wow Blood Elf Golden Eyes Customization Option in Battle for Azeroth

[Stan 5,240]

Blizzard added three new face options with golden eyes for Blood Elves in the latest Battle for Azeroth Alpha Build.

It appears that even existing races will receive additional customization options in Battle for Azeroth. The first addition were Upright Orcs and recently MMO-Champion posted about three Blood Elf face options featuring golden eyes here.

Female Blood Elf

Male Blood Elf

Images via MMO-Champion

[Hoods 40]

I like this. This gives some of the retarded players that are begging for "High Elfs" some peace. It also reflects the change the Blood Elfs have gone throught with the new Sunwell being of Holy Magic instead of Arcane.

[MZLICH 43]

Draenei+yellow eyes= light forged draenei race

blood elf+ yellow eyes =blood elf?

what are they exactly doing????

[Xaethron 36]

Meanwhile no talk of Void Elf getting a more neutral skin tone.

[VictorVakaras 83]

Can we get hunched belfs?

[Athaniar 2]

1 hour ago, MZLICH said:

Draenei+yellow eyes= light forged draenei race

blood elf+ yellow eyes =blood elf?

what are they exactly doing????

Remember that the Sunwell is Light infused now? DE's shouldn't call themselves blood elves anymore, but, idk, maybe sun elves (belore'dorei?).

[MZLICH 43]

10 hours ago, Athaniar said:

Remember that the Sunwell is Light infused now? DE's shouldn't call themselves blood elves anymore, but, idk, maybe sun elves (belore'dorei?).

so they should back into their orginal: high elves... plus(according to you) if they add it,it would be silly if you see both eyes colors right now...

[SMOrcMan 76]

Meanwhile DKs not getting new stuff again. Currently no allied race despite the fact that the legion DK campaign makes it very clear that dead are still being raised. In addition DKs are still only going to have blue eyes as blood elves still.

[MZLICH 43]

1 hour ago, SMOrcMan said:

Meanwhile DKs not getting new stuff again. Currently no allied race despite the fact that the legion DK campaign makes it very clear that dead are still being raised. In addition DKs are still only going to have blue eyes as blood elves still.

dark iron dwarves will have :D they got much lore already before wotlk,like worgens and goblins who got dks after wotlk, they will have too or blizzard lost their minds for sure!!!

[Erialis 22]

5 hours ago, Athaniar said:

Remember that the Sunwell is Light infused now? DE's shouldn't call themselves blood elves anymore, but, idk, maybe sun elves (belore'dorei?).

Belfs dont call themself becouse of eyes or something...blood elves are called like that after all that lost life during Scourge inavsion on Quel'thalas. To remember them and what happened to their nation. Also green eyes didn't come from using arcane magic. It was sign of fel, when Illidan taught them art of draining magic from fel and demons. That green floating crystal all over Quel'thalas is cointaned demonic energy which everyone could drain to sustain himself.

So as you can see there is no reason to change their name and there never will be any.

Edited March 24, 2018 by Erialis
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[krapmyself 60]

I really like this idea because their Sunwell became infused with holy light, so it makes sense that some might start to gain Golden eyes since the Sunwell has become their source of power again instead of those fel infused crystals they used back in BC.

Also, it will look awesome on Paladins. (priests too, I suppose).

 

With that said, there's still one thing that bothers me: Why do the Forsaken have golden eyes? By rights, their eyes should be Blue, (Lich king influence) Green, (fel influence since the Scourge was originally a bio weapon of the Burning Crusade) or Red (as represented by Sylvannas and Nathanos, an unknown influence). There doesn't seem to be any current lore reason as to why the Forsaken have those golden eyes. 

[Hjaldren 2]

On 3/24/2018 at 8:26 AM, Hoods said:

I like this. This gives some of the retarded players that are begging for "High Elfs" some peace. It also reflects the change the Blood Elfs have gone throught with the new Sunwell being of Holy Magic instead of Arcane.

"But there are so few of them, they couldn't possibly make them playable!" This argument is invalid because there are far fewer void elves than high elves.

"But blood elves are high elves!" No, they are not. Culturally they are completely different. The high elves are alliance through and through, the blood elves are a bunch of edgy traitors who chose to start siphon the life energy out of living beings to sate their addiction. The high elves couldn't go through with this and have a completely different outlook on life and other creatures, not to mention they have a different aesthetic style.

"But high elves look too similar to blood elves, they can't possibly make them a separate race!" Again, no. If they can add recoloured orcs with a couple of new hairstyles or some slightly paler draenei with longer horns they can take the blood elf model, give them some less red-tinted skin, new hairstyles, blue eyes and Alleria-style warpaint options.

