Jargon & Abbreviations

[Melkorus]

1. 10x - Thanks
2. <3 – Represents a heart; love
3. 2 – To
4. 4 – For
   
5. addon - extra mob(s) joining their friends against you.
6. AFAIK – As far as I know
7. AFK – Away from keyboard
8. Aggro – Aggressive or aggression
9. Alt – Alternate character
10. AoE – Area of Effect
11. Assist – To attack the target of a specific teammate.
12. BB - bye bye - goodbye
13. BBL – Be back later
14. BF - Boyfriend
15. Bio – Bathroom break
16. Bio Break – Bathroom break
17. BRB – Be right back
18. BRT – Be right there
19. BTW – By the way
20. Buff – a power, inspiration, or enhancement that increases the abilities of a character
21. Burn – To dump a lot of damage into an opponent in order to defeat it quickly
22. CC – Crowd control (immobilizing, holding, sleeping extra enemies)
23. Con – To consider
24. Cons – To consider
25. Crit - Critical hit
26. Debuff – A power, inspiration, or enhancement that decreases the abilities of an opponent.
27. Ding – (Mostly from EQ players) Indicates that a character has leveled
28. d/c or d/ced or dc'ed or dced - person in question got disconnected from game server, unintentionally.
29. Disc – A request, meaning, “Was disconnected, please invite to team again”
30. DoT – Damage over time
31. DPS – Damage per second; may refer to players with that as their primary ability
32. Exp – Experience
33. FFS – For f**k’s sake
34. Flame – To insult someone in a harsh manner
35. FOTM - Flavor of the month - meaning one particular archetype/class that is played the most during that month or that one archetype/class that people are making the most during that month.
36. FOTW - Flavor of the week. Same as FOTM.
37. FTW - For The Win
38. FWIW - For what it's worth
39. FYI - For your information
40. G2G – Got to go OR Good to go
41. GF – Girlfriend
42. GM – Game Master
43. Grats – Congratulations (usually on leveling)
44. Gratz – Congratulations (usually on leveling)
45. Griefer – A player who seems to derive enjoyment from lowering the enjoyment of others.
46. GTG – Got to go OR Good to go
47. GTT – Going to Trainer
48. H8 – Hate
49. H9 – Uncommon; used to represent a stronger form of hatred than that represented by h8.
50. HDMALITD – How does my a$$ look in this dress?
51. Hold aggro – Keeping the focus of an opponent on yourself and away from your teammates
52. HoT - Heal Over Time
53. HUD – Heads up display
54. IDK – I Don’t Know
55. IIRC – If I recall correctly
56. IMHO – In my humble opinion
57. IMO – In my opinion
58. Inc! – Incoming monsters
59. INV – A request, meaning, “Please invite me to join your team”
60. IYKWIM - If you know what I mean
61. IYKWIMAITYD - If you know what I mean, and I think you do
62. j00 – Pronounced “Jew”, but not meant as a racial slur or derogatory comment; commonly used in place of “you.”
63. KS - Kill Steal
64. Kill Steal – To defeat an opponent that was engaged by another player, without first obtaining that player’s permission.
65. Kite – To run around holding the attention of a mob by staying out of melee range and using ranged attacks.
66. KK = OK
67. L33T – Elite - The common term for the abbreviation and butchering of the English language by a vast majority of on-line gamers. l33t uses many numbers and symbols in it and commonly replaces the letter s with the letter z.
68. Lewtz – Loot or in game items that are considered nice.
69. LFG - Looking for group (same as LFT)
70. LFT – Looking for team (same as LFG)
71. LIFC – Like I f**king care
72. Lock – Any action that prevents an NPC from being able to do anything, including attack.
73. Lock Down – See Lock.
74. LOL – Laughing out loud
75. Lt – Lieutenant
76. LVL – Level
77. Main – A player's primary character; that is, the character the player plays most of the time. Almost always the highest level character on an account.
78. Min-Maxing - When people are tweaking and optimizing their character to maximum, to extreme levels
79. Mish – Mission
80. MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)
81. Mob – An NPC, short for “mobile object”
82. N00B – Someone who is annoying, stupid, or refuses to learn
83. Nerf - To tweak something in the game to make it less effective. (Usually this is done to balance things out. Not alway, but usually it makes matters worse than they were)
84. Newb – Same as n00b
85. Newbie – Someone new to the game
86. NFI – No f**king idea
87. NP – No problem
88. NPC – Non Playable Character/Non Player Character
89. Nuke – Damage ability
90. OMG - Oh my god
91. OMW – On my way
92. OOM – Out of Mana
93. OOR - Out of Range
94. OTW - On the way
95. Own – To lay waste to an enemy or having your butt kicked.
96. PBAE – Point blank area effect
97. PBAoE – Point blank area of effect
98. PC – Player character
99. Ph4t – phat, a commonly used term in hip-hop meaning nice or cool.
100. Phuque – Sexual intercourse
101. PK – Player killer
102. PL – Power Level. To level as quickly as possible, with outside assistance.
103. Plz – Please
104. PPL – People
105. PST - Please send a tell - when somebody wants you to send them private msg/whisper/tell.
106. PUG - Pick-up Group
107. Pull – To hit a specific opponent, from distance, in order to begin combat with either just it, or it and a group of opponents near it.
108. PvE – Player versus environment (NPC)
109. PvP – Player versus player
110. Pwn – To own strongly (see own)
111. QFT - Quoted For Truth (used on forums generally), Quiet Frankly True
112. QFE - Quoted For Effect
113. RAWR – Look at me/us kick a$$
114. Rez – To resurrect or revive a player
115. rgr – Roger
116. RL – Real life, as in, the life you live in the real world.
117. ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing
118. ROFLMAO – Rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off
119. ROFLMAOWCSFMN = rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off with coke spewing from my nose
120. ROFLMFAO = rolling on the floor laughing my f**king a$$ off
121. Root – To immobilize an opponent
122. RTFM - Read the f**king manual
123. RTM - Read the manual
124. Runner – An NPC that (for whatever reason) bolts from the group; runners tend to fetch help.
125. Snare – To lower the run speed of an opponent
126. SnD – Seek & destroy; for those missions where the PC must find and defeat x of a specific type of NPC.
127. SoL – Sh*t out of luck
128. STFU – Shut the phuque up
129. Tank – To engage in hand-to-hand combat in a manner designed to keep the attention of the enemies on yourself, rather than on weaker teammates.
130. teh - the
131. THX – Thanks
132. Toon – PC character
133. Train – A group of NPCs in pursuit of a single PC.
134. Twink – An alternate character, particularly one given assistance from a higher level friend.
135. TXS – Thanks
136. TY – Thank you
137. w00t – Cool
138. woot – Cool
139. w8 - wait
140. WTB - Want to buy
141. WTF – WHAT the f**k?
142. WTG – Way to go!.
143. WTH - WHAT the hell.
144. WTS - Want to sell
145. WTT - Want to trade.
146. XP – Experience
147. YMMV - Your mileage may vary
148. ZOMG - same as OMG
149. Zone – A specific area within the game
150. Zone line – Area where you exit the current part of town to enter another
151. Zone! – Yelling this during combat means to flee to the nearest zone line or, in the case of indoor missions, to run out the door.
152. Zoning – The process of moving from one zone to another

