Originally Posted by
Manariel
I know you're trolling but I can't help but smile at that post.
Because it displays for all to see the sheer hypocrisy of the anti-High Elves crowd. They accuse us of caring only about the aesthetic of the High Elves - the current one - and that we use the lore as a gig leaf, when they, proud and noble, oppose it because of such pillars of WoW as Factions Uniquenes (because Pandaren and VE who looks exactly the same as BE in a lot of set aren't a thing) and the Thalassian lore which solely belong to the Horde now oppose it, and High Elves would be stealing from it.
However, they conveniently brush any problem with the VE when it is they who are stealing the BE thunder, not the HE who, over 15+ years have become distinct enough from the BE that they have no qualms molesting or killing the others, as seen in Dalaran or Suramar. Perhaps I shouldn't be telling this to a North Irlander, but it's almost as if now, HE and BE were Republicans and Unionists, don't you think ?
Meanwhile, the VE are allowed to go away with the BE lore of playing with dangerous energies for flimsy reasons but in the name of the greater good of Quel'thalas. kind of like the BE in TBC and even their Light users were like that back then. And BE players have bemoaned the loss of their edge and unscrupulous actions ever since the Sunwell Plateau's ending.
But since VE looks nothing like BE, and thus are aesthetically distinct - because they have an ugly purple tint on their skin - they are well accepted and used to try and silence us. Well, that's too bad. Because they may superfically look like HE, but they are Blood Elves at heart and lorewise, they have nothing in common with the elves we have been requesting since a very long time and will keep requesting until they are brought into the game. The High Elves. the fair-skinned elves of the Alliance. Distinct from the fair-skinned elves of the Horde.
And, obviously, the pathetic glee of the anti-HE crowd when they saw the new Dk's eyes on BE also reinforce the fact that they only care for the appearance of the game, not its lore, at least when it comes to High Elves.