DPS is role name ?

[Reslin]

Hi, I'm Japanese player. sorry to my poor English.

I have heard "attaker" or "damage dealer" as damage sauce role.
But that role is called "DPS" at FF14. "DPS" means Damage Per Second, it's a measure of attackpower, not role name, I think.
From when did it come to say so in English ?

Think about it this way as a role. "DPS" means "Damage Per Second" therefore a "DPS Class" is one that specializes in doing as much "Damage Per Second" as possible either through burst or sustain.

[Dyne_Fellpool]

Think about it this way as a role. "DPS" means "Damage Per Second" therefore a "DPS Class" is one that specializes in doing as much "Damage Per Second" as possible either through burst or sustain.

^ This.
And people have been calling them "dps" classes since... well the first time i saw it a lot was in 2003.

[dstyle]

in korea, the dps role is called 'damage'...so simple lol

[Crystallus]

Hi, I'm Japanese player. sorry to my poor English.

I have heard "attaker" or "damage dealer" as damage sauce role.
But that role is called "DPS" at FF14. "DPS" means Damage Per Second, it's a measure of attackpower, not role name, I think.
From when did it come to say so in English ?

Your English is very good compared to some English speakers.

You are correct though DPS is a measure of what a Damage Dealer does not what the job is. I can only guess this comes from WoW and other english MMOs.
Many have chosen to interject other game terms that have no place in Final Fantasy.

Other things of concern in relation to Final Fantasy XIV: ARR as an MMO.

1. We have /tells not whispers.
2. We have Linkshells and in ARR Free Companies not guilds.
3a. We have DoT (Damage over Time) spells and Enfeebles
3b. We have Sleep and Repose not mezs'.

Thank You so much for bringing this to the attention of the community.

[Rolvag]

Other things of concern in relation to Final Fantasy XIV: ARR as an MMO.

1. We have /tells not whispers.
2. We have Linkshells and in ARR Free Companies not guilds.
3a. We have DoT (Damage over Time) spells and Enfeebles
3b. We have Sleep and Repose not mezs'.

Thank You so much for bringing this to the attention of the community.

Hi
my opnions is, that all this term are meaningless as long as others can comprehand them.
Ofc there will be legacy and other vet. players of Final Fantasy universe and they will be using FF terms, but as long as FF:ARR atract players from other MMO there still will be /whisper , GUILD and other stuff. Peoples are just lazy (including myself) and dont want learn terms over and over thats a fact.

using common sense and brain its enought

ps: i know my ENG. grammar ****

[CyrilLucifer]

Hi
my opnions is, that all this term are meaningless as long as others can comprehand them.
Ofc there will be legacy and other vet. players of Final Fantasy universe and they will be using FF terms, but as long as FF:ARR atract players from other MMO there still will be /whisper , GUILD and other stuff. Peoples are just lazy (including myself) and dont want learn terms over and over thats a fact.

Except I can't understand when people tell me to use "mez" instead of "Sleep." I had also never heard the term "pat" before and was wondering what it even meant before someone mentioned it in a completely unrelated conversation. "los" was also a wierd one that I finally figured out. I've played TERA and FFXI before now.

Sometimes there are barriers in communication; it's up to those who use the foreign terms to adapt to the current game.

[Rolvag]

Except I can't understand when people tell me to use "mez" instead of "Sleep." I had also never heard the term "pat" before and was wondering what it even meant before someone mentioned it in a completely unrelated conversation. "los" was also a wierd one that I finally figured out. I've played TERA and FFXI before now.

Sometimes there are barriers in communication; it's up to those who use the foreign terms to adapt to the current game.

to be honest, i didnt heard terms as "mez" or "pat" before but for me its ok i have no problem to ask others what means "mez" etc. Imho best "shortcut" for me is using "CC" (crowd control) so i dont neet rewrite each class specifics but that isnt isue at FF since sleep is only one "reliable" there.

ATM game is still new so little understandings on comunity-language should be enought

btw just for fun : when i played SC2 it took me 2 days before I figured what they means with "cheesing"

[Altheras]

Ofc there will be legacy and other vet. players of Final Fantasy universe and they will be using FF terms, but as long as FF:ARR atract players from other MMO there still will be /whisper , GUILD and other stuff. Peoples are just lazy (including myself) and dont want learn terms over and over thats a fact.

There are also people who play a ton of MMOs at once or flit from one to another regularly and they just confuse their terms sometimes. I know I've done it. I play too many different MMOs. o_o

[Crystallus]

Your English is very good compared to some English speakers.

You are correct though DPS is a measure of what a Damage Dealer does not what the job is. I can only guess this comes from WoW and other english MMOs.
Many have chosen to interject other game terms that have no place in Final Fantasy.

Other things of concern in relation to Final Fantasy XIV: ARR as an MMO.

1. We have /tells not whispers.
2. We have Linkshells and in ARR Free Companies not guilds.
3a. We have DoT (Damage over Time) spells and Enfeebles
3b. We have Sleep and Repose not mezs'.

Thank You so much for bringing this to the attention of the community.

@Lephise I'll just quote myself and let you read it again. Then read what you typed and compare.

[FritoBandito]

Your English is very good compared to some English speakers.

You are correct though DPS is a measure of what a Damage Dealer does not what the job is. I can only guess this comes from WoW and other english MMOs.
Many have chosen to interject other game terms that have no place in Final Fantasy.

Other things of concern in relation to Final Fantasy XIV: ARR as an MMO.

1. We have /tells not whispers.
2. We have Linkshells and in ARR Free Companies not guilds.
3a. We have DoT (Damage over Time) spells and Enfeebles
3b. We have Sleep and Repose not mezs'.

Thank You so much for bringing this to the attention of the community.

I bet you also think people should be required to learn English to live in the United States, huh?


@OP: Just a little something extra to take with you, sometimes people will refer to DPS as "deeps."