Official High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Pheraz]

My rogue is dancing in oribos, sorry for the bad image quality, I am on my laptop
I already saw several exquisite looking high void elves running around



Edit: some happy high elf gatherings on the PTR

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

My rogue is dancing in oribos, sorry for the bad image quality, I am on my laptop
I already saw several exquisite looking high void elves running around



Edit: some happy high elf gatherings on the PTR

Besides having a hairstyle with some length for males, I'm very damn happy at how well the hairstyles work without the tentacles!!

Tentacle toggle became reality, and I couldn't be happier

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That reminds me!



bad pic of the HE gathering outside the barbershop when I was in. It just makes me so happy to see how many people were really just waiting on the wings.

[melzas]

Now a visual toggle for entropic embrace and I'm sold.

Turning into purple goo in combat still ruins high elf fantasy (unless you play DK, lock spriest or sub rogue).

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

Now a visual toggle for entropic embrace and I'm sold.

Turning into purple goo in combat still ruins high elf fantasy (unless you play DK, lock spriest or sub rogue).

Personally I don't mind it when I am doing *content* But you can always turn it off if you are willing to sacrifice some DPS for immersion's sake with the /cancelaura Entropic Embrace command in a macro.

I was just leveling a new toon to live the fantasy and added that command to a macro with my main ability, and EE mostly didn't even have time to take hold lol.

[melzas]

Personally I don't mind it when I am doing *content* But you can always turn it off if you are willing to sacrifice some DPS for immersion's sake with the /cancelaura Entropic Embrace command in a macro.

I was just leveling a new toon to live the fantasy and added that command to a macro with my main ability, and EE mostly didn't even have time to take hold lol.

Eh, not really an option for me. I don't do "stand in SW and pretend" kind of RP, I like to have my immersive lore fitting character and do content with it, like arenas, M+, raids... I can't just forgo output cd for cosmetics (and that solution is really awkward anyway).

If they could add a toggle for tentacles, adding a toggle for that racial's visual isn't that much to ask for, right?
For example, they could add an NPC in Void Elf rift you can talk to and select "Teach me how to better control the power of entropic embrace" dialogue that removes the visual or turns it into something more subtle.

[Rootsbum]

I dont see any problems with Entropic embrace.
Its not any more immersion-breaking than being a Thornspeaker Kultiran druid who uses astral energy instead of death/decay-part of druidism

[Dristereau]

I really like the idea of a Glyph or an NPC in Telogrus Rift to change the Racial visually, my personal opinion is that because it only affects the base model (no 3D parts) it looks badly implements compared to everything changing. The effects of Memento of Angerboda (https://www.wowhead.com/item=133644/...da#screenshots) look much better as they also affect 3D pieces.

I've had a mess around on the PTR and I really like the hair colours and ear lengths for Void Elves, the shorter ear make the shorter hair styles look better. The white, black and brown hair colours are not in yet but it's really nice to see the blonde/white blonde with normal skin. I don't see many people using tentacles on the lighter hair colours, it looks pretty terrible

On the downside removing tentacles makes some of the hairstyles look even worse than they already did, especially the Transience and Sorrow for Males and Consuming for Females. This is much less noticeable on the Female one than the Male ones which look like they're half a hairstyle. I would also like to add that Suffusion still looks god awful no matter how it's used.

As I've said before, I still want to see a few more hairstyles, more for Male than Female as I think half the Male ones are pretty bad, some with a slight sense of style/elegance. I'll still also keep mentioning Tribal/Runic Tattoos for Void/Blood along with a Dark Ranger skin/eyes for Blood Elves. I think that's the only way such a skin will be added as a Blood Elf option.

Also with the tentacle toggle option, all Void Elf NPCs seem to have lost their tentacles on the PTR, including PC ones you copy over. I'm assuming it's just something as simple as a 0/1 toggle option and the non tentacles being baseline meaning all the NPCs got hit by it

[Kyriani]

See I think Sorrow looks great without tentacles or anything else there. Taste is subjective. Hopefully the tentacle toggle will evolve into a selection of options instead of just "tentacles" or "no tentacles" so everyone can be happy.

