A Brief Dictionary of Gaming Slang

Quick Dictionary of Gaming Slang

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"I saw that gimp-soloist, noob, farming in gear for level 20 at level 40, with 5k in pocket and without necessary skills yesterday on the spot."

Not clear? I believe the text below will help you more than enough.

Note:

– The words are generally arranged in alphabetical order, but it’s better to view all words under each letter when searching. For example, "summoner" in various gaming dialects can take the forms "summoner", "samoner", "samonyor", etc. It’s easy to find everything using "ctrl+F".

– Similar dialect collections from WoW, Lineage, Perfect World, Wikipedia articles, and Captain Obvious’s unobtrusive advice were used when compiling this dictionary. Thanks to all of them!

- If someone didn’t find something in this dictionary - write in the comments, I'll add it.

SYMBOLS AND NUMBERS

+ / - – the difference between the player’s level and the level of what they're talking about. For example: "a bunch of enemies (+10 minimum) appeared", "on the way mobs minimum (+5)".

2 (to) – to

4 (for) – for

10 characters (or something else) – on the forum, the message length limit is ten characters; therefore, if you need to place a shorter message ("yes", "no", "I am python"), the phrase "10 characters" is added at the end. For example: "I am python (10 pythons)". The length limit is observed, everyone is satisfied.

SLANG IN LATIN

ABUSE – using game imbalance for selfish purposes.

AFAIK (As far as I know) – "as far as I know".

AFK (Away from the keyboard) – "away from the keyboard", i.e. I am not at the keyboard.

AGI (Agility) – agility. Synonym: DEX.

AKA (Also known as) – "also known as". For example, "Vasya Pupkin aka Nogibator".

AoE (Area of effect) – mass damage spells that deal area effect damage. See AoE.

B, Buy – announcement of a desire to buy something: B(resources) = "buying resources".

BB (ByeBye) – bye! (farewell)

BRB (be right back) – I’ll be right back

B/S – "buying and selling" something at the same time.

BTW (By the way) – by the way.

CON (Constitution) – body structure, durability. Synonym: VIT.

DD – damage dealer. See DD.

DP (Divine Power) – "Divine power", points of a sort of "rage" that accumulates when players kill mobs after level 10. A complete analog of "Qi energy" in Perfect. A very useful thing that allows the use of abilities of special destructive or useful might, requiring 2k, 3k, 4k "Divine Power".

DEX (Dexterity) – maneuverability; agility. Synonym: AGI.

FAQ (Frequently asked questions) – "frequently asked questions"

GF (good fight) – Good fight! We fought well!

GL (good luck) – Good luck!

GJ (Good Job) – Good job!

GO! – "Let’s go!", an order to start the attack. See go.

gosu (God Of Starcraft Units) – this is how they call professional players who play really well.

IDDQD – cheat code for immortality in the game "DOOM". Usually said as a joke before attacking.

IM, Item Mall – in-game shop for real money. See shop.

IMHO (In my humble opinion) – "In my humble opinion". See IMHO.

INT (Intelligence) – intelligence.

IRL (In the real life) – "in real life"

HP – health.

LFP (Looking For Party) - "looking for a group". Warning! The term comes from Lineage, is completely unknown to Perfect World players (of whom at least a third of players are). So don’t be offended if you aren’t understood.

LOL (Lot of laugh, laughing out loud) – see LOL.

NC (no comment) – no comments

neg (negative) – negation of something.

newb, newbie, noob – see noob.

NO WAI – 1) "no way"; 2) "there’s no way" – mockery.

NPC - non-player character; see NPC.

OMG (oh my god) – oh my god!

O RLY? – abbreviation for "Oh, really?" (really?)

PK – see PK.

PvP – see PvP.

PvE – see PvE.

RvR – see RvR.

RL (Real life) – real life, the real world.

ROFL (Rolling on the floor laughing) – "rolling on the floor laughing"; in Bobruisk-style: "Pats Talom" or "Rzhunimagu".

S, Sell (sell) – announcement of a desire to sell something: S(cookies) = "selling snacks"

Str (Strength) – strength.

VIT (Vitality) – endurance, body structure. Synonym: CON.

