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I get tripped up by any Abbreviations of any Dungeons that i ahven't done before or any abilities iof a class I haven't been before

First time in Orgrimmar as a lost level 9 Troll shaman, and all I see is:

LW LFW, WTS 20x[Item] WTT [Item 2] for [Item 3]

I think it was safe to say I was completely lost.

I agree with Ghiki going into Silvermoon for the first time with my now deleted hunter was almost mind boggleing, even though i had played Guild Wars prior to starting WoW. Then there was all the dungeon names, I was once but in a grp for mana tombs at lvl 20 cause i thought they needed a main tank and dps for another instance. The one I still remember mose about all the abbreviations was when I was first getting into all the gems with my pally and someone in my guild posted: "LF JC", in trade chat and I asked over vent "why are you looking for jesus????" I got ripped on for that one for months lol

Oh that and OMW puzzled my for a long time before I got a guild. I only got it when someone wrote out the whole thing lol

Mine definitely dealt with BG's. First for AB and later for EotS when I would see someone yell out "inc LM" or "inc BE". I caught onto LM, BE, GM, BS, etc pretty quick, but could not figure out what "inc" meant for the longest time.

As for dungeons, I still don't know half of them. Mainly just the ones I have been in and a few of the more popular ones.

And of course, VC for deadmines? For someone fresh to the game, you can understand RFC, WC, etc, but VC initially just didn't make sense until you actually played it.

Ya, i can remember when leveling my Hunter in my early days of WoW. I was still learning names of places and spells and the odd language spoken in Trade chat.

I had picked up a quest somewhere that told me i had to go deliver something to someone in Thunder Bluff. I asked in trade where it was and all i got was

"....."
"You're joking right? Tell me he's not serious'
'Newb!"

Thankfully there are some kind people who play on my server and they were able to help me out. Even now, i sometimes don't know what something will mean. Sometimes i'll get RFK confused with RFC.

I'll never forget the first instance i did. It was Wailing Caverns. We were in there for hours. And i kept getting yelled at for doing things i didn't know i was doing. Like a mage would sheep on mob and i would use Volley. Of course, that breaks sheep. So i'd get told 'No AoE's!"

No idea what AoE ment. Haha. Good times....

I'd played WoW for 2-3 years before i found out what mp5 was :S

It took me a while to figure out that PST wasn't "Pacific Standard Time". I thought people were saying what time zone they were in for some reason. (...and I was playing on a Pacific server.) I'm still not sure why it's a "tell", but don't really care either.

I'll admit that after 4+ years, there are still a lot of abbreviations I don't know. As a casual player, it's not a huge priority for me to know.

@PatrickD

I didn't know either until fairly recently. It means "Please send tell".

I found this out as I saw more and more people using it when trying to get raids together to complete the "For the Alliance" and "For the Horde" achievements. I knew it meant to contact them, but didn't know why.

Of course, playing on a PvP server, the first new world I added to my MMORPG vocabulary was "gank". Surely I had no idea what it meant at first, but trust me, I learned it the hard way.

@Icedtrip

Pst (with how ever ss s you want) is onamatapaea (sp) - the noice made to gain someone's attention before whispering. PST is indeed Standard time.

what the hell IS mp5, lmao

*besides a sub-machinegun manufactured by Heckler & Koch

mana per 5

LOL at "being an ass".

I quickly learned that being an ass was almost a requirement for most WoW players. I salute those few that aren't.

MP5 means mana per 5 seconds, aka your mana regeneration rate in combat.

yeah be an asshole.. ppl will be scared of you and respect you and if you fuck up they'll be too scared to yell at you....

becides if worst comes to worst just switch realms

I got lucky, mostly, when I began to play WoW. I started literally four weeks before Naxx was originally introduced. My brother got me into it and I started to play, thinking, "Hey, its a fun game!" Then I get to Darnie (made a hunter as my first char), and I decide to look all over, and I notice that theres more gray letters in my chat screen. So immediately I think to myself, "Dang, General Chat is busy here in Darnie ... Note for others, don't voice this in the trade chat XD. As for the acronym's of WoW, I learned mostly by asking my brother and his friend, but for some of them, I just wasn't even trying to learn. First trip into Deadmines was when figured out that when you play a warrior, when they say to keep your BS up, they mean your Battle Shout, not your Blacksmithing, so I naturally, and innocently, told them that it would be in my way. Needless to say they were A) pricks that decided to pick on the noob, or B) kids who like to laugh at new players. Either way I had to whisper my brother and ask him "wth was going on." He filled me in that when playing a warrior, BS is Battle Shout. Before the warrior, I had a pally, so he was also a Blacksmith, so thats how I learnt that bit of info on what BS meant.

At first I started playing on private servers with my friend. There was a TONS AND TONS of lingo for me, because I'm Russian. I just didn't look at chat, because if I saw the lingo discussion in it, ny only thoughts were "Ok, I daon't care about LF GD (good donor on private server) for BT, I should ask my friend". His thoughts were the same, and the decision we made was to go to our English teacher and to ask her. I don't know what did she think about us when we ased " What is QQ, what is BRB, kk, DND..." The first thing i understood were the meaning of WTF =) After it WTB and WTS and the meaning of the word...anvil (don't think I'm an idiot!) because I wanted to buy it ^___^. After this "research" I've found PL and glossary...and I was singin "Haliluya (I don't know the right spelling)"

pst means please send tell??

haha, i thought it had to do with "whispering", ya know, like pssssst haha, I've been playing for three years and just found that out

Being someone from classic WoW, I still get confused when people say they're "LFG DM" and they don't mean Dire Maul. 'Why, back in my day, we called Deadmines, VC'.

Originally I had to learn VC though, as it didn't occur to me Deadmines could be shorthanded from 'Van Cleef".

I still get RFK RFC confused just because I've never ran them.
First time I saw "LFG SM", I thought it was an RP-group that was looking for some S&M O_o

Oh god i remember that time.... I didnt know what a "tank" was..... but now im tearing down 25 man naxx, OS 2d and 10 man Maly like i've been doing it my whole life, so yeah.... A little friendly education goes a long way in the unfriendly world of Warcraft.

[quote]Mine definitely dealt with BG’s. First for AB and later for EotS when I would see someone yell out “inc LM” or “inc BE”. I caught onto LM, BE, GM, BS, etc pretty quick, but could not figure out what “inc” meant for the longest time.[/quote]

This has totally lost me...

Luckily when I started playing it was in a guild made by people I already knew from a FPS gaming community. I'd never played a MMO or RPG before and no idea what anything meant. The class acronym's still confuse the heck out of me. I didn't run any instances until SM and still remember being whispered "Are you a tank?" and answering "No, I'm a warrior.".

Mats. The aconmyms have not been much of a problem for me, but when i saw mats i thought of mats like on the outside of a door at a house. However now luckily I now know it is materials