World of Warcraft definitions beginning with P

Pat - permalink - collapse

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Patrolling monster
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Browse Related Terms: Add, Drop Loot, MT, Named, NBG, Ninja, ot, Tank

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Patch - permalink - collapse

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A downloadable update that fixes bugs, improves stability and introduces new features to a program.
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Browse Related Terms: Log, log / logging, Queue, relog

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PC - permalink - collapse

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Player controlled character
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Player controlled character
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Browse Related Terms: Alt, Avatar, char, NPC, player character (pc)

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Pet - permalink - collapse

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Summoned NPC that fights for you and does your bidding.
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A NPC controlled by a player such as a Wolf, Infernal, and so on.
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A NPC controlled by a player such as a Wolf, Infernal, and so on.
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Browse Related Terms: Carebear, Combat Pets, Gank, guild master (gm), PvE, PvP, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks), Small Pets, Zerg

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Ping - permalink - collapse

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Response time from client to server; measured in milliseconds.
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The amount of time it takes for data to travel from your computer to the server AND back. This is usually measured in milliseconds.
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Browse Related Terms: FH, fh / foh, hit points (hp), HP, Wimpy

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PK - permalink - collapse

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Player kill(er); Used in PvP.
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Player Kill or Player Killer.
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Browse Related Terms: anti / anti-pk, Farm, Kill Steal (KS), kill-stealer, KOS, KS, leech, Loot, Newbie, newbie zone, respawn

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player character (pc) - permalink - collapse

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Character in game where an actual person is controlling it.
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Browse Related Terms: Alt, Avatar, char, NPC, PC

point blank area of effect (pbae/pbaoe) - permalink - collapse

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Spell that affects the area around your character.
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Browse Related Terms: AE, AoE, area of effect (ae/aoe), Curse, Nerf, point blank area of effect (pbae/pbaoe), Proc, Stack

POP - permalink - collapse

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Indicates that a target has spawned nearby.
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Contraction of "Repopulation", often used as a shortened term for the re-spawn of monsters.
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Browse Related Terms: camp, Re, Repop, Spawn, Spawns

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powerleveling - permalink - collapse

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Having a player kill an enemy much much too high for them while a high level character keeps them alive, to quickly gain levels.
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Browse Related Terms: gimp, leveling, LVL, naxx, ql, Rushing, sm, Twink, twinking, xr

pp - permalink - collapse

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Perfect play
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Browse Related Terms: Bot, brb, newb/newbie/n00b, ooc, RP, RPG

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ppl - permalink - collapse

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People
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Browse Related Terms: FM, fm / fom, LOM, mana, med/medding/meditate, OOM, Regen

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Proc - permalink - collapse

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Programmed random occurrence. When a special ability on a piece of equipment activates by chance; e.g. with a fire sword with a 10% chance of doing additional fire damage, the weapon would proc when that activates.
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Activate. Example: A weapon with a special effect will "proc" every so often.
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Activate. Example: A weapon with a special effect will "proc" every so often. (Process)
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Browse Related Terms: AE, AoE, area of effect (ae/aoe), Curse, Nerf, point blank area of effect (pbae/pbaoe), Stack

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PST - permalink - collapse

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Please Send Tell. Indicates that the person speaking wants to receive communication via a /t(ell) or /w(hisper) command.
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Browse Related Terms: 1337 sp34k, Flame, Griefer, Macro, stfu, Troll, UI

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Pull - permalink - collapse

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Grabbing an enemy from a distance and making it come your way.
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Selectively start combat with a Mob, usually with a ranged attack, and then leading this Mob back to a safer area in order to separate them from other potentially hostile Mobs that are nearby.
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Browse Related Terms: Creep, Creep Jacking, Grinding, Hostile, Kiting, LOS, Mob, Train

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Puller - permalink - collapse

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Person who pulls monsters for the party.
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Person who pulls Mobs for the party.
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Browse Related Terms: Aggro, Aggro Radius, Critters, Hate, Pulling, rfp, Taunt, Threat

Pulling - permalink - collapse

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One of the players in a party heads out and leads one or more of the monsters back to the party so that the party can attack the monsters. The idea is to prevent too many monsters from attacking at once.
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Browse Related Terms: Aggro, Aggro Radius, Critters, Hate, Puller, rfp, Taunt, Threat

PvE - permalink - collapse

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Player versus Enemy; Fighting against game created mobs.
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Player vs. Environment. Combat between players and computer controlled opponents.
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Player vs. Environment. Combat between players and computer controlled opponents.
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Browse Related Terms: Carebear, Combat Pets, Gank, guild master (gm), Pet, PvP, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks), Small Pets, Zerg

PvP - permalink - collapse

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Player versus Player; when actual players are pitched against other actual players.
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Player vs. Player. This means for one player to attack another player.
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Player vs. Player. Combat between players.
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Browse Related Terms: Carebear, Combat Pets, Gank, guild master (gm), Pet, PvE, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks), Small Pets, Zerg

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Pat - permalink - collapse

Patch - permalink - collapse

PC - permalink - collapse

Pet - permalink - collapse

Ping - permalink - collapse

PK - permalink - collapse

player character (pc) - permalink - collapse

point blank area of effect (pbae/pbaoe) - permalink - collapse

POP - permalink - collapse

powerleveling - permalink - collapse

pp - permalink - collapse

ppl - permalink - collapse

Proc - permalink - collapse

PST - permalink - collapse

Pull - permalink - collapse

Puller - permalink - collapse

Pulling - permalink - collapse

PvE - permalink - collapse

PvP - permalink - collapse

pwned - permalink - collapse

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