They could become demon Hunters if they find someone to teach them, but should they succeed they will most likely be viewed as outcast and constantly belittled, similar to the night elven demon hunters in their society.
I do not know much about Demon Hunters, but what I know is about High Elves. And at the event that some day they can be playable (Blizzard willing), there will be a series of classes that will be unable for them as:
- Warlocks (for their involvement with demons)
- Demon Hunters (for the above reason)
- Warriors (High Elves are not adept at melee)
- Monks (for the above reason)
- Necromancers (for being a class dark)
- Death Knights (for the above reason)
- Druids (the High Elves have nothing to do with nature)
- Shamans (for the above reason)
- Rune Masters (High Elves would never tattoo their bodies with runes)
- Etc...
It would be interesting if only one race per faction could be a Demon Hunter - High Elves for the Alliance, and Blood Elves for the Horde. Though Night Elves would make sense also, yet that would be unbalanced :I
I forgot that Blizzard ignores the lore and logic in pursuit of marketing ... (see Night Elf Mages, Gnome Priests, Draenei Death Knights, Goblin Hunters, Blood Elf Warriors, etc ...)
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High Elves would have had no choice in becoming Death Knights. More than 90% of the High Elf race were killed by the scourge during the siege of Quel'thalas, so Arthas could have made MILLIONS of High Elven Death Knights. And it's possible that High Elves had Druids of a different sort, actually - they weren't druids of the cenarion circle, who can shapeshift, but High Elven Druids were more like medieval garden keepers and botanists.
Source for High Elf "Druids": http://www.wowpedia.org/Elven_Druid
Your premises are both fallacious.
Blood elves consume fel magic to satiate their addiction. You use "Making themselves stronger" too vaguely to connect your first premise to the second. High elves refuse to feed on fel magic to quell their thirst. There lies the difference between blood elves and high elves. The consumption, not the use.
There's no lore that even implies that high elves where dead set against the use demonic energies; in absentia of information, we should assume that warlocks could have presented themselves organically as they did in other societies. And since the only hard evidence either against or in favor that we have about high elf warlocks is Summoner Nolric, the scale tips off on "yes, they can".
"If the people who are trying to destroy this world aren't taking a day off, then why should I?"
-Bob Marley
Indeed it hid their magic and created a barrier.
http://www.wowpedia.org/Runestones
I'll start with using Warlocks as an example. If a race is morally opposed to being a Warlock than they would be Morally opposed to becoming a Demon Hunter.
So the Question would an Alliance High Elf be morally opposed to becoming a Warlock?
Here is the list of known Alliance High Elf Classes from all 3 WC games and the RPG books.
classes: Ranger, Paladin, Hunter, Mage, Priest, Warrior, Wizard, Sorcerer, Arcanist, Dead shot, Argent Dawn templar, Scout, Warmage, Necromancer, Battle mage, Archmage
You will notice they can Be Necromancers.
Now considering that the Horde Has High Elves (aka Blood Elves) and they can be Warlocks I do not see any reason to believe that High Elves loyal to the Alliance couldn't decide to go the Fel route. In fact they would just to keep Gnomes from causing too much harm.
Now on to the assumption that the Alliance will get High Elves as Player Characters. I am sure that Blizzard has thought about it more than once. The only issue being if they did that they would have to give another iconic race to the Horde, and that would be Ogres. So I want you to think about it, and be perfectly logical is the Horde getting Ogres?
Reasons that blizzard hasn't given Ogres Two headed mages, Near Giant Sized. Granted they can go with 1/2 Ogres and solve that issue, but then the Alliance elves would have to be called 1/2 Elves to make it fair.
Which is ok since Arator the Redeemer is a Half-Elf Paladin and the son of high elven ranger Alleria Windrunner and the human paladin Turalyon, you will notice he has the blood elf model and the green glow eyes.
He is also fully Alliance.
-Arator's eyes are blue, they were changed in patch 3.1
-The RPG's are considered non canon.
-High elves have a Warlock Trainer in Dalaran. Historically, NPC trainers always have been classes that the player characters can be.
-Ogres don't need to be made "half" They could just had a bend over animation to avoid collision with door frames.
So many empty assumptions about "this race cant be that class because of x"... so much taking RPG books as law...
Race is irrelevent... how does what species a person belongs to have any bearing on what they decide to do?? It makes as much sense as saying germans cant juggle, or japanese can't be bus drivers...
An elf is physically incapable of picking up a sword?
They are unable to punch something?
An elf is automatically and intrinsically a nice person and would never do anything bad in their lives?
All characters are incapable of independant thought?
(in the standard Gnome Voice)
Incorrect good sir, Gnome do not have Priests we have Medics now some of our Medics have gotten it in their minds that they are Priests, But I tell you sir They are point of fact Medics, and learned to heal though the application of sound medical science. Zap it with holy magic, see if it lives.
Also I should point out That the Highborn Mages have rejoined the Night Elves in pursuit of great Justice.
(end of gnome voice)
You seem to make a lot of assumptions.
All death knights are Heroes of Azeroth who died during the First Surge invasion, so the difficulty is determining when the Draenei Death Knight Actually died and became enthralled to the Litch King. The inclusion of any race as Death Knight has more to do with will the Primary Faction Leaders accept the fallen heroes, the only reason Pandaren are not DKs is they were stuck on a turtle when Arthas killed and resurrected the DKs. With any race that was around from frozen throne to the end of Wrath you will find Death Knights.
Goblin hunters, the only class that can make use of guns and only one of the two Engineering races which make guns can be that class. I'm still pissed that they refuse to allow Gnomes to be Hunters, hell Gnomes would rather use a gun, and pets, Who collects more pets than Gnome Players.
Horde High Elf Warriors, they didn't get them until Wrath. However they had City Guards. The truth is there is no reason for any race not to be a warrior, High Elves are just reluctant but they have plenty of soldiers.
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I am starting to think you do not know the lore of the would all that well.
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This is how cannon works in all multi-genre fantasy worlds.
Primary Canon - The main source ie current version of WOW
Secondary Canon - Old versions of Primary Source, previous versions of WOW (ie Cata, Wrath, BC, Vanilla)
Old sources - WarCraft games (first to last expansion)
Literary Sources - Novels, RPG books, Comic Books
The way it works is the source is valid until the Primary Canon source changes or contradicts it. Since the Alliance High Elves Have very little class lore since WC3 the and the most recent sources are the literary sources it is safe to continue to reference them until the time Blizzard makes a change. In fact I remember playing WC2 and wondering what an elven druid was.
The High Elf warlocks in Dalaran is are an Undead High Elf Darahir
http://www.wowhead.com/npc=29537/darahir
And the Alliance Trainer Summoner Nolric
http://www.wowpedia.org/Summoner_Nolric
I know this as I play warlocks.