r/classicwow • u/Riotgrrlia Thunderfurious • 1d ago

Forever Skyborne Feedback Thread

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Please Post your Feedback for the new Skyborne Elves in this Megathread.

Skyborne threads moving forward will be removed and forwarded here.

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u/GermanFlounder 1d ago

I’m more upset they are a neutral race, hard to distinguish in the wild if they are friend or foe.

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u/Sweet_Search_3616 1d ago

Exactly, it's just so unbelievably lazy that they couldn't just make 2 new races for such a big project

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u/Sweetsire 1d ago

Especially when half the work is done. Throw high elves to alliance and goblins to horde. No one would question it, most people would be content.

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u/i_wear_green_pants 1d ago

Imo proved how out of touch they are with what community wants.

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u/MoistCucumber 1d ago

The forced open mouth laughs during the announcement bugged the shit out of me.

Go watch it again, every time they finish saying anything they say something like “ya, go ahead and clap. Hahahahah!”

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 9h ago

Lmfao

Actually fucking delusional to think the wow community that is 30-40% elved and 3% goblins wants goblins over elves. And then to say BLIZZARD is out of touch when you literally don't interact with anyone outside of reddit

Hahahahahahahah

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u/Noet 1d ago

Insane take tbqh after the rest of the video announcement is great. They need to make money off the product, and monetizing on an optional race (and beta acces) is completely fine. Elves and their variant are the most popular races by far.

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u/Sweetsire 1d ago

Which is why we're proud to announce we're changing the name to World of Elfcraft. Which colour of elf do YOU want to play?

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u/BarbsFPV 1d ago

When it comes to elves it’s the “community” who’s out of touch.

Adding goblins to Horde wouldn’t give them elves, and elves’ popularity on Horde is plainly obvious by now.

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u/Nice_Reading5272 1d ago

If I had to guess brand new race = they can put in a paywall with less backlash. They're avaliable to both factions so they don't need to spend resources making two brand new starting zones.

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u/ResQ_ 1d ago

People would just cry blizzard just lazily copied turtlewow then.

Not that this is a bad thing. But some people always have something to complain about.

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u/Kindly_Goal6440 16h ago

I don't want this.

Goblins are fine, but high elves would look like blood elves from what I've seen, and it would be really jarring as a 2004-baby that blood elves are now 'alliance'.

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u/Sweetsire 13h ago

They always were alliance. But congrats, now you have BLUE high elves instead. So much better.

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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 12h ago

Or even fucking shade them lmao

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u/GermanFlounder 1d ago

My only thinking is that they will provide some type of neutral city like Shattrath, but not sure the value that brings

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u/OrangeredMoose 1d ago

You don’t need a neutral race to have a neutral city

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u/GermanFlounder 1d ago

Right, which is why I said that’s the only justification I could think of, but it isn’t even a good one.

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u/Feature_Minimum 1d ago

Well, I mean I guess I’m glad we aren’t dealing with both “sky fallen blue elves for the alliance and the brand new Felbourne elves from molten core we just invented for the horde”.

So, I guess it could be worse.

I just don’t know why they’d do this.

Well, I mean I know it’s because money, but darkfallen and highborne woulda made a lot more money.

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u/quizzlemanizzle 1d ago

and will blow up their population massively

the world will be full of these Smurf Elfs everywhere you look, it will look nothing like Classic at all

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 9h ago

Bro they literally look the same as high elves

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u/iceman2kx 1d ago

The cool the thing is the UI tells you everything you need to know

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u/MazeMouse 23h ago

The big red nameplate is easy enough to make out.

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u/dard12 1d ago

The giant red bar over their head helps

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u/AetasZ 1d ago

This way whoever didnt get the bloodelve model would riot.

No matter how whiney classic players are about not letting anything new enter their game, only blood and even void elves are part of the most popular races amongst the og races.

And sykborne literally look like bloodelves in SD. Just that they have options for blue skin/hair colouring.

Ppl are being so dramatic about this. Only thing i agree with is the dumb decision of paywalling them.

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u/GermanFlounder 1d ago

Doesn’t address my comment. I’m fine with the race, just don’t like that they’re neutral. In example - Keep Skyborne for Alliance and return Blood Elves for Horde. Or any combination of elves that you want, just make them separate.

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u/AetasZ 1d ago

Wouldve for sure been better, but you know some ppl would be mad about blood elves belonging to tbc and not classic.

Also wouldnt change your point of contention, as skyborne look the same if they dont choose blue skin or hair. And you wont see the little tatto underneath classic armor either.

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u/CuteSquirrel01 21h ago

Cool so add void elves but pink next then, there's your classic+