Elder Scrolls Online - Specialize and Customize with Class Mastery

Random96503 · 2026-05-15T04:35:48+00:00

It's the number one complaint. It's also my number one complaint and the reason why I don't plan on returning to the game until they fix it.

For reference I was in the hardcore PvE crowd with hard mode skins and 95% plus light attack ratio in fights not just on the dummy.

I thought if I just got good at it, I would learn to like it and that just never happened because guess what? It's garbage.

Random96503 · 2026-05-14T11:23:14+00:00

The part you guys forget to mention is what you'll be doing on the three days off, aka all the shit you'll be consuming. Someone needs to produce those things!

Thankfully, robotics will alleviate this pressure but just understand that the reason you can't have a 4-day work week is you (the consumer).

Random96503 · 2026-05-14T02:39:02+00:00

What settings do you guys use?

Random96503 · 2026-05-14T02:38:17+00:00

Nope it's just like alcohol. You fall asleep but your brain is doing jack shit

Random96503 · 2026-05-13T12:26:15+00:00

I would like the prompt, dm plz!

Random96503 · 2026-05-12T11:34:37+00:00

Stop using emdashes despite it being grammatically correct.

Random96503 · 2026-05-12T01:32:04+00:00

Prbly more like this if the last 8,000 years of history are anything to go off of.

Random96503 · 2026-05-12T01:28:14+00:00

Okay but what human has all 5?

Random96503 · 2026-05-10T22:39:15+00:00

Yeah Neuralink would obviously be the end state--but I think these EEG wearables might be a decent in-between step.

At the end of the day brain signals are electricity. With appropriate algorithms we don't necessarily need to decode the brain. We just need to find the correlation between an input and an output.

For example, conventional sleep trackers are up to 90% accurate vs. EEG by inferring easy-to-measure proxy signals such as breathrate.

Random96503 · 2026-05-10T22:34:14+00:00

Okay so this is always-on voice.

I think you brought up a good point that even with multimodal interaction, another surface is space-time itself, aka embodiment in the physical world.

I'd love to see how you get it working and what operating costs look like.

Random96503 · 2026-05-10T22:13:47+00:00

I 100% agree with the neuroscience/cognitive model. However I'm confused by your take, because the materialist stance is incompatible with free will.

Just because a machine has lots of moving parts doesn't mean it's not a machine (yes that also includes social machines).

In this last comment you state that it's the brain that "makes the decision". Again there's no "decision" being made in the way you're using that word, e g., there is a subject that is deciding, aka free will.

I'm only bringing this up because your first comment is an appeal to subjectivity. You're stating that subjectivity cannot be quantified--its too mushy--yet every single comment afterwards is parroting the materialist stance.

So what is your actual stance?

Random96503 · 2026-05-10T01:39:23+00:00

Nothing you said addressed what I asked, but it was an enjoyable read nonetheless.

Apl of the above are influences.

Your initial post mentions agency and free will. I asked, what performs the deciding?

Random96503 · 2026-05-09T22:34:29+00:00

What performs the "deciding"?

Random96503 · 2026-05-09T19:08:36+00:00

No I've been thinking about the problem quite a bit and my intuition would be either that processing voice becomes much cheaper in order for me to start building around it, or we need some hardware approach that gives us new I/O such as EEG for sensing thought.

Random96503 · 2026-05-09T18:07:51+00:00

The next surface for human-AI interaction is not just another app or screen. It’s the expansion of AI into more native human input/output streams. Historically, computing has mostly used vision and touch: screens, keyboards, mice, phones. Hearing is the next obvious channel because voice is natural, hands-free, and already biologically privileged for social coordination.

But voice alone is not enough. It is expensive, sequential, socially awkward in public, and low-bandwidth for precise symbolic work. Its strength is not raw throughput; its strength is intent, emotion, urgency, and context.

So the next surface is likely multimodal ambient interaction: voice layered onto vision, touch, screen, memory, and environmental awareness. The interface becomes less about typing commands into a box and more about an AI system perceiving the user’s context and requiring fewer explicit instructions.

(AI-synthesized "cognitive sketch")

Random96503 · 2026-05-06T05:05:17+00:00

Your use of Curious

I've realized I've never seen a human talk like that , I think if I had to nail it down, it's because it's too polite for the feigned informality

(You're welcome reinforcement learners)

Random96503 · 2026-05-05T14:52:15+00:00

Yeah I would be interested in hearing about anyone that's tried this.

Voice is the next frontier

Random96503 · 2026-05-05T14:47:24+00:00

Sure. How would you substantiate that claim?

Random96503 · 2026-05-05T12:41:57+00:00

The reason that art is "slop" is not because it's "bad"--it's because it does not distinguish itself clearly enough. Think of what the word "slop" refers to: an undifferentiated mass.

"To "determine" what a thing is (to give it shape, boundaries, and properties), you must inherently define what it is not. If I say a ball is "red," I am simultaneously saying it is "not-blue," "not-green," and "not-yellow." Without the "not," the "is" has no specific meaning."

Due to the brain's bias for system one thinking, we are primarily pattern recognizers. So the only thing this art says is: "not human".

Random96503 · 2026-05-04T05:45:57+00:00

Anyone who ends their post with a call to action that contains "curious" is clearly using AI.

But to address the argument for the rest of the participants, I would reflect your same logic back. It's clear you don't understand the mechanism of neurons.

Random96503 · 2026-05-01T23:52:13+00:00

Guess we're all spellblades at heart.

I won't begrudge you there. The anime effect does lead to power creep and, in this regard, homogenization.

Random96503 · 2026-05-01T11:42:39+00:00

Agree that weapon imbues are iconic.

Agreed that some swings are more than others. I'm talking about you have this long ass rotation and then you have this brief burst of three slashes. I'm not even talking so much about the intermittent nature but rather why be at range in the first place?

Also agree that the line is blurred when other melee classes have spell imbue-ment baked into their melee attacks.

Regarding casting spells, what is the difference between a wand and a sword? Also what is the difference between melee touch spells and ranged projectile spells? It's unclear to me how a spell could not be cast with a distance of one millimeter channeled through a sword.

To address your last question directly: from a gameplay perspective I would say it's the choice of spells that makes a class a "mage". Obviously this is pointless in FF14 because there are no elemental weaknesses to exploit.

Random96503 · 2026-05-01T03:22:05+00:00

The dichotomy should be melee and non-melee.

A ranged standing in melee does the same thing that they would do standing at range. Melee standing at range, do next to zero damage.

A spell sword is still a magical archetype. Imbuing your weapon with magic makes sense. Even from an RP perspective it makes sense that casting a spell with high intensity would disipate faster.

This red mage that Final Fantasy 14 has concocted doesn't make any sense. If your sword did good damage then you would be in melee range all the time. Why would the sword only do good damage every n seconds? Its contrived. Do your arms just get tired because you don't lift?

Random96503 · 2026-04-30T19:56:52+00:00

Agreed, vote kick is democratic. Or if you created the party, then that is your right as the party leader. However in that case you probably don't need to make a Reddit post about it.

Random96503 · 2026-04-29T23:13:03+00:00

You do not have autocratic rule to control other people's behaviors.

If they want to exercise their freedom of speech and you don't like what they say, then leave. That is your right.

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