Feel free to add some if I missed any.

[RookRJ]

I have always used G2G and GTG as "got to go".

For "Good to go" I've always used "rdy" (i.e., "ready"). But that's just me.

[Craftblade]

Originally Posted by Melkorus

10x - Thanks
.

you have got to be shitting me...

[Jozan]

exactly what I was thinking

[RookRJ]

Originally Posted by Craftblade

you have got to be shitting me...

lol...

[DunWolf]

Originally Posted by RookRJ

I have always used G2G and GTG as "got to go".

For "Good to go" I've always used "rdy" (i.e., "ready"). But that's just me.

Nope, me too.

[Damarl]

some people realy used all those ? i mean... i used/know many.. but :

IYKWIMAITYD - If you know what I mean, and I think you do

or...

HDMALITD – How does my a$$ look in this dress?

ok let me try ---> icuwpasss : i cant understand why people are so stupid sometime....

[Craftblade]

knothnxstfunoobbye - Used to make annoying nubcakes go away.

[Melkorus]

Originally Posted by RookRJ

I have always used G2G and GTG as "got to go".

For "Good to go" I've always used "rdy" (i.e., "ready"). But that's just me.

true, same here actually, when I think about it, i use gtg a lot before leaving. Thanks, added that as well.

[Argus]

some of these i think you just made up...