High-Elves for Alliance as a playable race

[Korgoth]

Elves is clearly what WoW needs more of.

If anything Alliance should get Baby Ents and Horde should get Baby Ogres, show those silly kung fu pandas whose cute.

[Promithiuz]

high-elf should be fun but then again there is ANOTHER elf then

[Combatbutler]

high-elf should be fun but then again there is ANOTHER elf then

Or another very mutated troll tribe ;P

[McNeil]

No. High elves are just blood elves with lighter skin, and blue eyes instead of green. Look at this picture, you can barely tell which ones are high elves and which ones are blood elves:



If we were still in classic WoW, than I'd say yes. But the Horde gained blood elves in TBC, and since then its a lost case. Playable high elves could work if the blood elf race was neutral. If the elf you play chooses the Horde faction, he becomes a blood elf. If he chooses Alliance, he becomes a high elf. But we're too late for that, the blood elves are a Horde faction and it will never be changed due to gameplay reasons.

[Deleted]

No. High elves are just blood elves with lighter skin, and blue eyes instead of green. Look at this picture, you can barely tell which ones are high elves and which ones are blood elves:



If we were still in classic WoW, than I'd say yes. But the Horde gained blood elves in TBC, and since then its a lost case. Playable high elves could work if the blood elf race was neutral. If the elf you play chooses the Horde faction, he becomes a blood elf. If he chooses Alliance, he becomes a high elf. But we're too late for that, the blood elves are a Horde faction and it will never be changed due to gameplay reasons.

Lolz, we can easily see which ones are high elves and which ones are blood elves, in fact, only the bottom right picture represent a blood elf.

Furbolgs say hi. Oh yea, and now, the Jinyu.

OT: Id only accept High Elves as a "new skin"/"sub race". I think the Revantusk Trolls (buff trolls) would be perfect for their Horde counterpart...see The Hinterlands.

Furbolgs seems reasonable, Jinyu are out of place everywhere outside Pandaria (in my opinion), and since we'll probably never come back to Pandaria, it's also a lost case.
But High-Elves are way more integrated in the Alliance than thoses two races, it would be way more popular.

[Combatbutler]

Lolz, we can easily see which ones are high elves and which ones are blood elves, in fact, only the bottom right picture represent a blood elf.

The one in the right bottom picture isn't even a high elf or blood elf, he is the half elven son of Alleria and Turalyon, I guess they gave him a blood elf model because his mother had green eyes.

[Spichora]

No i dont want to see Horde-like race in alliance ! High elves r so few now. they dont even have sufficient numbers to form "new class" and join alliance ... 1000 max ?
I wouldnt like to see Brethren killing each other (dont ca about stupid pandarean ). Both blood elves and High elves have epic lore and wouldnt like to see that spoiled !
High elves serve alliance already as NPC-s and that is quite enoigh already ... 3 elf race ? :O Lets us call game : World of Elfcraft!

[Deleted]

The one in the right bottom picture isn't even a high elf or blood elf, he is the half elven son of Alleria and Turalyon, I guess they gave him a blood elf model because his mother had green eyes.

Yes, i mean, skinwise, they used a blood elf skin, i know that he's Arathor.

No i dont want to see Horde-like race in alliance ! High elves r so few now. they dont even have sufficient numbers to form "new class" and join alliance ... 1000 max ?
I wouldnt like to see Brethren killing each other (dont ca about stupid pandarean ). Both blood elves and High elves have epic lore and wouldnt like to see that spoiled !
High elves serve alliance already as NPC-s and that is quite enoigh already ... 3 elf race ? :O Lets us call game : World of Elfcraft!

The goblins as a playable race come from shipwrecked goblins from a boat which was escaping from the Cataclysm in Kezan, they got attacked by the Alliance and many of them died, drowned or killed by the cannonballs of the Alliance, they were less than 100 in the boat, and even on Kezan they weren't many at all, BUT, it became a playable race, no one noticed that, and no one cried about that.

[Combatbutler]

High elves serve alliance already as NPC-s and that is quite enoigh already ... 3 elf race ? :O Lets us call game : World of Elfcraft!

The greatest empires azeroth has ever seen were build by trolls and their descendants, which includes elves, so elfcraft would be inaccurate, world of trollcraft would be better ;P

[punksandskins]

Make the high/blood elves a neutral race.

Ones that pick horde become blood elves and alliance high elves.

Give horde ogres to compensate.

Ummm no? That would be one of the worse possible scenarios to happen involving High Elves.

[Spichora]

No. High elves are just blood elves with lighter skin, and blue eyes instead of green. Look at this picture, you can barely tell which ones are high elves and which ones are blood elves:



If we were still in classic WoW, than I'd say yes. But the Horde gained blood elves in TBC, and since then its a lost case. Playable high elves could work if the blood elf race was neutral. If the elf you play chooses the Horde faction, he becomes a blood elf. If he chooses Alliance, he becomes a high elf. But we're too late for that, the blood elves are a Horde faction and it will never be changed due to gameplay reasons.

