Official High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Friendlyimmolation]

Why should I play a Void Elf if I want to play a High Elf?

Because if you don't want to play a "Majestic, blonde, pale elf." Then Ren'dorei is what you get.

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This thread proves that, unless the developers outright state 'HIGH ELVES WILL BECOME PLAYABLE AND THEY WILL BE THE BEST ALLIED RACE EVER, FORGIVE US FOR OUR SINS', these High Elves fanboys will never be satisfied.

Now, if you will excuse me, I will play my Alliance Void-tainted High Elf!

i honestly don’t know what these people were expecting when they asked for a horde race. lmfao

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Because if you don't want to play a "Majestic, blonde, pale elf." Then Ren'dorei is what you get.

once again i absolutely LOVE how ion calls out the real reason that most people want high elves. hahahahahaha

[Varodoc]

Why should I play a Void Elf if I want to play a High Elf?

Why should Blizzard waste time and resources to develop a separate Allied Race just because of you and the rest of this tiny minority?

Also, Void Elves are High Elves.

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Why should Blizzard waste time and resources to develop a separate Allied Race just because of you and the rest of this tiny minority?

Also, Void Elves are High Elves.

Because if you don't want to play a "Majestic, blonde, pale elf." Then Ren'dorei is what you get.

Why Ren'dorei though? Why are you not suggesting to play Humans or Lighforged Draenei, for example? They are closer to High Elves than Void Elves, after all.

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Actually, Void Elves can resemble High Elves. Give them a light skin tone and grey/azure hair and put them in transmog sets like the Stormwind armor that you get from the WoD Garrison and they look pretty similiar to High Elves. This makes sense when you consider the fact that Void Elves... unsurprisingly... are High Elves.

[Daniri]

Still, Ion has made me lose faith in the team. If the creative director does not know the lore properly, what hope do we have?...Maybe that's why characters like Sylvanas and Garona keep having personality rewrites.

Afrasiabi is the creative director.

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Why Ren'dorei though? Why are you not suggesting to play Humans or Lighforged Draenei, for example? They are closer to High Elves than Void Elves, after all.

then go play as one and stop complaining

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Afrasiabi is the creative director.

LMFAOOO

when you wanna talk shit about the game director and end up making yourself look like the idiot

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then go play as one and stop complaining

I have to buy the game for that though, and I am not feeling like doing it.

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Its been confirmed by Ion Hazzikostas in the Q&A that high elves will be playable on horde side once they add the blue eye color option

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I have to buy the game for that though, and I am not feeling like doing it.

so then why are you wasting your time arguing about a game you have no interest in buying...

you’re wasting your time. your choice of high elves are the white people elves on horde and void ones on alliance.

[Shinkishi]

Its been confirmed by Ion Hazzikostas in the Q&A that high elves will be playable on horde side once they add the blue eye color option

This is breaking news, dude. You need to get this on the front page of the site or something, the people have to know this. The thread will surely end once this is made known.

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Lore-wise, Blizz have got themselves in quite the tricky situation, with High Elves and Allied Races.

Their NPC's show up consistently throughout Alliance campaigns ever since Vanilla. They were a staunch ally of Stormwind during times when Dark Irons were enemies and Gilneas was nowhere to be found.

And then, Blizz has made some very messy precedents, with races like Highmountain Tauren, Lightforged Draenei and maybe Mag'har Orcs and Nighborne, who barely look any different. Hell, they even got Pandaren, working just fine for both, the situation they dug themselves into will be tricky to weasel out of.


But the "Blood Elf is High Elf" might have well been a bit of a hint of things to come, which could also get Blizz out of this sticky situation without putting High Elves in the Alliance:
Silver Covenant makes up the bulk of High Elves that work against Silvermoon right now, however, that is mostly from Vereesa's wishes. Now, if some Horde plot were to be made, to remove Vereesa from Silver Covenant leadership, and replace her with somebody who has greater... Silvermoon sympathies, that High Elf could co-opt the entire Silver Covenant into the Horde, without Vereesa's angst and grief stopping them from returning back to their homes. Only Alleria's Void Elves would remain with the Alliance, in that situation, with perhaps a few individual High Elf characters.
This would effectively make High Elf into a cosmetic option for Blood Elf eyes, at the very least, and would solve the High Elf Allied Race crisis.

Not that they couldn't simply add them as an Allied Race for later, when the hype is needed, with the precedents Blizz has made so far, everything goes, really, and the silly crisis would also be solved either way!

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This is breaking news, dude. You need to get this on the front page of the site or something, the people have to know this. The thread will surely end once this is made known.

Well it's already on the delta servers, see:

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so then why are you wasting your time arguing about a game you have no interest in buying...

you’re wasting your time. your choice of high elves are the white people elves on horde and void ones on alliance.

I would buy it if High Elves become playable as this is something I wanted for a long time and I'm invested in the issue, hence I comment on it. And I don't really waste much time on arguing about this. I just post a few times here and there.

[Shinkishi]

Well it's already on the delta servers, see:

Holy hell! What a scoop! Those lucky delta players.

[Koroniss]

Why should I play a Void Elf if I want to play a High Elf?

Because they are High Elves?

Or do you mean High Elf without the void taint?

Those are the Blood Elves.

Or do you mean High Elf without the fel taint?

Those are the Blood Elves again, soon to be represented in-game as well.

Or do you mean High Elf who is Alliance affiliated?

Those are the Void Elves.

Or do you mean High Elf who is Alliance affiliated AND untouched by void taint? A member of the Silver Covenant, I take it?

Those are NPCs. Sorry, it amounts to too many specifics. We all want something in greater details that the game could technically offers us. Use your imagination, it's an immensely powerful tool! It's called an RPG for a reason.

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Stop this madness for the love of our lord and savior Ion Hazzikostas !

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Because they are High Elves?

Or do you mean High Elf without the void taint?

Or do you mean High Elf who is Alliance affiliated?

Those are the Void Elves.

Sorry, your algorithm entered an infinite loop.

Those are NPCs. Sorry, it amount to too many specifics. We all want something in greater details that the game could technically offers us. Use your imagination, it's an immensely powerful tool! It's called an RPG for a reason.

Well, I am not someone into pretending to play something I don't. My solution is different - if the game doesn't provide what I want and other features are not enough to get me hyped for it, I don't play it.

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Stop this madness for the love of our lord and savior Ion Hazzikostas !

ion “lmao play horde bruh” hazzikostas

i love it

[Shinkishi]

Stop this madness for the love of our lord and savior Ion Hazzikostas !

Sorry big guy, but we have another 70 pages of "I want High Elves" followed by "High Elves are Blood Elves" scheduled.