Blood elves could still sate their addiction, though they simply had to be careful.Wretched are born if any high or blood elf looses control and consumes too much magic too fast, triggering an evolution. Not to mention blizzards current canon lore says they are physically the same race, except for that little eye glint.
We already have them in game. They are the blood elves. If that doesn't float your boat than you got the Night elves. You don't need any more damn elves. If they did add more elves you can bet they would look just like all the other damn elves in the game.
King Anasterian. Led the Quel'dorei in the Troll Wars which occured ~2800 years before the Orcish invasion from Draenor. Anasterian, the guy who Arthas killed while invading Quel'thalas.
Thats a point of view issue. You may not care, or want High Elves, but that doesn't mean everyone thinks like you.
I could say "There is no reason to demand more resources put into LFR, where it is completely unnecessary" ... but that doesn;t many many people would agree with me.
I want NAGA
Warlorcs of Draenorc made me quit. You can't have my stuff.
The difference is, High Elves wouldn't really be High Elves anymore if they changed them away from the current ingame High Elf look to look different than Blood Elves. Players who want them wouldn't accept them. This is one of those cases where a copy/rehash is more than acceptable. Rehashes like Dragon Soul were not acceptable.
http://www.wowwiki.com/High_elfThe life span of high elves is several hundred years. They reach adulthood at 110 years, a "venerable" age at roughly 350 years, and most dying of old age at approximately 263 years. A few may reach "venerable" age at roughly 350 years with maximum lifespan between 354 and 390 years,[14] and even fewer may live as long as two thousand years.[15][16]
Wowwiki uses outdated lore, these maximum lifespans are taken from the rpg books, which are all considered non canon, high/blood elves live for several thousand years.
http://www.wowpedia.org/Blood_elf#cite_note-23
http://www.wowpedia.org/High_elf
Come on! You are missing the point. You can't kill blood elves as a blood elf, you can't pit alliance v/s horde just with blood elves. The greatest thing including high elves would bring to the game would be an awesome civil war with each side sponsored by a faction. There's just so much hatred between these two groups, each believing they are in the right that it would make for some terrific content. They both have claim to Quel'thalas, and now with the sunwell on the verge of being weaponized, it is the time for WAR!
I have through for a long tome that blizz dropped the ball on this, and now that the silhouette model is out of the picture, lets go for it!!