Terminology. Why does it bug me and others?

[Blaize]

DD = Damage Dealer (this is FF now WoW), when you went to WoW you learned the terminology, now you've come to FF, its Damage Dealer.
Toon = cartoon character (which fits WoW's art style, not FF's)
DPS = Damage Per Second. If you /shout LF 1 dps, you are and always will be shouting for a DD who can do 1 Damage Per Second.

Credit for stupid terms is given to WoW because before WoW, the MMO market was far smaller, so even though all of these games existed before WoW, they were generally small, so most of these people claiming the terms were coined before WoW, likely never even played those games, and are simply tagging along others reasons to try and push their way.

FF11 was the 2nd largest MMO ever until WoW, which means all of these other games where these terms were "coined" were far smaller, and FF11 wins.

/thread

Hi Mr. Know-It-All...I'm just here to point out that DD infact means DIRECT DAMAGE (As opposed to DoT Damage over Time), even in FFXI this is what it meant, it was the XBox Generation of XI-ers that never grasped this and believed it was Damage Dealer.

/thread (Am I doing it right?!)

[Tolmos]

Toon = cartoon character (which fits WoW's art style, not FF's)
DPS = Damage Per Second. If you /shout LF 1 dps, you are and always will be shouting for a DD who can do 1 Damage Per Second.

Since the term "toon" was coined in the days of MUDs, which came LONG before graphical MMOs, it's safe to say it has nothing to do with art style what-so-ever, and is just as applicable in FF as it is in WoW or any other MMO.

The term DPS is meant for "High DPS classes", not simply "Damage per second". So someone asking for a "DPS" class is asking for a specific class capable of producing high DPS.

Both are applicable in FF14

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[Zumi]

DD = Damage Dealer (this is FF now WoW), when you went to WoW you learned the terminology, now you've come to FF, its Damage Dealer.
Toon = cartoon character (which fits WoW's art style, not FF's)
DPS = Damage Per Second. If you /shout LF 1 dps, you are and always will be shouting for a DD who can do 1 Damage Per Second.

Credit for stupid terms is given to WoW because before WoW, the MMO market was far smaller, so even though all of these games existed before WoW, they were generally small, so most of these people claiming the terms were coined before WoW, likely never even played those games, and are simply tagging along others reasons to try and push their way.

FF11 was the 2nd largest MMO ever until WoW, which means all of these other games where these terms were "coined" were far smaller, and FF11 wins.

/thread

FFXIV disagrees with you. Open up the duty finder menu, you will see it says DPS. The offical term is DPS for FFXIV.

[faris]

What bothers me is "threat." It's "enmity."

[Annah]

since when did "DPS" become synonymous with WoW?

The term "DPS" is as old a "Mob." "DPS" was floating around since the late 90s in MMOs

If the term "DPS" bugs you then don't write it. If you see other people writing it and it still bothers you then I don't know what to say....this is a pretty petty thing to be bothered about.

[Kincard]

this is a pretty petty thing to be bothered about.

I always make sure to act like that guy from the Onyxia wipe video if someone says he gets annoyed by "WoW terms".

[Ranebow]

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.

You have 'balls' bringing this up, because you're on the wrong side of the popular fence.
Unfortunately most of this stems from laziness or the desire to be different - as just like in real life. What's more concerning is that people intentionally shorten words, then they re-lengthen them and misspell them on purpose.


My pet peeves are:

Toon (Character)
DPS (damage dealer)
Party (Group)
Guildy (Guild member)
Wifey (some dumb bitch who gets put on auto follow while afk for two hours of a raid then shows up at the last two minutes to roll on an item and has the audacity to say 'wow thanks everyone, that was hard work!')
And anything with Anime influenced ASCII type characters like "^^" or "0.o"

[faris]

And anything with Anime influenced ASCII type characters like "^^" or "0.o"

This. For me, it makes someone look a complete idiot (even if they're not!) in less than ten seconds flat.

[Xieveral]

And anything with Anime influenced ASCII type characters like "^^" or "0.o"

Used in excess it screams attention whore or G.I.R.L./attention whore

I'm guilty of using ^^ and :3 amongst friends but that's amongst friends you just don't do that with a group of strangers.

:^) and : o) really get under my skin for some reason...

[Keres]

It bugs me a little when some people (FFXI players?) say "mages" to implicitly mean "healers." A black mage is a DD, but not a "mage," apparently?