Some players really struggle to accept non-human races having more than one thing to them - so streotypical and cliched - something you'd think they'd know is distinctive about blizzard races for not following other franchises. The Night elf crowd are screaming to stop considering Night elves only as forest elves, and remember they're also arcane dark elves.
And I come here and see the same thing been implied by @Gurluas for Blood elves but with the Light instead. What about a fan like me that really likes the Farstrider ranger side, the Magister arcane side and the Blood Knight light side? e see blood elves being shown in lore as very strong in all 3. Yes, very strong. Showing the strength of the light side doesn't automatically make them bad at the arcane just because Nightborne are around.
It's like NElf fans are saying, Nightborne around doesn't auto mean Night elves are now only about the forest and rural society , they're still night elves and still have Highborne, Moonguard and others like Illidari around who are all heavy magic users.
it's okay for Elves to have more than one thing they're good at. This is not D&D or NWN, where non-human races only have one main thing to them.
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Exactly. Thank you. I'm not a high elf hater, and if you guys get em, good for you, i'm convinced the impact would be insignificant to the horde. Cos no one would faction change just to be High elves from horde (especially if blood elves get blue eyes). If anything, it is the Night elf race that will lose numbers, because Elves are supposed to be pretty, and Night elves, especially males, just don't quite make it. Blizzard really have put a ceiling on them, their Nightborne horde versions are even uglier.
Blue yes for Blood elves really has nothing to do with High elves. Yes iI understand why alliance fans may feel this is a dig, maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but blood elves need this option and they also need some of these lovely high elf concepts to be used for Farstrider customisations.