Some people really like flavor. Occasionally subsisting on nutrient paste just doesn't feel the same as eating a steak. I get that flavor isn't for everyone, but I doubt removing all cosmetic indicators from the game would be appealing either. Nobody want to log in, queue to fight modestly sized blue checked box boss #7, initiate combat using an attack sequence of abilities 1-7 with a 13 beat repeat coda intermittently, and collect item level 630 slot 7 gear either.
I'd be sad if they chose to add half-elves over high elves. I hate hybrids, especially for fantasy races with very little relation to one another. People like myself, who want to play high elves, want elves, not just humans with slightly pointier than usual ears.
Hadjikostas did seem to have HE in mind when discussing subraces, though.
Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you’ll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.
I was just checking random things in internet, is in Wowwiki
Note: That model is pretty old i was datamined in 2007 (Burnin Crusade i believe)
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Well... the problem is that i would prefer if they in the future add the HE as a race with new and unique model, when it comes to subraces is less likely for us to get unique races....
Also HE are not human subraces and the HE and NE don't get along and they have a really different culture
I think that is just a female orc with a male Draenei texture overlayed + Photoshop. You could probably recreate it with Tmorph or something.
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Good job look really nice. I want that red orc.
I don't know how many times I have to say this. It is just a slot in the end. A subrace slot doesn't imply that the races get on or anything of the sort. I would also like them as a race, with unique models etc etc., but if the alternative is no HE, I have no issue with them being added in as a subrace. There's nothing stopping them from doing this and giving them a unique new model, or at least different animations, tattoos, voices etc. to the new BE model. I do agree, though, that sticking them under humans as a subrace is a bit odd, as the obvious Alliance race would be the NE.
As Yig and I have pointed out in this thread, previously, if the Kaldorei could allow back in the Shen'dralar, they can no doubt come to accept their quel'dorei brethren. The lore has advanced a lot since vanilla, and the Kaldorei have since accepted draenei, humans (incl. worgen) and the Shen'dralar in their midst.
Like the worgen, they could get their own district in Darnassus, or potentially join the Highborne in reclaiming Eldre'thalas, in addition to their enclaves in Dalaran and SW, and elsewhere.
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Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you’ll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.
I understand, im just basing what i said in the idea that a subrace would be the same race with a couple of modifications (if they were to create new models, they would had created new races instead, don't you think? -Note: i know that new races don't only need new models they new a lot of things, like starting zone, lore, reasons why they join, ETC...).
IMO the lore problem is not the NE to accept the HE, is the HE to accept the NE, but yeah it could be explained
I get where you are coming from with seeing the Quel'dorei as a subrace of the Kaldorei.
However, I think the Quel'dorei would make more sense as a subspecies to Humans(I too, rather see them as a new race, just like Ogres), why you might think?
Well, mainly because unlike the Kaldorei/Shen'dralas culture, that has been almost the same for the last 10,000 years, the Quel'dorei culture has evolved into much the opposite of their Kaldorei ancestors. Not only do they make extreme use of the Arcane (even compared to the Shen'dralar), but they also worship the Light (not Elune) and they have a general dislike for the Kaldorei because of the banishment from their homes and the fact that, unlike the Shen'dralar, the Quel'dorei's ancestors unleashed a immense magical storm on Ashenvale, they've also been trying to get their hands on the Kaldorei Moonwells and the list probably goes on. Overall, Quel'dorei culture, norms and society these days has more in common with Humanity then their ancestors, so wanting them as a Kaldorei subspecies is like wanting Kaldorei as a Troll subspecies.
And you may ask me about the Worgen, but ingame only Druidic Worgen or those that more or less embraced their curse live in Teldrassil and the Kaldorei Empire, but their King and a ingame majority of Gilneans live in Stormwind and are even settling/building villages in the Kingdom of Stormwind.
I disagree, some species, like the Krokul, are actual sub-species that need entirelly different models then their "parent" race, so according to you they shouldn't be added because of them having a different model?
