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Void Elf Interesting Interactions - Communicate Cross Faction, Purple Blood

posted 2018/02/01 at 3:29 PM by Squishei

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Comment by Bladehawk Typo! "The defeat language on a Void Elf character is Common." Think it's "default", haha.\r
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In today's day and age, with the Alliance and the Horde having (begrudgingly) cooperated on so many warfronts, the language barrier feels artificial. I know there are gameplay reasons to have it, but I'm glad there are some logical exceptions to it. Comment by robbiedehand hope skin color will be added for all the other races as a barbaershop option Comment by Orvos Warlocks used to be able to communicate with other warlocks when in demon form. It was great :D Comment by Casaris So.... blood elf DH are the master race? I knew it. Comment by Shiraxen Aren't Pandareen able to communicate cross faction? Everyone forgets about Pandareens! Even Blizzard it seems, especially Blizzard! Comment by buffagor Typo! "The defeat language on a Void Elf character is Common." Think it's "default", haha.\r
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In today's day and age, with the Alliance and the Horde having (begrudgingly) cooperated on so many warfronts, the language barrier feels artificial. I know there are gameplay reasons to have it, but I'm glad there are some logical exceptions to it.\r
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Not so much gameplay as keeping people from being super crappy to each other in pvp settings. Comment by Dblbaconator Aren't Pandareen able to communicate cross faction? Everyone forgets about Pandareens! Even Blizzard it seems, especially Blizzard!\r
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I was about to correct you, but you're right. Originally, once pandaren got off the Wandering Isle and joined a faction, they were given restricted versions of their language to prevent cross-faction communication. But this was changed in Legion, so now any pandaren can talk to any other.\r
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So we currently have three different cross-faction communication lines: pandaren, demon hunters, and void\/blood elves. Comment by Chilela Unlike the original races, the Void Elves and other allied races are allowed to change their skin colour in any Barber Shop.\r
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Last I checked (which, admittedly, was a good while ago), Tauren have been able to do this since Barber shops were released. If you count fur as skin in this case. Comment by Arraya As it should be, just because they take the Void doesn't mean they forget their native language haha. Would've also been nice to give them the ability to speak Shath'yar (The Language of the Old Gods and Void)

Really hoping they add Skin Color change to the old races as well. That way Character Customization becomes only a Sex Change.

Edits: Grammar. Comment by Tsandra Can mages (who know all of their factions languages) use this as well? I don't have friends to test this myself :( Comment by Bladehawk Typo! "The defeat language on a Void Elf character is Common." Think it's "default", haha.

In today's day and age, with the Alliance and the Horde having (begrudgingly) cooperated on so many warfronts, the language barrier feels artificial. I know there are gameplay reasons to have it, but I'm glad there are some logical exceptions to it.

Not so much gameplay as keeping people from being super crappy to each other in pvp settings.

Sure, I counted that as a gameplay reason :P

As it should be, just because they take the Void doesn't mean they forget their native language haha. Would've also been nice to give them the ability to speak Shath'yar (The Language of the Old Gods and Void)

Shath'yar, to me, signifies a more intense connection to the Void than the Void Elves have, as strange as that sounds. The Void Elves have been saturated by Void energies more than Alleria, but like her, they have control over their mental faculties at all times (well, as far as we know). Their willpower lets them channel the Void without succumbing to its madness. Other entities, of course, channel the Void without such restrictions, giving themselves fully to its influence. It is they who speak Shath'yar, for not only are their bodies suffused with the Void, but also their minds. Shadow Priests temporarily reach this state in Voidform - it's a miracle that they can pull themselves back to sanity! - while the Old Gods and their spawn are always in it. That's how I interpret it, anyways. I suppose the Void Elves, or any race, could study Shath'yar to crudely translate words and phrases. But I don't think they could speak it fluently without also losing their sanity, because that's the only way it would make sense to them. Comment by onlinewowhead they put lots of work into the void elfs, almost seems like more details were put into the void elves than nightborne. From what I've seen and read online the nightborne's faces don't really even resemble the npc nightborne models in legion. Hope they aren't done working on them. Comment by IamtheLexx I get why cross-faction communication is not possible in general, especially in BGs and on PVP servers, but for the sake of roleplay (and for friends who play on different factions) I wish there was some way to learn other languages for fun, like a skill you could level up. There could be a daily quest, a daily language lesson, and after a while you could unlock the ability to speak orcish for exemple. The time and effort it'd take would probably weed out the idiots who'd only want to use it to grief others. Hopefully. Now that I think about it, it'd be nice to have something like that for lore too. Something in archeology maybe, where you could pick up tomes of a series of books or whatever and unlock the history of an event, or race, or characters, and maybe get a little fun animation telling you that story. And after collecting enough you could get a Historian title or maybe a permanent buff, like History Buff :P Comment by Silisav Well, if they are human shouldn't they know better what their language is called? XD Comment by Jermatoo Technically speaking Taurens, Worgens, and Pandarens can all change their fur color which is like a skin color in a way but yeah besides that all the other races can't. Would be a neat feature to add at some point though. Comment by andreios I get why cross-faction communication is not possible in general, especially in BGs and on PVP servers, but for the sake of roleplay (and for friends who play on different factions) I wish there was some way to learn other languages for fun, like a skill you could level up. There could be a daily quest, a daily language lesson, and after a while you could unlock the ability to speak orcish for exemple. The time and effort it'd take would probably weed out the idiots who'd only want to use it to grief others. Hopefully. Now that I think about it, it'd be nice to have something like that for lore too. Something in archeology maybe, where you could pick up tomes of a series of books or whatever and unlock the history of an event, or race, or characters, and maybe get a little fun animation telling you that story. And after collecting enough you could get a Historian title or maybe a permanent buff, like History Buff :P\r
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That sounds like it could be awesome! Comment by andreios Everyone forgets about Pandareens! Even Blizzard it seems, especially Blizzard!\r
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Sad and true. Sylvanas didn\u2019t even invite Ji to the banquet. At least we turned up in Dalaran in a few logical spots. Comment by IceWolfDK the player nightborne faces are much better looking than the npc faces, so stiff and undefined. Comment by Arcklo Can mages (who know all of their factions languages) use this as well? I don't have friends to test this myself :(\r
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I checked on my Alliance mage and I could not. Then again, I haven't unlocked Void Elves yet. But considering we lost the ability to speak Pandaren when it became cross-faction, I find it very unlikely. :( Comment by Tmato I get why cross-faction communication is not possible in general, especially in BGs and on PVP servers, but for the sake of roleplay (and for friends who play on different factions) I wish there was some way to learn other languages for fun, like a skill you could level up. There could be a daily quest, a daily language lesson, and after a while you could unlock the ability to speak orcish for exemple. The time and effort it'd take would probably weed out the idiots who'd only want to use it to grief others. Hopefully. Now that I think about it, it'd be nice to have something like that for lore too. Something in archeology maybe, where you could pick up tomes of a series of books or whatever and unlock the history of an event, or race, or characters, and maybe get a little fun animation telling you that story. And after collecting enough you could get a Historian title or maybe a permanent buff, like History Buff :P\r
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Blizzard hire this guy for future Xpacs please

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