Newbie's translator

MeisonTheGreatest Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:53 am

A few expressions which are common in MMORPG games wtf

AFK - Away from keyboard
Aggro - As a verb, it refers to a hostile mob that has noticed a player and is actively trying to attack that player. As a noun, it refers to the amount of “hostility” the player has generated on the mob. In typical combat strategy, the fighter tries to take as much aggro as possible away from weaker players such as healers and mages.
Alt - Short for "alternate". It refers to the alternate character a player has from their main character. This is not a stable category as sometimes alts can outlevel mains and sometimes mains become moth-balled.
AOE - Area of Effect. Used to refer to area-effect spells or abilities
AH - Auction House.

BRB - “be right back”
BTW - “by the way”
Buff - Temporary boost to character attribute or combat ability

Crafting - A general category of skills that allows players to manufacture objects from raw resources
Crit - "To crit" refers to landing a critical hit either with melee or spells.

DC – disconnected from server
dd- damage dealer
Debuff - The opposite of a buff. An offensive spell cast on enemies that weakens an attribute or combat ability.
Ding -You say that when you level
DoT - Damage over time. Refers to a class of spells that deals damage over a period of time.

Eating Grass - Slang for dead. Most corpses lie on the ground when killed face down.

Farm(ing) - The act of accumulating currency or a specific item by repeatedly killing a mob or repeatedly performing a series of actions
FTW - Acronym for "for the win". Refers to the act, ability, event that's responsible for a victory. For example, "Sheep FTW!!" - sheep being a spell that temporarily paralyzes an enemy.
FB – final boss, at lvl 19,29,39,.. and so on u will have to kill big boss in dungeon

Gank - Verb. To be ganked is a term referring to one player being overwhelmed and killed by a large group. Can be either by a group of other players doing player-kill or a group of NPC monsters. Used in a sentence, "I got ganked yesterday in Fel." Typically has the connotation that the other people had an unfair advantage (in number or level).
GM - Game Master. GM's are characters in an MMORPG who are used by employees of the game's creator company. They monitor the actions of the game world and answer the questions and complaints of the players. They have absolute control and power within the game. If the crime (breaking a law of the game, not the real world) committed is serious enough, they could even expel players permanently from the game.
gtg – got to go

IMHO - “in my humble opinion”
IRL - “in real life”
Instance - An instantiation of a particular dungeon for a particular group of players. Instanced dungeons are then parallel worlds such that different groups of players can explore the same dungeon in separate groups.

J/K - “just kidding”

KoS - Acronym for "Kill on Sight". Usually used to refer to characters who are disliked by a particular guild.

LMAO - “laughing my ass off”
LOL - “laughing out loud”
Loot - Currency or items that are dropped by a mob when it is defeated

MMORPG - Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
Mob - An AI controlled monster. 'Mob' originally comes from the MUD era, where it was short for 'mobile', to differentiate monsters that would patrol a set of rooms as opposed to monsters which would stay in one place until killed.

Newbie - A new player
Noob - The pejorative form of newbie
NP - “no problem”
NPC - Non-player charakter

OMG - “oh my god”
OMW - “on my way”
ONZ - Derived from the original word "own," both words have the same meaning: to defeat some other entity in battle or other form of competition. The "pwnz" origin is probably from the fact that the "o" and "p" keys are adjacent on the standard qwerty keyboard, and were used interchangeably by mistake in games and stuck around since then.

PK - Player Killing
PKer - Player Killer - a derogatory term - as in a person who primarily plays to kill other players
PvE - Player vs. Environment. Environment stands for all monsters (mobs) in the world
PvP - Player vs. Player combat
Pwnz - same as ownz

QQ - An emoticon that represents eyes weeping/crying. Used as both an emoticon and a verb. As an emoticon, it is usually a sarcastic reply to someone else's complaint. In that setting, it is similar to "go cry me a river" or "oh boo-hoo". As a verb, it stands in for "complaining about"

Rez - Short for resurrection. Refers to abilities that revive players that have just died. Typically only available to healer classes.
ROFL - “rolling on floor laughing”

Solo - The act of playing alone, hunting mobs alone.
Spawn - Mobs typically appear (spawn) on a given schedule. This is both a verb and noun.
Stun - A typical form of crowd control ability that immobilizes an enemy

Tank - As a noun, refers to character classes that can take a lot of damage. As a verb, refers to the act of drawing aggro from mobs before other team members strike with their abilities.

Uber - Slang form of super

WB - “welcome back”
WC - wrong chat
WTB - “want to buy”
WTS - “want to sell”