Wood elves with a dark elf twist?
That's not what the original developers said. They were fully intended to be the best of dark elves and wood elves.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010205...667651,00.html
And indeed this is what happens, night elves became a full race at a time when high elves were part of the alliance units. The backstory of the night elves and the novel war of the ancients, then the progression in cataclysm and legion show you that night elves aren't just wood elves, and never were from the very beginning. The only players that think that are those that aren't keen on them and just go based on what they see in-game without paying attention to what the story is.We could never get a majority of the team to [agree] to do elves as a race per se. But then somebody suggested the idea of doing dark elves. We all thought that would be kind of cool, but none of us wanted to do traditional "drow." So we took the best of wood elves and the best of dark elves and made them into one race.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20010205...667651,00.html
http://classic.battle.net/war3/nightelf/
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/ne...erview-suramar
We could never get a majority of the team to [agree] to do elves as a race per se. But then somebody suggested the idea of doing dark elves. We all thought that would be kind of cool, but none of us wanted to do traditional "drow." So we took the best of wood elves and the best of dark elves and made them into one race.
All these say otherwise. You may appear correct but if you only go superficially on what you see and skim the lore. If you look closer, what you say is further away from what it is, but you have to use all the lore you are given.