buy a Corpse Rake, however, if for some reason you don’t already have one).
The zombies’ lack of coordination, along with the inability to see in the dark (we haven’t had any infrared zombies yet, but holy sheit! I call dibs on the idea) is going to spell the doom of countless zombies in any area outside of a parking lot. This is a group that doesn’t know how to find roads or bridges. They just go wandering off aimlessly. Mountains, major rivers and canyons would thus quickly be home to piles of broken zombie rags stinking up the scenic views. Even if zombies had the foresight to not walk over cliffs or into raging rapids during the day, nightfall would result in most eventually walking into rivers, over cliffs and off of bridges, diminishing their numbers.
But even in nice, flat, paved cities, where it would seem like people would be extra-vulnerable, the landscape still works in favor of the living. History has shown that in most awful situations, people don’t always act like the panicky idiots in a horror movie. In cities, people would likely congregate in the upper levels of high-rise buildings, where the invasion can be held at bay with simple security doors. Also, the streets themselves would keep the undead corralled in straight, easy-to-aim-down lines where they could be picked off by snipers, or just bored office-workers waiting out the quarantine by dropping office supplies onto the undead from the top floors.
If Humans are good at one thing, it is killing other things. We’re so good at it that we’ve made entire other species cease to exist without even trying
Remember, the whole reason hunting licenses exist is to limit the number of animals you’re allowed to kill, because if you just declared free reign for everybody with a gun, everything in the forest would be dead by sundown. Even the trees would be mounted proudly above the late-arriving hunter’s mantles. It’s safe to asume that when the game changes from “three deer” to “all the rotting dead people trying to eat us,” there will be no shortage of volunteers.
Plus, if we look at zombies as a species, they are pretty much designed for failure. Their main form of reproduction is also their only source of food and their top predator. If they want to eat or reproduce, they have to go toe to toe with their number one predator every single time.
That’s like having to fight a lion every time you to want to have sex or make a sandwich. Actually, it’s worse than that: Most top predators are only armed with teeth and claws, meaning they have to put themselves in harm’s way to score a kill. Humans have rifles.
On Azeroh? Even magic
But let put aside logic, it is a Fantasy setting after all!
Even if we work with the Lore and Game fact, the whole Scourge is an endless unstoppable army that threatened the world is silly
There is nothing basically that justify Quel’Thalas and Silvermoon should be the state it is now…
Well except lazy writing and even lazier devs
I just started leveling Erevien on the Dragon isles. Just see how long it will take to reach 70 now.