I’m genuinely curious, because I simply don’t get it. From my point of view, the only difference is that they used to be alliance, and now they’re horde. There was a short phase of Fel influence, but according to blizzard it already faded away, so now they are literally the same species.
Presumably because they want to be Alliance, and that they can’t be the same classes as Blood Elves when they make their Void Elves look like High Elves.
Oh, so why don’t they ask Blizzard to make blood elves playable by both factions instead? Wouldn’t that be way more reasonable?
Blizzard have been relaxing a lot of the class race restrictions, so we will have to wait and see what they do in the future. There have been major hints at more Paladin races.
Eventually the issue may just resolve itself.
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Pretty much this. Want to be a glorious high elf…and not sharing some huts in the mud with them zug zugs 
er…
No offense. 
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I’m offended now
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There is a reason I don’t like going to Org much. 
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I assume during the Midnight Expansion this will be resolved anyway
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Yes, I’m very much looking forward to that expansion.
Tbh there is very little reason for me to go to Org, even during SL I just used my long boi rather than have to go to Org. At least Valdrakken is pleasant to look at and has all the things you need.
I generally go back to Org for events or the Trading Post.
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I guess orgrimmar could need some renovation, but you gotta write a complain letter to thrall. “Dear Thrall, there are too many mud huts, and everything stinks like Tauren ****”
I would love if all the capitals were treated equally tbh. It would just let people choose their preferred aesthetic then.
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Because the whole High Elf Blood Elf thing is something cultural instead of genetic.
One of the most important things about this which we get only to know as mages in legion in some small talk is that most Blood Elves are content just living there whole live in Quel’thalas. So content that desiring to go further then eversong forrest and you are considered a madman. Because who in their right mind leaves Quel’thalas when you already have everything you will ever need there.
This is why the Farstrider are considered uncultural rednacks.
Because they part of duty, part of desiring to travel go far away go way beyond Quel’thalas borders and so leaving the luxury.
Even their kindred in Dalaran who thought the first humans magic and stayed their since ever are considered strangers because no human city could ever reach the spledor of Quel’thalas.
This is also why the Bloodelves considered Anasterian to be such a great king, meanwhile Kael’thas only to be a gold digger because Anasterian with his Quel’thalas First attitude decided to leave the alliance as so the Quel’dorei could be left to their own again and not have some tiring meddling with the humans of rebuilding their destroyed cities and countrysides while Kael’thas decided to stay in Dalaran instead by his people in Silvermoon where he should be.
So Kael’thas, if he would have not served under the racist Garithos, could have been the bridge between his people and the alliance but well.
So yeah the reasons the Highelv players despise Bloodelves is because a High Elf is being about one of the few bright minded people who decided to leave their own comfort and luxury behind by standing for the greater good.
While originally it whas about, no desire to battle their magic hunger with fel magic, this whas retconed into only being the ones from Quel’Lithien Lodge and now it is only as High Elv is the one deciding that the alliance is more important then their homeland while Blood Elves is all about Quel’thalas is the most important thing.
But if the blood elves only wanted to stay in comfort in Quel’thanas: Why did they venture to outlands, and also founded the Relinquary, which is basically the Horde version of the Explorer’s League? Also, I’m 99% sure that most High Elves got massacred by Arthas, and I think it’s natural to wanna stay home for a while and rebuild tbh. Actually escaping from there and abandoning their thousands of years old homeland to join the alliance seems less honorable to me, so I’m glad I can play a blood elf instead of a high elf tbh xd Anyway though, they are the same in the end. This cultural difference is so minor anyway, and so much time has passed since Kaelthas, I don’t think there is an actual difference currently.
I really hope for night elf. I can’t stand the human’s after the model change, I could play human paladin before with the old models but I just can’t stand the new models. Now the options on alliance are draenei or lightforged draenei but the hoofs… Dwarves are too ugly to play.
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I really thought we’d get those after the storyline in Legion.
- Because during TBC the Sunwell whas still broken so they still had magic hunger.
Back then they actually asked again to join the alliance again but thanks to the Kaldorei seeing Kael’thas loyalists who followed the Draenei as demon worshippers they only asked the dwarfes to do the joining talk thing as a spy mission without any real plans for it so the Kaldorei can meanwhile find out how strong the demon infection in Quel’thalas is.
So they instead joined the horde going to outland because with their magic hunger outland whas for the starving elves like mulgore for the tauren. But after the end of TBC the Sunwell whas restored and so their is no need for leaving anymore. - Actually we have a number. Yes 99% of the High Elves got massacred but only 90% of the Blood Elves. You will now asked confused how does this work? Well back in TBC Blizzard in some kind of lunacy decided to give us numbers as in 90% of all High Elves where killed and from those survivers 90% decide to become Blood Elves. So yeah there are more gnomes then High Elves but still enough Blood Elves for their number to be at least 5 digit.
- About the Relinquary, I said most Blood Elves. Even after the massacre there are some odd ones that decided to go out of Quel’thalas either out of duty or out of some strange desire of seing the world. The relinquary is about those people who are similar to the farstrider and it whas founded because someone high in Silvermoon thought that the idea of dwarfes going out and securing artifacts can not be ignored and so better to do it correct and teach the fellow horde members how to do it right.
BElf History without people’s own takes:-
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I’d like that, as much of a mud pit as Orgrimmar is (Which indeed doesn’t really fit the “High elf”-fantasy, does it?), Stormwind is so bland (There’s no conceivable way to get an even more clichéd “Generic fantasy city”) that it’s no fun either, yet those two cities are the main hubs for their respective factions.
Give all capital cities the basic amenities (Including AH, barber, transmog, and portals), a shared city channel between them, and let players choose.
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I want narrative consistency.
High Elves have been part of the alliance since vanilla. Both TBC and Wrath gave alliance new high elf settlements. The High Elf faction Silver Coventant also participated for the alliance in MoP and Legion. In BFA we got High Elves wandering the streets of stormwind, the one managing portals to the warfronts is a high elf. And the Arathi warfront had high elves assisting the alliance.
They are quite literally the single most obvious allied race for Alliance in the game. Yet still blizzard have insisted on not adding them. Instead doing a monkey’s paw and gave us an exiled cult of blood elves with no affiliation to the high elves that have conspired with the Alliance for generations.
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