Official High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Lahis]

Anyone notice that suddenly the Alliance effectively have the entire Blood Elf race, except with a higher starting level and better racials than their actual faction get? Blizzard's damn Horde bias again.

Horde still get to keep green and gold eyes.

[Gaidax]

Anyone notice that suddenly the Alliance effectively have the entire Blood Elf race, except with a higher starting level and better racials than their actual faction get? Blizzard's damn Horde bias again.

Alliance does not get fel eyes... Talk about Horde favoritism right there.

My Warlock yet again will have to suffer.

[Yarathir]

Horde still get to keep green and gold eyes.

And (for now, it seems) blonde hair, all blood elf hairstyles, the racials, the underwear (Blizzard has already said Void Elves with High Elf skins will get Void Elf underwear)

In essence, what they get are blue eyes (which Blood Elves were also given) and blood elf body textures.

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Alliance does not get fel eyes... Talk about Horde favoritism right there.

My Warlock yet again will have to suffer.

Void Elves do get purple eyes, though.

Which is pretty bueno.

[FlubberPuddy]

Anyone notice that suddenly the Alliance effectively have the entire Blood Elf race, except with a higher starting level and better racials than their actual faction get? Blizzard's damn Horde bias again.

Hey I was just talking about people saying this yesterday, funny to see it here now!

But nah Blood Elves still keep some uniques y'know!

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Alliance does not get fel eyes... Talk about Horde favoritism right there.

My Warlock yet again will have to suffer.

Might wanna see Sylvanas, she's known to want to free people from torment..I think?

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Void Elves do get purple eyes, though.

Which is pretty bueno.

Shades of blue, purple, violet eyes? Hell yes I'm all for it!

[Yarathir]

Shades of blue, purple, violet eyes? Hell yes I'm all for it!

Now we just need some freaky Old God eyes, mwahaha.

[Ardenaso]

I am not 100% on the lore but there are posts in here that debate this. From what I've read the Holy high elves joined the Hand AFTER the Blood Knights (and in Silvermoon there weren't any paladins to begin with).

Again this doesn't go against the lore because you are still playing a VOID ELF: it's now a political thing instead of solely the new biological subrace. Why would a high elf paladin join a void faction?

I wasn't... saying anything about Void Elf Paladins? I only responded to the "no high elf paladin" comment.

[Edoll]

After sleeping for the night, I’m still hyped for this. Void elves being purple was one of the biggest WoW disappointments I experienced. If this is all we get, I’m happy! But I really hope void elves get light hair colors too. Silver, white, and blue would be amazing and still keep them separate from the blood elves gold and red hairs.

[FlubberPuddy]

Now we just need some freaky Old God eyes, mwahaha.

Like these ones?



I'd be down!!

[Magnagarde]

Anyone notice that suddenly the Alliance effectively have the entire Blood Elf race, except with a higher starting level and better racials than their actual faction get? Blizzard's damn Horde bias again.

I don't think they do, unless an entire race is boiled down to eyecolor and hairstyle. The blood elves very much have their own style and flavour, background and lore. In a "dead giveaway" way, when picking specific transmogs, faction affiliation and tooltips are the only things that differentiates blood elves from void elves as things stand now.

[FlubberPuddy]

After sleeping for the night, I’m still hyped for this. Void elves being purple was one of the biggest WoW disappointments I experienced. If this is all we get, I’m happy! But I really hope void elves get light hair colors too. Silver, white, and blue would be amazing and still keep them separate from the blood elves gold and red hairs.

Yes I agree!!! Silver/white/blue would be fine options. Frostfencer Seraphi has the light blue hair, would be nice to get!

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I don't think they do, unless an entire race is boiled down to eyecolor and hairstyle. The blood elves very much have their own style and flavour, background and lore. In many ways, when picking specific transmogs, faction affiliation and tooltips are the only things that differentiates blood elves from void elves as things stand now.

For some people, an entire race was boiled down to a skin tone spectrum. Thankfully they're no longer around.

[Kyriani]

People are going to be able to make so many good transmogs Alliance side. What with all the blue/gold colors that Alliance has

I came up with some nice ones for a male Void Elf mage I have!



Granted I don't know what the hair style and color options will be exactly when they go live, but for now those placeholders will do.

[Magnagarde]

For some people, an entire race was boiled down to a skin tone spectrum. Thankfully they're no longer around.

I won't argue the fact that certain skin tone accessibility is nonsensical to see in Warcraft, but that's coming purely from a lore and storytelling point of view. Then again, Blizzard hasn't shown much consistency when it comes to their own lore.

World of Warcraft is in a creative free-for-all as things stand now and the lore has taken the backseat.

[FlubberPuddy]

I'm loving seeing all the comments on the wowhead post about the news, "finally High Elves are playable!!!" just goes to show how big a part aesthetics plays to the majority of players.

No one cares about the details like Blood Elf/Void Elf racials or Dwarf/Wildhammer racials. Because the bigger thing is how your character is going to look when you're afking in the capital hub all day!

[The Emperor]

Finally, this deviant obsession with blue-colored blood elves may end. Thanks, Blizzard.

[FlubberPuddy]

I came up with some nice ones for a male Void Elf mage I have!



Granted I don't know what the hair style and color options will be exactly when they go live, but for now those placeholders will do.

These are very nice!!! And yeah, the only thing I know for sure is a black/raven hair color is coming as it was showcased on one of the Void Elf male hairstyles.



The 2nd one from the left, the smexy dark skin one that's a new hair color Void Elves don't currently have!

I'm going to play around with some options myself and try to get as accurate as I can too for the time being.

[Yarathir]

Like these ones?



I'd be down!!

Exactly like that!

Plus some of those extra eyes. And even more crazy hairstyles.

[FlubberPuddy]

Exactly like that!

Plus some of those extra eyes. And even more crazy hairstyles.

I'm down!!

[DeicideUH]

[Broflake]

The in-game files would read as completely different races, even though the player would access them from a single interface element.

So, when creating a new character one of the clickable options might be "Dwarf". After you select that option, three clickable flags show up on the screen somewhere that further delineate regional variants (i.e. "Bronzebeard Dwarf", "Dark Iron Dwarf", and "Wildhammer Dwarf").

This allows for each variant to be treated, in the files, as a completely unique race... while still being known, broadly, by a single ethnic demonym (in this case, "Dwarf"/"Dwarves").

You are presuming WoW was not coded using spaghetti and potatoes.
They would need to re-code the game to use the file descriptors for those options and I am not sure that coul be done without breaking a lot of things in WoW.
My confidence in the basic architecture of WoW is poor.



Void elves dont get brown hair/gold/red?

Well...im not surprised if they get everything to be honest. Clearly, Blizzard just wanted to shut everyone up. IM sure they'll do it.
I just find it ironic that high elves just gaveup what has largely been construed as "purity".

[Lahis]

You are presuming WoW was not coded using spaghetti and potatoes.
They would need to re-code the game to use the file descriptors for those options and I am not sure that coul be done without breaking a lot of things in WoW.
My confidence in the basic architecture of WoW is poor

Any piece of big or old software contain varying amounts of spaghetti held together with staplers and paper clips.

WoW is both massive and old. You can bet the codebase is huge mess deep down.