Undead ‘Dark Ranger’ customization for Blood and Night elves

[Borbarsa-lightbringer]

@Ghoullove-anetheron

With Void Elves gaining regular bloodelf skin tones and eyes with SL alliance basically has their high elves

NO BECAUSE THEY CANT BE PALADINS!!!11111!!!1111!!! !!! !!!

/sarcasm

[Sindorea-defias-brotherhood]

@Ghoullove-anetheron

With Void Elves gaining regular bloodelf skin tones and eyes with SL alliance basically has their high elves - and complete bloodelf models, essentially giving them +1 playable race visually.

Basically = not.

But I find it amusing. So an additional skin color counts as an extra race for you, hence we are one race short?

Mind wrecking. I thought Alliance had one less, for getting cheap Mechagome reskin while we got the Vulpera as a totally new race.

We need a totally new extra race then, sure! /s

Or, they could add some extra skin tones to our Nightborne.

P.s. I am also amused you’d say that the Nightborne are NOT Night Elves reskins due to the different posture, since all the times people have asked for High Elves with a different posture and hairstyles from the Blood Elves, it was answered to them that it could not happen because they would have still been the same race with the same model regardless of the pose.

[Borbarsa-lightbringer]

@Sindorea-defias-brotherhood

So an additional skin color counts as an extra race for you

LFD say hi!

[Sindorea-defias-brotherhood]

@Borbarsa-lightbringer

LFD say hi!

When paired with extra racials. And it was a BAD call from Blizz.

But sure, if skin color counts while given to a race as customization, the Trolls are getting sand and dark trolls… so +2 totally new races!

So Alliance is still one short.

/s

[Borbarsa-lightbringer]

Wildhammers.

[Sindorea-defias-brotherhood]

Oh come on, you cannot be serious.

Besides, he said skin tones, not tattoos.
(Or should we start counting all the shades of blood elves vs shades of humans now?)

If tattoos count we’d need to start counting all the different orc clans.

But I’d rather refer to this count based on the actual number of allied races with RACIAL SKILLS made on another thread:

@Sigfrieda-the-venture-co

Alliance Allied Races

• Void Elf —> Thalassian Elf template
  goes on the main screen since the core race belongs to the other faction
• Kul Tiran —> Human template
• Lightforged —> Draenei template
• Dark Iron —> Dwarf template
• Mechagnome —> Gnome template

Alliance Total: 4 templates, 1 extra race from the other faction.

Horde Allied Races

• Nightborne —> Night Elf template
  goes on the main screen since the core race belongs to the other faction
• Zandalari —> Troll template
• Highmountain —> Tauren template
• Mag’har —> Orc template
• Vulpera —> NOT a type of Goblin, hence main screen

Horde Total: 3 templates, 1 extra race from the other faction, 1 new race.

[Borbarsa-lightbringer]

No I was just pointing out that if we were to count customisations like you said here

@Sindorea-defias-brotherhood

But sure, if skin color counts while given to a race as customization, the Trolls are getting sand and dark trolls… so +2 totally new races!

Wildhammers would count, negating this bit here

@Sindorea-defias-brotherhood

So Alliance is still one short.

Just saying.

[Sindorea-defias-brotherhood]

@Borbarsa-lightbringer

Just saying.

I think you may have missed my final /s

I was never serious about that. A skin color counting as a new race sounds just silly to me.

But I am sure some people would be happy of a ‘proper high elf allied race on ally side’ versus ‘proper undead night elf allied race on horde side’.

(Most) others, however, might just (understandably) groan about more elves in their game.

Me, I’d rather stick to what the OP has suggested. Customizations are ok - I’d rather save those sweet extra race slots for proper new models…

[Borbarsa-lightbringer]

@Sindorea-defias-brotherhood

I was never serious about that.

I know, but that doesn’t mean we can’t scrutinise said sarcasm.

[Sindorea-defias-brotherhood]

@Borbarsa-lightbringer

that doesn’t mean we can’t scrutinise said sarcasm.