WoW – online game "World of Warcraft" (see WoW)

WTB - "want to buy"

WTF – "What the heck?!".

WTS - "want to sell"

SLANG IN CYRILLIC

A

Ability – skill or spell or ability of a character to do something. To develop a character, improve its functionality, it requires instilling and developing various skills, i.e., abilities.

Agility – agility

Aggro – mob's aggression directed towards the player. Aggro radius – the minimum distance at which the mob reacts to the character’s presence. In Aion, mobs often conflict, so aggro can also be directed at non-player characters.

Aggroing – attracting the mob's attention and voluntarily or involuntarily provoking its aggression. Aggroing the mob onto oneself without letting it aggro the other party members – the main task of the tank.

Ironbreaker - gnome tank in the game "Warhammer Online". The thickest and most resilient tank in the game. Often was an answer to the question of which class rules/is versatile/analogous to a paladin in Warhammer. So often that now in other games in response to this sacred question you can hear: "IRONBREAKER!!!"

Account - user account in the character database.

Alt (alternative character) – the second (third, fourth ... multitude) character of one player. Synonyms: twink.

AoE (Area Of Effect, also Attack on Environment) – a spell/ability for mass damage with area effect.

Anal orb – in-game meme of Aion's CBT.

Antag (UnTag) – a lone character without clan insignia (Tag). Synonym: no clan, soloist.

Up – Usually achievement of the next level.

AP – abyss points; points granted for killing mobs and players in the Abyss.

Orange – slang name for the "Alcyon" server.

Arigato – thank you (Japanese)

Arm, armor – armor.

Archer – archer.

Asmo – asmodian.

Assist – simultaneous attack on one common target by several players. Usually, assists are performed by the leader's command. Assisting is used to eliminate enemy tanks or high-level characters.

Auction - auction

AFK (away from keyboard) – the character is in the game but not controlled by the player who went away for their small or big affairs.

"The avatar is a noob and disgraced" – in this allegory, the commentator seemingly tells us that their opinion of the author's mental abilities, already low, has fallen even lower.

B

Bug – a system error, a programming-level mistake. Bugs can be harmful (e.g., sudden disappearance of items from the inventory) and beneficial (walls that can be passed through in specific places). It is necessary to differentiate a bug from a glitch and a lag. These are three big differences.

Fool – fool (Japanese)

Ban, banishment - forcible removal of a player from the game by the administration for one reason or another. Usually, a ban is applied for rule violations: rudeness, botting, using hacks and bugs, buying in-game items for real money, etc.

Banhammer – the ban hammer, the main weapon of an admin or moderator, with which they send sinners to ban.

Bar – a strip, ruler, scale of something. For example, a mana or life bar.

Buff – a generic name for spells that enhance a character's basic characteristics. The action of different buffs can last from a few seconds to an hour or more.

Buffer – a character capable of applying buffs.

Berserker – 1) berserk, furious warrior; 2) two axes used simultaneously.

Burst – (see burst)

Bijou – short for "bijouterie". Means, actually: rings, earrings, necklaces, and other similar ornaments.

Build – the configuration of character parameters for a specific play style or for a certain purpose. PvP (combat) and PvE (farming) builds usually differ drastically.

Bind – 1) binding an item to its owner, after which it cannot be sold or given to another player. Binds usually happen after obtaining loot or after first equipping; 2) binding any item or action to a keyboard key or mouse - "binding spells to keyboard"

Boss – a unique, exceptionally strong monster in a location. Usually has its own name and a retinue of smaller mobs. Good loot and other nice things can be dropped from bosses. Usually, to kill bosses, the coordinated efforts of several people are necessary: the tank takes the main hit, the healer heals the tank, and damage dealers deal damage to the boss, trying not to aggro it to themselves. To kill particularly strong bosses, the efforts of dozens, sometimes hundreds of people are required. Boss names differ in different games. For example: raid boss (Lineage), pit boss (RFO), etc.

Bot – 1) a character under the control of a third-party program; 2) a third-party program that imitates a player's actions and controls a character on their behalf. Used to make prolonged and boring farming easier, or for accelerated character leveling. Bots are prohibited in almost all games. Their use can result in a ban.

