Yah, I was watching the stream and they were having issues making sense of the eye glows. I personally think there's a texture missing and that the eyes will look more distinct; as you can see on the current preview, most of the new options look overexposed unlike the green or yellow eyes, like something is being rendered incorrectly.
Like as someone who doesn't care for blue eyes on BE's, those blue eyes look... bad. In would still expect them to look a lot better.
I remember that at Blizzcon 2019, someone from Blizzard said that the blood elves would receive 40 customization options, and on wowhead, we can see that they already have:
- 12 shades of green / gold + white veiled eye for the eyes
- 4 dark colors for the skin
- 3 colors of black / brown for hair.
They have only 21 options for hairstyles, tattoo ?, jewelry, make up and facial hair to distribute between women and men, I think they deserve to have a lot more new hairstyles.
I did not count the blue eyes because they are only suitable for high-elf NPCs who share the files of the blood elves.
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...n00_104_hd.png
Hahahahahahaha.... Bwahahahahahahah
Oh god today's a good day.
If you listen carefully you can hear helfers rage as they get on the front page of wowhead.
Good luck begging for a race that will now have absolute ZERO aesthetic difference.
GG
Im loving the denial in people saying the blue eyes are for npc only.
Cuz yeah blizzard made multiple shades of blue for npcs, lmao okay.
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I know you're probably baiting people with your response, but I'll bite and put my own two cents on this.
Yes, I do agree with Ion on his 2018 statements because, yes, blood elves ARE high elves just as void elves are blood elves are high elves. Eye color doesn't differentiate one from the other; it's politics (and magic, to an extent). However, I don't see void elves are high elves; they're their own entity, and they don't follow Quel'dorei rhetoric because they're already tapping into the Void, so unless the void elves learn how to Voidforge high elves into ren'dorei, I don't see void elf numbers increasing.
Also, people want to play an Alliance High Elf - not a Horde Blood Elf that dabbles in fel and death magic nor a void elf that uses fel and death magic. They want an Alliance High Elf that doesn't mess with any of that and can mingle with Alliance races and not Horde races. So as we can see now with these new customization options, blue eyes aren't exclusive to Alliance High Elves anymore. Hell, high elves had different eye colors before Quel'Thalas fell. So while blood elves still carry the taint of fel corruption, the Sunwell has long since been purified with holy magic, so not only do they have golden/Light eyes now they're eventually going to lose that taint and regain their eye colors.
Should Alliance High Elves do become playable, they should at least be given a different body type to distinguish them from blood elves and void elves (who are obviously copy-pasted blood elves with Void aesthetic). Then again, I don't think physiques would change all that much given it's been a little over ten years since WC3, plus pandaren on both factions don't look any different, so whatever the devs decide if it comes to that point it's on them. But Alliance High Elves should be locked into certain classes that the Horde elves don't have, which are shamanism and druidism, so that and a new body type would set them apart from blood elves. You don't need eye colors to set them apart, especially with customization being loosened.
(Also on topic: Since blood elves are high elves, then it stands to reason that Alliance High Elves should get a name change. I know people like to rub that in to the pro-high elf fans, but if it's to prevent confusion and more petty arguments then I think it would be warranted.)
Yeah my point is that we are not even sure these are the meant options since the files are unlabelled and unlike skin tone and hairstyle files, eye glows do not have the distinct features the others have and you can notice at first glance.
These look bad and bland so I hope these aren't the right options.
About a decade late, because If I never see "Alliance HE" screeching again, it'll be too soon.
I see that the "blue eyed" option for Blood Elves still keep their eyes glowing a solid color, so they don't have the cleared eyed (uncorrupted) look of the High Elves, who have whites and irises that are a different color. Nothing about these great new options for Blood Elves excludes High Elves with clear eyes (and all the various eye colors High Elf players may want beside just blue).
the high elves were not a very popular request for some, we have proof to the contrary today, just with a post from Wowhead, it is raining threads of all kinds on the official forum.
It will end in a BG pro HE vs anti HE.![]()
Man, Ion is such a simp. Sad.
The blue eyes on Blood Elves are already different from existing High Elves. If anything this is solidifying more differentiation.
Also Stiven was saying he's very unsure about the eyes and they could be for Night Elves (the ones that were super bright). He felt very unsure while capturing the pics for wowhead.
Either way I hope it just staves off a lot of the detractors. Hope they go be happy with their blue eyed blood elves, then Alliance can continue requesting what they want for High Elves in peace lol.