DPS is role name ?

[Reslin]

Hi, I'm Japanese player. sorry to my poor English.

I have heard "attaker" or "damage dealer" as damage sauce role.
But that role is called "DPS" at FF14. "DPS" means Damage Per Second, it's a measure of attackpower, not role name, I think.
From when did it come to say so in English ?

Think about it this way as a role. "DPS" means "Damage Per Second" therefore a "DPS Class" is one that specializes in doing as much "Damage Per Second" as possible either through burst or sustain.

[Dyne_Fellpool]

Think about it this way as a role. "DPS" means "Damage Per Second" therefore a "DPS Class" is one that specializes in doing as much "Damage Per Second" as possible either through burst or sustain.

^ This.
And people have been calling them "dps" classes since... well the first time i saw it a lot was in 2003.