damage dealer
Offensive combat role
A damage dealer is a character, class, or player in a video game whose primary role is inflicting harm on enemies rather than absorbing hits or healing allies.
The term appears most often in multiplayer games with defined roles: We need another damage dealer for this raid.
Often shortened to DPS (damage per second), referring both to the role and the player filling it.
- DPSAttack rate measure
- nukeAtomic weapon, casually
- burstBreak apart suddenly
- critical hitBonus damage on lucky strike
- critAbbreviated scholarly review
one shot · assassin · glass cannon · back line · carry · striker · berserker · sniper · mage · rogue · slash · cleave · execute · combo · aggro · squishy · output · spike
- damage dealersglass cannon, carry, ADC, nuke, assassin
- MOBAsMOBA, heroes, champions, minion, creeps
- Roleplayerslarper, reenactor, game master, dungeon master, GM