[melzas]

So, this actually suffices to fullfill my high elf needs:


But then combat starts and I get this...



Feels like I almost got what I wanted since I started to play WoW 15 years ago... But still not exactly what I wanted...

[FlubberPuddy]

bad pic of the HE gathering outside the barbershop when I was in. It just makes me so happy to see how many people were really just waiting on the wings.

That's how the majority of people are, which is why it's tough to use forum feedback as the sole means of what may be wanted.

It took a great collective effort of so many players to finally get to this point, but I was so happy to see over the years that players who never posted on forum literally coming onto them simply to support the inclusion of High Elves however it be handled.

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Feels like I almost got what I wanted since I started to play WoW 15 years ago... But still not exactly what I wanted...

I know it's not what was exactly wanted, but I think your character looks dope and when the EE procs it looks freakin dope to see that. But it may stem from my like of seeing 'corrupted heroes'

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See I think Sorrow looks great without tentacles or anything else there. Taste is subjective. Hopefully the tentacle toggle will evolve into a selection of options instead of just "tentacles" or "no tentacles" so everyone can be happy.

I agree, I find every male hairstyle that much more welcoming now that the tentacles can be toggled off, it's amazing to feel like I actually have options now. I always loved Widowmaker but felt the tentacles ruined it.

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I hope 9.1.5 comes out before my sub ends just so I can at least make a realized Alliance High Elf!

[Pheraz]

Don't know if this is normal for the PTR but the void elf intro is beeing marked as work in progress


while the night elf intro remains normal


*puts the tinfoil hat on*
What if they actually remake the whole race a bit? New race standard portrait (maybe split face half blue half blondish)?

[Tiradon]

Don't know if this is normal for the PTR but the void elf intro is beeing marked as work in progress


while the night elf intro remains normal

*puts the tinfoil hat on*
What if they actually remake the whole race a bit? New race standard portrait (maybe split face half blue half blondish)?

...Oh wow... that's curious, let's see what happens in future builds....

[Edoll]

Don't know if this is normal for the PTR but the void elf intro is beeing marked as work in progress


while the night elf intro remains normal


*puts the tinfoil hat on*
What if they actually remake the whole race a bit? New race standard portrait (maybe split face half blue half blondish)?

If they change the intro and the race name I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.

And then I’ll read more blood elves coping and I’ll laugh some more.

[melzas]

ALl post BFA cinematics look like this, don't get all excited about nothing...

[Dristereau]

I wouldn't read much into the IGC's, it could be due to the new options because Nightborne have something similar when created (My Character was also walking backwards in the IGC) so it could be in case of bugs.

I have to agree with melzas, it looks pretty daft

I'm still not convinced about the Sorrow hairstyle personally, I think it looks much better with tentacles and has a direction, without it feels missing. I think of it as the equivalent to the Blood Elf Male 'Headband' and as I already said it feels missing/unfinished but that's my opinion. Wowhead seems to also think they're somewhat unfinished with how they look without tentacles.

I feel this is probably one of the last times they might look at Void Elves as they already have a reasonable amount of customization, but I'd rather push for everything now whilst things are being added, I would assume it would be 9.2.5 when we see other races (Highmountain/Dark Iron etc). However with regards to popularity I don't think any other allied race comes anywhere close to the Void Elves in terms of interest and discussion.

[BaumanKing]

Got to admit, high elves look great in blue. All your transmogs are awesome

[ravenmoon]

You literally said that the horde should not have any aesthetics or lore from the blood elves and instead of quelthalas the horde should have zulfarrak or something like that, that all the lore and aesthetics should only be from the alliance and that the blood elves should not they had to have no involvement of any kind in the lore.

You're missing the point of what I was saying, taking it out of context, and fialing to see what I was trying to say.

You took one look at blood elves lose Silvermoon and everything but "NOOO" went out of your head, including reading the rest of what was being said.

Go back and read it. It's all there.

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Now a visual toggle for entropic embrace and I'm sold.

Turning into purple goo in combat still ruins high elf fantasy (unless you play DK, lock spriest or sub rogue).

