Official High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Oswen]

Would be nice to have Darkfallen skin/eyes unlocked for Blood Elves after a quest, like Night Warrior Night Elves.
Something involving vampire Kael'Thas maybe?

[Syegfryed]

Why would blood elves get red eyes and grey skin options? Didnt all of the belf dark rangers flew the coop with Sylvanas, or are still working for her undercover? I know the nelf dark rangers took off with Calia, but I assumed Sylvanas's personal entourage left too. And the Darkfallen (the undead belf vampires?) were killed off in Voldun?

why void elves would get blood elf skin options too? it rly matters anymore?

If void elves are basically 2 races in one, having all blood elf skin tones, plus their void elf ones, plus apparently unique eye-colors, is only fair that either blood elves get to rp as another race with the darkfallen or all of void elves eye colors.

[Lahis]

What I never understood...
If high elves where mutated high borne... Why do they have blue eyes?
Speaking of night elves, female will finally get the option to have golden eyes. And so far it's always said that high borne have golden eyes and regular kaldorei blue eyes. So why do high elves have blue eyes?

Golden eyes were a really, really rare thing back before the Sundering. Only known specimens were Illidan and Azshara. Regular Highborne had silver and blueish eyes like High Elves and Nightborne after them. If you go back to do the Xe'Ra - Illidan flashback questiline in Legion, you will see that Blizzard used Death Knight skins for male night elves in the first flashback cutscene where Stormrages were infants. They did that to give them blue eyes instead of golden, because golden eyes weren't a thing back then. (Since then the Death Knight eye effect change has made that cutscene bit broken).



Practicing Druidic magic CAN turn Kaldorei's eyes golden, and that is the reason golden eyes are common these days on male night elves. Most of them are druids or very least been near one for the last several thousands of years.

[Sigxy]

Might be cheating to mention it here, but Blood Elf males got some more options now in the Wowhead dressing room (Ears, new beards).

I just worry I made my character too hot for this world. https://shadowlands.wowhead.com/dres...zLA8M2m8z4J87R

[Ielenia]

indeed it does, as blizzard own words said the allied races are indeed another races/subraces, and they never added in the game the same race but with another group, neither in the other faction

If they put alterac humans - the same as stormwind humans - in the horde, then i will agree with you that is meaningless

No, it's not. Kul'tirans are exactly the same race as stormwind humans. Blizzard just made some of the "race" burly and bigger for differentiation. Void elves and gilneans are another example: they are blood elves and humans, respectively. Hell: the gilnean curse is not hereditary, meaning the children of a gilnean is a normal human.

it literally does,

Except it doesn't, as shown by our current selection of playable races.

no one was talking about groups, i was talking with others about races, not a single time the term group, was brought up, him, quoted me arguing for the sake of argue, he keep doing this a lot

I've already explained that. When people use the word "race" when talking about playable races, it's being talked about groups. Because that's what you are, as a "playable race": a group within said race.

[Thalassian Bob]

I'm assuming and hoping these arcane bags under the eyes are not going to be a permanent fixture... ^^'



(tfw you're hungover on arcwine)

[Ardenaso]

I think the devs chose to replace the old high elf female eye (which was purplish blue with white schlera) with a full purple eye.
The males still have teal eyes.

I think the males will eventually get changed to purple as well. To give high elves their own identity.

Which is fun. When everyone got blue eyes, high elves get purple. So, no one has high elves!

I'm thinking since the Silver Covenant is practically persona non grata and they have no more proper connection to the Sunwell, the Dalaran magic crystals is what coped them and that resulted in purple eyes

[Aldo Hawk]

https://www.wowhead.com/news=316325/...owlands-alpha-

ALL DATAMINING OFC but even the blue eyes have different tints between them.

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Blood Elf "Blue Eyes" textures

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...mal/942034.png

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...mal/942033.png

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...mal/942032.png

The one in the middle is the one that has the most blue out of every of them, but lots of green also.

The other two are just teal, with equal amounts of green and blue.

Void Elf "Blue Eyes" textures below

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...mal/942031.png

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...mal/942030.png

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...mal/942029.png

And yeah, by placing these in paint these ones have more blue than the others.

I don't understand why they even try to make them look different at this point, they should have just released an Allied race, now everyone is just trapped in mediocrity.

I can see your point, but the difference is too minimal honestly, but it's there.

[DeicideUH]

I'm assuming and hoping these arcane bags under the eyes are not going to be a permanent fixture... ^^'



(tfw you're hungover on arcwine)

They do not look so extreme in-game, it’s a thing with transparency settings in the dressing room. Compare it with my pictures:

[Thalassian Bob]

They do not look so extreme in-game, it’s a thing with transparency settings in the dressing room. Compare it with my pictures:

[img]https://i.imgur.com/hHQgflv.jpg[/mg]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/8bzPftl.jpg[/mg]

That's true. Thanks for the comparison. Still not keen on how much the eye glow permeates to the rest of the face.