Uhuuuu… no way in Shadowlands or Azeroth I am going to count all skin colors and all tribal tattoo patterns of all races to seriously scrutinize… but you feel free to, and you shall be my hero.

[Ghoullove-anetheron]

My statement may have been open to misinterpretation.
What I wanted to state was that while Void Elves get bloodelf eyes and skin tones in SL, making them full-grown blood-/high elf models on the alliance side (with a way better set or racials than actual belfs!) we didn’t get actual Nightborne but re-skinned nightelves with a different posture but no possibility to make them look and stand like actual nightelves.

Basically what I want is voidelf skin tones for bloodelves.
And/or a posture switch for nightborne.
And/or an allied race of forsaken elves.

[Astranea-the-venture-co]

@Ghoullove-anetheron

Void Elves get bloodelf eyes

Are they also getting golden and green eyes then?

I thought it all started with both Void and Blood elf were getting the extra blue eyes so that the fans would not be arguing about them… but I guess Blizzard was very naive there…

(As was I suggesting the red eyes could also be given to both Night and Blood elves apparently)

[Paze-earthen-ring]

i heard something about they might add red eyes to blood elfs … no sure where it was in some interjuve they mationed it .

[Leerena-aerie-peak]

Yes PLEASE

[Metaljaw-defias-brotherhood]

@Paxmillian-argent-dawn

Let’s have something different for the next one and then go back to round 2 of edgey elf classes in my opinion. Runemaster, Tinker, another void using class maybe.

It’s not about what’s not edgy. It’s about what’s needed. And we have had 3 new classes, two of which use leather and all 3 are melee (except the monk healing spec). I think we could do with a ranged class. My vote is on the necromancer.

[Shumensko-azjolnerub (Shumensko)]

@Savotar-argent-dawn

Whatever blizzard is doing right now, I have no idea.

I bet they don’t have idea either.

[Astranea-the-venture-co]

@Moira-the-venture-co

Everybody loves elves, so I had a go at some possible customization subsets for the Night and Blood Elves. Please note I am not much of a Horde player, so I might have not gotten it entirely alright, but I figured maybe WoD’s Sunsworn could be used as a ‘container’ for both Farstrider and Magister options such as all sorts of tattoos and runes as they are told to be a military elite which groups together rangers, magi and blood knights. In my mind they would be to the ‘regular Thalassians’ what the Wildhammer are to ‘regular Dwarves’.

Then, when it comes to those-that-cannot-be-named, I preferred the elven racial name as I felt it could be used for both Void and Blood elves.

Lastly, the Dark Rangers are something I’d like to see added at some point during Shadowlands.

Hope you enjoy!

I figured these images by Moira would make a fine addition to this thread.

[Ceressa-darkmoon-faire]

It’s lore cannon, it looks freakin awesome and people want it. Why not? We should have had these a long time ago.

If Night elves actually get that they at least have a reason to thank Sylvanas.

Don’t shoot, was just joking

[Astranea-the-venture-co]

@Ceressa-darkmoon-faire

It’s lore cannon, it looks freakin awesome and people want it. Why not? We should have had these a long time ago.

If Night elves actually get that they at least have a reason to thank Sylvanas.

Don’t shoot, was just joking

Joke or not, I would quite agree about that.

Fingers crossed that some lurking Blue takes notice and passes on the suggestion, I guess!

[Elvira-dentarg]

In the beta the demon hunter skins are broken, suddenly the dark ranger toy is experiencing the same issue as demon hunters (it used to not , and the eyes used to be more red than usual).

8.1.5 had a Dark Ranger Velonara quest where she was missing it did not make it to live, and suddenly she is not in her spot in Orgrimmar which is outside the allied race hub.

Also during datamining purple eyes/ red eyes were datamined as npc, but the purple went to the void elves.

With Exile’s Reach coming what more incentive for players to test it can they give if not an allied race.

Personally I would prefer red eyes on the belf/nelf default , but as an allied race that would be more in depth with voicelines etc.

Gamescon is soon so fingers crossed its all I want in wow tbh!