Category:Terms  

ZAM Network Wikibase™ All Games

Every game has some words and abbreviations common to nearly all users, but that you will never hear beyond that game, while others are common to gamers as a whole. Here is a list of many of those words and phrases. Game-specific pages are listed at the bottom of this page.

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General Conversation Trade Grouping/Combat L33T Terms

General Conversation

• BBIAF/BBIAB - Be Back In A Few/Be Back In A Bit
• BBL - Be back later
• BBS - Be back soon
• BRT - Be right there
• GFY - Good for you or Go F yourself
• GTG,G2G - Good to go, or Got to Go (confusing!)
• GY - Graveyard
• OMG - Oh my god
• OMW - On my way
• OOC - Out of character (Role-playing servers)
• POIDH - "Pics or it didn't happen!"
• TY,TYVM - Thank you, Thank You Very Much
• TTYL - Talk to you later
• WTF - What the F
• WTH - Where The Heck or What the Heck

Trade

• Mats - Materials (usually meaning bring your own and I'll craft)
• OBO - Or best offer
• PST - Please send tell
• WTS - Willing to Sell
• WTB - Willing to Buy
• WTT - Willing to Trade

Grouping/Combat

• Add - additional mobs pulled or patroled nearby
• AoE - Area of Effect (spell that does damage in an entire area)
• Buff - A beneficial spell with a duration
• CC - Crowd Control
• Debuff - A detrimental spell with a duration, or removal of a buff
• DPS - Damage Per Second (in party, it usually means "go ahead and hit your hardest")
• DPS - Damage Per Second (in LFG channel, usually means a class that specialiazes in damage)
• Inc - Incoming
• LFG - Looking for Group
• LFM - Looking for members
• LF#M - # is a number, Looking for # members
• ML - Master-Looter (party leader divides up loot)
• MT - Main Tank
• OOC - Out of Combat
• OOM - Out of Mana
• Pat - Patrol (Mobs that wander a zone)

L33T Terms

• FTW (or 4TW) - For the Win
• GG - Good Game (often used as slander)
• L2P - Learn to Play (or Lurn2Play as they say)
• PWND - Owned. It's pronounced "Owned" not "Powned"
• PWNT - Derivative of PWND.
• QQ - "Cry More" (Eyes w/ tears)

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