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MMOG Glossary
Here are some of the terms which may cause
some confusion. This is not a complete list of words that you may hear.
There are many other common terms used on the internet which do not
directly relate to the game.
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 like Blizzard in Warcraft III.
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. "The Murloc aggroed on me!" or
"The Murlocs will aggro if you get too close!"
Aggro Radius - The radius around the monsters where they will
"wake up" and attack you.
AGI - Agility
Avatar - Your character
Buff - A beneficial spell cast on a monster or player. An example
of a "buff" is the Priest's Inner Fire or Shaman's Bloodlust.
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.
Cheese - To exploit an imbalance in the game.
Combat Pets - A NPC controlled by a player, aiding that player and
his teammates in fights.
CR - Corpse Retrevial
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, like a bunny or deer.
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 Slow.
FH - Full Health
FM - Full Mana
Gank - Player vs. Player: To attack another player while they're
trying to fight a monster.
GM - Game Master. Someone employed by Blizzard Entertainment to
assist and help players.
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.
GS - Goldshire
HP - Hit points or Health
IF - Ironforge
Incoming (INC) - This means an attack is coming.
Instancing - This is a dungeon where you will load into your OWN
copy of the dungeon with your group. Only you and your group will be in
your copy of the dungeon. Another group that enters the same area will
enter their own copy of the dungeon.
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.
KOS - Killed on Sight. If an Orc approaches a Human Guard, the
Guard would try to kill on sight (aggro).
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. Unfortunately although very common,
that term became uncool a long long long time ago. Other alternatives that
you can use instead are "hehehehe" or "hahahaha" which
aren't the best but are more hip. ROFL should also be avoided to appear
cool.
LOM - Low on Mana.
LOS - Line of Sight
LOOT - To take the treasure from a monster that has been killed or
from a chest.
LVL - Level
Mez - Short for Mesmerize. Refers to spells, such as Sleep, that
temporarily incapacitate a target.
MMO - Massively Multiplayer Online.
MMOG - Massively Multiplayer Online Game
MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
MOB - Abbreviation of the word "Mobile". Mobs are all
computer controlled characters in the game. You should likely use some
other term such as monster, creep, or bad guy.
Nerf - To downgrade, to be made softer, or make less effective.
"X has been nerfed."
Newbie - A term that sometimes means new player but also is used to
mean a player is not very good.
Newb - Short for Newbie. See above.
Ninja - To try to loot an item without other players knowing or
paying attention. Basically, to take an item without permission.
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.
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.
PC - Player controlled character
Pet - A NPC controlled by a player such as a Wolf, Infernal, and so
on.
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, which
affects how much experience is gained from killing monsters.
Roll - This means that you should roll a random number to determine
who has the right to get an item.
Root - To trap a target in place/stuck using a "root"
type spell such as Entangling Roots, or Sleep.
RR - Redridge Mountains
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.
SPI - Spirit
SS - Southshore
STA - Stamina
Stack - A number of identical items placed in a single inventory
slot, to conserve space. Only certain items can be stacked.
STR - Strength
SW - Stormwind
Tank - A melee character that can take a lot of damage like a
Warrior.
Tap - To do damage to a monster, making it "your" kill.
Once you have damaged the monster, you are the only one able to get
experience and loot from it. A monster with a greyed-out name bar has been
tapped by another player and will not earn you experience or loot.
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 armor and weapons
than the character would normally have at such a low level.
Über - German slang for 'super', originally meaning 'over';
exceptionally powerful
UC - Undercity
WF - Westfall
Vendor Trash - An item that only a vendor/merchant would buy
WoW - World of Warcraft
WTB - Wanting to buy
WTS - Wanting to sell
XP or Exp - Experience Points
Zerg - From StarCraft, to attack something with a lot of
players/units.
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