Changes: Jargon

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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
BG - Battle Ground
DD - Direct Damage
Debuff - A negative spell
Crack - A power regeneration buff
Dot - Damage over time
Hot - Heal over time
ID - Instanced Dungeon
Inc - Incoming enemies
KT - Kill Task. Like a short quick quest for characters under level 20 (example: "Kill 5 xxx mobs to the south") given out by Named NPC guards when you target the guard and say or /whisper the word 'task'.
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 then root or freeze it and run away from it, keeping it at distance, turning to shoot it occasionally and root or freeze it again. Method is 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
TD - Task Dungeon
Cata - Catacombs
DR - Darkness Rising
SI - Shrouded Isles
LotM - Labyrinth of the Minotaur
DC/LD - Linkdead, disconnected from the game

Players/Characters

AOE - 'Area of Effect spell. A spell that targets an area rather than a specific player or MOB.'
Bind - A player can lock their character to a specific location so that when they die they return to their bind spot. The game has many Bind Stones located around the game world that characters can bind to. Binding in the area you are playing can limit travel time back to the area should the character die.
DPS - Damage Per Second, damage dealing class
Newbie/Noob - A new player. Sometimes the term is used to insult players who are not new. As in, "you play like a noob".
Ninja - Someone who takes something and leaves
Tank - A leading player who focuses attacks on him and protects the group
Twink- Someone who has received benefits from higher levelled characters, sometimes used as a derogatory term as someone who needs benefits to replace skill. Twinks are lower level characters that have been decked out with great gear by the players higher level character(s) giving the twinked character extra advantage in battles.
Alt - Short for “alternate”. It refers to the alternate character a player has from their main character.
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)

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 ==Players/Characters==
+* '''AOE - ''''''Area of Effect spell.  A spell that targets an area rather than a specific player or MOB.'''
+* '''Bind - A player can lock their character to a specific location so that when they die they return to their bind spot.  The game has many Bind Stones located around the game world that characters can bind to.  Binding in the area you are playing can limit travel time back to the area should the character die.'''
 * '''DPS''' - Damage Per Second, damage dealing class
-* '''Newbie/Noob''' - A new player, often used as an insult
+* '''Newbie/Noob''' - A new player.  Sometimes the term is used to insult players who are not new.  As in, "you play like a noob".
 * '''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.
+* '''Twink'''- Someone who has received benefits from higher levelled characters, sometimes used as a derogatory term as someone who needs benefits to replace skill.  Twinks are lower level characters that have been decked out with great gear by the players higher level character(s) giving the twinked character extra advantage in battles.
+* Alt - Short for “alternate”. It refers to the alternate character a player has from their main character.
 * '''PL''' Powerlevel - a higher level character takes you through places to get increased experience.