Official High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Yarathir]

This legitemately pisses me off because now there is 0 difference between blood elves and void elves besides paladin, Which you will eventually get

"We just want more elves on the alliance"

"We just want the same skin colors"

"We just want the same hair colors"

"We just want the same classes"

If they are gonna do that. Give the horde Nathanos style humans!! Absolute lunacy and a desperate attempt at getting people to play the alliance. Nice giving the other faction the same race. Might aswell declare blood elves neutral like the pandaren and they you go

Never mind the racist Garithos I guess

High Elves have been a part of the Alliance since 5ever, though. Also what does Garithos have to do with it? Best to just cope soon.

[Rhlor]

High Elves have been a part of the Alliance since 5ever, though. Also what does Garithos have to do with it? Best to just cope soon.

alterac humans were part of the horde

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

Gimme "re-used asset" black hair now pls! :P

Oh lol for sure! What I am getting at tho is that both the true black and silver white are "newer", black is from the SL customizations, and white is from the DK hair coiors. It's somewhat interesting.

Also part of me is STILL hoping they unlock the "dressing room" black color that some NPCs use lol

[Yarathir]

alterac humans were part of the horde

I never said anything about Alterac humans. I'm talking about High Elves.

As for Garithos.. is that really an argument? Do you have any idea what Trolls and Orcs have done to High Elves?

[Rhlor]

I never said anything about Alterac humans. I'm talking about High Elves.

As for Garithos.. is that really an argument? Do you have any idea what Trolls and Orcs have done to High Elves?

I want alterac humans

[Yarathir]

I want alterac humans

I'm happy for you. Good luck with that.

[Kyriani]

Oh lol for sure! What I am getting at tho is that both the true black and silver white are "newer", black is from the SL customizations, and white is from the DK hair coiors. It's somewhat interesting.

Also part of me is STILL hoping they unlock the "dressing room" black color that some NPCs use lol

That would be ideal. It's already in use by void elf npc's and its not the same as the blood elf black hair options.

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

That would be ideal. It's already in use by void elf npc's and its not the same as the blood elf black hair options.

That's the thing! That NPC's use it just make it so weird that they didn't add it when they had the chance -now-

So yeah, I'm waiting to see if they are going to bake new VE specific textures or will simply load out the BE ones like they do with skins. The fact they are separating tendrils makes think it will be the later.

So if they make the hairstyles just "read" the BE texture, it means they could also load the "Dressing Room/NPC" black texture; the reason it can't be used right now is because it also blackens the tendrils: if tendrils and hair are read from different textures, then we "might" be getting Black hair as well!

[Ardenaso]

That's the thing tho, this further makes all VE assets reused BE ones, which I do think that in the long run this means specific VE customization, even if it's the 3x3x3 method:

-With all the AR's getting revamped, not its evident VE's aren't getting anything "new".

-No new customization options were planned for Shadowlands; that had led me to believe that AR's would get their pass on 10.0.

-These got fast-tracked because of backlash. I think the VE specific customization options may be related to next expansion, so introducing them earlier might be downright spoilery, but most likely it would be because it's related to the passage of time itself.

yup and that's yet another thing for the Blood Elf players to be mad with the (Alliance) High Elf players

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

The hair colors are kind of a strange choice. 3 Shades of blonde instead of a black or a silver.

Oh yeah, pretty much everyone has been baffled by the choices. Like EVERYONE was hoping for one color from each major shade (black, white, blonde, brown and red)

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

yup and that's yet another thing for the Blood Elf players to be mad with the (Alliance) High Elf players

10.0 will bring new Void customizations for Void Elves, and Kael'thas rejoining the Blood Elves by redeeming the San'layn thus giving BE's the "blood magic" aesthetic lol.

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Honestly red was the last one I thought they'd give us. Black, brown and silver would also be compatible with the blue skintones, too.

Right??! it was hilarious that most people thought black and white would be the solid 2 options bhaha. So weird.

I did notice that originally BE's didn't have black or white, so maybe it's related to that? All the hair colors we got are ones from their introduction.

[FossilFree]

The Horde should definitely get Alteraci humans. I've been a supporter of adding them ever since I saw this thread:

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...-(Fan-Concept)

[Edward Wu]

The Horde should definitely get Alteraci humans. I've been a supporter of adding them ever since I saw this thread:

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...-(Fan-Concept)

No, they shouldn't. The Horde does not need more races that will skew the faction imbalance even more.

Horde players just do not get it. There's no equivalence here because you've been winning hard for years. The Alliance needs SOMETHING over you to reset the imbalance and improve the health of the game.

I've never thought this line was more appropriate here but... check your fucking privilege.

[FossilFree]

No, they shouldn't. The Horde does not need more races that will skew the faction imbalance even more.

Horde players just do not get it. There's no equivalence here because you've been winning hard for years. The Alliance needs SOMETHING over you to reset the imbalance and improve the health of the game.

I've never thought this line was more appropriate here but... check your fucking privilege.

Did you just assume my faction?

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

Did you just assume my faction?

I admit I laughed.

But yeah, what the alliance needs is for Raid Grouping to become factionless. It doesn't matter what you give the Horde or Alliance at this point, the imbalance is just insurmountable.

[Vaedan]

awesome I thought they would give them more customization later but this is too big! They will give the void elves a whole new set of hairstyles.

Yes and no. Hairstyles still remain the same. You just add another layer of customization to it. Just like night elves have vines/leaves and draenei have jewelery. There will still be no fresh new hairstyles.

I think this will favor mostly female hairstyles, most of them look really good without tentacles. Male hairstyles on the other hand are in more need of work, but eventually, it still opens up like 2 new hairstyles available for my character.

I mean it's great change indeed, but I wouldn't say it provides whole new set of hairstyles. Most of the hairstyles will not look vastly different without tentacles, especially male hairstyles. Now give us option to use braids in place of tentacles too. I can imagine some of these hairstyles being used for blood elves with braid options then as well (tentacles does not make much sense for them).

[Sialina]

Does anyone else want MORE void instead of more Blood Elf.

That looks so amazing, I'd be up for playing him, he looks so cruel, I love it

[BaumanKing]

The Horde should definitely get Alteraci humans. I've been a supporter of adding them ever since I saw this thread:

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...-(Fan-Concept)

No human potential in my faction, pls. I would rather take mok'nathal or forest trolls from Revantusk tribe for complete WC2 feel. San'layn or straight back forsaken would be fine tho.

[FossilFree]

I admit I laughed.

But yeah, what the alliance needs is for Raid Grouping to become factionless. It doesn't matter what you give the Horde or Alliance at this point, the imbalance is just insurmountable.

I thought Ion discussed this as something they are working on a while back during a SL dev interview. Has there been any updated info on it?

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No human potential in my faction, pls. I would rather take mok'nathal or forest trolls from Revantusk tribe for complete WC2 feel. San'layn or straight back forsaken would be fine tho.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but I think they are a cool idea. Although Mok'nathal, forest trolls, and San'layn are all ideas I support as well.

[Rootsbum]

As someone who wanted blonde and was scared of getting the "wrong" blonde: Huzzah!