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And this is what i love about the Warcraft elves.
The night elves, both shal'dorei and kaldorei have a fascinating unique night world of nature and arcane and their whole vibe - druids, highborne, priestesses, demon hunters, their enemies like Naga and Satyr, the Legion, their principals, fighting addiction, arrogance and recklessness, their lands have a unique feel and look from spectacular forests to cities all night based with star and moon themes, unique animals like Moonkin, Furbolg, walking trees, Cenarians, Panthers and cats, chimera, faeries dragons, blue and green dragons.
It's such a different world to the high elf world with humans and trolls, the light, sun, frost and fire magic, blood magic, Paladins and priests, high elves, scourge, fel elves, dark fallen, Lordaeron, Dalaran, Tirisfal etc. Duch contrast.
Highborne vs High elf
Suramar vs Silvermoon
Druids vs Farstriders
Moon Priestesses vs Blood Knights
For the first time in fantasy elves dont feel generic, they have several variations, very defined aesthetics, cultures, and a huge range, and yet they have a feel of being elven too.
Sure the lines are a bit more blurred now than they were before, originally night elves came across as this intense extreme group in anything they did, they were portrayed as taking arcane to the extreme in some wonder arcane civilization, which they lost and had to ban arcane taking nature to extreme in some wonder nature existence, everything about them was extreme and contrasting, savage yet cultured, fierce yet gentle and serene, it's like high elves were humanized elves and night elves were what elvenhood was really like
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Expansion.. typo + auto correct
According to realmpop humans are the most popular race in the EU (before belves), belves in US (before humans), followed by nelves on both EU and US.
Yeah, 2 of the 3 most popular races are elves.
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At least the elf variations are the most popular allied races on both sides, so yay for more elves
Next: World of Elfcraft
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Because elves are attractive fantasy material across nearly every IP, movie and book series you can think of. Playing a human in a fantasy game is fine but it's FANTASY for fuck's sake. Orcs are more tribal, less attractive physically, and despite the Blizzard lore about honor carry the "villain" card in nearly every fantasy movie/book in existence. Blizzard has played that card from time to time, especially with Garrosh.
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Vanilla races have very little background, except (surprise, surprise) humans and orcs. The former are bland as bland can be, while the latter seem to have a complete personality flip flop every other xpac. Truth be said, WC3 NEs were militant, xenophobic assholes, but at least they had a clear personality - which faded off quite a bit in WoW.
Another example. Upon their introduction in BC, Draenei were portrayed as generic, sanctimonious do-gooders, while BEs were arrogant but desperate addicts who had endured the heaviest losses against Arthas, having to fight both for their survival and against their traitorous leader. Which one is more interesting?
Pandas... are just pandas, they must be the least played race ever.
And now in Legion/BfA, there are generic reskins like HM taurens or DI dwarves. At least, Nightborne in the Horde and VEs in the alliance have some (mildly) interesting story behind them, unlike the rest of Legion's allied races.
Did you miss the whole Darkshore/Teldrassil thing? O.o
What about the Nightborne in Legion?
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I enjoy all the races. I can say without a doubt that every race has sufficient screen time, and the elves aren't at the top of that. The only exception to this are the Gnomes, Pandas, and to a slightly lesser extent the Goblins and Tauren.
well yeah cause humans racials got nerf'd all humans good for is rep bonus
You can't take what ya can't see... *rolls d20* You rolled a natural 20* The skill of stealth is successful.
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People like playing as pretty boys and QT3.14s who would have thought that was the most popular race in the game?
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It's already incredibly easy to gain rep for argussian outreach or whatever the name is. You get 100 for every quest and 250 bonus rep for killing elites. At 120 this is trivial. I suspect they will remove the rep requirement entirely at one point or another for the Legion races.
I think the saddest thing is that the Horde has been hijacked by former Alliance members.
I'm still wondering where he pulled his data to speak for me or other people.