You can play the elf as you see fit - but I feel to really play a wild elf well as the race was intended to be played you're looking at a lot of RP and lifestyle baggage almost comparable to a paladin. Disagree if you will. The version of a wild elf that I happened to play - one who worshipped Kithairein and one which some players and DM's have told me exemplified what a wilf elf should be like is summed up below.
The character Nith'wiel -
1 - He did not speak common.
2 - He related more to Wemics than other elfs
3 - He did not buy anything (except barring the things you just had to buy in Layo, particularly at the lower levels when you're not strong enough to travel and grab things). This can be a pain for some because most will get to a point and say "Forget this - I'm going to buy it and make it easier"
4 - He referred to towns and cities as "boxes inside a cage"
5 - He referred to clerics as Shamans - He was very protective to his friends, yet for those he had yet to really meet - very untrusting and cautious.
6 - He loved nature and was a hunter - he would use every part of the animal - like the point above - instead of buying food from the Inn which he would seldom step into to craft (too bad there's no craft house in the woods or country - yet there would be negatives to this) - he would hunt animals, gather berries, nuts, etc... This was a character that needed to get good at crafting - that's how he would sustain himself - not just food crafting either). It's slow..but that's his way.
7 - He was savage/primitive yet graceful and proud.
8 - He could not read nor write. Instead his character development section was composed of "Carvings in trees" and visualized by screenshots (see his album).
9 - He feels claustraphobic unless the only roof above him is the open sky.
10 - He did chop to make bows - how's this for agony - he carrys little gold on him referring to gold as "little shiny peices of metal". It has taken him time to understand the purpose. So he'd trade with people, but would never say "I'd like to buy an oak longbow". Instead he'd trade using some good pelts or something. He'd never post notices (can't write anyway) in the "trade and market hall section" of the forums. So basically everything he had he made including the leathers on his back, the bow he shoots, and the spear he hunts with. Very primitive here.
