The World of Warcraft (WoW) can be a very confusing place. As with any large game, and especially any Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) there are a veritable ton of acronyms and terminology that is used by its players. This can be very daunting to the new player, and can even be confusing to many veterans that simply can not remember all the terms.
This first section of the guide covers all the acronyms and terms that start with a number or the letter A. Check back soon for further updates.
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ALT - Generally refers to any character that you have that is not the one you play the most often. Usually refers to any character that is not your highest level character, although many players stop playing a high level character and start a new main character and then do not refer to it as an alt.
If you've got a new friend who is playing WoW I suggest that you send them this link so they won't feel so lost once the lingo gets thrown around.
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This update of the guide covers all the acronyms and terms that start with the letters B through D. Check back soon for further updates.
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CC - Short for Crowd Control and refers to any number of abilities that limit the number of MOBs that you are fighting at any given time. These abilities include a mage's polymorph, hunter's trap, rogues sap and more.
These abilities are used to make a pull of MOBs easier to handle buy limiting the number of things each player needs to worry about and limiting the incoming damage against the tank and others.
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Another update to the guide has been posted today. This update of the guide covers all the acronyms and terms that start with the letters E through H. Check back soon for further updates.
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Gold Farmer - This is a character player by someone to farm gold to resell. A normal slang is Chinese or Asian Farmer, as a great many are from Asia, however it can be any person farming for high amounts of gold or items to resell for real world money.
Another update to the Glossary has been posted today. This update of the guide covers all the acronyms and terms that start with the letters I through M. Check back soon for further updates.
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Leeroy - This is used as a WoW term to describe charging into combat completely unprepared and unknowing or caring what is ahead. This refers to the now infamous "Leeroy Jenkins" video that circulated about a random change into the egg chamber room in Upper Black Rock Spire.
Another update to the Glossary has been posted today. This update of the guide covers all the acronyms and terms that start with the letters N through R, along with several updates to previous letters. Check back soon for further updates.
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PUG - Short for Pick Up Group and refers to any group that is created from random players found in the area, general chat or the LFG tool or channel. This is the default type of group for most quests and 5 man instances. However they have a very bad reputation as many times you can get players that are either sub-geared or sub-skilled, which causes issues in completing the quest or instance.
Another update to the Glossary has been posted today. This update of the guide covers all the acronyms and terms that start with the letters N through R, along with several updates to previous letters. Check back soon for further updates.
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Spec - This refers to your talent specialization and is essentially how you allocate your talent points. For example, and Paladin that puts his talent points in to the holy talent tree is said to have spec'ed holy.
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