Burst, boost, burst – forced infliction of a large amount of damage in a short time. Used in combat or for finishing off a boss. The usual implementation is using short-term buffs to enhance damage and/or the strongest combat skills.

V

Whine - the process of complaining by someone for some reason on forums; for example, "he's whining", "they're whining", "whining threads".

Wipe – 1) complete deletion of character databases in the game by the administration, all characters, items, and money disappear; 2) slang designation for the character's death: "we wiped on the boss".

One-shot – killing with a single hit.

War – 1) warrior; 2) war.

Warp – instantaneous relocation from one area of the game world to another.

Warh – short for the popular online game "Warhammer Online"

Weapon – weapon.

Vendor – a non-player character seller, merchant.

Vent – voice communication program used parallel to the game.

Win (WIN) – victory, positive evaluation of the player’s actions. It has an antonym: "fail".

Vit (Vitality) – endurance, body structure. Synonym: Con.

WoW – the popular online game "World of Warcraft"

"Second window" – another open copy of the game, often minimized. Usually kept as a healer or buffer for personal use or a merchant for simultaneous trading.

G

Guide – a tutorial containing detailed information on something or instruction for performing, applying something. For example, "a guide to leveling gladiators" or "a guide on how to kill a cherubim".

Gank, noob hunting – killing deliberately helpless low-level players for entertainment, self-affirmation, or just out of boredom.

GvG – a guild versus guild fight (Clan against Clan). In Aion, it is hardly used as it has been replaced by the race versus race fight (RvR).

GameGuard – a software system to prevent cheating. Supplied with many online games to block certain programs and prevent well-known kinds of cheating.

Gameplay – the overall characteristic of the gaming process; for example, "boring gameplay".

Gi – guild – a permanent unification of players aimed at solving long-term and extremely important tasks, such as: "sending all noobs on the server to respawn", "killing bosses in rare and epic fights", "robbing caravans". However, sometimes the motivation for unification may be different — for instance, uniting players along linguistic or geographical lines. In some games, it can also be called a corp (corporation) or clan. In Aion, guilds are affectionately referred to as "Legion" for every anonymous.

Hybrid – a character (or class) that can perform more than one role in the game. See Multi-class.

Gimp – a class or character that is useless in PvP or, more often, just improperly leveled.

Ging, gimped – a character leveled with skipping some moments (quests, skills, etc.). Sometimes there’s gimping out of ignorance, for example, noobs running around level 40 in gear for thirties, with 5k in pocket and without half the needed skills. However, sometimes high-level characters gimp out their multi characters with some other goals: "I’ll gimp my archer to 30, then farm spirit and wear it from my main character."

Glad – gladiator.

GM, Game Master – 1) server administrator, the punishing hand of the lord, destined to punish all guilty; 2) often referred to as the Guild Master, that is, the head of the guild.

Go, go (go) – signal to start an attack. Usually, this signal is given by the party leader or clan leader.

Gratz, gz (short for Congratulations: congratulations) – a universal congratulations for any achievement, whether getting a level, a victory in something, or the first sex. It's customary to respond to "gratz" with "thx" (thanks).

Grade – 1) the process of boosting the stats of in-game items; 2) items of an increased level, "second-grade resources", for example.

Grim, grimoire – a magical book, the main weapon of mages and spellcasters.

Grind – monotonous repetition of the same actions, mainly for hours, destroying mobs in the same location for experience/specific loot. Some claim that effective grinding allows leveling up faster than completing quests.

GFSh (really bad free shard) – a pirate free server, a free shard of greater or lesser gloominess. All free shards without exception are GFSh.

Gz – see gratz.

D

DD – damage dealer, see Damage dealer.

Dai Denek – starter spell of the first level, usually used by a noob intending to attract the attention of a high-level player. See also: "levelmeup".

Damage – the damage dealt inflicted.

Damage dealer, DD – a character whose main job is to deal damage.

Dungeon – a separate location with mobs and bosses, from which very valuable loot drops. Designed for more than one player to pass. More often than not, it is an instance.

Daniel Defoe – a well-known donor from the online game Lineage 2.

Down – temporary server downtime.

Debuff – a negative spell that worsens basic characteristics of an enemy for a certain time.

