Why Do So Many Games Have Tanks, Healers and DPS?

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I don't believe in RPGs, and only clicked to find out what a 'DPS' is. He didn't reveal that in the first few minutes.

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DPS is from "damage per second" (most important stat of that role), aka DD = "damage dealer", sometimes just referred to as "dmg" or "damage". It's a role that focuses on bringing health of enemies down, killing them.

Just to clarify, holy trinity is not only used in RPGs. For example it's used in Overwatch which is a hero shooter - a multiplayer team PvP (player vs player) game with heroes (classes) without any progression giving you power (no increasing stats or more and more powerful items) and virtually no story.

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Thanks, that makes sense. I play games like GTA5, Civ6, Minecraft, Borderlands, and such. I don't think the holy trinity is very represented in those.