Jargon

To save typing out complete words gamers often use various jargon to communicate, they may be abbreviations, acronyms or just made up words.

Game Elements

• Buff - A beneficial spell
• DD - Direct Damage
• Debuff - A negative spell
• Crack - A power regeneration buff
• Dot - Damage over time
• Hot - Heal over time
• Inc - Incoming enemies
• PvE - Player vs Environment
• PvP - Player vs Player
• RvR - Realm vs Realm
• Pull - The act of drawing creatures away from their starting location
• Kite - To attack a creature and run away from it, keeping it at distance, turning to shoot it occasionally, method used to keep it busy or whittle its health down
• Zerg - Overwhelm with sheer numbers
• Add - Additions to a battle
• Wipe - When all your group dies
• Pat - A NPC patrol
• Mobs - PvE creatures
• Re/Spawn - When a creature reappears after a period of time after it's death
• XP - Experience
• RP - Realm Points
• BP - Bounty Points
• DF - Darkness Falls
• ML - Master Level
• CL - Champion Level
• TOA - Trials of Atlantis
• Cata - Catacombs
• DR - Darkness Rising
• SI - Shrouded Isles
• LotM - Labyrinth of the Minotaur
• DC/LD - Linkdead, disconnected from the game

Players/Characters

• DPS - Damage Per Second, damage dealing class
• Newbie/Noob - A new player, often used as an insult
• Ninja - Someone who takes something and leaves
• Tank - A leading player who focuses attacks on him and protects the group
• Twink/Alt - Someone who has received benefits from higher levelled characters, often used as a derogatory term as someone who needs benefits to replace skill.
• PL Powerlevel - a higher level character takes you through places to get increased experience.

Items

• SoM - Shades of Mist

General Chat

• AFK – Away From Keyboard
• OOM – I am Out of Mana
• K or KK – OK
• R – Ready
• Ding! – I just gained a level
• Grats/Gz/Gtz/cg etc – Congratulations
• TY / THX – Thank You
• LOL – Laugh Out Loud
• TBH – To Be Honest
• BTW – By The Way
• FTW – For the Win. Generally preceded by whatever just saved the situation ie "Rogue tanking FTW"
• FTL - For The Loose/Loss - Opposite of FTW.
• WTB – Want To Buy
• WTS – Want To Sell
• NVM/NM – Never Mind
• IMO / IMHO – In My Opinion / In My Humble Opinion
• IIRC – If I Remember Correctly
• PMSL – Peeing My Self Laughing
• ROFL – Rolling On the Floor Laughing
• LMAO – Laugh my {posterior} Off
• WC – Wrong Chat
• QQ – crying ('QQ' looks like a pair of crying eyes)
• PewPew – Used to denote damage dealing. Used in the phrase "Less QQ, more PewPew"
• NN/GN – Night Night
• WD – Well Done
• CYA – See you later
• BIO – I need to visit the lavatory
• BRB – Be Right Back
• GFI – Go For It
• L2P – Learn to Play
• Nerf – To dramatically reduce (eg "I see they're nerfing Warlocks again in the next patch.")
• Buff - To slightly increase (eg "I see they're buffing Bonedancers again in the next patch.") Also the opposite of "debuff", see above
• Imba – Imbalance
• OP – Overpowered
• DC – Disconnected
• R2O - Ready to own
• Flop - To give up or fail
• GF - Good fight
• YCB? - You coming back?
• Caged - To be defeated within one minute (i.e. gone in sixty seconds)