I cannot agree with that. They might become neutral race as Garrosh hates his ally blood elves and intends to get rid of them, so does Lor'Themar. He was organizing secret meeting to Varian Wrynn and was about to leave horde when the thing with dalaraan occurred ! Jaina just didnt know that elves might return to alliance

And so it situation between Horde (garrosh) and Blood elves gets worse next patches, Lor'themar might truly leave horde which lets Blizzard make them neutral race

[punksandskins]

No i dont want to see Horde-like race in alliance ! High elves r so few now. they dont even have sufficient numbers to form "new class" and join alliance ... 1000 max ?
I wouldnt like to see Brethren killing each other (dont ca about stupid pandarean ). Both blood elves and High elves have epic lore and wouldnt like to see that spoiled !
High elves serve alliance already as NPC-s and that is quite enoigh already ... 3 elf race ? :O Lets us call game : World of Elfcraft!

Im guessing you've missed the part where Sunreavers and Silverwing Covenant simply despise each other...

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Umm no. I disagree.

Okay lets give the alliance a recycled race, while Horde gets a brand new race...yea that would go well.

[Scummer]

The one in the right bottom picture isn't even a high elf or blood elf, he is the half elven son of Alleria and Turalyon, I guess they gave him a blood elf model because his mother had green eyes.

Well they changed his eye colour to blue, that's just an older picture of him. I actually imagine they will make Alleria have blue eyes when she reappears as otherwise there will just be tides of people confusing her with a Blood Elf, although I can't really see the harm in such a minor change.

[Deleted]

Im guessing you've missed the part where Sunreavers and Silverwing Covenant simply despise each other...

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Okay lets give the alliance a recycled race, while Horde gets a brand new race...yea that would go well.

Not a problem at all.
Also actually, blood elfs are recycled from vanilla's high elves NPC model, doesn't cause any problem.

[Spichora]

The greatest empires azeroth has ever seen were build by trolls and their descendants, which includes elves, so elfcraft would be inaccurate, world of trollcraft would be better ;P

Yep, I know that but... we face the fact that we now ave 3 elves (not to consider their troll origination) :P In game we have 3 elf race if u know what I meant

The goblins as a playable race come from shipwrecked goblins from a boat which was escaping from the Cataclysm in Kezan, they got attacked by the Alliance and many of them died, drowned or killed by the cannonballs of the Alliance, they were less than 100 in the boat, and even on Kezan they weren't many at all, BUT, it became a playable race, no one noticed that, and no one cried about that.

there might have been other goblins from other clans who joined horde afterwards ... What I want to say is that there are other goblins in azeroth which might have joined Horde, it is not given in lore ! But there is no other High elves who might be in other neutral or hostile clans.. they reside with Alliance and just ! and their numbers can be counted on fingers

[Aeula]

Hmm....while i certainly wouldn't play them (Can't stand high elves after the purge of dalaran), they'd make good cannon fodder for my sin'dorei toons...

[Deleted]

Yep, I know that but... we face the fact that we now ave 3 elves (not to consider their troll origination) :P In game we have 3 elf race if u know what I meant




there might have been other goblins from other clans who joined horde afterwards ... What I want to say is that there are other goblins in azeroth which might have joined Horde, it is not given in lore ! But there is no other High elves who might be in other neutral or hostile clans.. they reside with Alliance and just ! and their numbers can be counted on fingers

Well every goblin player accomplished the same quests and saw the same cinematic, so, theoretically, every goblin player come from the same boat. I'm absolutely sure that there is more goblin players on almost each server than there was in this boat.
There is a few number of High-Elves, but there are still more High-elves than Bilgewater goblins...

[Spichora]

Hmm....while i certainly wouldn't play them (Can't stand high elves after the purge of dalaran), they'd make good cannon fodder for my sin'dorei toons...

Sunreavers deserved to be purged ! They betrayed the magi of dalaraan ! They used hospitality of the kirin tor, Cuz they could never let them in to dalaran ! At leaset it was what it seemed when incident with darnasuss happened ! It seems that 1 mage opened portal in the name of Sunreavers ! Jaina wasnt her guilt in this situation !

---------- Post added 2013-02-21 at 11:30 PM ----------

Well every goblin player accomplished the same quests and saw the same cinematic, so, theoretically, every goblin player come from the same boat. I'm absolutely sure that there is more goblin players on almost each server than there was in this boat.
There is a few number of High-Elves, but there are still more High-elves than Bilgewater goblins...

No you just confuse playable goblins with NPC-s. In truth they saved 9 goblin NPCs out of 10 (for example) and 1 player not 9 NPCs and every other player that made that quest. In cinematic 10 goblins was saved in total not thousands of others players who completed that quest ! The story of goblins is based on the player, on you not the other players too dont confuse those 2 .... If what u say is true, then in worgen cinematic gilneas was razed by worgen thousand and thousand f times and gilnean people continued to hunt down worgens endlessy and battle for gilneas would never happen ... umm ... that doesnt make sense

[Solzan Nemesis]

Then you'd replace them with 1238904072398723 threads about what ridiculous bullcrap came about to put High Elves in the Horde...

That would be fine with me, It would mean I got what I wanted. A united Quel'Thalas.

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Sunreavers deserved to be purged ! They betrayed the magi of dalaraan ! They used hospitality of the kirin tor, Cuz they could never let them in to dalaran ! At leaset it was what it seemed when incident with darnasuss happened ! It seems that 1 mage opened portal in the name of Sunreavers ! Jaina wasnt her guilt in this situation !

Form you misguided view. I think Jania should be hung.

[Justignoreme]

That would be fine with me, It would mean I got what I wanted. A united Quel'Thalas.

What if a united Quel'thalas came about from leaving the Horde?