"But they can't give the alliance TWO of the same skeleton!" Yes they can. The alliance already have two draenei races and the horde will have two orc races. There is not a single valid argument as to why we shouldn't get high elves already. And we will get them, trust me. It's only a matter of time. People have been screeching for them since vanilla, it is guaranteed money. The only argument i see is people getting really triggered for some reason that people want this core lore race that should've been playable since vanilla, contrarians if you will who dislike it simply because they think it makes them special and salty horde players that get far too invested in the faction conflict and start sperging out at the prospect of the alliance getting access to an original alliance race that they've been asking for for so long. High elves is to the alliance what brown orcs is to the horde.

[Athaniar 2]

19 hours ago, MZLICH said:

so they should back into their orginal: high elves... plus(according to you) if they add it,it would be silly if you see both eyes colors right now...

High elves had only arcane energy from the old sunwell, not holy, that's why their eyes were blue. But I do agree it's silly they have both colors now. I think it's because people's preferences, so they kept the gree eyes. But I add that they should have had golden eyes since a while ago.

[Athaniar 2]

14 hours ago, Erialis said:

Belfs dont call themself becouse of eyes or something...blood elves are called like that after all that lost life during Scourge inavsion on Quel'thalas. To remember them and what happened to their nation. Also green eyes didn't come from using arcane magic. It was sign of fel, when Illidan taught them art of draining magic from fel and demons. That green floating crystal all over Quel'thalas is cointaned demonic energy which everyone could drain to sustain himself.

So as you can see there is no reason to change their name and there never will be any.

I know they had green eyes because of the fel, same goes for the orcs' skin color. And I know why they call themselves children of the blood. I just wanted to point out that there's a reason they can change their name, they had their redemption already when helping in the fight against kael and the legion, and have the Sunwell and their land back (theoretically), now properly named because of the Light infusion (you know the sun apparently has holy energies in wow, sunwalkers and stuff). I mean, they can look at the future now, and not dwell on the past and it's mistakes.

[Athaniar 2]

7 hours ago, krapmyself said:

I really like this idea because their Sunwell became infused with holy light, so it makes sense that some might start to gain Golden eyes since the Sunwell has become their source of power again instead of those fel infused crystals they used back in BC.

Also, it will look awesome as fuck on Paladins. (priests too, I suppose).

 

With that said, there's still one thing that bothers me: Why do the Forsaken have golden eyes? By rights, their eyes should be Blue, (Lich king influence) Green, (fel influence since the Scourge was originally a bio weapon of the Burning Crusade) or Red (as represented by Sylvannas and Nathanos, an unknown influence). There doesn't seem to be any current lore reason as to why the Forsaken have those golden eyes. 

About the forsaken thing, I think it's because of the undead plague. you see, some areas and objects infested with the plague have this yellow coloring.

[Hoods 40]

High Elvs, are the same as Blood Elfs. They just didnt drain mana out of living beings or started draining Fel. Only visual difference is their Blue, instead of Green, eyes. Its retarded to actually bring back the "High" Elvs when we alrdy have the Blood Elfs, Nightborne, Night Elfs and Void Elfs. The argument you stared with " yes they can, they alrdy have 2 of the same with Draenei and Brown Orcs" The alliance would have 3 Elf races if they did and we just cant have that imbalance. + the only "High" Elfs that are in the Alliance are being lead by Vereesa Windrunner and its just a very small part from Wrath called the Silver Conclave. Blood Elfs are High Elfs, just under a different name. They dont change Race beacuse they swapped the name, would be like if I started to call myself "insert generic racist name" and suddenly became a member of that race.

We can argue that the Blood Elfs that still call themself High Elfs are loyal to the Alliance but as I said before, that is through Vereesa Windrunner in her own Silver Conclave which isnt big enough to be considered a Race.

[MZLICH 43]

11 hours ago, Athaniar said:

High elves had only arcane energy from the old sunwell, not holy, that's why their eyes were blue. But I do agree it's silly they have both colors now. I think it's because people's preferences, so they kept the gree eyes. But I add that they should have had golden eyes since a while ago.

So maybe they had to change name of bloodelves and name them light forged elves or holy elves or idk...or maybe they had to add a new allied race for them...it gets more silly when you see draenei got 2 races for eyes colors but blood elves get same thing but no new race and both of eyes are usable?this patch is just confusing me!!I don't understand many things! I still can't understand if we get a paladin draenei and a warrior light forged draenei in same BG! Looks like brazzers made BFA lol! Anything about this patch looks crazy!