Delevel - the possibility of losing an entire level upon death if the experience on the status bar is near the initial mark. For example, if one was at level 40, after death, the level could become 39. In some games under unfavorable fighting conditions, one can "delevel" a couple of levels, after which they’ll have to level them up again. In Aion, deleveling does not exist; once a level is reached, it stays with you forever.

Def, defense – 1) protection, usually from physical attacks, armor characteristic; 2) protection of a castle/territory.

Jolly – the most famous troll in the Aion Ruoff.

Donate – investing real money in the game, buying/selling gaming loot, currency, and other pixels for real money.

DoT (Damage over Time) – a type of debuff that deals a certain amount of damage not instantly but over a period of time. For example, poisons.

DPS (Damage per Second) – the amount of damage dealt by a player per second.

DPSK, DPSZ (damage per second casting) – the same as DPS, but the calculation is made not from the spell duration, but from the cast time.

DPSer – a clumsy synonym of a damage dealer.

Driving – a player who levels characters for a client for money.

Drop – items that may drop from a specific mob (and in some games, from a player). Sometimes, valuable items are sought after for long periods at the same boss, hoping that this time they will drop what is needed.

Dru, druid – a type of character in WoW (like a werewolf) and Perfect World (like a fox-herdsman).

Dex (Dex, Dexterity) – maneuverability; agility.

Dup – replicating items through game bugs.

E

Ebay, ebuy – a meme implying the purchase of something at internet auctions for real money.

Eve (EVE Online) – a popular online game, a space flying shooter.

Z

Noob – generally used to describe a stupid and clumsy/inept player. Sometimes applied to a newcomer and therefore inexperienced player, although abroad this concept is sometimes highlighted as a separate term – "newb" (newbie).

Noob zone – an area of high noob concentration. Usually, starting area.

Noob hunting – mass extermination of low-level players by high-level players, "papas". A useless and disgraceful activity. Synonym: gank.

Nup – 1) insult; 2) stating the existence of such a severe bluntness that it cannot be treated by modern medicine.

Nuke – 1) dealing hurricane damage in a short time with the strongest spells, depleting all mana and cooldowns (not always). Used in PvE to finish off a boss and in PvP to gank weakly tanked classes. 2) hit, casting of a spell.

Nuker – the same as a caster. A debatable term.

No clan – a character without a clan/guild/legion. Synonym: antag.

No lifer – a person without personal/reallife. Synonym: geek.

Neka – a cute, cat-like creature with ears (Japanese)

Cute – cute (Japanese)

Cutie – slang name for a Elyos

O

OBT – open beta testing.

Overheal – the amount of excess healing wasted. Considered noobish for the clumsy waste of mana/energy.

Own – to own something or someone; often implies a win.

Orb – magical sphere, weapon of mages and spellcasters.

Cooldown – 1) reloading the last global save after a server crash, which rolls back players sometime back in the game, often causing outrage among those who gained a new level, rare loot, a bunch of money, etc.; 2) skill cooldown.

Off – 1) official game server; 2) offline.

Offtopic – message that doesn’t correspond with the discussed topic. Is punished by a ban.

P

Pack – a connected group of social mobs, attacking any of which automatically invokes aggression from all others regardless of distance between them.

Papa – a long-time player with a high-level character. Usually experienced. Synonym: high, high-level.

Train – 1) running around gathering a large crowd of mobs and then destroying them with area effect spells; 2) a tandem of a leveled player and a noob, when the first quickly leads the second through dangerous places; 3) killing players by aggroing a mob crowd onto them.

Party – a group of players united to achieve a common goal: faster experience, resource gathering, quest completion, boss farming, increasing the effectiveness of players in combat. Synonym: squad, group, const.

PPerfect World (Perfect World) – a Chinese online game with Eastern flavor.

PvE (Player vs. Environment) – a style of play where completing instances, killing mobs, and executing quests predominates without deliberately engaging with other players.

PvP (Player vs. Player) – a style of play where conflicts between players, duels, arenas, PK, and gank predominates.

PvP Server – usually an illegal server specializing in battles between players. Usually represents a free shard (often GFSh), with a significantly simplified leveling and crafting process.

Transfer - fraudulent obtaining AP in contract battles.

Pers – a character controlled by a human. Synonym: char.

