Where did Rofl / Roflchopter originate from? Rofl = Roll on the floor laughing.
ROFL: America Online
aoe, it was hard for me to figure out what this meant
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ROFL predates America Online.
Creep-jacking: to gank a player who is fighting a creep (mob).
Mob is actually pretty “old school”. Back when an “NPC” was just a static 2D person, or in a 3D world was an immovable object, “Mobile NPC” was a hot new label, they became “mobs” for short.
But then of course moving NPCs just became standard, so it applied to literally all of them.
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Aggro, the amount of threat you have; this comes from EQ (likely)
Mob, referencing enemy NPC’s also EQ.
Toon, reference to your character also EQ.
PST, “Please send tell” Vanilla as far as I can remember.
Lol, I just got a flood of memories about that. Then after learning
a few things trying to explain how to respond in chat channels to my friends that were new, using the chat channels. Inevitably you would get a phone call “I can’t figure out how to respond”. Good times, good times.
weren’t Mobs introduced in MUDs? (Multi-User Dungeons)
I still dislike the term toon >.<
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I know DAoC used 10 bubbles to show your progress to the next level instead of an xp bar.
Yup, sure were.
Am I the only one that equated WTB/WTS as Willing To Buy/Sell?
Lol. This is true!
I think Roger Wilco was a voip in the late 90’s. It didn’t work very well on the potatoes back then.
Yup. The other guy said it was waiting. So there’s that but yea like a poster above mentioned. This was short hand for newspaper ads. Want to buy/sell. All good you still bought and sold. Lol.
I believe Toon was started in The Realm because characters looked like cartoons. Same time period, different game. I played EQ for a few years before WoW came out and never heard it called that on my server or by any of my friends who played on other servers. EQ had a pretty heavy RP vibe. Rolling on a wow RP server didn’t feel any different than being on a normal EQ server (aside from a drastically different game obviously lol).
PST is from EQ. /tell (name) was how you whispered someone. (Could have been used earlier if another game used the same command but I know it’s what we used)
Very possible, I never heard PST in EQ, but I did see the use of “toon” in EQ…
I guess experience can very a bit.
Come to think of it, I remember the term “Toon” used in D2, perhaps that’s where it came from??
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I never really played with other people on D2 back in the day, so have no first hand experience from the early years. So you could be right. I only played online back then so I could access my characters on other computers easier lol.
The first time I heard it was a guy I used to tabletop with during…TBC? I asked him why he called them Toons and said he had played The Realm and offered that explanation. So I just assumed that’s where it started given that games had been around forever (or what I considered forever back then lol).
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Nobody said “toon” before Cata, I blinked and suddenly that phrase was in use and I was like ??? wtf are you talking about… oh your CHARACTER?
I was so confused ;_; It’s such a bad term. It means nothing. Like nobody calls them “avatars” anymore but that would still make more sense and I wouldn’t find it the weirdest thing ever.
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An aggressive (red con) mob.
Mobile unit; from Everquest.
Cartoon character; from Everquest.
- Please Send Tell
- Pacific Standard Time
Others:
- Con - Taken from Everquest meaning “Consider” to assess the strength and reaction of a mob.
- Ding - Taken from Everquest meaning the sound made on Level Up. In WoW its more of a swoosh.
- WTB - Want to Buy
- WTS - Want to Sell
- Twink - Giving powerful weapons to lower level characters, or preparing a character with powerful weapons at a lower level.
- Add - An additional attacker.
- CC - Crowd control. Polymorph, Ice Trap, Banish, Entangling Roots, Sap. Used to incapacitate part of a multi-mob pull.
- Pull - To engage in combat from range.
- Face Pull - To engage in combat by entering a mob’s aggro range.
- DPS - Damage per second.