DPS is flat out stupid. Bring back DD

[Niqote]

It's funny, when I say it out loud over voice chat I say DD, but when I type it is write DPS. Likely a habit formed because the Duty finder lists the category as 'DPS'

[thunderbreak]

I think the title DPS is very fitting. But in the context of the type of player.

I just did Weeping City 2 days ago, and the douche bag team I was in didn't socialize, didn't do mechanics, the only thing they did is compare their dick size in a parser. Zombie adds keep wiping raids, Void Fire blowing people up. Monk tries to be "meta", fell off in Ozma triangle mode twice. Bard refuses to sing song for me even though I was empty on MP rezing these assholes over and over.

Then I did Weeping City again yesterday on my alt, this dragoon on the team is typing in /a of how team C should just kill themself because they are dead weight, and the entire raid can't do damage worth of shit. Then once we get to Ozma first he falls off, then he plants the add on the right side and kill half the team.

If the role of a tank is to hold aggro, stay alive, and do mechanics, a role of healer is to keep people alive, do damage if possible, and do mechanics. And the role of DD is to do damage, support, and do mechanics. Then the role of DPS is just simply attempt to kill something before it kills them, then post their parser result in chat, or tell other people how inferior they are. They only care about damage per second.

To quote the great Chris Rock, there's black people, then there's N****s. And in this case, there's DD, then there's DPS.

[Evangela]

I used to call it DD on this forum but even the developers themselves keep using the term DPS as if it's an official term in the game so.... what can we do? Make a big rant thread and try to make them change it?

[Nav_Fae]

I used to call it DD on this forum but even the developers themselves keep using the term DPS as if it's an official term in the game so.... what can we do? Make a big rant thread and try to make them change it?

Because it is an official term in-game.

[Caitlyn]

Oh wow, then I m not the only one.

I still wondered why the short form of "Damage per Second" is also shared for the role "Damage Dealer". Maybe DPS stands for something different like "Damage PersonS" xD

But im totally agree, it must be DD and not DPS!

[Ultimatecalibur]

Oh wow, then I m not the only one.

I still wondered why the short form of "Damage per Second" is also shared for the role "Damage Dealer". Maybe DPS stands for something different like "Damage PersonS" xD

But im totally agree, it must be DD and not DPS!

I believe the choice of DpS over DD occurred because DD covers two types of classes. MMO design used to have sustained damage classes and nova/burst/alpha strike damage classes.

Sustained damage classes originally did medium levels of damage but could sustain that damage over long periods of time. DpS was the standard method to see how effective the these classes were and so they began to be referred to as DpS classes.
Nova/Burst/Alpha Strike classes relied on doing high damage bursts (often with fairly long cooldowns) at the start of fights to end them quickly.

When longer and longer fights started to be the boss design Meta, DpS classes became more desirable for content than Nova classes and designers were often forced to redesign Nova classes into DpS classes or give them DpS modes.

[Evangela]

Because it is an official term in-game.

Yes, I know that, and it's stupid.

[Balipu]

Maybe DD isn't used cause it sounds like a bra size.

I'm a DD
Damn you I'm only a C

[Riardon]

Maybe DD isn't used cause it sounds like a bra size.

I'm a DD
Damn you I'm only a C

I'm crying hahahaha

[Caitlyn]

I'm a DD
Damn you I'm only a C

I m a DPS.
- Hey. I m HoT.
Sure, you are.