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Lag Kills - Gaming acronyms Category: Agriculture and Industry Date & country: 31/05/2014, UK Words: 59

S@%#
What you say out loud in RL when you DC.

XP
Experience points.

WTG
way to go! Self-explanatory.

Tell, Send, or Whisper
Private communication from one player to another.

Train
A whole bunch of mobs chasing after someone who can't handle them. Choo choo!

TY
thank you

TYVM
thank you very much

WB
welcome back

Woot!
Gee, that went well. Wow! We killed that sumbitch. That sumbitch is dead. Ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

WOOT!
The keep is ours! All them damn sumbitches is dead! Or, that humongous, horrible, impossible to kill dragon or monster and all its nasty minions is dead. We rule! We are uber! We are de best! WOOT! Yea.

RL
real life

RL
Real life.

RPG
role-playing game, either on or off-line.

RTFM
Read the F*** Manual

Stealther
Any of a class that can become literally invisible. Assassins sneak up on the foe, and slice their throats with a single stroke. Rogues, assassins, archers, and minstrels/bards often have the ability to stealth.

STFU
shut the %#&@ up Nice people never use this phrase.

Rezzers
Those classes with the ability to rez (resurrect) the dead. The wonderful thing about playing games is that you never really die. You get to come back for more, over and over again. If you learn from your karmic mistakes, you will eventually reach the highest level and never, never have to worry about losing experience ever again. Game nirvana.

PKKK/PKKKer
Is there no end in sight? Someone, please, stop this endless cycle of violence.

Pre-Made Group
A planned, balanced group of players (with the appropriate mix of tanks, healers, AoEers, DPSers, etc.) who have gathered to accomplish a specific goal.

PvM or PvE
Player versus Monster and Player versus Environment.

QFT
quoted for truth. Used to express your agreement with another person's statement, opinion, etc.

phat lewtz
nice gear.

PKK/PKKer (Player Killer Killer)
The knight in shining armor who rushes to the rescue of lowbies throughout the lands, dashing from point to point to take out the griefers, restore order, and make those bullies run crying for their mamas.

PC and NPC
Humanoids, friendly or foe, either controlled by a real person (PC

OTW
on the way

OOP
out of power. Your healer or caster class teammate is pooped and must sit down for awhile. NEVER continue to play when your healer is OOP. You will die. (Other variations include: OOM

OOM
out of mana, same as OOC. You're oom-ph is all gone.

NVM
never mind

NP
no problem

Main
Your most played, highest level, or first created character.

Mine, Farm, Pharm
To stay in one place, killing the same mob over and over and over again, for loot or xp.

MMORPG
massively multi-player online role-playing game.

MOB
a dangerous monster. You will kill it.

Ninja Looting
grabbing loot from a slain monster, chest, etc., that you don't have a right to grab, or that you didn't earn, or that you don't need. Ninja looting is very, very bad form, and

KIK
LOL for the typing-impaired.

Lag
Lag means to slow, due to excessive memory use or slow Internet connection. Commonly found in graphic-intensive or player-intensive environments, lag causes a huge slowdown in your character's movement, often leading to disaster. Lag kills. A longer word for lag is latency.

LOS
line of sight. Casters can't make firebolts curve around obstacles the way that guy in Wanted could. If only. We wish. Sadly, mobs seem to have no trouble shooting spells through walls or through ship decks. Damn those murlocs. Damn them all.

JK
just kidding You better say it quick.

IIRC
If I recall correctly

IDK
I don't know

IAMF
It's all my fault. Yes, it is. You screwed up. Admit it, apologize and move on.

DC
disconnected from server, LC

Dood
dude. Dudes are cool. Doods are kewl. They are also leet and uber.

FWIW
for what it's worth

Grind
Just like RL, in gaming you still have your daily grind doing faction quests, farming for crafting materials, leveling toons, raiding for tokens. *sighs* There's something not quite right about that.

GTG
good to go or RTG

Healers
Duh, the classes that heal. The most beloved, yet most maligned, of any class in group play. When the group lives, the healer is the greatest thing since sliced bread. When the group dies, the healer takes the blame. You need a thick skin to be a healer.

BoP
bind on pickup

Bot or Buffbot
A character created solely to support other characters, usually a healer who trails behind keeping the main character (or group) fully buffed and healed.

BRB
be right back

BTW
by the way

Caster
Any of the wide variety of magical spell-casting classes such as mages, wizards, cabalists, shamans, enchanters, etc. Casters have their very own set of expressions describing the important work they do. Some common terms include:

ATM
at the moment

BBL
be back later

BoE
bind on equip

AA
alternate abilities. Some games or game expansions include paths you can take to acquire skill or expertise in areas other than your main skill or ability lines.

ADD
Oops, here comes another one.

AFK
away from keyboard

Agro
a military term brought to the gaming world. The monster is whacking on you