IF the High Elves became an Alliance Playable race who gonna join the horde to balance the game? The Broken Draenei? The Highborne Night Elves? Who?
IF the High Elves became an Alliance Playable race who gonna join the horde to balance the game? The Broken Draenei? The Highborne Night Elves? Who?
I appreciate what you're trying to say and like I mentioned, I understand its something a few people feel very strongly about - which is why I'm trying to be nice as I don't want to get anyone's back up
I did also however try to get across my view that they are the same thing - I don't view Twilight's Hammer Orcs as different to Horde Orcs, they just believe different things. That's the kind of difference I personally see between High and Blood elves. Just to put it out there, I am horde but my favorite race is Draenei male. I would love to be able to play them Horde side but its just not something I think would be a good idea. (You probably think i'm lying about the Draenei thing, but I just love power-tops!)
Anyway, my sympathies go out to your ilk but I just think it would be a pointless/bad move.
Any type of Elfs would be fine with me. I hate the far eastern theme of Pandaria, it's such are jarring shift from the toiken fantasy style of the World I love. I think WoW needs to steer back to the normal fantasy theme.
Alliance version of blood elfs, but the horde will need something to put off the balance
There is one group of Pandas on each faction. There is one group of Elves on each faction. That makes two types of playable Pandaren, two types of playable Elves, and even two types of playable Human - both Alliance (Worgen). Every other race has one playable type available to them. /math
Sooo.... done and done! That comparison doesn't make much sense to me in the argument for High Elves as a new playable race. What you're asking for is a third group of Elves, not "What the Pandaren have."
Just sayin.
Hate to be the one to point this out but there are playable high elves in the game right now. they are called night elf mages. lorewise night elves have not only eschewed arcane magic but practice there of was penalized by death so any night elves with the ability to use arcane magic either had to flee for their lives and join either the belfs or the high elves or were put to death. During cata the high elves in dire maul were allowed to rejoin the night elves due to their vision of what would happen if they didnt. thus night elf mages, which were actually high elves.
OMG NO!!! Stop using this argument people, it is just not true. At best is a logical fallacy based on naming, but we all know here that we are refering to the pinky smaller blond elves that survived the destruction of the Quel'thalas and are loyal to the alliance. Those elves are 10000 years of evolution apart from the highborne night elves.
So just stop "pointing this out" because it's a false equivalency!!
At the end, this is just about personal taste because there are no hard reasons either in favor or against.
I don't know if you know what fair and logic are.... The broken have never really had any type relationship with the Horde... while High Elves have been in the Alliance since Warcraft 2.... Ogres would be more fitting imo...
I'm just not seeing how some of these people are getting this idea of what Horde should get... Dark Iron going to Horde would alter a HUGE amount of quests/dungeons/raids ... considering A LOT of the Vanilla era had to do with them. Same with the Amani Trolls. Same with the Broken and Akama.
High Elves already literally exist in the Alliance. They are not hostile to both sides, or neutral to both sides like many of you are forgetting. High Elves are literally already friendly quest NPCS in the Alliance. They have been in the Alliance for years and years... this is why it would make sense.
I see why people would want a "new" race to be added for Horde/Alliance... but "new" isn't always better. In the case of "new" in WoW, it would have to be very random, and full of lore pretty uch made up on the spot.
"The Jinyu you met in MoP, well after knowing them for a year, have decided to quit everything they normally stand for, all their important stuff, and want to join the Alliance cause!"
-OR-
"Dalaran is back on mainland Azzeroth, and the Silver Covenant, full of High Elven Alliance supporters (since vanilla) are here to help the Alliance fight the Horde!"
So, since we are tinhatting, lets get hypothetical.
It is not necessary that the horde gains an alliance race such as dark irons; adding a unique race to the horde, such as Ogres (historically also part of the horde) would balance the factions the same way.
Human<------------------------->Orc
Dwarf<-------------------------->Troll
Gnome<------------------------->Goblin
Night Elf<----------------------->Tauren
Draenei<------------------------>Ogre
Worgen<------------------------>Forsaken
High Elf<------------------------>Blood Elf
Tushi Pandaren<----------------->Huojin Pandaren
So that would be a solution that respects faction balance
Another option would be broken; obviously we know that traditionally the broken, the krokul, have been independant; recetly some tribes have joined with the alliance such as the kurenai and several dreghood under the tutelage of the omenai in Telhamat. But the Ashtongue, under Akama, once allied with the blood elves; and although most of those elves became enemies to all living things, several joined the horde like the belves in quel'thalas. It is not entirely outside the realm of possibility that Akama revisited this alliance. Moreso, the broken philosophy is more akin to the horde than alliance.
Though I personally would like broken on the alliance instead than the horde.
Another race that I find viable from some crossing are the worgen; i'm sure there most be some packs dissapointed enough with Crowley willing to cut a deal with the devil to return home peacefully.
Last edited by TheDangerZone; 2013-01-10 at 11:53 PM. Reason: formating
Kinda interesting that even on a forum like this 30% would be cool with a pretty elven race with a copy-paste model. Blizzard should take note!
Personally I would want them... but aren't they kind of extinct almost there's like ~25k blood elves around(according to wowwiki)... I don't see how they could become a playable faction with those numbers really...