I guess I take for granted all the abbreviations and “insider talk” I use every day that I don’t even think about. I told a rogue in one of my mythic+ runs the other day to “kick” a spell and they said they didn’t have a kick. I was thoroughly confused, rogues are one of the best classes for kicks. Turns out, they thought a kick was a knockback, like Typhoon or Ring of Peace. Which, yeah, I am pretty sure rogues don’t have a knockback.
Once I explained that kick just means “interrupt a spell in whichever way you can” things were smooth sailing. But it helped me understand that sometimes we can be speaking in jargon without even realizing it.
Nope. Soak just means “go stand there and take that damage.” If you have a mitigation ability obviously use it, but there are plenty of abilities that just need to be soaked (or taken) by one or two players so they do not blow up the whole raid. For example, the bubbles that the first boss in Sanguine Depths sends out need to be “soaked” or else he heals and gets a buff. “Soak” basically just means “Go here and get hit with this spell.”
If it makes you feel any better, “Idiot” was a term used to describe mental disability that through common usage (misuse, most often) became just another way to call a person unintelligent.
Shaman: Wind Shear
Warrior: Pummel
Hunter: Counter Shot/ Muzzle(SV)
Paladin:Rebuke
Priest: Silence is all they have
Druid: Solar Beam, Skull Bash
Mage: Counterspell
DK: Mind Freeze
Monk: Spear Hand Strike
DH:Disrupt
Rogue: Kick
Warlock: Axe Toss (interrupts now if you can’t be stunned ), Spell Lock
With acronyms - context is everything. Actual conversation from many years ago (well, paraphrased).
Coworker (whispering): Hey, I just heard Cathy in the break room talking about how horrible her PMS lately.
Me: (confused face with a raise eyebrow)
Coworker (still whispering): Why would the Pantone Matching System be horrible?
Me: (falls off chair in gales of laughter)
I then explained to the very young, very embarrassed coworker that PMS has different meanings depending on context.
Good to know. Many times I’ve waisted an interrupt because someone else did it a split second before me. I’m not on discord or chats, and really CANNOT type and play. Sometimes at the beginning of a run I try to say either I’ll go first or who wants to…crickets. So I stopped asking. Then hate being told to when I don’t have one cuz it’s on cd.
PS everyone with their fancy dancy add-ons should know that!
BC/TBC are initialisms, not acronyms. An initialism is when you say the individual letters, an acronym when it makes a new word. FBI, CIA vs NATO, FEMA.
To answer your question I don’t know, guess it depends how it fits in the sentence, individuals favor certain speech patterns so the extra consonant can change how a sentence sounds.
Or BC is also something so TBC is used to differentiate. Don’t remember what though.
I mean given TBC means the burning crusade, and BC means burning crusade, I guess CBC would be appropriate for classic burning crusade, or CTBC for classic the burning crusade if we want to get even more technical when differentiating between the two.
Blackrock Caverns in Cata. Cata also had Bastion of Twilight (BoT or BT) and Blackwing Descent (BD) so using TBC could have been helpful in differentiating it from then current content
), Spell Lock
you forgot PMDD