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World of Warcraft terms 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1337 sp34k Elite speak. Annoying speech where letters are replaced with numbers and other symbols. AC Armor Class or Defense. Add An extra monster has joined an existing battle. AE Area Effect AFK Away from Keyboard. This means the player is away from his computer. Aggro This means the monsters are mad at you and you've "activated" them to attack you. They are now in the motion of trying to reach and attack you. Aggro Radius The radius around the monsters where they will "wake up" and attack you. AGI Agility AH Auction House Alt A character on your account other than your main character. AoE Area of Effect Damage. This is a spell that hurts a group of monsters in an area like Blizzard in Warcraft III. AQ Ahn'Qiraj AV Alterac Valley Battleground Avatar Your character Battleground An instanced battlefield where players from different factions can fight with each other fairly. BG Battleground Bot Robot. Software automaton, used to play and advance a character without human assistance or supervision. BRD Blackrock Depths Buff A beneficial spell cast on a monster or player. An example of a "buff" is the Priest's Inner Fire or Shaman's Bloodlust. BWL Blackwing's Lair Carebear Player that prefers to help other players attack monsters rather than attack other players in player vs. player combat. Caster A character that stays on the back row to heal or cast spells on the enemy, such as a Mage. Cheese To exploit an imbalance in the game. Combat Pets A NPC controlled by a player, aiding that player and his teammates in fights. Cooldown The waiting time before a spell, item or ability can be used again. Corpse Camping The act of guarding a corpse to make it harder for the victim to get their corpse back. CR Corpse Retrevial Creep Monster Creep Jacking A term from Warcraft 3 where players attack other players while they are already engaged in combat with neutral monsters. Critters Monsters that don't attack back, like a bunny or deer. CTF Warsong Gulch Battleground Curse A Spell or effect that makes a target weaker. DD Direct Damage. This is a spell that does all of its damage in one hit rather than spreading its damage over time. De Buff - A negative spell cast on a unit that makes it less powerful. An example of a "de-buff" is Slow. DM Dire Maul or Deadmines (if in Westfall) DMG Damage DOT Damage over time DPS Damage per second DR Diminishing Returns. Used to describe something that reduces slowly over time on consecutive repetitions of the same action. Drop Loot An item that is obtained via monster drops (as opposed to being player-made). Farm To repeatedly kill the same monsters or in the same area usually with the purpose of obtaining money or specific items. FH Full Health Flame An insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger. FM Full Mana FTL For The Loss, a sports or game term. FTW For The Win, a sports or game term. Gank Player vs. Player: To attack another player while they're trying to fight a monster. GM Game Master. Someone employed by Blizzard Entertainment to assist and help players. Grief Actions taken to be annoying or to spoil the game experience of someone else. Griefer A person who purposely tries to annoy or anger other players. Grinding Staying in the same area fighting the same types of monsters for a very long time. GS Goldshire Hate Similar to threat Hearthstone An item that can be used once per hour to teleport you to your Home point. Home The location tied to your Hearthstone, changable only by talking to an innkeeper. Hostile Applied to mean that an enemy has the capability to initiate combat with you. HP Hit points or Health Hybrid A class that is a mixture or combination of 2 or more classes. For example, a Druid can be viewed as a Warrior/Rogue/Priest hybrid. IF Ironforge Incoming (INC) This means an attack is coming. instance Area of the game that is for you and your party alone. Instancing This is a dungeon where you will load into your OWN copy of the dungeon with your group. Only you and your group will be in your copy of the dungeon. INT Intelligence Kill Steal (KS) Taking a kill off someone by inflicting the killing blow. Kiting Writing a check in an amount that will overdraw the account but making up the deficiency by depositing another check on another bank. KOS Killed on Sight. If an Orc approaches a Human Guard, the Guard would try to kill on sight (aggro). KS Kill Steal. Try to steal another person's kill. Lag Refers to slow game response times. The cause can be graphical based (weak graphics card), internet based (ping), system based (lack of memory, virtual… LFG Looking for a group. LFM Looking for more. Link Dead (LD) A player who has actually lost connection to the game server, but his character is still in the game and has not timed out yet. log When you log off; disconnect from the game. LOL Lots of Laugh or Laughing Out Loud. This abbreviation indicates something is really funny. It's pretty cliche nowadays though. LOM Low on Mana. LOOT To take the treasure from a monster that has been killed or from a chest. LOS Line of Sight LVL Level Macro A series of commands that are configured to be executed together with one button press. Materials (MATS) Items and components used in a recipe to make a final product. Mez Short for Mesmerize. Refers to spells, such as Polymorph that temporarily incapacitate a target. MMO Massively Multiplayer Online. MMOG Massively Multiplayer Online Game MMORPG Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game MOB MOB" is an old programming acronym of Mobile Object Block. Mobs are all computer controlled characters in the game. MOD Modification to a game, either through available tools or by outright hacking, in order to change the game from its original form. MT Main Tank N00b An incredibly uncool way to say newb. Don't use it. Named A special monster that is usually stronger than surrounding monsters with possible special abilities and item drops. NBG - Need Before Greed, only people that need an item will roll dice (in case there are more than one player in the team that needs the item). Nerf To downgrade, to be made softer, or make less effective. "X has been nerfed." Newb Short for Newbie. See above. Newbie A term that sometimes means new player. Newbie is also used to suggest that a player is not very good. Ninja To try to loot an item without other players knowing or paying attention. Basically, to take an item without permission. NPC This is a non player-controlled character. The characters are controlled by the server or realm. A "computer" character. Nuke A spell that can inflict a large amount of damage quickly. OOM Out of Mana. People say this to let their party know they are out of mana and can't cast any spells, especially healing. PAT In blackjack, an unbusted hand worth at least 17 points. In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more hands. patch A downloadable update that fixes bugs, improves stability and introduces new features to a program. PC Personal computer. PET A NPC controlled by a player such as a Wolf, Infernal, and so on.