Abbreviations

Abbreviations


An abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase. For example, the word "abbreviation" can itself be represented by the abbreviation "abbr." or "abbrev."

On top of the day to day real life abbreviations, you also now have a slew of in game ones to throw you off. World of Warcraft has brought over many different strings of capital letter words and given birth to a few of it's own. As if general gaming talk wasn't hard enough to follow already, Warlocks bring their own little confusions to the table with their spells, talents, curses and pet abbreviations. This can all be very daunting for a first time player and such, we here at The Warlocks Den have created a list of the most commonly used Warlock and general WoW used abbreviations to help you follow the lingo. Please note this list does not contain every one used, the kids come up with new ones every day and it would be impossible to list them all. Instead these are the ones you will see most used in groups, guild and general chat.

If you know of one that you think should be added, by all means please let me know and we can get it added in.


Warlock General

Lock - Warlock
OP - Over Powered, what all the talent-less players call Warlocks when they get their rear end handed to them.

Warlock Spells

Conf/Conflag - Conflagrate
DC - Death Coil
DD - Direct Damage (like Shadowbolt)
DL - Drain Life
DM - Drain Mana
DoT - Damage over Time (Like Corruption)
DP - Dark Pact
DS - Demonic Sacrifice or possibly Drain Soul
FD - Fel Domination
HF - Hellfire or Health Funnel
HoT - Howl of Terror
iHoT - Instance Howl of Terror
HS - Healthstone (shared with Hearthstone)
LT - Lifetap
RoF - Rain of Fire
SB - Generally Shadowbolt, but can also mean Shadowburn
SF - Soul Fire
SL - Generally Soul Link, but can also mean Siphon Life
SP - Searing Pain
SS - Generally Soulstone, but can also mean Spellstone

Tick - The name given to the occasion when a DoT spell actually deals damage, for example the spell Corruption deals X damage over 18 seconds and deals damage every 3 seconds. Therefore it deals 6 individual 'ticks' of damage every 3 seconds.
Proc - The name given to the situation where a special effect happens out of chance. For example when a weapon with a 'Chance on Hit: Wounds the target for 220-300 damage' deals that extra damage, it is said to proc or have proc'd (or something). This can apply to melee weapons, enchantments (such as the Crusader or Fiery Weapon enchants) and spell effects (such as Nightfall).
Instant Cast - Refers to spells that have no cast time, but still suffer from the 1 second global cooldown for all spells. Instant cast spells suffer from neither interruptions nor cast-slowing effects like Curse of Tongues.
Timed Cast - Refers to spells that require the caster to stand still and charge the spell up for a certain amount of time before it is unleashed such as Searing Pain, Shadowbolt etc. These spells suffer from interruptions when hit and also suffer from cast-slowing effects like Curse of Tongues. They are also susceptible to counterspelling.
Channel/Channeled - Refers to spells that require the caster to stand still and channel, taking time to unleash their full effect, such as Drain Life, Rain of Fire, Hellfire etc. These spells are vulnerable to counterspelling and suffer from interruptions when the caster is struck. You lose about 40% of the total channeling time if interrupted regardless of the spell's duration (Totally ridiculous if you ask me).

Warlock Curses

Curse of Agony - Curse of Agony
CoS - Curse of Shadows
CoE - Curse of Elements
CoEx - Curse of Exhaustion
CoT - Curse of Tongues
CoR - Curse of Recklessness
CoW - Curse of Weakness
CoD - Curse of Doom

Warlock Talents

Aff - Affliction Talent Tree
DE - Demonic Embrace
Demo - Demonology Talent Tree
Dest - Destruction Talent Tree
DR - Destructive Reach
Ember/ES - Emberstorm
GR - Grim Reach
Imp - Improved
Imp Imp - Improved Imp (the pet)
MD - Master Demonologist
NF/ST - Nightfall/Shadow Trance (same thing)
Pyro - Pyroclasm
Respec - Resetting all your talent points to try a different build
SM - Shadow Mastery
Spec/Build - Used to describe your Talent Tree specialization
Supp - Suppression

Warlock Pets

DM/Devour - Devour Magic (Felhunter Ability)
FB - Fire Bolt (Imp Ability)
Felpuppy - Felhunter
Invis - Invisibility (Succubus Ability)
LoP - Lash of Pain
Mez - Mesmerize / Succubus' Seduce
Sac - Sacrifice
SL - Spell Lock
Succ - Succubus
VW - Voidwalker

