Read the Wiki entry I posted. It sounds like you get ripped off in WoW a lot, though .
Yeah, you do. A lot, and very badly. And I DID read it. It's honestly the same thing.

The only way endgame weapons can be obtained (for the most part), is by grinding certain mobs until the drop loot you sell to the bazaar.
That's how late game WoW works, and we call that farming-it's farming because you're looking for a specific thing with a craptacular drop chance, as opposed to grinding which is a bit more general purpose. As I said, the terms are really quite interchangeable.

Grinding is when you kill the same mobs over and over again to gain access to end game content. Farming is when you kill the same mob over and over again in order to participate in the game economy. Seems pretty clear to me.
That's a different way of putting it, but my point is basically that you're arguing over terms that describe the same actions for usually the same but occaisionally different purposes. When we 'farm' a mob (usually a boss), it's to get the uber rare things that it drops, since it is the ONLY creature in the game to drop them. Now imagine you and 39 of the closest friends you never knew you had each *need* that one thing. On a REALLY good run, the big bad guy drops *2* of them. On a typical run, he doesn't drop that thing at all. The 40 of you have cooperated for four hours, relying on someone else to take hits for the squishies, to heal the hit takers, and to use devastating attacks-all this coordination to kill this ONE guy whom, as you put it, are 'grinding' to get this thing. You and your 39 buddies can only kill this one guy as often as once a week, and only at most two of you ever walk away with 'the prize'.

I know MMO's are different and thoroughly more obnoxious than console titles, but seriously. You guys don't really seem to know what grinding really is. Grinding in FFXII takes an hour or so out of your life to get the one thingy. I'm not saying you don't grind for it-I'm saying you're overreacting.

Besides... from your icon, I'm guessing you're an old school FF gamer. Remember grinding the Paladin Shield in FFVI?