Commonly used abbreviations

fireblood

kite??....

ketsunfwu

List should probably be seperated into "Common Interenet Abbrevs", "Common MMO Abbrevs" and "PW Specific Abbrevs" so that I won't have to look through a list of things I already know.

ijimuro

u forgot one
BS - "i thought you were gona die so i killed him for you

stampede

iknowmymom wrote: »

AC - Armor Class or Defense.
Add - An extra monster has joined an existing battle.
Alt - A character on your account other than your main character.
AoE - Area of Effect Damage. This is a spell that hurts a group of monsters in an area.
AE - Area Effect
AFK - Away from Keyboard. This means the player is away from his computer.
Aggro - This means the monsters are mad at you and you've "activated" them to attack you. They are now in the motion of trying to reach and attack you.
Aggro Radius - The radius around the monsters where they will "wake up" and attack you.
AGI - Agility
AH - Auction House
Avatar - Your character
BG - Battleground
Buff - A beneficial spell cast on a monster or player. An example of a "buff" is the Priest's Physical PDef buff.
Carebear - Player that prefers to help other players attack monsters rather than attack other players in player vs. player combat.
Caster - A character that stays on the back row to heal or cast spells on the enemy, such as a Mage.
Char - Your character.
Cheese - To exploit an imbalance in the game.
Creep - Monster
Creep Jacking - A term from Warcraft 3 where players attack other players while they are already engaged in combat with neutral monsters.
Critters - Monsters that don't attack back.
DD - Direct Damage. This is a spell that does all of its damage in one hit rather than spreading its damage over time.
DMG - Damage
DOT - Damage over time
DPS - Damage per second
De-Buff - A negative spell cast on a unit that makes it less powerful. An example of a "de-buff" is the Werefox skill "Soul Degeneration".
FB - Fuben (= Chinese for dungeon), the dungeon quests you have to do at higher level but which you receive at level 19, 29, ...
FH - Full Health
FM - Full Mana
FTL - For The Loss, a sports or game term.
FTW - For The Win, a sports or game term.
Gank - Player vs. Player: To attack another player while they're trying to fight a monster. Or...when a party attacks a lonely player, usually to PK (Player Kill) him.
Griefer - A person who purposely tries to annoy or anger other players.
Grinding - Staying in the same area fighting the same types of monsters for a very long time.
HP - Hit points or Health
INT - Intelligence
Kiting - A style of combat in which a player continually stays out of combat range of an enemy usually by running from it, while simultaneously causing damage to it.
KS - Kill Steal. Try to steal another person's kill.
LFG - Looking for a group.
LFM - Looking for more.
Log - When you log off; disconnect from the game.
LOL - Lots of Laugh or Laughing Out Loud. This abbreviation indicates something is really funny. It's pretty cliche nowadays though.
LOM - Low on Mana.
LOOT - To take the treasure from a monster that has been killed or from a chest.
Lurer - Person who lures monsters for the party.
Luring - One of the players in a party heads out and leads one or more of the monsters back to the party so that the party can attack the monsters. The idea is to prevent too many monsters from attacking at once.
LVL - Level
Mats - (raw) materials used for the crafting skills
MO - Massively Multiplayer Online.
MMOG - Massively Multiplayer Online Game
MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
MOB - MOB" is an old programming acronym of Mobile Object Block. Mobs are all computer controlled characters in the game. You should likely use some other term such as monster, creep, or bad guy.
MT - Main Tank
Named - A special monster that is usually stronger than surrounding monsters with possible special abilities and item drops.
Nerf - To downgrade, to be made softer, or make less effective. "X has been nerfed."
Newbie - A term that sometimes means new player. Newbie is also used to suggest that a player is not very good.
Newb - Short for Newbie. See above.
N00b - An incredibly uncool way to say newb. Don't use it.
NPC - This is a non player-controlled character. The characters are controlled by the server or realm. A "computer" character.
Nuke - high damage in one hit, usually magic attack
OOM - Out of Mana. People say this to let their party know they are out of mana and can't cast any spells, especially healing.
Pat - Patrolling monster
PC - Player controlled character
Pet - A NPC controlled by a player such as a Wolf.
PK - Player Kill or Player Killer.
POP - Contraction of "Repopulation", often used as a shortened term for the re-spawn of monsters.
Proc - Activate. Example: A weapon with a special effect will "proc" every so often.
PST - Please Send Tell. Indicates that the person speaking wants to receive communication via a /t(ell) or /w(hisper) command.
Puller - Person who pulls monsters for the party.
Pulling - One of the players in a party heads out and leads one or more of the monsters back to the party so that the party can attack the monsters. The idea is to prevent too many monsters from attacking at once.
PvE - Player vs. Environment. Combat between players and computer controlled opponents.
PvP - Player vs. Player. This means for one player to attack another player.
Raid - A raid is a large-scale attack on an area by a group of players.
Res - Short for resurrect
Re-Spawn - A monster that has been killed has spawned (been created) again.
Rest (state) - An indicator of how tired a character is.
Rez - Resurrect
RM - Raw Materials used for the crafting skills.
S>..... B>.... which mean Sell and Buy. Usually find this in Personal Shop. Note: The dots stand for any item name.
Small Pets - An animal following the player around. While this does not directly influence the player or monsters, it is cool to have around, especially the rare ones.
Spawns - The location or process of monsters appearing when they are created in the world.
Stack - A number of identical items placed in a single inventory slot, to conserve space. Only certain items can be stacked.
STR - Strength
Tank - A melee character that can take a lot of damage.
Taunt - Related to Aggro. An ability that allows a player to pull the attention of a monster off of another player and onto him- or herself.
Threat - Related to Aggro. This is what a character "gives off" to generate or draw monster aggro.
Train - To lead monsters into another player. This is not a desired behavior.
Twink - A low level character who has been made more powerful by higher level characters, usually by getting stronger armour and weapons than the character would normally have at such a low level.
Uber - German slang for 'super', originally meaning 'over'; exceptionally powerful
Vendor Trash - An item that only a vendor/merchant would buy
WTB - Wanting to buy
WTS - Wanting to sell
XP or Exp - Experience Points