Well the HE and BE are sub-species too, the HE are NE sub-specie but no the new model is not the only thing, the problem is that HE have more unique lore, more unique structures and so on from all the other Alliance races..., while the Broken (Krokul) don't have any different from the Draneais without couting the models.
because they had been alliance all throughout warcraft. there was going to be an alliance only faction of blood elves called the silvermoon remnants in azshara that even made it into the patch notes but it got cut, pretty much all the high and blood elves ingame were alliance up until bc, alleria windrunner, one of the heroes of quel'thalas was nicknamed orc slayer and the horde are allied with forest trolls, the blood elves greatest enemy.
and before anyone tries to say im getting darkspear and forest trolls mixed up im not, the horde is allied to the darkspear and the revantusk tribe and before those the amani tribe. the horde burned and pillaged their forests and aside from arthas are the only people to have ever marched upon quel'thalas.
the one and only reason they joined the horde is because the alliance outnumbered the horde and they were one of the most requested playable races. so they put blood elves on the horde, and it worked, the horde is now 33% blood elf.
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Lets not over-play the Light worship. It was said to have not been prominent in Quel'thalas before the race's schism, and even then their priests were 'mage-priests', so it is unlikely they worshipped the Holy Light per se, barring those elves who joined the Silver Hand. The quel'dorei are very similar to the pre-Sundering Highborne, before they became corrupted. The lore indicates that the Highborne priesthood worshipped (or rather, revered) not Elune but Azshara. Whilst this did not occur amongst the quel'dorei, their culture is also focused around a powerful monarchy, and of course their reverence for the Sunwell, much like the Highborne's for their Well. The principal difference is that the quel'dorei became a lot more cautious. Events stuck thousands of years in the past are going to be forgotten eventually. I mean the Shen'dralar are no saints, possibly a good deal worse in the eyes of a traditionalist kaldorei, yet the kaldorei have grudgingly accepted them.
This, plus their longevity, puts them closer with their Highborne ancestors. The blood elves, particularly in TBC, resemble the Highborne in their more reckless days, albeit out of desperation rather than choice this time.
Trolls are a non-starter since they don't exist on Alliance, to begin with. I am simply pointing out that whether they get a race slot or a subrace slot, it's irrelevant, as it's not a statement as to how well they fit with the race under which the slot comes. This is because some people keep bringing up the supposedly dim view the kaldorei hold of their cousins. To me, this is irrelevant, even if it's true. They have an ancestral affiliation with them, and this alone is a good reason to put them under that particular slot rather than humans.
It's just a way to introduce them without some people whining about Alliance getting a "horde race", however stupid such a statement may be. I would very much favour them being introduced as a race in their own right, I think the time is ripe for it, but failing that, there's other ways.
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Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you’ll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.
True, but so were the Night Elfs in the Horde...
True, but they left the horde as soon as the BE joined...and before anyone tries to say im getting darkspear and forest trolls mixed up im not, the horde is allied to the darkspear and the revantusk tribe and before those the amani tribe. the horde burned and pillaged their forests and aside from arthas are the only people to have ever marched upon quel'thalas.
They also have a big connecting with the forsakenthe one and only reason they joined the horde is because the alliance outnumbered the horde and they were one of the most requested playable races. so they put blood elves on the horde, and it worked, the horde is now 33% blood elf.
Further thoughts had.
Best Subrace choices would be ones that could easily fit in with the overall culture of their primary race, so that they're basically part of the same overall racial faction in some sense.
They have lost their beloved forests of Qual'thalas. They would gain the forests of Hyjal, and the land of their ancient ancestors.
Elves love forests. They could share and be reunited with their ancient cousins, or blaze a new colony in Feralas.
And I don't see them being an option for Night Elves as all that different as giving Pandaren females a red fox with a tail. Just shoehorn the thing in there, who cares. It's just an elf with a different body type and skin color at the end of the day.
But they must look distinct from blood elves through their idle stances and posture IMO, if not their animations. An eye color swap would feel cheap.
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Well. On a more productive note...
Could someone decent at photoshop whip up a Frost Azotha with colour similar to the Frost Vrykul?
Would be an interesting experiment.