They'll probably change it, including the starting sequence. Don't worry.

It's perfect for those who want to play as void elves, but not those who want to play as high elves. a little tweaking should sort that out.

Void embrace or solar embrace (sunwell torrent?). Same thing, different visual. you choose

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Another option would be to just provide a glyph for the racial... like Astral form.

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

Eh, not really an option for me. I don't do "stand in SW and pretend" kind of RP, I like to have my immersive lore fitting character and do content with it, like arenas, M+, raids... I can't just forgo output cd for cosmetics (and that solution is really awkward anyway).

If they could add a toggle for tentacles, adding a toggle for that racial's visual isn't that much to ask for, right?
For example, they could add an NPC in Void Elf rift you can talk to and select "Teach me how to better control the power of entropic embrace" dialogue that removes the visual or turns it into something more subtle.

I mean, you don't really have to worry about EE when roleplaying lol.

I'm mostly just using it for world and questing stuff where I really don't care about the like 1% damage loss.

I would love a Glyph for Entropic Embrace, NGL, or any other way of customizating it. Glyphs we haven't seen for racials, but with the Zandalari loa blessing, there is precedent for some customization

I dont see any problems with Entropic embrace.
Its not any more immersion-breaking than being a Thornspeaker Kultiran druid who uses astral energy instead of death/decay-part of druidism

Kul Tiran druids don't use death magic btw. Ulfar pretty much tells us that Gorak tul's death and decay druidism is a corruption of their original beliefs.

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I really like the idea of a Glyph or an NPC in Telogrus Rift to change the Racial visually, my personal opinion is that because it only affects the base model (no 3D parts) it looks badly implements compared to everything changing. The effects of Memento of Angerboda (https://www.wowhead.com/item=133644/...da#screenshots) look much better as they also affect 3D pieces.

And I actually think it's the same effect than EE -the blue sheen- when it starts, so the difference could be simple, make the sheen last the 12 secs thus looking like Memento of Angerboda, and just not load the special VE texture.

Funnily enough, one of the things I dilsiked about EE was how little it was noticeable with dark hair; now, on my VE that is supposed to have blonde hair, then shift is actually striking and like it a lot more hehe.

I've had a mess around on the PTR and I really like the hair colours and ear lengths for Void Elves, the shorter ear make the shorter hair styles look better. The white, black and brown hair colours are not in yet but it's really nice to see the blonde/white blonde with normal skin. I don't see many people using tentacles on the lighter hair colours, it looks pretty terrible

On the downside removing tentacles makes some of the hairstyles look even worse than they already did, especially the Transience and Sorrow for Males and Consuming for Females. This is much less noticeable on the Female one than the Male ones which look like they're half a hairstyle. I would also like to add that Suffusion still looks god awful no matter how it's used.

Honestly Sorrow is my favorite, it looks so shaggy I love it. Taste is subjective of course! But yeah, NGL, it would be better if we could alternate with braids, like I have made mock ups of that XD.

As I've said before, I still want to see a few more hairstyles, more for Male than Female as I think half the Male ones are pretty bad, some with a slight sense of style/elegance. I'll still also keep mentioning Tribal/Runic Tattoos for Void/Blood along with a Dark Ranger skin/eyes for Blood Elves. I think that's the only way such a skin will be added as a Blood Elf option.

Also with the tentacle toggle option, all Void Elf NPCs seem to have lost their tentacles on the PTR, including PC ones you copy over. I'm assuming it's just something as simple as a 0/1 toggle option and the non tentacles being baseline meaning all the NPCs got hit by it

I do believe that VE's will be getting more hairstyles, but not before 10.0. But given the TLC Nightborne and Lightforged have gotten in that respect, to me, is a given. I really just hope that some hairstyles are longer for males. As for markings, I'd love them too, but don't feel I would be mad if we don't.

[Yarathir]

Got to admit, high elves look great in blue. All your transmogs are awesome

And so utterly killable, no?

[Frenchvince]

I'm happy guys !
It was a long battle but it was worth it !

Here are my updated characters.





The sin'dorei transmo to rage the horde !