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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4621372" data-attributes="member: 5143">I have to admit, there is a lot of crossover and people tend to have different lines as to what is too much.  I don't like WoW, myself.  But I played EQ, EQ2, and City of Heroes for a number of years.  I don't play any of them anymore.I can tell you that before EQ(the point when I think MMORPGs truly became popular enough to have a real effect on the language used at D&D tables), I had heard tank, healer, AOE, blaster, and TPK.I heard DPS, controller, aggro, and mezzing while playing EQ.  This was long before WoW.  DPS is one of the terms that doesn't really make sense outside of a real time game.  In D&D, we'd just say "The fighter was our damage" before.As for terms I've only heard since WoW came out, Pally sticks out as one I've never heard abbreviated that way until it came out.  In EQ, I saw most people just use Pal.  Most of the above words became 10 times more common after WoW came up, mind you.The number of people in my group who had ever played a MMORPG of any kind jumped from 1 to 4 on average.  And the amount of time that the players spend playing their games increased dramatically as well.  Before there were 2 of us who played EQ and a reference would be brought up now and then and we'd laugh and go back to playing.  Since WoW came out, any mention of something from WoW starts a 10-20 minute long conversation about the raid the night before hand.</blockquote>

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