It's called "Loot"

[Heavy01Mk2]

Well wtf is deeps? Is it dps? If so that's just as atrocious/cancerous/disemboweling/mashpotatos/toxic/vomit-inducing as the people who type ohemgee instead of omg.

[Alukah]

If you don't deal damage to your enemies as someone with a red role icon, you do something wrong
DPS is something for parser users

The point is that the game itself calls that class role "DPS", not "DD".

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I understand where "lot" comes from, but most times I've seen it being used referring to "loot" instead of "casting lots".

(example, "he got got all the lot" or "no lot dropped for me")

EDIT: not saying every single person misuses it, just that it's widely misused.

[Zakalwe]

...Let's be real though xD

You're a Damage Dealer, you're not a Damage Per Second.

... and yet when the stars are aligned and the most commonly-played job type is a roulette's 'adventurer in need' SE describes it not as damage dealer/DD, but as DPS.

[Alukah]

... and yet when the stars are aligned and the most commonly-played job type is a roulette's 'adventurer in need' SE describes it not as damage dealer/DD, but as DPS.

Don't have go go that far, the duty finder itself says "DPS" on the top.

[Zakalwe]

Don't have go go that far, the duty finder itself says "DPS" on the top.

Ah, so true!

Another fun fact: while SE generally favours 'enmity', our game's hate meter is indicated by an 'A', presumably referring to the (for some) dreaded term 'aggro.'

[Alukah]

Funny enough I'm more used to "aggro" than "hate" when it comes to threat/enmity.

This thread reminds me of people arguing between WTS and S> and all other similar terms.

[Heavy01Mk2]

Funny enough I'm more used to "aggro" than "hate" when it comes to threat/enmity.

This thread reminds me of people arguing between WTS and S> and all other similar terms.

aggro is the correct term. like when your parents hit you with a brick, its not because they hate you, you just aggravate them. same with these enemies.

[Miitan]

Bouncy castle vs bounce house vs space walk vs floppy flip

Pick one

A...floppy flip? I think I need to lie down...

[Heavy01Mk2]

A...floppy flip? I think I need to lie down...

things are strange in the wild wild west

[Shioban]

aggro is the correct term. like when your parents hit you with a brick, its not because they hate you, you just aggravate them. same with these enemies.

Aggro isn't the correct term, it's one of the acceptable terms. One of the nice things about language is its flexible, and as long as the word is understood, the one used for the most part doesn't matter.

Hate, Enmity and Aggro are all acceptable terms.

Being fickle or persnickety over terms is a bit silly. "BUT I USE THIS TERM! YOU MUST ALL BE WRONG!"

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Hate

verb (used without object), hat·ed, hat·ing.
3. ~ to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.

noun
4. ~ intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
5. ~ the object of extreme aversion or hostility.

Enmity

noun
1. ~ a state or feeling of active opposition or hostility.

Aggro

noun
1. ~ aggressive, violent behaviour.
"they do not usually become involved in aggro"


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Well being honest here the first few times someone used "hate" to refer to enmity I had no idea what they were talking about, took me a while to connect the dots.

One of the many things 1.0's developers tried to do to separate it from the rest of the MMO genre.

Which in the overall picture looked good on paper, but the execution and implementation was terrible.


If you ever played 1.23 and started off in Limsa Lominsa, you'd have found that it was borderline unreadable, they were almost obsessed on attention to detail, even in the story-line which had to be as realistic to their pre-renaissance fantasy world as possible. So the words, quest-text, gear, area design were all very strict, which is one of the reasons they used words like 'enmity'.