Perf – see PW.

Pet, Pokémon - an animal (or another creature) that is a player’s partner and can be managed to some extent.

Go, go zone – area within which attacking other players is programmatically prohibited.

Picker – a player who randomly assembles groups from all willing and unwilling players, by method of random tapping.

Poo – fluffy little animal showing up at the most inconvenient moment. The arrival of the poo does not bode well.

PK, pk – killing one character by another character controlled by a human. Unlike gank, one can also PK equal-level characters and "papas". In Aion, PK can only happen on characters of another race.

Plz – please.

PM (Private Message) – personal message to a player. Synonym: personal.

Level up – standard noob spell. Cast on high-level character in hopes of receiving some free experience.

Pokémon – see Pet.

Ppz – miss is a disaster. See also: poo.

Priest (priest) – healer, priest or other character who can heal others.

Proc – triggering some probability-based ability.

Profession – 1) the same as class; 2) non-combat abilities that the player can gain additionally; for example: woodworking, leatherworking, mining, and other useful and not so useful skills meant to diversify the gameplay.

PuG (Pickup Group) – a group assembled from random people by the picker. Usually differs in coordination, skill, and results.

Pulling – pulling a mob out of a crowd of similar aggressive mobs, subsequently killing them one by one. In Aion, pulling can be done by the guardian using their "fishing rod".

Pusi-set - a set of armor gathered, as they say, "from the world by a thread". All of different sorts, different sizes, different levels. The name comes from the amusing gnome Pusik, who dressed in whatever Korean Random sends.

Weapon, gun – weapons, not only firearms, but anything from a knife to a double-handed halberd.

Push – a quick, meticulously planned attack. See also: rush.

R

Radiant – community manager of "Innovative Systems", the most patient and unflappable person (if they are a person) of the RU zone. Has ten arms, which allows them to work across several forums, Twitter, LiveJournal, ВКонтакте, the official site – all at once. Owner of the only eight-barreled reactive banhammer on fast neutrons in the RuNet.

De-gin – the action contrary to ginning, e.g., farming spirit, or passing low-level quests that were skipped.

Random – chance, a random event, a random choice.

Randomly – randomly.

Rare – a rare item, usually with a probability of dropping (loot) much lower than 1%.

Race – "the shortest test of knowledge of the Russian language" (c) Jolly.

Rush – frontal attack without special tactical finesse, strong pressure. See also: zerg rush, push.

RB - raid boss. See also Boss.

RvR (realm vs realm) – the aggregate of processes stimulating players to confront each other at the guild or race level. Such processes include – castle captures, mass brawls, domination over enemy territory, and other similar actions.

Real – 1) real money (money from the real world); 2) the real world, life in the real world.

Real-player – a person (usually not young and long past their school days), not averse to investing a couple of hundred/thousand/millions of money into their favorite game to purchase characters, in-game currency, loot, weapons, and other kosher items for that game. This term is also applied to characters earning their daily bread by selling the sought items to players for real money. Ads for selling money are often posted through low-level twinks in global game chat. Usually, a real-player is the subject of hatred among true geeks. Synonym: donator.

Resist – resistance to something (usually magic). Synonym: MDef.

Raid – a large group of players (larger than a standard party) purposely going through instances or a specific boss. A large group of people participating in massive PvP is also considered a raid.

Range – 1) the radius of affect of something, the radius of damage; 2) slang for a shooter.

Rate, rates – frequency of something; the multiplier of loot, experience, and money given when killing monsters or completing quests. Usually, on official servers, this multiplier equals one (x1), while on pirate ones – from x1 to x10000 and beyond.

Repop – "rebirth" of previously killed mobs. A regular mob respawns every 2-5 minutes. Bosses, significantly less often. Synonym: respawn.

Reroll – see roll.

Res, resources - resources: ore, stones, plants, etc., and so on.

Res, resurrect (English resurrect) – "emergency" revival (usually by another player) of a deceased character at the place of their demise.

Resnu – to revive a character at the place of their death.

Respawn, respawn, respawn – 1) synonym for repop. 2) "standard" revival of a character after death (without res). The character usually respawns in the nearest town or close to it; 3) the place, the point of appearing of the character after their death.

