I always felt the nightelf model was a little disappointing. They don't have proper beards, which of course is super common in WoW; this is a big problem. They also don't really move like I'd expect from a hunter race.
They seem to have a little bit of the... <is there a word for the top down rotational change shown in contrapposto when a person is shifting their weight?> but it doesn't extend through their hands and feet which makes them look suddenly stiff past the elbow rather than fluid.
They also have the most awkward of the permanent expressions in WoW models. You can have angry or blank or grumpy... but since it's always there it looks stupid, the girls have 8 varieties of blank which is also not cool.
They end up looking less like strong powerful ancient man monsters and more like dollies.