Commonly used abbreviations

Helpinz_you - Sanctuary

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 ******** 3 where players attack other players while they are already engaged in combat with neutral monsters.
Critters - Monsters that don't attack back.
DD - Damage Dealer.
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, ... (Call to Duty)
FC - Frost Covered grounds
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
pdef - physical defense
mdef - magical defense
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 - Want to buy
WTS - Want to sell
WTT - Want to trade
XP or Exp - Experience Points
BM - Blademaster
Wiz - Wizard
Arch or arc - Archer
Clec or clc - Cleric
Barb - Barbarian
Veno - Venomancer
miji - exp scrolls
dolls - those cash shop item dolls that disappear when you die, if you have one in your inventory you won't drop anything even if your name turned red because of PKing
array - the Mage aoe skill / the archer aoe skill depending on which class you play
blue bubble - the priest aoe heal
red bubble - the priest aoe atk buff
Calico - that one guy that always goes afk at the banker
kos - kill on sight
tw - territory wars
G.I.R.L - guy in real life
m.m.o.r.p.g - massive male online role playing girl
Farming - Much like grinding yet the purpose is not to gain lvl as much as to gain specific drops (loot) from mobs
TT - Twilight Temple
DQ - dragon quest
QQ - crying emoticon
LOS - Line of sight
8x - a number with an x beside it means any number that starts with that number(81, 82, 83, etc)
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
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
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
HoT = Heal over time. Ironheart blessing is a Heal over time
Mats=Materials
GUM - Gang Up on Monster
^^ / ^_^ / ^.^ - a smiley expressing happiness
squishy - easily killed. Clerics are squishy (but they pwn)
pwn - if you dont know i cant help you
own - same as pwn
PvX - player vs anything and everything
imo - in my opinion
imho - in my honest opinion
idc - i don't care
idk - i don't know
w/e - whatever
w/o - without
w/ - with
nvm - nevermind
bbl - be back later
brt - be right there
ttyl - talk to you later
qt - cute
GA - Guardian Angel
CTD - Call To Duty (FB)
FF - Forgotten Frostland
DoD - Dragon of Depths
ty - thank you
np - no problem
gratz - congratulations (e.g. for levelling up ^_^)
stfu - shut the *beep* up (not nice)
atm - at the moment
gtg (or g2g) - got to go
l8r - later
brb - be right back
lag - someone's connection is bad or screen keeps freezing, so it is tricky to play.
dc - disconnected. Mostly used, when it happenned unwanted
jk - just kidding (my favorite )
lure or mob - TEH job for tanks (gather monsters so that others can aoe them)
fav - favorite
add - someone probably wants to join a party (imho it's an arrogant way, though
hw - homework (a rare occasion, however )
plvl - people, who are helping to level up lower-levelled players... that action itself may be called "plvl".
OP - original post/poster or over powered
PM - private message
RB - Rebirth
FQ - Friendship Quest
Zhen - A special type of grinding whereby people stand in place using AoE and a "runner" pulls mobs into the effect. Not to be confused with Zen, which is the Pre-gold currency.
1-1 - one on one or 1vs1
2-1 - two on one/2vs1
1-2 - one on two/1vs2
TT 1-1: This is the first chapter accesible at level 60.
1-2: tougher chapter,cant remember level req, somewhere around 65
1-3: High 60's,low 70's access.
TT 2-1: Accessible by a level 74+ toon.
KS - kill stealing (frowned upon)
PK - player kill
BH - bounty hunter
Mana pots - potions that restore mana points
Heal pots - potions that restore health points
1k city - thousand streams city
CS - crazy stone
WQ - World Quest
TT - Twilight Temple
FF - Forgotten Frostland
GF - Good fight (in some cases, girlfriend, dnt get mixed up ><)
GG - Good Game, similar to gf
BH - Bounty Hunter
ATK - Attack
Aggro Range / Radius - the radius whereby a mob/boss senses your prescence and atks you, without u first atking them.
Buff - what clerics have...
DeBuff - to ...unbuff the buffs of ur opponents XD
EXP - experience points
FB - dungeon runs
Crying Emotes: T-T, TT-TT, Q-Q, ;-;, :-:, or T.T, TT.TT etc
Smiling emotes: ^-^, ^.^ ^^, , =], :], "), "D, =D
laughing/LOLing emotes: XD, xP, xD, =P
sad emotes: =(, =[, "(, D=, Dx, D"
Worried emotes: =O, =\, =/
gtg - got to go
ftw - for the win
ftl - for the loss
bbl - be back later
brb - be right back
brt - be right there
tyt - take your time
hb - hurry back
jk or j/k - just kidding
lol - laugh out loud
lmao - laugh my **** off
rofl - roll on floor laughing
roflmao - roll on floor laughing my **** off
omw - on my way
imo - in my opinion
tbh - to be honest
wtf - what the eff
wth - what the hell
idk - i dont know
idc - i dont care
idts - i didn't think so
w/e - what ever
w/o - without
w/ - with
char - character
Flora or Fang - florafang
Goldwing - Bolden Goldwing
Yansheng - Yansheng, Hirudini Barbarian
Krixxix or Krixxiee - Krixxix the Dark Adalwolf Lord
Dismal - Dismal Shade
Chin - Chin, Mausoleum Watchman
Suzii or Suzu - Suzerix, Adalwolf Elder
Jewel - Jewelscalen
Viridis - Viriddis Stormhorn
Drake - Omnipotent Drake
Architect - Luminoc Architect
Fushma - Fushma - Hexocelot Lieutenant
Wyv or Wyvern - The Myriadtail Wyvern fb49
DoD - Dragon of the Depths
king kong - Gargantakong King
krimson - Eyes of the Krimson Beyond
Veno pets:
herc - hercules
nix - phoenix
frog - frogling
piggy - windwalking piggy
kitty or tabby - tabby plumdrop
Shadou or bear - shadou club or armored bear
puppy - cuddly pup
FF - Fox Form
CF - Caster Form
("\(';..;')/") = a bear? lol

I copied these from the people who posted on the old sticky(with the exception of maybe like 5)


I was wondering if this could replace the old sticky, GM's

The old one, you look through like 15 pages, then find my compiled list(same as the above list, and I am Dark_Blitz fyi)

It would probably create less confusion to people looking things up if there was a big list at the beggining, rather then the end

Thank you in advance
~Nick(hate my char name)

Baalbak - Dreamweaver

someone wants a cookie

some I've never heard. some are a bit wrong though IMO. There's a distinction between newbie (or newb) and n00b. A newbie is one who is new to the game (or whatever it is they are new to) all of us have been newbs at one point or another. On the other hand, you have those who have been around for a while and still behave like a newbie because they have not put forth the effort to learn, change, or do better when given plenty of opportunities and guidance from those who are more proficient than them. These ones, the ones who "should know better by now", are the n00bs, or simply b00b to save an extra letter.