[Gulamarth 0]

On 25.3.2018 at 9:05 AM, Vinterlig said:

"But blood elves are high elves!" No, they are not. Culturally they are completely different. The high elves are alliance through and through, the blood elves are a bunch of edgy traitors who chose to start siphon the life energy out of living beings to sate their addiction. The high elves couldn't go through with this and have a completely different outlook on life and other creatures, not to mention they have a different aesthetic style."

Not entirely correct. Blood elves are not traitors. They actually stayed loyal to the Alliance after they got decimated by the scourge and kept on fighting the scourge and their demon lords alongside the human survivors of Lordaeron. They only deserted the Alliance after Grand Marshal Garithos accused them of treason and ordered them to be collectively executed. Why did he accused them of treason? Because they made sure that the orders he himself gave them were carried out. Crazy... I know... After that they faced two options, stay with the Alliance and die, or survive.

Not to bore you with more lore, but the cultural differences between blood elves and high elves are extremely recent and fresh. In fact, the only high elves that did not name themselves "blood elves" were those who at the time were aligned with the Kirin Tor (not with the Alliance) under the command of Vereesa Windrunner. These high elves (known as the Silver Covenant) were able to keep their pretty blue eyes because they continued sating their addiction with arcane magic, which was and is still provided to them by the Kirin Tor. Otherwise they would´ve been forced to start syphoning energy from living beings just like the rest of their unprivileged brethren.

So the ones that were actually "alliance through and through" were the blood elves.

Edited March 26, 2018 by Gulamarth

[Gulamarth 0]

On 25.3.2018 at 11:00 AM, MZLICH said:

So maybe they had to change name of bloodelves and name them light forged elves or holy elves or idk...or maybe they had to add a new allied race for them...it gets more silly when you see draenei got 2 races for eyes colors but blood elves get same thing but no new race and both of eyes are usable?this patch is just confusing me!!I don't understand many things! I still can't understand if we get a paladin draenei and a warrior light forged draenei in same BG! Looks like brazzers made BFA lol! Anything about this patch looks crazy!

This isn´t that crazy from a lore perspective. Don´t panic!

The new optional look for the blood elves is due to the restored Sunwell. Blood elves can now nurture themselves with holy light instead of fel magic. That is why, as a player, you can choose whether you are a blood elf that returned to sate his magic hunger with the Sunwell or decided against it and keep on syphoning the energy of demons. Makes for a pretty cool role playing option. However regardless of what type of magic your character is consuming, you are still a blood elf.

Lightforged Draenei on the other hand are a different race of draenei. They were all eredar in the beginning, but when Archimonde and Kil'jaden bowed to the Legion this group of draenei didn´t follow the prophet Velen, but escaped Argus on another vessel (the Genedar). They then joined the Army of the Light and have been fighting the Burning Crusade for thousands of years. They infused their very bodies with the light, so they are not just fueling themselves with the light, they are one with it. By this they became a new type of draenei. That is why these guys are a whole new race instead of a cosmetic option.

Edited March 26, 2018 by Gulamarth

[MZLICH 43]

On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Gulamarth said:

This isn´t that crazy from a lore perspective. Don´t panic!

The new optional look for the blood elves is due to the restored Sunwell. Blood elves can now nurture themselves with holy light instead of fel magic. That is why, as a player, you can choose whether you are a blood elf that returned to sate his magic hunger with the Sunwell or decided against it and keep on syphoning the energy of demons. Makes for a pretty cool role playing option. However regardless of what type of magic your character is consuming, you are still a blood elf.

Lightforged Draenei on the other hand are a different race of draenei. They were all eredar in the beginning, but when Archimonde and Kil'jaden bowed to the Legion this group of draenei didn´t follow the prophet Velen, but escaped Argus on another vessel (the Genedar). They then joined the Army of the Light and have been fighting the Burning Crusade for thousands of years. They infused their very bodies with the light, so they are not just fueling themselves with the light, they are one with it. By this they became a new type of draenei. That is why these guys are a whole new race instead of a cosmetic option.

So they are draenei with bit difference...not a new race. ..

[Gulamarth 0]

10 minutes ago, MZLICH said:

So they are draenei with bit difference...not a new race. ..

Pretty much like Mulgore Tauren and Highmountain Tauren, or Darkspear Trolls and Zandalari Trolls, or Ironforged Dwarfs and Dark Iron Dwarfs. Call them sub races if you will.