@Kaldorei_Life Void Elves were such a terrible idea. All of the reasons given against High Elves have been waived now by at least one other race choice. Blizzard has a vendetta against the idea for no legitimate reason. One of their weirdest continual policies.

Diana of Syracuse @Kaldorei_Life It wasn't always this way, its a recent thing. Even in WoD Ion was talking about subraces and his obvious examples were

Dark Iron Dwarves
Maghar Orcs
High Elves

Something got into their brains about one of those

vrynn Diana of Syracuse @Kaldorei_Life I still guarantee they looked at High Elves and thought 'No, the players will call us lazy, they're too similar, we have to differentiate the 'Alliance Blood Elf' option more than just eye color we gotta make them something else entirely'

They were wrong

gntlshrk vrynn @Kaldorei_Life They could have also done a slight tweak to things like how Nightborne are different from Night Elves if they were that concerned. Pandaren refute the 'they're too similar' line, Void Elves refute the 'there aren't enough of them' line, and their popularity speaks for itself.

Diana of Syracuse gntlshrk @Kaldorei_Life Before BFA Kul'tirans were stormwind humans that wore green clothes and liked boats a bit

Before MoP Zandalari were just darkspear with muted skin tones

vrynn Diana of Syracuse @Kaldorei_Life 100% - they could have gone the Dark Iron route ('they look too similar, give them fire beards' etc.) if they legit didn't want to make a whole new model (like the Kul'Tirans and Zandalari that came due to BFA) - like make the blue eyes glow or slap some tattoos on them

gntlshrk Diana of Syracuse @Kaldorei_Life Tattoos, hairstyles/colors, jewelry, idle stance, class selection. Already more distinct than a void elf and pandaren.

gntlshrk Diana of Syracuse @Kaldorei_Life Honestly on distinction the biggest let down about Maghar Orcs is they really don't capitalize on the WoD stuff enough. They could have brought industrial iron horde tech, more focus on their shadow priests, anything.

Instead its just 'zug zug honor and blood', in brown

vrynn gntlshrk @Kaldorei_Life Right? At least there are the garrison armors from WoD to make more Iron Horde style Mag'har. I really wish they would make additional racial armor sets than just a single heritage armor one. Especially with new customization options coming.

Diana of Syracuse vrynn gntlshrk @Kaldorei_Life Its a shame they didn't include shattered hand (best clan) orcs. If not the body mods, then the pale skin tone at the very lest.

@amelette2 Diana of Syracuse vrynn @Kaldorei_Life And somehow, sadly, they didn't include female shattered hand Orcs in WoD at all :(

All we have is concept art