Terminology. Why does it bug me and others?

[Obysuca]

Tank and spank is about the only one that annoys me.

I heard two people say it before and I was like "Do people REALLY say that?" lol

[Dijana]

The only time I am bothered is when people say ARC but are referring to arcanist...'are you talking about archer or arcanist?'

[thedevilsjester]

You just need a more worldly view of language. WoW didn't coin any of those terms.

This.

It aggravates me, not when people use different terminology (for the most part) but when people attribute terminology (and other things) to WoW, since as we all know, there were no MMO's before WoW...

In fact, most of the terminology (and other things) predate even MMO's and originated in MUDs (and some even predate video games entirely...)

[Sziadan]

I use DPS and I've never even played WoW and as someone else stated, DPS was around even before WoW.

Just for "sh*t and giggles".

Damage Per Second has been around since before Diablo. A lot of table top RPG games with lots of numbers brought about the inception of the term. However, widely popular community games like Diablo 2, Everquest, World of Warcraft, Neverwinter Nights, and quite few others 9 years ago made the term more widely used in the RPG Genre by the populace and developers alike.

http://dungeondefenders2.com/forum/a...p/t-74429.html

As for the "pally" comment on paladin, I used to play Ragnarok Online and people would sometimes call the paladins "pally" over there.
Could be that the person came from there and not WoW

People need to stop with the "Stop using WoW terminology!" when it's very likely that it does not even come from WoW.
A lot of us didn't play FF11, however, that doesn't mean we all come from WoW either.

TOON. kills me every time.

I hate that one as well.. I dunno why people even started to say that instead of "character"...

[SanjiroLionheart]

This reminds me of when I first started using <job> shortcut lol. It bugs the hell out of me that, for example, <job> translates into marauder(30) or some such. I've been on XI since U.S. release and I guess I'm just far too used to <job> being set up as I dunno...DNC50/NIN25 type lol. If they would at least make it Marauder with the capital M, maybe it wouldn't seem so odd to me. Just seems like it is technically a job title, so it should be capitalized @.@. Nitpicking most likely, but just one of those things xD

[indira]

shows you who this game is made for, even the dev team uses WoW terms.

[Mysteran]

shows you who this game is made for, even the dev team uses WoW terms.

I would be very surprised if even 5% of these terms originated in WoW.

I've been playing MMOs, MUDs, and tabletop long before WoW was a concept and the majority of these terms were used then.

I've always learned DD as Direct-Damage, being a damage type. Hearing Damage Dealer confused me at first.

DPS as a role does make sense if you think about it. A Pally (Yes, I use the name Pally. Again, not from WoW. I picked it up playing table-top when we actually had to say the names of classes. We just shortened it to "Pally" when we said it and it kinda stuck) would be considered a Tank role. They take the damage. That's what they bring to the group. A White Mage would be the Healer, they bring healing to the group as their primary purpose. A Monk would be DPS. That's what they bring to the group and the primary focus of those sorts of classes is to do the most damage in the least amount of time. Hence DPS.

The first time I heard the phrase "Bubble" to describe a damage ward/absorption type ability was playing Dark Age of Camelot where the wardens had a spell that would do just that. The spell animation was to create a big bubble around the character for a few seconds. And just for reference, this pre-dates WoW by about 3 years or so I think.

[aswedishtiger]

agreed even moreso in real life. walk up to a fellow MMO gamer hey what role do you typically play? i'm a DPSer bro. OR i'm a damage dealer. dps and dpser whether in game or real life just simply sound stupid to me

[Raxion]

I didn't really bring this up claiming that WoW created the terminology. The origin of the terms, I would say, is rather irrelevant.

I made the thread out of curiosity as to why terms from other MMOs were looked down upon in this one, even by me.

[Deusteele]

Ultimately it comes back to FFXI. The community within that game tends to be viewed by MMO's at large as self-conceited. This colored their interactions with other MMO communities, which drove them back together. This made a self-fulfilling system that made the FFXI community insular. So "their" terms, became the "right" terms.