Official High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Eleann]

You saying you don't mind purple only velves if they were helves to begin with and not exiled belves?

It makes perfect sense that we want natural hair colors on Void elves. I am personally not a High elfer, but I simply find blue and purple way too limited and niche to serve the varied taste of human beings. We humans like variety. Allied Races have an equal and possibly even greater right than Core Races to equally varied and pretty customization and colors, due to the amount of work people put into unlocking them. Ofc that does not necessarily translate to looking exactly like Blood elves. Like others have suggested, hairstyles and colors from other races can be used.

I understand the argument that white is white and blonde is blonde and that they should not copy Blood elves, but please understand that this has already been implemented into the game by Blizzard via the models and the skins, and all we want is some light hair colors for the sole reason of variety and aesthetics. To keep things a little bit different between the two races and more unique I have suggested colors like a Void Blonde (dark blue voidy highlights across blonde hair) and an Astral white (purple and blue stars on white hair).

https://imgur.com/a/4BdHdHW This is the Voidy Blonde that Ramavatarama made for me which looks dreamy and still maintains a touch of voidy corruption to it which is exactly what a Void elf's about.

https://www.mobafire.com/images/cham...lux-cosmic.jpg And this is Astral Lux from League of Legends. A hair color like the one she has would also be equally dreamy and gives this otherwordly, voidy feel to it, giving Void elves their own unique reasons to be appealing.

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

I think my biggest want for VE is white hair -also black, but that feels actually likely- so I decided to play a bit and add the same correction layer to all the VE hair colors, and the results are very interesting. Makes me wish VE's were for a more pastel or even neon vibe. They are about endless possibility, it really just makes me think of all the potential they have.

[FlubberPuddy]

I think my biggest want for VE is white hair -also black, but that feels actually likely- so I decided to play a bit and add the same correction layer to all the VE hair colors, and the results are very interesting. Makes me wish VE's were for a more pastel or even neon vibe. They are about endless possibility, it really just makes me think of all the potential they have.

This is amazing, thank you for working on it!! This is definitely the direction they could go in towards adding more 'Void Elf' hair colors. But yes, I agree. I thought Void Elves would be more aesthetically leaning towards the 'Starcursed Voidstrider' vibe, being almost space/star elf vibes. Sadly not much movement since throwing a few tendrils and coloring em purple.

Thankful for the High Elf customizations, but just like fans of the other races are doing, I'd like to see Blizzard add more than what's currently on offer for Void Elves.

[Ardenaso]

happy 1.2k pages lol

here's a Vereesa Nobbel video

[arkanon]

happy 1.2k pages lol

here's a Vereesa Nobbel video

I would NEVER have picked this as the 1200 page thread, but there it is. Im always blown away at what topics take off, and what ones struggle.

[Ardenaso]

I would NEVER have picked this as the 1200 page thread, but there it is. Im always blown away at what topics take off, and what ones struggle.

the only arc I enjoyed was the part where we were arguing where should Dark Ranger/San'layn options go; I'm still voting for Forsaken

[Kyriani]

the only arc I enjoyed was the part where we were arguing where should Dark Ranger/San'layn options go; I'm still voting for Forsaken

I'm perfectly fine with them being added to Forsaken as long as the options get added, and the option to use the Thalassian model is a part of the package. I just don't want to see pointy ears slapped on to the Forsaken model and it being called done. They need to be able to look like the NPC's or it's all for naught (kind of like how playable Nightborne failed to live up to the hype).

[Vaedan]

It’s done for Shadowlands expansion, not the entire game’s life. They learned that race customizations are as highly valued as a new class/race (potentially more so) and thus are relegating them to expansion drops.

That’s why I said give it enough expansions and not patches.

It's most likely we won't see more character customizations in SL, but with Blizzard, everything can change. I can certainly imagine they can bring some more customization options later in the expansion if they will be in need of attracting new subs. With SL, it seems Blizz cares for feedback from the player community, and we made our stance clear on customizations. We want them and there is a lot of potential. They can easily add some customizations every patch and still have a lot of material to work with for another content. Just look on ideas and suggestions of various fans, some of them are really good and should be put in the game.

