Project Lore

i allways got FTW and WTF messed up and i was always like WTF is UBRS i thought that was a game expansion for sims untill i started raiding it every saterday for months until naxx came out and rag was downable i palyed ever sense the beta and i was unforentuly still no matter when the game is the slowest fucking leveler in the whole damn server even if i started at level 79 there would be a level 1 that would beat me to 80

Took me a long time to find out what HOTS were. Playing a druid everyone told me to put HOTS on them. Then they would Ask For a BREZ when i failed to put HOTS on them. Also still dont know what ZMOG Means

When I first started playing World of Warcraft, I wasn't really tripped up by what the acronyms for spells and abilities meant since I either soloed or got ran through a dungeon (had to learn what "instance" was, lol). What really got me was the trade chat, as I kept seeing all these short-hand phrases until my eyes started glossing over it. Even with the help of my brothers -- who were already experienced players -- I still kept forgetting the jargons' definitions until they finally became second nature to me.

Same went for the battlegrounds, too. It wasn't until shortly before WotLK that I finally found out what "omw" meant. (I kept thinking, "Why is this person saying 'oh my word'?")

I was pretty much a solo player, not paying much attention to gen or trade chat. It wasnt untill like lvl27-28 when i met someone doing the same quest as me and we partnered up. added each other to friend list and played together since. he introduced to the many more opportunities wow had to offer besides running around and killing monsters (mobs lol). every thing that i didnt know, i asked him. It wasnt untill much later i found an acronym list on wowwiki.

Instead of LOL i use LQTM as we all should cause it's the truth LQTM = Laugh Quietly To Myself

-Mvprat
-Commander Tsunami Ysera
-Always looking for great players
-http://tsunamiysera.guildomatic.com <--Apply here

my warrior finally hit 70 the other night, and I still get confused on the lingo. My guild helps me out, but I still dont understand all the d-bags that rip on people who ask a question. It takes less time to just type an answer than it does to come up with a witty/nasty/mean comeback! :) I'd love it if wow was just a little nicer at time.

The new one I see now is OOM which I'm pretty sure refers to "out of mana". I do feel kinda weird now watching trade chat and understanding 90% of what people are talking about cause it would make absolutely no sense if I was trying to explain it to a wow laymen.

I don't know any of the acronyms for PvP but ive learned all the ones you see most frequently in trade chat and in raids or instances. Im just a PvE person. PvP doesn't interest me. So, that'd naturally be why i dont know many. I do know what gank means since that's all that happens to me when im in a BG. lol

Might it be helpful for those with the power to do so to add the previously mention acronyms to the Glossary section &/or add a atg/link to said section in this 'thread'...?

I still don't know what LM, BE, GM & BS mean... or even if it's that vital for me TO know what they mean.

@ Jeff those are names of places in Arathi Basin battleground, Lumber Mill, Gold Mine, BlackSmith. BE referres to a base in another battleground Eye of the Storm, the Blood Elf tower. inc is a warning meaning players of the other faction are incomming.
So, only useful to know if you plan to spend time in those battlegrounds. :)

i've been playing for about 3 years now, and 1 thing that i've learned about WoW is that u'll always learn something new, so i dont agree on insulting a player just because they dont know simple things, we all have been there, so instead of being an ass i prefer to explain things to a new player. who knows he might turn out to be a great player some day

Kerth brings up a valid point, and that the slang version of these acronyms. So not only do we have the acronyms, but there's slang like ZOMG, noob, lawl and pwn that people who are new to the game just might not get at all. I usually get by on guessing what the person means in the acronym, normally I figure out what their intent is (seems like they are heading toward our objective) and figure out the rest from there.

However, if I can't figure something out, and I see it often enough,I'll typically use teh interwebs to find out instead of asking in chat, cause I don't want to be branded a newb, and generally, the infromation is readily available with a simple google search.

ZOMG is basically OMG (Oh My God) but... a slang version, as adding Z's to words is an internet meme. I also notice that meme isn't in the Glossary on PL so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

I realized one day when talking with one of my WoW friends who is relatively new to the game that the phrase I just typed in was probably over their head. I forget what I said, but sometimes I realize it's hard to explain things concisely without using some common WoW terms.

Oh, and the more people who know that PST means Please Send Tell, the less likely I'll see "please pst" in Trade.

I did get laughed at once though by someone I was in a party with when I typed "LOL", and he replied, "lol caps". I explained to him that it was grammatically correct to capitalize acronyms. He replied "lol". :P

@PatrickD

I'm pretty sure that the "T" in PST is from EverQuest or an older similar game. I know for sure in the EverQuest games (EQ and EQ2) the whisper function of WoW is called a "Tell". It works in the exact same way its just called a tell and I would not be surprised if a lot of lingo used today comes from older games.

FTW, WTS, and WTB, didn't understand them. I thought FTW meant F the world, lol.

Ye just like me ^^.When i first saw mats i thought that guy was looking for pets xD as in muts.