Rest – resting, restoring MP/HP while sitting.

Reuse – see cooldown.

Rift – a portal, a space tear, through which one can jump to the location of the opposing race.

RO – 1) Ragnarok Online – a Korean online game. Possesses a specific world, composed of diverse locations ranging from anime fantasy to dystopian future; 2) "ReadOnly" – punishment imposed on forum violators, muting.

Rogue – a character specializing in hidden movements and surprise attacks from nowhere. For example: assassin.

Roll, reroll – a term whose roots go back to the dark depths of tabletop games like DnD, where all random events and quantities (such as damage inflicted on a monster, the chance of obtaining a given item, triggering skills, and even the starting stats of character) were determined by rolling dice – in fact, rolling. Hence it follows: 1) to roll a paladin – create a new character of the paladin class. 2) reroll – to give up on the current leveled character, creating and leveling a new one from scratch with the aim of using it later as the primary character. 3) loot by roll – random distribution of dropped loot in the group. For example, in WoW, there is a command /roll that outputs a random number (from 1 to 100) to the chat, allowing resolution of disputed situations.

RuOff (russian: русский + official: официальный) – jargon term for official servers with Russian localization.

Root – "roots", a control skill, hinders movement.

S

Subj – the subject of dialogue, the topic of discussion.

Sayōnara – goodbye (Japanese)

Suck – poorly, lame.

Sal – silence – "dumbness", a debuff that prevents the opponent from using physical/magical skills for some time.

Summon – summoning an animal as a pet or mount.

Summoner – class/character that can summon combat animals-assistants or siege demons for attacking fortresses. In Aion, the summoner is the conjurer.

Support – 1) a character whose purpose is to heal and temporarily boost other characters; 2) "technical support" - a special service that players may contact for consultations or to report bugs, lags, glitches.

Self – self.

Self-buff – a buff applied to oneself.

Self-owned – blundered, "I messed myself up"

Set – a complete set of items, providing certain bonuses when combined. For example, stat boosts. Or just an entire set of something (armor, weapons, rings/amulets).

Setting – the overall atmosphere, surrounding environment of the game world.

Sin – assassin.

Blue item – an item (weapon, gear, bijou) of very good quality, better than "green loot".

Skill – ability; usually concerning combat.

Slacker – a person who loves to carefreely watch soccer (pick their nose, drink beer, AFK, chat) during some exceedingly important group event (castle siege, boss fight etc). The phenomenon of slackerness is mainly observed in healers, who jam their healing button with a match and go for tea. Meanwhile, the match falls off, the tank dies, the party scatters in all directions from the enraged boss, people die, and other mayhem ensues. The disease can be treated with a "brief, decisive conversation" with the culprit.

Siloed – killed.

Siloed – died usually out of stupidity.

SM, Spiritmaster – conjurer.

Solo, soloist – playing alone. Synonyms: antag, no clan.

Sorcerer – wizard.

Soulshot/spiritshot in Lineage – consumable material that increases a character's attack or defense. With some stretch, they can be called a kind of bullet.

Spawn, spawn – the same as respawn or repop.

SPD – spell damage, damage by magic.

Spec – class specialization; for example: frost mage, fire mage (in WoW), or warrior-fist specialist, warrior-swordsman, warrior-axeman (in PW).

Spell – spells.

Spot – 1) a point in a location where a player moves using fast delivery methods (gates, portals, etc.); 2) a region of the game world, more or less densely filled with monsters, suitable for farming and grinding.

Thx – thanks.

Stack – a full pack of items in the inventory; for example, 100 hides.

Stacking – the ability to apply two or more identical buffs simultaneously.

Stamina – 1) endurance; 2) fatigue.

Stun – a stop, incapacitation.

Stats, stats – basic characteristics of characters and items affecting a character's effectiveness.

Staff – magical weapons: stick, stave, club.

Style – character clothing that does not affect their combat characteristics.

Str – strength.

Strafe – moving sideways, by "shuffling steps". Strafe is used for moving, aiming, dodging attacks from opponents. It’s essential that during such movement, the player does not lose sight of the opponent. When using the WASD combination, the keys A and D correspond to strafing. In Aion, strafing increases the character's avoidance.