I take no credit for this, copied and paste which came from a poster by the name of Aran from the perfect world International Wiki.
http://pw-forum.onlinewelten.com/yaf_postst4146_GUIDE--In-game-abbreviations.aspx


Posted by Ambie somwhere else on this forum....

Blademaster =BM
Wizard=Wiz (hehe wiz..)
Archer = Arch or arc
Cleric= Clec or clc
Venomancer= VM
Barbarian= BB

DD is more commonly known as Damage Dealer.

ninjablade

This is amazingly helpful...ty

riann

What about HH? I have no idea what the abbreviation's for.

zombi

Why do people say EP and WR? They're called clerics and blademasters, not priests and warriors. Too much WoW?

boli

I heard one today... what's QQing?

voodoodoll

So what does DQ mean? Cant figure it out. I have been able to figure most of those out but not DQ.

voodoodoll

oh wait duh. lol just figured it out nvm ^.^

Taranis - Heavens Tear

ok...What is "CON" and "INT=intelligence" in the character build posts?

saylum

wth does HH and DQ stand for...?

demise

saylum wrote: »

wth does HH and DQ stand for...?

Holy Hall is the Twilight Temple in this version. And DQ stands for Dragon Quest.

masonmaxx

great list on here. helps a lot considering every game has different short hand (you can usually understand all the swear words though. people never short hand them do they?)

i realised how bad i was at short names when i started playing GW. suddenly, in the space of two years, language has changed. god damn i'm too old for this

wealth

Thanks for this, once the game download concludes I will be abbreviating my way to the top.

maestitia

dunno if this is a major issue on this game (since I only started playing a few days ago) but

LOS : Line of Sight - commonly used by healers when thier tank runs around a corner mid fight

and as to the QQ question QQ = Crying (it's supposed to look like two eyes crying)

itzsamm

Some people tell me to upgrade my skills...Agi and Con and I have no idea what that means. I know that Agi is Agility but i dont see how you can upgrade that in your Attributes. So if anybody knows anything about this can you please message me?

