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Zion (Zionwarez) Oct 6, 2016 @ 6:32am
Difference between "DPS" and "DD"
Heya,

I've seen it so much in the last years when playing mmos. A few players always call the DD DPS. And even you do in your game here ;)

In my opinion, there is a clear difference. DPS means "damage per second". Its the damage I can deal with my char, for example 1 or 50 or 120....
DD means "Damage Dealer" and is the description of my role. Other roles are tank or healer.

So if I focus my raid on another mob, and your message shows up "all the dps make the mob their new target", so thats incorrect. Cause it means "all the damage per second make the mob their new target" - lol.

Right? ;-)
Last edited by Zion (Zionwarez); Oct 6, 2016 @ 6:46am
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Leya Oct 30, 2016 @ 10:20am 
Not really, it's just the current nomenclature for mmo's and simliar games. DPS, liek you say, has always been an acroynm for 'damage per second' but it's all now a word to refer to something that's main role is dealing damage.

There's no right or wrong really, people use dps as a word to refer to thigns that are meant to deal damage, and also as an acronym to shorten damage per second.
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Parody Games  [developer] Nov 2, 2016 @ 9:06pm 
In my experience it has been common terminology in MMO's for a while now to call the damage dealing roles DPS. It may just be the people I tend to play with, maybe more regional use or what have you, but that's how it got used in this game as well.
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Ghin Dec 3, 2016 @ 10:00am 
The problem I have is that the game puts the Warrior/Tank in with the DPS for some options.
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Parody Games  [developer] Dec 4, 2016 @ 10:27am 
Originally posted by Ghin:
The problem I have is that the game puts the Warrior/Tank in with the DPS for some options.

It didn't previously, but then people complained about it NOT including the tank with the Melee DPS commands. Can't have it both ways and can't please everyone, lol.
Last edited by Parody Games; Dec 4, 2016 @ 10:27am
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Ghin Dec 4, 2016 @ 10:09pm 
Originally posted by Parody Games:
Originally posted by Ghin:
The problem I have is that the game puts the Warrior/Tank in with the DPS for some options.

It didn't previously, but then people complained about it NOT including the tank with the Melee DPS commands. Can't have it both ways and can't please everyone, lol.
Yeah it's not really that big a deal for me because of the way tank threat grabs all the monsters. At least this way I can have a DPS Warrior to block cleaves and have him target attacks properly.

Something else I just noticed in the Insect Temple is that healers with no mana dont follow those rules.
Last edited by Ghin; Dec 5, 2016 @ 12:14am
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