congratulations to the alliance players who wanted this so badly, but may blizz remember that horde players exist too and blood elves need beards, tattoos and scars
The tentacle toggle would really be next level NGL. After this I can't even completely discard it lol.
(Okay but being kind of a debbie downer, imagine if this is a monkey's paw scenario, and the new hair colors default to normal hair instead of tentacles? It wouls just be super weird XD but in line with Blizzard choices bahha)
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Aww come on, can't we celebrate for like a minute?
But yeah, customization is indeed an ongoing effort that should never truly be done, and I hope that Blood Elves get red eyes, and more beards from VE's. Stuff like scars feel farther, but hopefully still on the horizon.
Sure yeah let's keep diluting the void in VOID elves. GG blizz
Hope in 9.2 we also get green skin maghar orcs, LFD draenie without tattoos and dark blue skin, and HM tauren with bull horns.
Hell if we really wanna be fair the horde should get NB that weren't as exposed to the night well and thus look like regular vanilla ass nelves.
Stupid....
Fyi you still don't have high elves outside of RP'er mental gymnastics.
Blood elves should get dark ranger/San’layn/bloodfallen customizations, of course. Red eyes, white skin…Maybe even just open all the death knight specific options to all classes.
if they want more customization that is part of its theme I think is right.
Yup. Red eyes, and unlocking the DK skins would be an efficient way of giving us that Dark Ranger/San'layn fantasy, which would be a good counterpart to the VE/HE option on Alliance.
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Red Eyes so Blood Elves can have BE/DR customization as counterpart as HE/VE
It would destroy what it means to be a blood elf. It would be turning blood elves into cannibal monsters something they are not.
more customization to dk or elf customization for forsaken, but undeath is not thematic of blood elves.
That they give us lightforged customization is much better, the light is an important part of the blood elves, the sunwell radiates light to us all the time.
I get that you see Blood Elves as such, but that's just not accurate to the Blood Elves as a whole. You are dismissing Warlocks, you are dismissing Demon Hunters, you are dismissing Death Knights. They are all as much Blood Elves as the light worshiping ones.
Don't be the kind of BE fan that only wants Blood Elves in their terms. You cannot dismiss the fact that Undeath is already part of the BE fantasy through Death Knights. Yes, more light based customization would be nice, but really don't be the sort of guy that gatekeeps the belonging of a race because it's not what you would like.
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Honestly the hair toggle would be such a crowd pleaser. I already did some edits to show how it would look, and it really looks cool on most hairstyles!
Focusing on the Light theme would be great too and would probably help the Horde tie in to the inevitable Light versus Void expansion.
You’re right that undeath isn’t a blood elf theme, but high elf isn’t a void elf theme either. It’s just a pseudo-subrace. It’s a way to get that fantasy into the players’ hands without making an allied race. It’s like adding the Wildhammers to the playable Bronzebeard dwarves.