Terminology. Why does it bug me and others?

[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"...