The 'Player Base' is not a monolith.
(having said that no I kinda assume that while some would welcome or outright celebrate their addition I think many more people either want some other, more different (moreawesometoolikeogres) race or don't want new races at all and would prefer resources spent in a variety if elsewheres. Personally no, high elves don't excite me really.
"Brevity is...wit"
I primarily play Horde so I don't really care if the Alliance gets playable High Elves. I am pretty excited for updated player models, though.
Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
They are, the major cultural schism arose between high and blood elves based on how they dealt with the addiction. Blood elves sought to drain small amounts of mana from Quel'Thalas's version of glorified rats and weaponized it by unleashing stored mana in a torrent to overload casters' senses. High elves fought the addiction pains through meditation, stubborness, and sheer willpower.
The pandaren are a neutral race where two schools of thought from a cultural offshoot joined the Alliance and Horde. Saying the pandaren are an Alliance race given to the Horde makes little sense.Also, horde already have an alliance race, pandaren. Not even a reskin or recolor!
Be seeing you guys on Bloodsail Buccaneers NA!
Also, the Alliance never sent help during or after the Scourge invasion of Quel'Thalas/the Sunwell. They never sent aid afterwards. The nearest faction to help was the Forsaken (Windrunner sister drama, has Vareesa ever talked to Sylvanas, where the hell is Alleria?). The come and help and guess what the Alliance does? Sends a Dwarf spy and a fleet of Night Elves to set up Martial Law. That was so helpful. So we killed them. And that is what pushed all the Highe Elves (Blood Elves) to the Horde.
If anything the only High Elves still allied to the Alliance are either in bed with the Alliance or so far removed from the events of Azeroth to have never learned.
If they added essentially the "Jinyu of Arrakoa" as a species on another planet in the Burning Legion expansion it'd be kind of awesome. Horde and Alliance could both be trying to open portals to reach distress signals from long-lost members of their people only to find themselves in two separate lands (or even planets, but I wouldn't push my luck) that are being invaded by the Burning Legion on their way to Azeroth. Each with a different dominant people and thus making first contact and allegiance.
Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
Nope. All Qual'Thalassians (High/Blood elf has a faction tie to it) are the same. They are the same exact race, except for allignment. When the Sunwell was destroyed they all had to deal with the addiction. All of them. So they dealt with it by consuming magic from creatures or from the nether (mages were less affected by this, go figure). The Blood Elves took M'uru as a gift and the Blood Knights drain M'uru for its light.
Don't go saying High Elves dealt with it differently. They dealt with it the same as all the others.
Blood Elves are good enough for me.
I'd rather they just implement "Traitor" races... you start off at hated or unfriendly and you can be an Alliance race on the horde side or visa vera..
The Alliance was in ruins, it barely even existed at that time. The Alliance at that time consisted of Lordaeron, Stormwind and some token support from Ironforge - one of those nations was in worse shape than Quel'thalas and the other two were so far away they didn't even hear what was happening until months later.
I don't think you understand how polls work. What it boils down to is the people who say yes will vote yes, and the people who vote no will have their votes spread amongst the no choices. In the end there will be the same number of yes and no votes so it doesn't matter if the no options are even with yes, or outnumber it by 1000.
Back on topic though, I would rather have a new third neutral faction than continue as it is now and have to deal with lore I could have thought up in Junior High to fill up the glaring gaps in story.