What is PTR and How about a Glossary?

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Stupid question, I know but, the game needs a basic glossary for acronyms that old hands use and understand but leaves the rest of us scratching our heads.

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LFG= Looking For Group
DPS=Damage per Second
DM=Deadmines
GG=“Good Game Old chap, Well played, I have nothing but respect for you and hope to see you once again on the field of battle and that your future endeavors are all successful”

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ptr=public test realm (the “beta” testing server)

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(Can also be used sarcastically)

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gg no re means good game, no redo, popularized by the best FFA warcraft 3 player and now hardened criminal, Marn.

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You’re scratching your head over the “old hands” acronyms, and I’m scratching my head over Twitch memes.

I’m old.

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Brb- be right back/bathroom break
Lol- laughing out loud
Ty- thank you
Yw- you’re welcome
Pwn- to utterly decimate something

Edit:think the Brady game guide book had a glossary? Maybe?

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WTF: Why Troubled, Friend?

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Yes it does

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Ding = Leveling up
Grats = Congratulations
Jk = Just Kidding
Wc = Wrong chat
DND = Do Not Disturb
AFK = Away From Keyboard
Lawl = Laughing a whole lot
Lmao = Laugh my (Censored) Off.
pwn = To own > To have a Victory without flaw.
MB = Mana burn / My Bad
Ty = Thank you
Np = No problem
Gtfo = Get the (Censored) Out.
Nbd = No big deal
SMH = Shake my head.
Wsp = Whisper
PST = Please send tell
GM = Game master or Guild Master
Sup = What’s up
WTB = Want to buy
WTS = Want to sell
WTT = Want to trade
WTF = What the (Censored)
AH Auction house
OBO= Or best offer
Gtg = Gotta to go
Omg = Oh my god, / Gosh
Brb = Be right back
1337 = leet = elite,
grp = Group
DMF = Dark moon Faire
ISO = In search of
Inv = Invite
bg = Battleground
HK = Honorable kill
DK = Dishonorable Kill
PvP = Player Vs player
PVE = Player Vs Environment
FFA = Free For all
GD = Good duel or just Good
Oom = Out of Mana
Aggro = Aggression
Lvl = Level
Main = Your main playable character
Alt = Your secondary charters.
TPS = Threat Per second
DPS = Damage per second
HPS = Healing per second / Healing done
MP5 = Mana Per five seconds. / Second
HoTs = Heal over time
Dmg = Damage
Dots = Damage over second
LFG = Looking for group
LFM = Looking for more
Pat = Patrols.
Adds = Additional enemy’s incoming
Inc = Incoming
DD = Damage dealer
MB = Mana Break / My bad.
Attu = Attunement / Keyed
AOE = Area of Effect
UD = Undead
FR = Fire / Frost resist
NR= Nature resist
SP = Shadow priest Or the priest buff shadow protection
Fort = Fortitude A priest buff that gives you more HP
HP= Hit points life etc.
Buff = A temporary empowerment that makes you stronger for x amount of times
B res = Battle resurrection
Rez > res = Resurrection
Wipe = Everyone in your group dying.
Pots = Potions

NPC = None player-able character
Kite = To force a mob to continuously follow you
CC = crowd control
PC = Playable character or Personal computer
FP = Flight point / Flight Path
Dungi = Dungeon
MT = Maintank / Miss tell
OT = Offtank
Trash = Common enemy mobs found in raids or dungeons.

RFC = Ragefire Chasm
WC = Wailing Caverns
VC > DM = Deadmines
SFK = Shadowfang keep
BFD = Black fathom depths
Stock = Stockades
Gnomer = Gnomeregan
RFK = Razorfen Kraul
SM = Scarlet Monastery
SM having many wings will lead to such as GY > Graveyard Lib > Library > Arm > Armory > Cath > Cathedral
RFD = Razorfen Downs
Ulda = Uldaman
ZF = Zul’farak
Mara = Maraudon
Mara having “3” wings normally means Mara Orange side / Purple side. But more then oft it’ll be for princess side.

ST = Sunken temple / The Temple of Atal’Hakkar.

BRD = Blackrock Depth’s
LBRS = Lower blackrock spire
UBRS = Upper Blackrock Spire

DM (Wing) West = W > E = East > N = North. DM E > DM W > DM N

Scholo = Scholomance.
Strat = Stratholme

Strat having two sides normally meaning live or dead, Strat Live > Strat Dead / Strat UD

MC = Molten Core / Mind control
Ony = Onyxia’s lair.
BWL = Blackwing Lair
ZG = Zul Gurub
AQ 20 = Ruins of Ahn Qiraj
AQ 40 = Temple of Ahn Qiraj
Naxx = Naxxramas
R1-14 = Rank One through fourteen
WSG = Warsong Gulch
AV = Alterac Valley
AB = Arathi Basin
Zerg = To rush with extreme force.
FC = Flag Carrier
STV = Stranglethorn Vale
Rep = Reputation
CD = Cooldown
SS = Soulstone
Ganked = To have been slain in “dishonorable” way.
MS = Main spec
OS = Offspec
MH = Main hand
OH = Offhand
STR = Strength
Int = Intellect
Stam = Stamina
Def = Defense
SP = Spell power
Agi = Agility
AP = Attack power

Prof = Professions
Engi = Engineering
BS = Blacksmith
Alch = Alchemy
Herb = Herbalist
Enchant = Enchanter
D/E = Disenchant
Skin = Skinner
LW = Leatherworker

ML = Masterloot
DKP = Dragon Kill points
LC = Loot council
RP = Roleplay
Mob = Monster or NPC

Some one should fix my post up and then we should get it pinned, once we add everything. Would be nice and help welcome new people. I’ll add more as i remember.

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List looks good. However, aggro generally means having one or more enemies going after you. For example “Pulling agro” means to overthreat it’s current target to make it attack you. Very rarely have I heard it in reference to setting a pet to aggressive.

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It depends on where you’re coming from, as a tank i’ve normally used Aggro to = Threat,

For example “Yo let me get Aggro off you at X amount of time”

“Or wait till i have Aggro”

I normally use Aggr for Agressive myself, or just say the word

Then again i don’t play hunters, so i wouldn’t know myself. I just know Aggro means General aggression form PC NPCS and so on,

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The only MMO term Ive used that I have seen current gamers not recognize is when I say:

All of those mobs over there BAF.

I guess ‘BAF’ fell out of use in MMOs around the early 2000s but it just means “Bring a friend”. It was a way of telling someone that the mobs will come in groups if pulled instead of solo pulling.

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You’ll probably need this one

“ITOTGWYS”

I’m too old to get what you’re saying

But seriously, I’m always googling what the abbreviation people are using these days means lol.

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Bro did you type that out? Well done. Yup. +1 for pinning it.

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That should be
Dot(s) = Damage Over TIme

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FTFU: Fixed that for you

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You meant Damage over Time

HOT = Heal over time
ISO = In search of (rarely used)

You might add “Strat UD” in addition to “Strat Dead” since I see Strat UD more

FC = Flag carrier

And then of course we could start going through all the spells’ acronyms but that’s for someone else lol.

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oh oh, FITE FITE!

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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go again.

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