The abilities may have different names/visuals, but same effects.
Like, instead of wisps, they may appear as shades.
Day/night cycle may be called "affinity to shadows" instead of the Elune's Blessing.
Their Shadowmeld may be called Voidstep and they appear in a shadowy form while stealthed.
You know, just cosmetic differences.
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I think they will just be Void-touched rather than masters of void powers.
Mastering shadow magic is something for a class, not race.
None of them will have powers like Alleria's. They'll just have some kind of affinity to the void. And, probably, purple eyes or something.
more people talk about void elf more bullshit sounds
all i see are desperate attempts to make high elves playable in the alliance
Here's the thing with the datamined "subraces. Night elves are purple elves. Nightborne are purple elves. Void elves will probably be purple elves or have a purple aura making them purple elves. That seems like a lot of purple elves to me.
Cultural affinity. Lightforged Draenei like Velen and others of their kind, Highmountain Tauren like the idea of uniting with other Tauren. Nightborne are interested in moving out into the world, and the Blood Elves share more in common with them than anyone else. Stop thinking of it as a fuck you to the other faction.
I honestly don't like the idea much, as I was never a High Elf fan, but I didn't like the idea of lots of things much. I'll at least try to analyze and speculate with what I have.
The Horde and Alliance are enemies who work together all the time. Night Elves help Tauren and Draenei help Blood Elves, the Horde regularly assists neutral factions which are dominated by Alliance races and cultural themes. The faction war is stupid, so it's best to ignore the faction war aspect of this. Because that's always going to make no sense at all. It's bullshit.
The Nightborne wouldn't be saying "fuck you" to anyone. They'd be signing up with people who went through much the same shit they did.
Alliance and Horde have been cooperating for the last two expansions. All-out war started and ended with Garrosh. Now, it's just localized conflict between certain races/groups.
Anemo: traveler, Sucrose
Pyro: Yanfei, Amber, diluc, xiangling, thoma, Xinyan, Bennett
Geo: Noelle, Ningguang, Yun Jin, Gorou
Hydro: Barbara, Zingqiu, Ayato
Cyro: Shenhe, Kaeya, Chongyun, Diona, Ayaka, Rosaria
Electro: Fischl, Lisa, Miko, Kujou, Raiden, Razor
as long as we get Dark Iron Dwarves they could make Brick Elves for all I care.
And if you roll a Paladin, you're basically the same thing as a Lightforged!
Ignoring that Lightforged can be Hunters or Mages, and that being Lightforged is actually not the same thing as being a Paladin, so being a Void Elf probably isn't the same as receiving training as a Shadowhunter or Shadow Priest or whatever.
This world don't give us nothing. It be our lot to suffer... and our duty to fight back.
Yes. And Lightforging is a process. Lightforged Draenei being one of the supposed subraces here.
Now, imagine if someone could do something like, let's call it "Void Forging". This isn't the same as being a specific class, any more than being Lightforged is being a Paladin. It's just an infusion of Void energies that grants certain enhancements, and not the same as being a total master of Void energies and being able to rip portals open through the Void.
Now, imagine the means exist to accomplish this on a large scale, and certain individuals have motive to do so. Wanting to sow the seeds for a Void-touched army of their own. It's not impossible to make a race of Void Elves. How long did it take for a race of Fel Orcs to be invented? It was just Grom, until all the other Orcs drank ten seconds later. Satyrs were just Xavius at one time.
For a new subrace, we just need someone with the Mountain Dew and enough people willing to drink it.
Damage control is scalating.