Guide to Jargon & Abbreviations

<3 – Represents a heart; love
2 – To
4 – For
5th – 5th Column
AFAIK – As far as I know
AFK – Away from keyboard
Aggro – Aggressive or aggression
Alt – Alternate character
AO - Anarchy Online, a MMORPG
AoE – Area of Effect
AP – Atlas Park
Aqua – Awaken inspirations
Assist – To attack the target of a specific teammate.
BBL – Be back later
BF - Boyfriend
Bio Break – Bathroom break
Blue - An NPC lower in level than you; rarely, refers to a Catch a Breath inspiration.
Boom – Boomtown
BOOM! – Baumtown
BRB – Be right back
Brick – Brickstown
BRT – Be right there
BTW – By the way
Buff – a power, inspiration, or enhancement that increases the abilities of a hero
Burn – To dump a lot of damage into an opponent in order to defeat it quickly
Cab – Catch a Breath inspiration
CC – Crowd control (immobilizing, holding, sleeping extra enemies)
CF - Crey's Folly
Clock – Clockwork
CoH – City of Heroes
Con – To consider
Cons – To consider
CoT – Circle of Thorns
CoV – City of Villains
Crey/Creys/Folly – Crey’s Folly
Criminal – Generic term for NPCs that appear on the streats and in early missions that are members of a particular gang.
DA – Dark Astoria
DAoC - Dark Age of Camelot, a MMORPG
Debuff – A power, inspiration, or enhancement that decreases the abilities of an opponent.
Dev/DE – Devouring Earth
Ding – (Mostly from EQ players) Indicates that a character has leveled
Disc – A request, meaning, “Was disconnected, please invite to team again”
DO – Dual origin enhancement
Door – Mission or waypoint
DoT – Damage over time
DPS – Damage per second; may refer to players with that as their primary ability (blasters, scrappers)
End – Endurance
End Break - A call for a period of rest to regain endurance
EQ – EverQuest, a MMORPG
Exp – Experience
Fault – Faultline
FF – Founder’s Fall
FFS – For f**k’s sake
Flame – To insult someone in a harsh manner
Freak(s) – Freakshow
G2G – Good to go
Ganger – See Criminal.
Gangster – See Criminal.
Gather – A command from a PC indicating that teammates should gather near to receive a buff (healing, accuracy, defense, etc.)
GC – Galaxy City
GF – Girlfriend
GM – Game Master
Grats – Congratulations (usually on leveling)
Gratz – Congratulations (usually on leveling)
Green – An NPC reasonably lower in level than you; rarely, refers to a Respite inspiration
Griefer – A player who seems to derive enjoyment from lowering the enjoyment of others.
GTG – Good to go
GTT – Going to Trainer
H8 – Hate
H9 – Uncommon; used to represent a stronger form of hatred than that represented by h8.
HDMALITD – How does my a$$ look in this dress?
Hold aggro – Keeping the focus of an opponent on yourself and away from your teammates
HUD – Heads up display
IDK – I Don’t Know
IIRC – If I recall correctly
Illinois Nazis – 5th Column
IMHO – In my humble opinion
IMO – In my opinion
Inc! – Incoming monsters
Insp – Inspiration
INV – A request, meaning, “Please invite me to join your team”
IP – Independence Port
IYKWIM - If you know what I mean
IYKWIMAITYD - If you know what I mean, and I think you do
J00 – Pronounced “Jew”, but not meant as a racial slur or derogatory comment; commonly used in place of “you.”
Kill Steal – To defeat an opponent that was engaged by another player, without first obtaining that player’s permission.
Kite – To run around holding the attention of a mob by staying out of melee range and using ranged attacks.
KK = OK
KR – King’s Row
L33T – 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.
Lewtz – Loot or in game items that are considered nice.
LFT – Looking for team
LIFC – Like I f**king care
Lock – Any action that prevents an NPC from being able to do anything, including attack.
Lock Down – See Lock.
LOL – Laughing out loud
Lt – Lieutenant
LVL – Level
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.
Mish – Mission
MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)
Mob – An NPC, short for “mobile object”
N00B – Someone who is annoying, stupid, or refuses to learn
Newb – Same as n00b
Newbie – Someone new to the game
NFI – No f**king idea
NP – No problem
NPC – Nonplayer character
Nuke – Damage ability
OMG - Oh my god
OMW – On my way
OOE – Out of Endurance
OOR - Out of Range
OTW - On the way
Own – To lay waste to an enemy or having your butt kicked.
PBAE – Point blank area effect
PBAoE – Point blank area of effect
PC – Player character
Ph4t – phat, a commonly used term in hip-hop meaning nice.
Phuque – Sexual intercourse
PK – Player killer
PL – Power Level. To level as quickly as possible, with outside assistance.
Plz – Please
PP – Perez Park; also, Power Pool
PPL – People
Pull – To hit a specific opponent, in order to begin combat with either just it, or it and a group of opponents near it.
Purps – Luck inspirations
PvE – Player versus environment (NPC)
PvP – Player versus player
Pwn – To own strongly (see own)
RAWR – Look at me/us kick a$$
Red - An NPC higher than you; more rarely, used to refer to an enrage inspiration.
Resp – Respite inspiration
Rez – To resurrect or revive a player
rgr – Roger
RL – Real life, as in, the life you live in the real world.
ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing
ROFLMAO – Rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off
ROFLMAOWCSFMN = rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off with coke spewing from my nose
ROFLMFAO = rolling on the floor laughing my f**king a$$ off
Root – To immobilize an opponent
RTFM - Read the f**king manual
RTM - Read the manual
Runner – An NPC that (for whatever reason) bolts from the group; runners tend to fetch help.
SC – Steel Canyon
SK – Sidekick
Sky – skyraiders
Sky – Skyway City
Snare – To lower the run speed of an opponent
SnD – Seek & destroy; for those missions where the PC must find and defeat x of a specific type of NPC.
SO – Single origin enhancement
SoL – Sh*t out of luck
STFU – Shut the phuque up
SWG - Star Wars Galaxies, a MMORPG
Talos – Talos Island
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.
Taxi – A request, meaning “I need a teleport to your location”
THX – Thanks
TI – Talos Island
Toon – PC character
TP – Teleport
Train – A group of NPCs in pursuit of a single PC.
Tram – The tram/railway/line station
TV – Terra Volta
Twink – An alternate character, particularly one given assistance from a higher level friend.
TXS – Thanks
TY – Thank you
UO - Ultima Online, a MMORPG
Vahz – Vahzilok
w00t – Cool
woot – Cool
WTF – What the f**k?
WTG – Way to go!
XP – Experience
YMMV - Your mileage may vary
Yellows – Insight inspirations
Zone – A specific area within the game
Zone line – Area where you exit the current part of town to enter another
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.
Zoning – The process of moving from one zone to another

