Guild Wars Abbreviations
Guild Wars Abbreviations
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Jul 15, 2005, 08:00 PM // 20:00
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2005
Guild: Souls of Heroes
Profession: Mo/
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Guild Wars Abbreviations
I have heard of all these abbreviations on the forums and stuff. What do HoH, PBAOE and AOE mean? Can you also tell me some other commonly used abbreviations.
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Jul 15, 2005, 08:21 PM // 20:21
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Jun 2005
Profession: Me/E
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Jul 15, 2005, 09:32 PM // 21:32
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2005
Guild: Souls of Heroes
Profession: Mo/
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that dosent open. Thanks anyway.
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Jul 16, 2005, 12:49 AM // 00:49
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Guild: Legends Of Teh Industry [XXX]
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During your time reading the various Guild Wars forums and playing in the game you will come across terms or acronyms you may not understand or just never heard before. Below is a glossary of terms compiled by various members of the community and myself to help you out. This glossary will also be updated and tweaked as the community evolves. adrenaline-a warrior exclusive feature used for some of their skills. Is built up by hitting foes and can be lost over time if you dont take action afk-away from keyboard aggro-refers to aggresive mobs that will attack if you get close enough, also used as the action of mobs attacking AL-Armor Level all call-the name of the testing events run by ArenaNet for the alpha/beta players alphas-the players in the closed test of Guild Wars aoe(ae)-Area of Effect(Area Effect) Anet-shortned verion of ArenaNet Arena-The Gladiator's Arena atts-attributes avatar-the character, or toon that the player uses in the game beta-the stage of development after the alpha portion of the game BiP-Blood is Power. One of the most popular skills in the game, belongs to Necromancers caller(target caller)-the person in the group who selects targets cap-refers to the level cap of 20 in the game. Also used to tell a teammate to capture the relic on a PvP map cape-players participating in PvP will have these on. If that player is in a guild their guild colors and logo will be part of the cape(tabard) chat channels-refers to the areas of the UI used to communicate with other players. It's seperated into All,Guild,Team,Whisper, and Trade chat channels. CC-crowd control crafter-NPCs that make weapons,armor, or charms in the game ctf-capture the flag dd-direct damage DOT-damage over time dp-death penalty. The opposite of morale. A loss in hp and energy. There are two ways to gain dp. Rangers that use nature rituals will obtain 5%dp. Dying in PvP or PvE missions give you a 15%dp. The maximum dp you can have is 60%. Killing players in PvP or monsters in PvE will lower your dp. Morale boosts also will lower it dias-the small platform on some PvP maps where you must escort the ghostly hero district-The instanced area of the game world where people are. For example, there may be a person in Lion's Arc district 1 and another in Lion's Arc district 2 dps-damage per second DF-Divine Favor.The primary attribute for a monk downtime-the amount of time when a skill cannot be fully used. In most cases it is the addition of the recharge time of the skill and the casting time. For example, the Mesmer's Diversion skill has a 2 second casting time and a 5 second recharge time. It has a 7 second downtime till its in play EA-explorable area. The areas outside of the main cities and mission outposts elite skills-skills in the game that have this tag can be the only one of this kind in your skill bar. Basically you can't have more than one elite skill in your skill bar at a time,even if they are from different classes. For example, the monk spells Healing Hands and Aura of Faith both cant be on your skill bar. Likewise Healing Hands and Throw Dirt, a Ranger skill, both cant coexist on your skill bar energy-the resource used to cast spells and use skills by all classes in the game. It can be regenerated EoE-Edge of Extinction, a Ranger's nature ritual. Got its own spot here since you will hear people complain about it alot in PvP ES-Energy Storage exhaustion-a self-inflicted condition on some of the Elementalist's spells. It lowers their maximum energy supply by 10. It is a temporary status and 1 point of maximum energy is regenerated every 3 seconds fame-points given to players for winning battles in the Tombs. There are also fame ranks for whenever your character hits a certain number of fame points. The staff they are wielding in the outpost of the tombs will change appearance FC-Fast Cast flag runner-the person on the team designated to carry the flag on