All these freakin acronyms are driving me nuts !!!Follow

I am sure that it will get easier with time...




No offense, but you really expect people to send you a check with a name like "Deathwysh"? lol...How about you send me the book first, then I'll send you the check :)



No kidding...my other half was in the Navy for over 11 years. We've been married for 7yrs and I STILL have no clue what he is saying when he talks...

Really shipmate why don't you drop the dhobi'ing of at the chogi shack on your way to the colonel Gadaffi and pick me up a goffer and some tabs.

while your at it get some pusser's dust and neptunes blood for my snorkers and chips.

Oh by the way have you mopped the deck in the heads since your on the roster with Smudge and Buster. Speak to the LHoM or DLHoM if you need a stand in if your on watch.

See makes pefect sence to any sailor.

It's English Jim but not as we know it.



Edited, Fri Apr 23 11:45:20 2004 by tarv

I think your too worried about what other people think. When I first started this game I asked about every acronymn that I saw and was unfamilar with. This is the only way I was able to learn what they meant. Rarely did I recieve an offensive comment and if I did I wouldnt group with those chodes anyway. For example I remember once I zoned into POD (plane of disease)
OOC: 58 sk lfg
OOC: sk to BW LC (bone wall) (lower courtyard)
I had no freakin idea what this meant. I asked for a loc (location) and found the group, joined and then asked what all the confusing letters stood for. The leader of the group laughed and said he was wondering if I was going to be the only one who had not asked that evening. Now you may ask yourself: What the hell is this moron rambling on and on about? I guess my point is that most people SHOULD be willing to explain these things to you, and then later in life when someone asks you, im sure you will be happy to help them out as well. Therefore the forced interaction which makes this game that much more fun and interesting is kept intact and the cycle continues

not to take away from your post dot, but tank can take on a more specialized meaning than that as well which should probably be explained so there's no confusion later. For instance if someone is the main tank, they are the person in the group that is taking the damage.

There is one simple rule. If you don't know, ask

You'll discover 1 of two things:

Either you'll be given the answer by another player who remembers that none of us know everything,

or

Someone will reply along the lines of "How dumb are you?", proving that they have a matching IQ and Shoe Size, are probably under 15 and are well worth doing a /ignore

In my experience most replies will be helpful. When I have asked in /ooc and had a rude reply, they've usually been buried under a barrage of /ooc's from helpful players.

DICNORAB (Dictionary of Norrathian Abbreviations)
Copy/paste from thread on Alla’s for your enjoyment.

Links:
http://everquestdruids.com/sub/library/termsgloss.htm</a>

http://www.rpgexpert.com/383.html</a>

http://www.everquestdruids.com/sub/library/termsgloss.htm


1hs = one hand slashing

2hs = two handed slashing

1hb = one hand blunt
2hb = two hand blunt
DPS = Damage Per Second!
lfg- looking for group
ME- maiden's eye
BB: This usually means "ButcherBlock (Mountains)", except for when it means "BlackBurrow".

SF: SkyFire (Mountains), in Kunark, unless of course the speaker meant "SteamFont (Mountains)", in Faydwer. (The Stonebrunt Mountains are on Odus, and are very often misspelled as the "Stoneburnts", but are abbreviated SB.)

SFG, on the other hand, means "SureFall Glade", near to and on the other side of the Qeynos Hills from Qeynos itself.

SG is more likely to mean "Siren's Grotto", which is the way between "Cobalt Scar" (CS) and the "Western Wastes" (WW) in Velious.

CS when described as "lousy" or "nonexistent" is, of course, a reference to (C)ustomer (S)ervice.

PC: means "Paludal Caverns", unless someone is asking for a "PC" on some item of equipment, in which case it means "Price Check". A third person will inevitably come along and refer to his "PC" meaning his computer.

NL: Probably means "Nedaria's Landing", unless someone means the "Netherbian Lair", instead.

DPS, as noted, stands for Damage Per Second, and is sometimes used (when groups are forming) to refer to a *person*, that is, a character, who can supply DPS. DSP, on the other hand, is "Dawn Shroud Peaks".

SS: might mean "SkyShrine", or could mean the city of "Sanctus Seru", on Luclin.

KC: This is the abbreviation for both "Karnor's Castle" and "Katta Castellum".

SolA, SolB, and SolRo are Solusek's Eye (named for the large caldera of lava outside), Nagafen's Lair (named for the Dragon inside), and the Temple of Solusek Ro (or Sol Ro Temple), respectively (all three found around the largest pool of lava in the Lavastorm Mountains). SolC is the 'Caverns of Exile', an instanced dungeon off of Nagafen's Lair. The Tower of Solusek Ro (aka Sol Ro Tower) "holds the entrance, and the true path to the Plane of Fire" and is in the plane of all the Gods surnamed Ro (Solusek, Jiva, Xuzl, etc.).

PoN usually designates the Plane of Nature (reached from the Wakening Lands on the continent of Velious), as the Plane of Nightmares is usually called "Nightmares". Usually.

EF could be "East Freeport" (also known as EFP), but probably means "EverFrost (Peaks)".

Kerra Isle, seldom visited, is off of Toxxulia Forest and is *not* the (somewhat more frequented) island full of Kerrans in "Erud's Crossing"... known as "Wisp Isle".

PoS generally means "Plane of Storms", not "Plane of Sky", which latter is actually the Plane of Air, or (as it shows up on /who), Airplane.

OT is "(the) Overthere", while OOT is "(the) Ocean of Tears".

TD is the Timorous Deep (which may be spelled with one more 'u' than I've given it) and the Deep is an underground zone on Luclin.

