Quote Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine View Post
Well, in proper English "Damage Per Second roles" doesn't seem correct - to me anyways. DD roles (Damage Dealing) would seem better, or just DD (Damage Dealer) in general. But yeah, the player base seemed to have picked "DPS" as the abbreviation/identification of attack roles. Even Square-Enix adopted this abbreviation to identify damage roles as "DPS" (see duty finder)
Yeah. It doesn't make sense but it's just what people say, I guess. I haven't been playing MMOs since the beginning so I'm not really sure how it came to be like this but it's what I'm use to. I try not to think of it as Damage per second or else I would be complaining about too. xD