Meeku - Lost City

con = vitality

midnightdemon

Well, I am confused about this term.

8x Barbarian, or when they have this "2x, 3x, 4x, etc" What does it mean?

forcemajure

midnightdemon wrote: »

Well, I am confused about this term.

8x Barbarian, or when they have this "2x, 3x, 4x, etc" What does it mean?

That is a range of levels with "x" being any digit. So, an 8x Barbarian means a barbarian level 80-89.

Sherekahn - Lost City

Elite - when referring to a monster, one that's definetly stronger than usual but not particularly a boss
Pure - 100%, for instance a character with a "pure dex" build should have all its stat points put into dexterity. the build is ussually still considered pure if strength is added but only enough to equip low-requirement gear for the player's level
Hybrid - a character build that is not focused entirely on one purpose but instead multiple purposes. a wizard that wears heavy armor would be an example
Req - requirement, prerequisite, whatever
Tele - teleport. each main town or city should have a Teleportation Master, if you speak to them once it will permanantly reveal that area with a waypoint. by speaking with a teleport master you can travel between cities instantly for a sum of gp
MP - mana points, used for most skills, the blue bar below your health bar
Chi - the yellow bar thats below your health & mana gauge, allows you to cast certain skills
D/C - disconnected, ussually due to some glitch lag spike or bad connection
SP - spirit points, used to learn new skills. sp is gained from killing monsters and doing quests, but unlike exp you do not lose sp upon death
LFP - looking for party
GP - gold points, used to differentiate from boutique gold, gp refers to regular in-game gold
PvM - player vs. monster ....same as PvE
DQ - dragon quest, the quests you start getting at level 20 then 31, 41, and so on
KoS - kill on sight
GM - can mean one of two things... Guild Master or Game Master. often quite confusing yes
DEX - dexterity, a stat
VIT - vitality, a stat
MAG - magic, a stat
Crit - critical hit
Co-ords - co-ordinates, 6 digits visible in the top right corner near the minimap, used to pinpoint any location on the world map
Archo - archosaur
Herb - any material that can be used for production at the apothecary. also some people might include logs, rough lumber, etc in the definition
Mobbing - intentionally gathering up more than one monster so that you can strike them all simultaneously with an area of effect attack

some general ones...

rofl - rolling on the floor laughing
omw - on my way
brt - be right there
brb - be right back
irl - in real life
gtg - got to go
gj - good job
vnj - very nice job
wtfbbq - ?????

and some more old slang from malaysian that might get thrown around...

MG = human magician [wizard]
HH = holy hall [twilight temple]
CON - constitution [vitality]

woohoo! woohoohoohoo..

bobthefred

what does HoT stand for?

Amiris - Sanctuary

HoT = Heal over time. Ironheart blessing is a Heal over time, because it heals a set amount of HP over 15 seconds.

beelee

What does Imao stand for ?

CrimsonCrime - Sanctuary

lol at "N00b - An incredibly uncool way to say newb. Don't use it." b:laugh

Leolf - Heavens Tear

I don't think these have been posted yet:

BM=BladeMaster
Mage=Wizard (or am I mixed up?)
Clerics and archers don't tend to be abbreviated. Maybe Arch for archer, but it's not very common.
Veno=Venomancer
Barb=Barbarian
Mats=Materials

lilmann223

Thx for the list, it helps.

plarzay

Hey I'm completely new and found this whole thread very helpful even though i wont get to to play till some time into next year.

Sherekahn - Lost City wrote: »

GP - gold points, used to differentiate from boutique gold, gp refers to regular in-game gold

b:question newbie Question for ya to do with the quote obviously: whats the difference between in-game gold and boutique gold, and one that note, I'm finding the definition of boutique for this game (if you guys have it thats helpful!).

Leiff - Sanctuary

I heard/seen "GUM" used = Gang Up on Monster

Used when players squad up to collectively take out a particularly difficult monster or one that just takes a long time to respawn. Very useful tactic.

Leiff

Hirogi - Heavens Tear

Got a question, what does TT stand for?