Wow! Uber post bro! Im sure most people know those but this is extremely hepful for new players. Thanks!

you for got the ever important

BAF = Bring A Friend

examples:
if I pull that baddie... will it BAF
Dont try to pull CoT, they BAF

Another example is....."Hey lady! why don't you come back to my place. And BAF".

wow, thanks man. this is great.

i've been playing sine beta, but i'm ashamed to admit i still didn't know exactly what AoE, CC, or DoT meant until i read this post.

EDIT:
wait, one more thing... what is a "pet?"

i'm just not hip like that, you know?

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Another example is....."Hey lady! why don't you come back to my place. And BAF".


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lol....exactly!

Great guide, some missing.


D2 - Diablo 2, Multiplayer game that spawned alot of the bad habits and attitudes (Along with AOL) you see alot on-line. Often to tell someone to "Go back to playing D2" is an insult.

Godly - Something so strong/powerful/unbalanced that it makes everything else in the game seem pityfully weak.

Lamer - Someone who is Lame, or does something very cheap.

MUD - Multi User Dungeon, a type of text based Multiplayer game, the great grandaddy of most MMORPG's. Also the origion of the word MOB.

NWN's - Neverwinter Nights, Single player/ On-line Multiplayer game based on AD&D.

r0x0rz! - L33t for Rocks! As in "OMG This game r0x0rz!"

