9. Player dictionary WoW: Warlords of Draenor Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
World of Warcraft is over ten years old and during its existence it has accumulated a gigantic community, that over the time created specific terms and abbreviations. To understand announcements and other people a good knowledge of English language might not be enough. Below is a short list of terms that might come in handy.
Terms
Buff - A spell that temporary raises your statistics. It can be used on yourself or other players.
Caster - Character classes that casts spells.
Cooldown - Time that you must wait until you can use an ability again.
Debuff - Similar to Buff, except that this time it's the enemy that casts a spell that weakens you.
Drop - Items that fall from a defeated enemy.
Grinding - Killing enemies for a longer period of time in the same location to gain experience, items or gold.
Hate - A parameter that shows how your spell works on your enemy. The higher the hate level, the greater the chance that he will attack you.
Instance - A location which you can enter only accompanied by a group.
Mob - Enemy controlled by a computer.
Newbie - A young, inexperienced player. A positive version of Noob.
Noob - This is a term that describes a player that behaves in bad way, although it can also describe a player that plays very poorly.
Pet - An animal that follows player.
Raid - A very big group that is created on higher levels for instances or battlegrounds.
Respawn - When an enemy shows again after killing him.
Stack - Items that take only one slot in your backpack even if there are more than one of them.
Abbreviations
AH - Auction house - A place where you can buy and sell items
AoE - Area of Effect - It describes skills that works in a wider area
AWF - Away from keyboard - A description of person that isn't currently near the computer. It can be written what you are going away from the computer for a while.
BG - Battleground - A place where forces of Horde fights with the Alliance.
DMG - Damage - Damage dealt for a specific amount of time, like 10 seconds Every second enemy gets specific amount of damage.
DPS - Damage per second - Characters that focuses on dealing damage are called that way as well.
EXP, XP - Experience
GJ - Good Job
GM - Game Master - A person hired by Blizzard that enforces good culture and keeps order on the server.
GS - Gear Score - A parameter that describes our equipment level.
GY- Graveyard
HoT - Healing over Time - Healing in a specific amount of time, like 30 seconds.
HP - Health points
HS - Hearthstone - A stone that transfers you to a specific place, usually to same city.
IF - ironforge - The capitol of dwarves
LFG - Looking for group - You write it when you want to find a group to some instance.
LFM - Looking for more - You write it when you need more people to group.
MB - Mana Break - A brake while on a raid or in a dungeon to replenish mana.
NP - No Problem -
NPC - Non-playing Character - A character controlled by computer.
NVM - Nevermind
OOM - Out of Mana
PR - Personal Rating - A parameter that describes character level.
SW - Stormwind - Capitol of humans
TB - Thunder Bluff - Capitol of Taurens
TY, THX - thank you
UC - undercity - Capitol of the Undead
WTB - Want to Buy
WTS - Want to Sell
WTT - Want to trade