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World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Game Guide by gamepressure.com

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Game Guide

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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

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