Special, and Prestige?

[Delta]

High Elves are to Warcraft Roleplay,
what Justin Bieber is to the music industry.

[Binkleheimer]

That and people who tend to play High Elves seem to constantly hold the same attitude of, "I'm so pure and pretty! No fel for me! Love me for my niceness and pureness and stuff!"
On top of that, as Jack pointed out, A: It's redundant
B: Too few to be considered a playable race.
Want to play an elf? Well, you got your night elves and your blood elves.
Problem?

Also, what Delta and Aroes said.

[mangaboy111]

@ JackofBlades, High Elves are NOT Alliance blood elves, so if people wanna role one because of that then they should be slapped for ten days straight.

High Elves and Blood Elves are quite different, Sin'Dorei are generally quite.. sadistic, and not nice. Stuck up, and arrogant. They only care for the selves and no one else really. Quel'Dorei are stuck up, yes, but not as.. twisted. They are not the race to backstab each other for self profit and have more of a chance of being open minded. Most people who play Sin'Dorei play them like they were Quel'Dorei who are Horde with green eyes. And even then, not Horde, just High Elves with green eyes.

Blood Elves are more likely going to be self centered, power hungery, driven by revenge and hate. That is what you would do when your home lands get screwed over by Arthas, then even when you help the Alliance in Lordaeron, you get treated like traitors because the Naga helped you fight the Scourge, so you are all imprisoned and sentenced to death, but then you break free. Then you decide to go back home and not follow the king, and he comes back home and betrays all of you. SO you are pretty much pissed at the Alliance, the Scourge, and the Burning Legion.

The High Elves have a different story.

Now for the rest, Night Elves are again completely different!

Only an idiot who wouldn't have made it into CotH would play a high elf like a pansy. And what if you wanted your character to not be born in Quel'thalas, and not live in Silvermoon, and not be like everyone else?

[Amerason]

All I gots to say is dance magic dance, if I played a High Elf it'd be pretty much David Bowie, oh GOD going to make David Bowie Blood Elf now.

[mangaboy111]

Anyway, there are like tons of them in Dalaran, Outlands and Northrend.

I'm only trying to point out facts here, don't think it's of any disrespect.

[Amerason]

Eh, naw no disrespect, it's just company policy, you see, we don't like their kind round here.

[ThePharaoh]

I always thought it was because you would essentially playing a horde character with access to alliance areas. Which would take a lot of work adjusting associations and faction switches. Sounds difficult and pain in the ass-y

[Terant]

High Elves are to Warcraft Roleplay,
what Justin Bieber is to the music industry.

That's just a perception based on people playing High Elves on retail and failing miserably. I've seen it done very well on other private servers. Where's the sense in offering OP races and classes, but not having one that's actually fairly common and not OP at all?

[mangaboy111]

Nah, it's easy to change it. It's all about rep, on retail I somehow gained rep with the dreanei in Swamp of Sorrows on my orc and there for Exodar was unfriendly with me! Meaning I could go there, but a GM jumped me and accused me of hacking, then when I explained he was like, "Hmmph if you say so," and reset all my rep to what it is when you create a character.

So for a few moments of complete exploitation of the games glitches I lost all my hard work, for all retail players know how bothersome it used to be to gain rep back in TBC. But now in cata it's piss easy thanks to tabards.

[Binkleheimer]

So for a few moments of complete exploitation of the games glitches I lost all my hard work, for all retail players know how bothersome it used to be to gain rep back in TBC. But now in cata it's piss easy thanks to tabards.

Wait, are you crying about how you lost stuff because you cheated?

On topic: This high-elf thing is silly.
I mean... Who says that the BElves are fundamentally different from HElves? Granted, there would be some differences, but I doubt the personality of a person would shift so completely. A sadistic Blood elf was probably a Sadistic High elf once.

[Terant]

Yes, but there is a fundamental difference in how they satiate their magic addiction (High Elves = Mediation, Blood Elves = Feeding off of other magical sources, mainly Fel) which is "generally accepted" as stemming from a difference in average personality type. A sadistic High Elf probably (not always, but often) wouldn't mind feeding off of Fel, and then they would be a Blood Elf.

[Spark]

Who would even want to be an Elf... Blood, High or Night when you can be...A Gnome.

[Terant]

Who would even want to be an Elf... Blood, High or Night when you can be...A Gnome.

Can't argue with that logic. =P

[Jeff]

I just think the high elf thing is a silly biasness. I have 0 intention to ever make one, but for a race that out-numbers Dwarves, Gnomes, and Night Elves (put together) in Elwynn, and falls only 8,000 numbers shorter than Dwarves in Stormwind City, I think they're not unplausable to play. However, we the fanbase, will be the ones to suffer the GM's biasness.

[immortalmoon]

These races are NOT allowed to be player characters, for varying reasons:

* Dragon
* Pit Lord
* Pandaren
* Felblood elf
* High Elf
* Eredar

Now ignore all of those except the last three. I've seen many people playing Felblood Elves and I've seen people playing Eredar. Unless they were just custom models and not actually Felblood Elves and Eredar, that means that those 'rules' aren't exactly set in stone.

But someone correct me if I'm wrong.
And politely, please.