Know what a high elf is? Nearly extinct. Even gnomes have a bigger populance than then, and over 75% of that race were wiped out. Also, they're blue-eyed belfs. You want that? Make a belf DK and shut up.
Ever heard of the Silver Covenant? There's your High Elves. ALL of them. That's how few of them still exist.
"Let's see. There are monkeys that evolved into men and monkeys that didn't. Just as well, there are men that remained men and men that evolved into something else. Do you really think humans are the ultimate form of evolution? How arrogant."
--Kakurine, Evil Zone for PS1
can we use the excuse that they are ~1% of the pre 3rd war Elven population, have no real capital or cultural unity (as compared to other races)? if they want to add Quel'dorei, imo, they should add them as a Human sub-race and give the Horde either Elven Forsaken/Mag'har/Taunka
The only concrete number we have on high elves,which is still canon and prior to the burning crusade was 1% of the original elven population, which is less than the army Kael took to Outland, but that hardly matters since playable pandaren come from a few dozen individuals.
Significant means little considering just how few of them are left.
Last edited by Combatbutler; 2013-01-09 at 11:18 PM.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Still, out of the original high elf population, 90% were killed by the scourge and 90% of those remaining were afflicted by fel-taint and became blood elves. Which, doing the math, means that only 1% of the entire high elf race still exists as it once did.
The high elf population left is a remnant of a remnant, with no racial culture, leader, or identity - just regrets and memories. Silver Covenant might not literally be all that's left, but it's damn close.
"Let's see. There are monkeys that evolved into men and monkeys that didn't. Just as well, there are men that remained men and men that evolved into something else. Do you really think humans are the ultimate form of evolution? How arrogant."
--Kakurine, Evil Zone for PS1
How about a compromise. No new elf races BUT. Blizzard updates the models and textures of the blood elves and Night elves to be better then the pandas. in addition you could have a cosmetic option for the blood elves to have blue eyes with the glowy effect.
No. There are already two different elven races for elven lovers.
We need more stuff like Draenei and Undead, brutal and original never-seen-in-another-game races. Something like Ogres.
Anyway, if they put more damn elves in game, i'd better they don't add any races at all.
ps. Wish I could play Undead for the Alliance. Maybe its time to cancel faction-locked races?
And again, no concrete numbers that remain canon have been stated for what exactly the pre-war population was.
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Ogres would be Horde only. Ergo, High elves.
I wouldn't mind unlocking factions.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi