The Daily Grind: Would you rather play High Elves or Dark Elves?
Filed under: Fantasy, Warhammer Online, The Daily Grind
We can certainly understand if you'd want to play as the sinister, wicked and all-around clinically insane Dark Elves. Though there are likely plenty of people who enjoy running around in bright nansy-pansy High Elf robes with giant, golden swords, too. Our strategy is to pretend they're not most certainly surrounding us at every moment. If we succumbed to the truth of it, the world we've built up around ourselves may just crush us into tiny, gooey blogger giblets.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
8-11-2008 @ 8:36AM
GenBanks said...
High Elves for me, I've always found the Dark Elves (and the Dark Eldar in Warhammer 40K) kind of tacky, even in the tabletop game... too many spikes and purple colours.
However, I probably won't be creating either, I have my eye on a Dwarf Ironbreaker or a Goblin squig herder... or possibly a Chaos zealot :D
I might change my mind when I see the game in person though.
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8-11-2008 @ 8:50AM
dreamzane said...
The combination of high speed and aggressiveness makes me choose Dark Elves. More over, the look increadably good and nasty.
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8-11-2008 @ 8:55AM
MeowCat said...
I'm a fence sitter! I can't decide. Traditionally I go with the forces of good in these games BUT Warhammer Online has me thinking twice about going to the dark side.
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8-11-2008 @ 3:52PM
Ghen said...
hehe I'm pretty much in that position, just opposite. I'm normally a bad guy because they seem slightly more mature but these elves look purdy.
8-11-2008 @ 9:16AM
mikejl said...
I am new to the Warhammer universe and becoming a fan of Destruction (epically the Greenskins as I am long time fans of Orcs). However the Shadow Warrior looks great also. I can or see many alts, of both sides, on two servers.
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8-11-2008 @ 9:56AM
Jeromai said...
I want to play a White Lion, therefore the decision is moot.
Unfortunately, I need to play a bunch of greenskins and a Chaos Chosen a lot sooner than a White Lion, so I'll be going Destruction first.
Perhaps another server later for namby pamby goodiness...with a big axe and a sharp-toothed feline.
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8-11-2008 @ 11:14AM
Pingmeister said...
To be honest, that whole "I'M EVIL! EEEEEEEEEEVIL!" thing would get to me after a while. Ultimate Emo.
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8-11-2008 @ 11:44AM
Goonja said...
I`m playing a Empire(Warrior Priest) but the White Lion looks an interesting class to play,I guess I've found my alt.
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8-11-2008 @ 12:30PM
danarchy said...
I love my orc. Thats about all I can say till they lift the nda lol.
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8-13-2008 @ 6:18PM
Barth said...
actually, you can't even say that lol.
8-11-2008 @ 1:38PM
Brian! said...
Whatever the reason, the huge crowds are going Chaos in WAR. They *say* things will be balanced, but I doubt it.
WoW made Horde the "one to be" in PvP for a long run of imbalances. I don't run WoW anymore, so I don't know if Horde still hold that slight edge, but for years the average PvP winner would be Horde unless it was open world where they were just overrun by alliance 3+ to 1.
Even known it is a different game, I can't help but to believe that Chaos is going to have a combat advantage over Order in WAR.
Thus, I will go High Elf if I want to join the underdogs, which is what made Horde so cool in the start of WoW. Or maybe I will go dark elf just so I can be on the winning side because it seems the majority of mains will be evil with the alts being good making the chaos side much more skilled due to gameplay time.
Hard choice there.
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8-11-2008 @ 2:11PM
Earnest Dodge said...
You can't have toons on both sides on the same server.
8-13-2008 @ 6:16PM
Barth said...
Horde really never had an inherent advantage other than the one that comes from being more aggressive and confident from the beginning. There's something about playing a hulking beast that makes you feel like you can crush the pretty elf guy, no matter if there isn't any real advantage. There are a couple battlegroups where Alliance wins 3:1 rather than the other way around. It's quite funny playing horde on those servers, hearing everyone complain that Horde can't win AB... it's like Bizarro WoW. Everyone has a goatee there too.
Oh and to answer the question, I plan on playing both High Elf and Dark. :) Whichever turns out to be more fun, I'll stick with it.
8-14-2008 @ 4:33PM
Brian! said...
Barth,
Horde did have an advantage. Warstomp, a stun, is a good example. Especially early on when there were no diminishing returns. You could be chained stunned for quite some time from a pack of taurens. The Undead have resist fear, which is also an advantage in PvP.
Basically, in every MMO I have played, Stuns/sleeps/holds/fear are almost always the main tool to win a match. If a team has access to these tools and the other team does not, then the stunning team can win with far less skill.
After all, in PvP you can't kill anything when stunned. You just take damage while the opponent heals and deals it out. When you can't stun back all you can do is run.
8-21-2008 @ 7:33PM
Crimsonfang said...
WoW balanced the population out eventually. Horde were still better at pvp though but it was the maturity level/organization not in game imbalances
8-21-2008 @ 11:24PM
Brian! said...
True, in WoW horde did eventually level out and the imbalances were fixed. Just early on Horde had a slight advantage. They also had the advantage of teamwork as Horde could always find an Alliance to fight but Alliance had a hard time finding horde (like as in long queue times).
It is interesting that this came up, because now that I can talk about WAR, there IS in fact a weight to destruction so far. At least with the CE people in the closed beta. We will see what preview weekend and open beta brings. Also the Road to War shows a weight to destruction as well.
8-11-2008 @ 2:10PM
Earnest Dodge said...
I wold probably choose High Elf, mostly because at launch, the Dark Elves will only have 3 classes, with no tank, and the High Elves will have a tank and all 4 classes. I wouldn't want to be a clothie on the side with no tanks!
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8-11-2008 @ 3:21PM
Reader said...
Plan to play a Disciple of Khaine, so Dark Elf. Next in line would either be a Chaos Zealot or High Elf Archmage.
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8-12-2008 @ 4:32AM
Tim said...
Shadow Warrior for me. Although when I do roll Destruction on another server I will be trying some Dark Elf characters. Not sure if my g/f will like me playing a Witch Elf though :-\
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8-12-2008 @ 8:33AM
Rocktober said...
Like others have said, I normally would go with the "good side" (always played Alliance in WoW, eventhough I know that technically they're not the "good side" :P), but despite some of the emo-ness of the Dark Elves, they seem to have a more unique look to them.
Although I agree, I believe the majority of people (kids) will probably role Chaos.
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