RP - Role Play, to play out the personality and reactions of your character.

RP'er - Role Player, someone who Role Plays.

RP Nazi - Someone who forces Role Play on others and beleaves their way is the only way, often causeing other players (Even RP'ers) greif and agrovation.

Tard - Insult, abreviation of retard, or retarded.

Uber/ub3r - Origionaly a German word, used today to mean extreamly strong, or extreamly good. Also a lesser form of Godly.

Some things to add:

oic-Oh I see
IRL-In Real Life

what does 'mez' mean?

For RPers, you've left out two very helpful acronyms:

IC: In-Character
OOC: Out-of-Character

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what does 'mez' mean?

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Mesmerize. It's known as a "hold" in CoH. Mobs are stuck where they are and can't attack.

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wow, thanks man. this is great.

i've been playing sine beta, but i'm ashamed to admit i still didn't know exactly what AoE, CC, or DoT meant until i read this post.

EDIT:
wait, one more thing... what is a "pet?"

i'm just not hip like that, you know?

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A Pet is an NPC you control and can fight on your behalf - can be a dominated foe (when you turn an enemy and make them fight for you) or a summoned support (Phantom Army I think is an example of this).

Completely well done...regardless of the frequency of many of these, this is still a nice resource. Consequently, this is my first MOG and picking up most has been done simply by asking and/or observing others...anyway, I am completely mystified by language morphalogy and the evalution therein... regardless, there are some that ya still gotta wonder about...

Am curious about another that a "teamed" member used during a miss the other day: "sock"

Must have something to do with group healing or enhancing...just a guess though...anyone?

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EDIT:
wait, one more thing... what is a "pet?"

i'm just not hip like that, you know?

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I believe it refers to a summoned creature/ally.

<3 also means "teabagged or to teabag someone". A funny, but insulting term.

Hint: It involves a part of the male anatomy.

I always used (_)) as teabags
Same thing, different angle I suppose.

The_X_Killer: Love the avatar.

This doesn't seem physically possible!

I didn't notice "Add" up there. As in additional monsters joining in the fight.

I am always looking for additions to the guide. Unfortunately, I can't edit the top post, so I will have to revise the list to include all of your great submissions, and then post a new thread ("Guide to Jargon & Abbreviations, v1.5").

Thanks all for your comments and input!!

Oldies but goodies that always pop up.

1.Zerg = To run into battle without any plan or tactic. Derived from the Zergling Rush Strategy in Star Craft which involved a massive all in attack of very cheap and quickly created units to swarm over your opponent.

Too zerg, A zerg.

IE: "Lets not just zerg in there, it will aggro to many of teh emenies."

2. emenies = Enemies
3.Teh = The
4. VO= Voice over
5. DILG= "Damn!, I'm lookin good!" VO triggered in the Original Duke Nukem when his toon looked in mirror and the use item button was pressed. Usually a victory taunt.

GJ on grabbing all those from the beta board and compiling them. I noticed ones I had put verbatim, so I realized what you did. Very nice and I am sure many will appreciate.

In the event that I hadn't made it clear before, NONE OF THIS is my work. It started as another thread, and someone had asked the original poster to keep the list current. Nothing seemed to be happening with it, so I recompiled the thread in MS Word (read: copied and pasted), sorted it, and reposted it.

When the FAQ/User Guides forum opened up, I moved the stuff here.

Again, this is all you guys at work here. I'm just a glorified compiler, but I'm willing to keep doing it as long as everyone thinks it's a useful thing.

mt = miss tell. When a comment is sent to the wrong channel. Like when you're talking to your friend in the Friend channel, complaining about the lame-o group your in...and accidently send it over the Group channel. MT...big time.

To be clear, zerg usually means to mass attack.

Same reason as the other guy posted, but I've never heard of it as acting stupid. Usually it means sending TONS of enemies at someone, like the zerg attacks in Starcraft.

Example: "Oh my god, they're zerging us like crazy"
Translation: "Oh my god, so many enemies are attacking us that it's crazy"

What is Tsoo? I saw some guy say he can't wait till he's down with Tsoo.