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    Terminology. Why does it bug me and others?

    For some reason the use of terms like "DPS" instead of DD, and "Pally" instead of PLD, bug me and I can't really say why. It's not that I dislike WoW. I've played WoW for 5+ years. I thoroughly enjoyed the game until recently.

    Is it because I expect only FFXI terminology to be used? I can't really say. I'm not really sure what it is or why it bugs me to see terminology from other games used in this one.
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    I hate when people use wow terminology..not because I hate wow, but because I've never played it so I have no idea what they are talking about. Like "don't cast renew"

    What? There is no renew spell...

    I don't like the term dps either but to be fair the Dev team described DD as dps and that is how DD jobs are referred to in the duty finder
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    I used dps when I played FFXI.....
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    You just need a more worldly view of language. WoW didn't coin any of those terms.
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    I don't see the issue as long as you know what they are referring to. By now I think most of the terms have become fairly universal, at least in my opinion.
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    LOL, been using the term dps for over 10 years and it certainly didn't come from WoW
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raxion View Post
    For some reason the use of terms like "DPS" instead of DD, and "Pally" instead of PLD, bug me and I can't really say why. It's not that I dislike WoW. I've played WoW for 5+ years. I thoroughly enjoyed the game until recently.

    Is it because I expect only FFXI terminology to be used? I can't really say. I'm not really sure what it is or why it bugs me to see terminology from other games used in this one.
    As long as people use a term FFXIV uses itself like dps from DF or PLD as short for paladin, on the other hand pally isnt really ok
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    I remember when people argued in shout if it was smn or sum lol >.>
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raxion View Post
    For some reason the use of terms like "DPS" instead of DD, and "Pally" instead of PLD, bug me and I can't really say why. It's not that I dislike WoW. I've played WoW for 5+ years. I thoroughly enjoyed the game until recently.

    Is it because I expect only FFXI terminology to be used? I can't really say. I'm not really sure what it is or why it bugs me to see terminology from other games used in this one.
    The Dev team uses the term, "DPS" when describing the game, in some of their Dev videos. So, I'm pretty sure if the guys who made the game are using it in describing their game, that it's also part of this game.

    Also, DD means, "direct damage", and doesn't necessarily mean the same thing anymore. Games have evolved to where damage is coming from many different sources - some direct, and some indirect (a poisonous area on the ground is considered an in-direct source of damage, as are most environmental effects).

    DPS is a universal measurement of damage from ALL measurable sources over a set period of time.
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    Last edited by Nanga; 09-30-2013 at 06:45 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raxion View Post
    For some reason the use of terms like "DPS" instead of DD, and "Pally" instead of PLD, bug me and I can't really say why. It's not that I dislike WoW. I've played WoW for 5+ years. I thoroughly enjoyed the game until recently.

    Is it because I expect only FFXI terminology to be used? I can't really say. I'm not really sure what it is or why it bugs me to see terminology from other games used in this one.
    DD I have only seen in FFXI, DPS everywhere else. This game even refers to them as DPS, I think "Pally" is something from Diablo? Definitely remember hearing it before WoW.
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