EC used to be unmistakeably "East Commonlands", where people often bought and sold before there was a Bazaar to go to. Now, it is more likely to mean "Echo Caverns", on Luclin, which has two separate sides both accessible from entrances in ShadowHaven. One side of Echo Caverns has trainers, merchants, and even a bank, with a few mosquitos and boglings, while the other is considerably more risky.

There are four (Plains of) Karana: East, West, North, and South. If a Druid ports you 'to the Karanas', you will arrive in East Karana; if a Wizard ports you there, you will either arrive in North Karana or West Karana.

Rathe is the name of the Rathe Mountains, but there's also a Lake Rathetear one zone over. If someone says "the Arena" without specifying a zone, they may mean the zone called "The Arena", which is off of Lake Rathetear.

New players might mistake references to "Guk" and "Gukta" for each other. The former is a pair of classic dungeons, Upper and Lower Guk (which is, formally, 'The Ruins of Old Guk'); the latter is the starting city for Frogloks, which used to be the Troll City known as "Grobb". Trolls now use the Foreigner's Quarter of Neriak (NeriakA) as their starting city, and have their own banker there (bonus points if you can stumble across him without using "find").

NeriakB and NeriakC are, respectively, known as the Commons (but that has also been used as a shorthand term for the East and West Commonlands) and Third Gate.

GF is "Greater Faydark", though in some contexts it could designate "Grimling Forest", on Luclin.

If you run across references to "Beholder's Maze", be aware that this means the Gorge of King Xorbb, and vice versa.

Likewise, "Howling Stones" is a term for Charasis.

LoIO is *not* an attempt at yodeling, but instead stands for "Lake of Ill Omen".
btw = by the way

ds = damage shield

dps = damage per second

bp = breastplate

omw = on my way

afk = away from keyboard

lfg = looking for group

lfa = looking for adventure (LDoN)

bbl = be back later

rofl = rolling on the floor laughing

fyi = for your information

atm = at the moment

imho = in my honest opinion

lmao = laughing my *** off

eta = estimated time of arrival

inc = incoming

wtf = what the ****?

eb = enduring breath

cya = see you

l8r = later

HHk: Highhold Keep , 24+ zone where you fight gobbo's in the base ment untill your high enought to kill the guards that once saved your sorry *** from over- pulling twink warriors.

Brb: Be right back. often substitued for afk.

Lguk: lower Guk
} the ruins of old guk has 2 levels
Uguk: Upper guk

PoV: Planes of valor

HoH: Halls of Honour a PoP zone

PoP: planes of power expansion.

LoY: Legacy of Yheska expansion

LDoN: Lost dungeons of Norrath expansion.

LFA. looking for Adventure refers to missions in the LDoN expansion.

CoM: City of Mists a kunark zone that has drops for ranger , druid and mage epics

Pp: platinum. coinage.


these are not things that you can just pick up they take time but within a year you'll be talking just like the rest of us asking for KEI and HoV at Nexus stone and hoping people will MGB Fo7 and SD.

KEI: keodiac's endless Intellect, mana regen buff

HoV: Hand of Virtue, Hit point and AC buff

Fo7: Focus of the seventh, stat and atk buff

SD: Spiritual Dominion: beastlord mana regen buff.

MGB: Mass group Buff, his everyone in a small area rather than just your group.

Train. To cause a train. To have a group (usually more than one) follow you bent on your demise...(also to skill up using a GM or Guildmaster)

TR. Throne Room. Well known room in Crushbone Citadel containing the higher level mobs.

CB. Crushbone Citadel.

ent. Entrance. Zone Entrance.

mob. Mobile object? Monster. any NPC (Non player Character)

afk. Away from Keyboard

ranja. Ranger. (Had to ask about this one myself doh!)

chanter. Enchanter.

Mezzed. Mesmerize. An Enchanter's forte. Several spells in the line.

AE. Area Effect. Spell effects several mobs in an area around target.

Pally. Paladin.

tanked. To fight toe to toe melee.

edit to add-
LOM = low on mana

OOM = out of mana (or no heals for you!)


Edited, Sat Apr 24 12:56:47 2004 by alwayslost

WOW, I didn't see two really big ones listed.

LOM = low on mana

OOM = out of mana (or no heals for you!)

Everyone should learn those two.

If a Druid ports you to the Karanas, you will be dropped into North Karana and if you are of evil persuasion you better have your running shoes on.

If on the other hand you are deep in a dungeon somewhere and some one yells evac! And the Druid rummages around in her/his spell book and somehow mems Succour East, you will indeed be dropped into East Karana, where if you are of evil pursuasion you may last slightly longer if you don't hang about too long.

Some more EQ speak for you;

Evac - usually screemed in anguish just as the cleric recieves the death blow. Means the group is asking the Druid or Wizard to cast an emergency evacuation spell, that if all goes well and the luck of the gods is with you, the group will be transported out of danger to a safe place.

A "safe place" being either somewhere else in the same zone, in the case of (Druid) Lesser Succour, Succour, or (Wizard) Lesser Evacuate, Evacuate, - or to a "safe" place in a different zone. EG (Druid) Succour East, fast evacuation of the group to East Karana druid ring, which may or may not be safe for any Trolls in your group. Or, (Wizard) Evacuate Nek which drops the group out side the gates of Neriak.

Evac spells are faster casting than normal teleport spells as they are designed to get you out of danger, just to even things up a bit, an evac spell has the chance of leaving a group member behind (some designer's idea of a joke I guess

The one and only time Succour has ever left anyone behind for me was, well, me



Edited, Mon Apr 26 03:30:56 2004 by Iluien

Edited, Mon Apr 26 03:33:13 2004 by Iluien

/em hands deathwysh an irony detecting device.

Psst....she was joking with you.