King of the Hill type maps focus-equipment that grants the user extra energy to their maximum energy pool. FS-For Sale FT - For Trade ganking-(priest)-killing of the enemy teams' priest. also called ninjaing, or to ninja a priest gimp-classes or class combination that is weak in some way and is hard to play effectively gpu-gold per unit grip-the part you hold of a bow GUI-graphical user interface. Basically the interface that the player uses to get things done in the game GvG-Guild vs Guild GW-Guild Wars haft-handle for an axe hex-a skill or spell that causes negative status HH-healing hands. a popular monk spell in Guid Wars HoH-Hall of Heroes HOT-health over time hp-health points instance-refers to the area of the game where only you and a group of people are seperate from others interrupt-using spells or skills to stop an enemies action irc-internet relay chat. Fansites and guilds use this for communication among members. Alot of guilds and players hang out on irc kiting-the art of avoiding damage by manually dodging, while still attack your enemy KoTH-King of the Hill LA-Lions Arc. One of the major cities in Guild Wars ladder-refers to the GvG ladder in the game and on the Guildwars.com website lfg-looking for group LIFO-stands for Last In First Out. Usually used in reference to how enchantment removal targets a player with mulitiple enchantments running. LoS-Line of Sight mob-a group of monsters morale-a boost to hp and energy. Acquired in various ways such as rifting or having your Ghostly Hero hold the dias for a preset amount of time. You can lose morale by dying and getting dp npc-Non Player Character outpost-the places where players will meet to form groups for missions or pvp competition patrol(mob) that starts to attack you while you're already in a fight. PBAoE(PBAE)-player based Area of Effect(Area Effect).Sometimes also called Point Blank Area of Effect pips-these are the arrows on your health and energy bar. They can be positive(>>>) or negative(<<<), and a maximum of 10 arrows either way. pommel-the handle for a sword prep-preperation pve(pvm)-player vs environment, sometimes called player vs monster pvp-player vs player PUG - Pick Up Group. A group of players who've formed a team without knowing each other beforehand or a team that includes such players. pull-the action of drawing attention from a monster towards a character. Used to weaken mobs by attracting individual monsters and killing them. nerf-the action of weakening a something in the game nuke-the action of unloading alot spells causing high damage to a target recharge(cooldown)-the amount of time until a skill can be casted regen-refers to getting back energy or hp over time rez-ressurect rifting-refers to hunting Rift Wardens on the first map of the Tomb of Kings rituals-short for nature rituals that the Ranger uses rof-rate of fire spam-casting the same spell over and over. Usually spells that have low cooldown are spammed snare-a skill or spell that slows the movement of an enemy tank-the character that will be absorbing damage for your team. Will usually aggro also tombs-short for the Tomb of Kings tourney-some people train-the act of aggravating too many monsters and then running into the path of other players hoping they will get attacked also TS-TeamSpeak twink-outfitting a new character in top notch gear SR-Soul Reaping WaW - Worlds at War. A system where different worlds need to earn acess to certain bonus content in-game and are, therefore, in competition with each other. wtb-willing to buy wts-willing to sell Vent-Ventrillo |
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Jul 16, 2005, 06:23 AM // 06:23
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Yep, I got to say, That covers them all.
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Jan 04, 2006, 01:10 AM // 01:10
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Jan 2006
Guild: The Wizard's Den
Profession: N/Me
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And what about all of the rest of the abbreviations that are inherent to GW alone? |
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Jan 04, 2006, 01:15 AM // 01:15
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Academy Page
Join Date: Sep 2005
Profession: Mo/Me
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IWAY- I Will Avenge You
Its a warriors build used mostly by W/R that have pets. When the pet dies, the warrior casts I Will Avenge You and gains speed and health regeneration. Used by A LOT of Noobs.  That's Iway.  O, and my friend uses wtt (Want to Trade) |
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Jan 04, 2006, 01:41 AM // 01:41
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Upstate NY
Guild: Bastahd Sons of Zeus
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Here's a fairly comprehensive list of terms and shorthand used in Guild Wars (as well as other games, especially MMORPGs): http://tinyurl.com/au9ms (links to the GuildWiki)
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