T

Tame – to tame mobs; this ability is mainly available to summoners.

Tank – a character with a large supply of health and good defense, who takes the main hit while other players deal damage. The tank usually acts in tandem with a healer.

Tank – to take the main hit of a monster, keeping the monster’s attention on the character (tank), not allowing it to aggro on other party members. See also: to tank.

TV – territorial wars, war for territory.

Twink – a second (fifth, tenth, etc.) character of the same person; usually, on the same account. See also: multi.

Templar – a slang name for a guardian.

TP – teleportation; for example, "tp to the city".

TPS (Threat per second) – the speed at which a character generates HATE towards mobs. If when attacking a boss the TPS of the healer or damage dealer exceeds the tanks' TPS, soon there will be big troubles.

Trade – trading or exchanging gaming values.

Train, train – see train.

Threat: "rage"; the characteristic determining on whom a mob becomes aggressive. Any actions (damage, healing) produce a certain amount of threat, but tanks usually produce more, unless they are noobs.

Trolling – a favorite pastime of people on various forums, intentionally provoking individuals into flooding, flaming, and disputes.

Troll – a forum provocateur. Trolls are divided into "fat" ones, whose activities are easily recognized, and hidden, "thin" ones.

Trash – slang name for ordinary mobs inhabiting group and raid instances. Unlike bosses, the chance of dropping valuable loot from them is unlikely and subject to Korean randomness, so destroying them is mainly a tedious obligation.

U

Fishing rod – a slang name for the "Absorption" skill, allowing the guardian to attract mobs/noobs one by one or in whole groups. The same ability is also used by fortress bosses in the Abyss.

F

Fan – fun, pleasure.

Fap – masturbation.

Farm, farming – destroying monsters to collect loot (drops) or to accumulate experience/spirit/reputation, as well as systematic collection of resources.

FGM – phimosis of the brain. A contagious disease of the cortex and wood of the brain. Untreatable.

Fail – see fail.

Physics – physical attack; hitting with a weapon, hand, arrow.

Fix, fixing, to fix – correction; usually of bugs.

Fear – a spell of a conjurer that temporarily transforms an opponent into an elemental after which the elemental runs away from the feared.

Flood, flouder – chatter, babbler.

Free shard – a pirate free server; gameplay may differ significantly from the original. Usually, in a negative way.

Fraps – a popular program for measuring FPS in games and capturing screenshots and AVI movies from games.

Freeze – freezing.

Full – full, filled; i.e. a full party, a complete set of style or gear.

Epic – an extremely rare item that drops from high-level bosses and gives solid bonuses.

The idea to create this dictionary was inspired by the following post on the CBT forum:

A noob creates a topic with the question "What is root and fear?", and papas (these are noobs who are just more virtuously skilled in the gaming slang, hence they proudly consider themselves papas) send him to Google. This means they are too lazy to answer a simple question, even if they know the answer. They are proud birds, it’s unbecoming for them to simply respond, first they must send you off. For prophylaxis!

And so, the noob, scratching their head, goes to Google. "What the heck is this root? Okay, let’s try...". They type the word "root" into the search bar. They see the first page of results, and at the top is the notice "Results 1 - 10 of approximately 639,000 for root". Again they scratch their head, deciding to read at least the first few, maybe it’ll work out. Following the first link, they end up in Wikipedia, recalling that he was sent there too and thinks "maybe I landed there". They sit, reading about James Root, a musician and guitarist. They become engrossed in the article, forgetting where they came from...

"Brr, something’s fishy with this root, maybe it’s not the right one" - the noob realizes. "Okay, let’s try fear... What is fear? I think someone said something about it being an English word. Damn, but how is it really written? From which fear? From fear or could it be from fir? Okay, let’s see what’s there". They delve into the dictionary, flipping through the pages. "Taaks! Fear - fear, terror, fright, dismay, horror... Hm... Ah ha! Probably, this is fear, and to fear means to frighten! Sounds right! Well, let’s see what fir... Fir, coniferous tree. Oh crap, someone turned someone into a tree – maybe that's it? And to fear - turn into a tree - this also fits..." And they sit back, scratching their head again...

(c) Tester #17326

Taken from aion.ru from here