Change DPS forever, this cannot continue.

[TaleraRistain]

Are you gonna ask people start calling their characters TOONS too?

I feel so gross just typing that word.

I fear that moniker has been hijacked since it was first introduced in...UO I think? Back in EverQuest it just meant your character. We also used Damage Dealer, too, since that was ye olden times before parsers were really a thing and the damage of the party was not as important since the tank, healer, and crowd control were much more important. We actually used to make fun of people if they just zerged something like when a bunch of guilds got together and tried zerging The Sleeper by dying and respawning over and over and over. It is funny how things like that evolve.

[DragonFlyy]

DPS is Damage Per Second.
Thats not a role, thats an action/verb.

All other classes are named by their role not what they do in it.

Please change DPS to DD.

DD - Damage Dealer.

The purpose of a language is to get other people to understand you. DPS has been the term since Everquest days. We all know what DPS means. DPS is both a noun and a verb. Language evolves.

I fear that moniker has been hijacked since it was first introduced in...UO I think? Back in EverQuest it just meant your character. We also used Damage Dealer, too, since that was ye olden times before parsers were really a thing and the damage of the party was not as important since the tank, healer, and crowd control were much more important. We actually used to make fun of people if they just zerged something like when a bunch of guilds got together and tried zerging The Sleeper by dying and respawning over and over and over. It is funny how things like that evolve.

Started EQ in 1999 when it released and on my server we used DPS not DD.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Language evolves.

And some of those mutations are horrible, disgusting, ilogical, unethical and deserve nothing but to be exterminated, relegated to the millions of dead words. DPS is one such a thing.

Plus at this point, you're not fighting only against FFXIV users on this, you're fighting almost all of gaming.

Reason and truth are not popularity contest.
Imagine that, gamers and the gaming industry being wrong, what a surprise.

[Saraide]

When you say DPS you describe an action, not a role.

Evidently this is just your opinion. Good luck on your crusade tho.

[Thurmnmurmn]

And some of those mutations are horrible, disgusting, ilogical, unethical and deserve nothing but to be exterminated, relegated to the millions of dead words. DPS is one such a thing.



Reason and truth are not popularity contest.
Imagine that, gamers and the gaming industry being wrong, what a surprise.

That's your opinion. I disagree.

I always find it using when people are all like "everyone is wrong! I am right! Listen to meeeee!"

[Thurmnmurmn]

Amusing***

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Evidently this is just your opinion.

That's your opinion.

Is a fact.I don't give opinions because opinions are non-valuable ideas.
No such role as DPS, no one says (and if does is completely incorrect): "I am a damage per second".


What, are you a floating number on a screen? Are you the digits on a combat log? Because THAT's the Damage Per Second.
And the one who does it is, in fact, all roles. And a role specializes on it: the Damage Dealer.

Or when tanks do it you call it? Tanks Per Second?

[Saraide]

Is a fact. I don't give opinions because opinions are non-valuable ideas.
No such role as DPS, no one says (and if does is completely incorrect): "I am a damage per second".


What, are you a floating number on a screen? Are you the digits on a combat log? Because THAT's the Damage Per Second.
And the one who does it is, in fact, all roles. And a role specializes on it: the Damage Dealer.

Or when tanks do it you call it? Tanks Per Second?

Correct, no one says "I play damage per second". People say "I play DPS". Hope that helps.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Correct, no one says "I play damage per second". People say "I play DPS". Hope that helps.

You understand that is saying the same exact thing? And in both cases is WRONG.

"I play as a number on your combat log."

[Saraide]

You understand that is saying the same exact thing? And in both cases is WRONG.

"I play as a number on your combat log."

I think the funniest part about this whole thread is that your point isnt even true. The numbers that float on your screen and show up in the combat log are not dps numbers.