They obviously want to give us new in more patches to keep us interested in the game. Patch 9.1 is already full of big features - new raid, new zone, new mega-dungeon, honor talent revamp, flying, new covenant campaign and new covenant exclusive transmogs. I certainly can live without new customizations in 9.1, but I would welcome them in let's say 9.2. Waiting for 10.0. or prepatch is kind one of the worst options we have.

Yeah definitely, that was a letdown when I learned of it. I don’t believe customization updates should be expansion level features.

If anything, like with Heritage armor, it felt great looking forward to the next patches to see which races would get their armor. The same could’ve been done for race customization a la “it’s the Nightborne customization patch” alongside the usual dungeons/raids etc.

But I think I also read somewhere that half the playerbase unsubbed after the first shadowlands quarter. So blizzard probably prioritizes the content in patches for those playing them (playing the raids/dungeons) and the more wide-reaching content like character customization gets put in with expansions so it reaches the audience that plays for one quarter then drops the game till the next expansion.

Sad for us, but a business savvy move on Blizzard’s end.

It seems Blizz is giving us various features and observe how we like them. Just look at heritage armors, at first they were introduces for allied races only and since they become so well accepted, they got adopted for core races shortly after.

I agree they could easily dedicate each patch for a pair of A/H races to expend their customizations. With original launch, there were races who were really fortunate with their new options, but some got close to nothing.

Right now, we have few unfinished features going on. Heritages, customizations, allied races, updated racial mounts, new glyphs, class tier sets (which we are promised to see returned). There are also suggestions from the community which did not make it to the game yet, like class skins. If you think about it, Blizz have enough content for years if they distribute it cleverly... but on the other hand, players don't like to wait for long.

[Ardenaso]

check this out! https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads...mounted.331711

[AthranThom]

Dont know if anyone else has posted this but:

[FlubberPuddy]

Dont know if anyone else has posted this but:

It's a very cool video and shows how much fan love there is for High Elves in WoW.

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

It's a very cool video and shows how much fan love there is for High Elves in WoW.

Oh wow this has evolved a lot. It has been fun seeing this project through the years, although I do wish they started using newer assets (like Legion/BfA assets)

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

Wake up babes, new Vereesa content dropped


Context, and spoilers from the yet to be actually released “Folks & Fairy Tales” book

[Luck4]

Wake up babes, new Vereesa content dropped


Context, and spoilers from the yet to be actually released “Folks & Fairy Tales” book

Poor Vereesa, always going through some kind of suffering.

[Ardenaso]

I made a High Elf Paladin

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads...aladin.332446/

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

Poor Vereesa, always going through some kind of suffering.

Yeah but this is the best she has looked while doing so. I really love how this artist drew the armor and added some browns, really one of the best High Elf arts we have gotten from Blizzard in a while!

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I made a High Elf Paladin

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads...aladin.332446/

Very nice, I specially like how you kept a neutral grey palette for the armor itself and only really the team color adds color; one thing I didn't love about the reforged models is that there are too many colors on the designs themselves, like Thalorien which has a lot of blue that clashes with redder TC's.

That did work in the specific Blood Elven skins for TFT, but really because in the campaign they had either red or orange TC

[Ardenaso]

Very nice, I specially like how you kept a neutral grey palette for the armor itself and only really the team color adds color

ah, that is done by someone else; he's the one who added the TC but yes I kept the armor grey for the Silver Hand colors



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(check out his channel too he also made Highborne Reforged models)

[BaumanKing]

Wake up babes, new Vereesa content dropped
Context, and spoilers from the yet to be actually released “Folks & Fairy Tales” book

Huh, so Vereesa loved Sylvanas the most of all her siblings. Poor Alleria.

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

ah, that is done by someone else; he's the one who added the TC but yes I kept the armor grey for the Silver Hand colors



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(check out his channel too he also made Highborne Reforged models)

Ah yeh, I would personally prefer if the cape had TC as well, but otherwise I really like it!

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Huh, so Vereesa loved Sylvanas the most of all her siblings. Poor Alleria.

I mean it is like it is, kinda makes me think Alleria and Lirath were closer as well, so, all the feels tbh!

[Vaedan]

I mean it is like it is, kinda makes me think Alleria and Lirath were closer as well, so, all the feels tbh!

It would make sense. Alleria went on killing spree after Horde killed Lirath and formed strong hatred towards orcs. Also Vereesa seems to be way more acceptable of what Sylvanas has become.