Yes, Alliance High Elves would be great. Technically it's almost the same as Blood Elves, but I reckon they would have a different starting area. But playing a blue-eyed High Elf on Alliance side generally feels a bit different than playing a green-eyed Blood Elf on Horde side. I guess it's mostly because of roleplay reasons. Anyone, who doesn't care much about the setting and atmosphere of the game won't really understand it anyway.
How exactly? He claimed that High Elves don't have an addiction to magic, and that made them somehow distinct. They do indeed have an addiction to magic, the only difference between the two being that blood elves draw from outside sources to sate that addiction while high elves do not. And even that is a non issue since the cleansing of the sunwell. So how exactly am I wrong? Wrong in that high elves would have different racials? On what grounds?
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I want the high elves into the game because i've been waiting for it since the game was launched. Being an old school warcraft fanboy i dont feel like the alliance is complete without them.
yea i know, nostalgia is not a good reason for adding them and its not the end of the world if they dont, its just something i feel would be nice.
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This game is not complete until we can play as some sort of insect or arachnid. I would immediately reroll if Nerubian became an option.
High elven disdain for the use of arcane torrent is based solely on a moral imperative against using someone else's life to prolong theirs, the magic "vampire" idea. Since the cleansing of the sunwell neither groups really has to resort to this tactic to survive, instead it has become a simple defensive tactic.
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Yes. Why not?
They wouldn't. Nor would they have to. Nor should they.Even with an updated set of player models, they would only be Blood Elves with blue eyes (assuming Blizzard wouldn't create two separate models for what is essentially the same race).
I like the model. I like the story.I understand that some people might want to RP as one on the Alliance side but historically the WOW RP community isn't a large group at all.
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I don't like the Horde. All my alts are Alliance.
It's not just RP.
The "cost", such as it is, is adding a new icon to the start screen and deciding which area they start in. It can be more elaborate than this.Most people choose their characters based on looks which trumps lore considerations (unless you're a lore fan). I can't envisage a high enough number of players taking advantage of implementing the idea to make it worth it. Of course I could be wrong.
For good or ill, the change is made. I'm not personally convinced a neutral race such as Pandaren is warranted, nor am I yet convinced it has been fully successful. I don't, personally, think Blizzard sold their integration into the Horde that well but then, as you say, many don't care that much about lore.Adding them would be less work than making a new race and Blizzard have already taken a step towards unnecessary homogenization of the factions with Panda's. There need to be boundaries in an MMO, clear cut differences and giving both sides the same set of races is detrimental to the gaming experience. I fully expect others to disagree with me here.
Which is nonsense. HElfs are already part of the lore and making them play won't change that one bit, nor alter the games story. Making them playable will simply allow Alliance players to take part in that story....which is another aspect of the Alliances story Alliance players are locked out from.It just seems to me that this is very vocal minority of players trying to force the game to take a certain direction.
From Blizzard pov, the hardest part would be deciding which Alliance race to give to the Horde.
EJL
if alliance get highelfs i want *looks at the available alliance races* umm...worgen i guess...that seems to be the only race that doesn't totally suck on alliance side >.<