[Lahis]

I'm assuming and hoping these arcane bags under the eyes are not going to be a permanent fixture... ^^'



(tfw you're hungover on arcwine)

That is supposed to be glow from the eyes. WoWheads dressing room shows those wrong currently and makes them look like cheap make up.

[Thalassian Bob]

That is supposed to be glow from the eyes. WoWheads dressing room shows those wrong currently and makes them look like cheap make up.

Haha! I'm glad it's just a dressing room deficiency.

[Lahis]

Haha! I'm glad it's just a dressing room deficiency.

It looked awful when they were first datamining female worgen skins. It seemed like that for some reason Blizzard had decided to give them bright neon eye make up. Only later they made the connection that those colors were supposed to be tied to the new glowing eyes female worgen got, and were also displaying completely wrong in WoWHead's datamining tools.

[Thalassian Bob]

It looked awful when they were first datamining female worgen skins. It seemed like that for some reason Blizzard had decided to give them bright neon eye make up. Only later they made the connection that those colors were supposed to be tied to the new glowing eyes female worgen got, and were also displaying completely wrong in WoWHead's datamining tools.

Haha oh yeah! The Lady Gaga worgen were horrifying! xD

[Rhlor]

nice

[FlubberPuddy]

I would be totally fine with white hair option to make my Velf look like Helf, and maybe couple of new hairstyles who don't scream edgy, wet emo hair, but Helf.

Personally, I don't like new darker tones on Belfs at all, they lose their belf look, but if people want them sure, why not.

Yeah definitely we should get some non-emo/screamo hairstyles. Doesn't have to be same as Blood Elves, but some more normal ones for High Elf aspect would be nice.

Also that's the best way to be! "I don't personally like this thing, but if others wanted it then ok".

Unfortunately, not many have this kind of mindset so thank you for having it!

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And yeah, by placing these in paint these ones have more blue than the others.

I don't understand why they even try to make them look different at this point, they should have just released an Allied race, now everyone is just trapped in mediocrity.

I can see your point, but the difference is too minimal honestly, but it's there.

Yeah I don't understand why they try for difference either. As I told another poster here, it almost comes off as some internal employee going 'MUST.NOT.GIVE.TRUE.BLUE.EYES.TO.BLOOD.ELVES.' Like they're allergic to having the same customizations show up on the diff sides despite Pandaren existing

[Oswen]

Bronzebeard and Wildhammer do not have such a distinction. The same racials make sense for them. Although you can argue for certain racials to be unfitting for Wildhammers, like Stoneform, depends on what the lore behind that is.

No Bronzebeard racial makes sense for Wildhammer dwarves, nor do their voiceovers.

Stoneform: Learned by tapping into earthen heritage thanks to a ritual discovered with archeology knowledge. Wildhammers may be able to learn it aswell but that's a moot point since they don't really care about archeology in their culture, it would be like saying that an high elf can learn voidform by learning how to tap into void energies.

Explorer - Archeology bonus : see previous point

Frost Resistance: Wildhammers live on hills and not on frosty peaks, they should have nature resistance instead with all the storm hammers they like to throw around and their shamanistic attitude.

Might of the Mountain: They are hill dwarves.

Blizzard just went the easy route with them and that's it.
Wildhammers should have racials all about their storm hammers, something about pets because of their gryphon mastery (think Orc Command or Mag'har bonuses) and nature resistance.

Orcs and Trolls are more lucky in this regard, their racials are very generic (Berserking, Blood fury and so on) and can fit any tribe/clans.

"High Elves" just being a skin choice are exactly like what is happening with Wildhammer dwarves, an easy and lazy way out but sufficent enough to allow people to roleplay their characters like they want.

[Rhlor]

Blood Elf fans are going to be real happy with what's coming for em

The dark skin with the gold eyes looks real good.

I would like to have tattoos too

[FlubberPuddy]

Wildhammer actually look glorious in the mountain king heritage armor!!

I really hope the feather accessory comes to the elves (ALL elves)!!

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I would like to have tattoos too

Yes please!

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Omg if you use the short ear option for Blood Elves in the dressing room it finally covers the ears with helmets!!!! YAY

That's going to be god send to all elf players I imagine.

[Thalassian Bob]

nice
[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZnbh12XYAE8yDU?format=png&name=900x900[/MG]

The shorter ears make me really uncomfortable.

[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/g2hdKYE.png[/IG]

Wildhammer actually look glorious in the mountain king heritage armor!!

I really hope the feather accessory comes to the elves (ALL elves)!!

Wildhammer look glorious in anything!