General Gaming/WoW Related

AFK - Away from Keyboard
Aggro - Threat build up from a mob, usually we don't want this =p
AH - Auction House
AI - Arcane Intellect (Mage Buff), alsoArtificial Intelligence, ie NPC/Mob Scripting
Alch - Alchemy Profession
Bio - Bathroom Break
BoE - Bind on Equip
BoP - Bind on Pick up
BRB - Be right back
BRT - Be right there
BS - Blacksmithing Profession
Carebear - Usually what PvPers call those that choose to play on a PvE server
CC - Crowd Control. This relates to our Succubus Secude for us
Ding! - Grats! The universal way of saying 'I just gained a level up, shower me in affection!'.
DE - Disenchant an item
DKP - Dragon Kill Points
DnD - Do not disturb
DPS - Damage per second
Ench - Enchanting Profession
Eng - Engineer Profession
FA - First Aid
FF - Focus Fire. To put all your attention onto one thing.
FFS - For fraks sake
FoTM - Flavour of the Month. When one class gets buffed or is deemed powerful, everyone and their dog starts creating one.
FTL - For the loose
FTW - For the win!
FWIW - For what it's worth
GG - Good Game
GJ - Good Job
Gkick - Guild kick a member
Grats! - Congratulations, well done, bravo, /cheer etc.
GTG - Got to go
Hearthing - Using your Heathstone
IMO - In my opinion
IRL - In real life
K - Okay
LFG - Looking for group
LFM - Looking for more
LF1M - Looking for 1 more (or what ever the number is)
LOL - Laugh out loud
LoS - Line of Sight
LW - Leatherworking Profession
Mob - The hostile AI/Computer controlled beasts, demons, dragonkin, humanoids etc. around the game world.
MT - Main Tank. Can also mean "miss type or miss tell" when used in chat. Means they whispered the wrong person.
Newbie - Someone very new to the game, usually meant in a friendly way
Noob - An idiot, not always new, usually meant as an insult
Nub - The noob's idiot brother
OMG - Oh my gawd
OOM - Out of Mana
Port - Teleporting from one location to the other. Often used to ask a Mage to use their teleportation abilities to send the group to a capital city.
PvE - Player vs Environment
PvP - Player vs Player
QFT - Quoted for truth
QQ - Cry More (Why? because they look like eyes with tears)
RL - Real Life
ROFL - Roll on the floor laughing
ROFLMAO - Roll on the floor laughing my *** off
RP - Role-playing or Role-playing server
SOL - Shit out of luck
STFU - Shut the frak up
WTB - Want to buy
WTF - What the... frak
WTS - Want to sell
WTT - Want to trade

Zone Names

BB - Booty Bay
EPL - Eastern Plaguelands
IF - Ironforge
Org - Orgrimmar
STV - Stranglethorn Vale
SW - Stormwind
TB - Thunder Bluff
UC - Undercity
WPL - Western Plaguelands

Instances

AQ - Ahn'Quiraj
AQ20 - Ruins of Ahn'Quiraj (Raid)
AQ40 - Temple of Ahn'Quiraj (Raid)
BFD - Blackfathom Depths
BRS - Blackrock Spire
LBRS - Lower Blackrock Spire
UBRS - Upper Blackrock Spire
BWL - Blackwing Lair (Raid)
DM - Dire Maul
DM East - East section of the instance
DM West - West section of the instance
DM North - North section of the instance
Gnomer - Gnomeregan
RFC - Ragefire Chasm
RFD - Razorfen Downs
RFK - Razorfen Kraul
MC - Molten Core (Raid)
Maur - Mauradon
Naxx - Naxxramas (Raid)
Ony - Onyxia's Lair (Raid)
Scholo - Scholomance
SFK - Shadowfang Keep
SM - Scarlet Monestary
ST - Sunken Temple
Strat - Stratholme
Uld - Uldaman
WC - Wailing Caverns
VC - Van Cleef/Deadmines Instance (some servers call it DM, but this can be confused with Dire Maul)
ZF - Zul'Farrack
ZG - Zul'Gurrub (Raid)

Tribute Run - This refers to a 5 man group entering Dire Maul North and getting through to the end of the run without killing a single boss but the Ogre-King himself. You then get crowned the king and for each boss you didn't kill you get a powerful piece of loot from a Tribute chest.

Baron Run - This refers to a 5 man group entering the undead side of Stratholme and killing Baron Rivendare. This isn't special like a tribute run, but it's just an easier way of saying 'I only want to do the undead part of Stratholme'.

PvP

AB - Arathi Basin (Battleground)
AV - Alterac Valley (Battleground)
BG - Battlegrounds
HP - Honor Points
PvP - Player vs Player
Tokens - The reward items you get when you win or loose a Battlground. Used to purchase items.
WSG - Warsong Gulch (Battleground)

[Malevevely]

just one thing I noticed in a quick read was iHoT is instant not instance :P other then that pretty good basic overview.

[Hixxy]

Good list!

Some to possibly be added:

AC - Auchindoun
As far as I know - As far as I know
Arca - The Arcatraz
ATM - At the moment
BF - Blood Furnace
BM - The Black Morass
Bot - The Botanica
BT - The Black Temple
if I recall correctly - If I remember correctly
Darn - Darnassus
EotS - Eye of the Storm
Gruul - Gruul's Lair
HC - Heroic mode
HFC - Hellfire Citadel
JC - Jewelcrafter
Kara or KZ - Karazhan
Mag/Magi - Magtheridon's Lair
Mech - The Mechanar
MgT - Magister's Terrace
MT - Mana Tombs
Q - Quest
Ramp - Hellfire Ramparts
SH - Shattered Halls or Sethekk halls
SL - Shadow Labs
SP - The Slave Pens
SSC - Serpentshrine Cavern
SV - THe Steamvault
SWP - Sunwell Plateau
TK - Tempest Keep
UB - The Underbog
ZA - Zul'Aman

There the ones I can think of at the moment anyway.

Also typo on 'CC - Crowd Control. This relates to our Succubus Secude for us'

Should be Seduce obviously.

Just an idea to maybe include either here or possibly somewhere else, what classes makes up each of the group requirements ie.

Tank - Prot Warrior, Prot Paladin, Feral Druid
CC - Rogue, Mage, Hunter, Warlock
Healer - Holy Paladin etc

I remember this confusing me when i first started grouping in WoW.

Anyway hope this helps...

[El Tanakh]

Originally Posted by Akasha

iHoT - Instance Howl of Terror

Really? Ain't it Improved Howl of Terror? Noo, then all my life its a lieeeee

*** Information added 1 Minutes and 9 Seconds later... ***

Offtopic, men you really need to put my post ability a cooldown to prevent me from monopolizing the forum.

[Malevevely]

iHot can actually mean either can refer to the talent or a person that has 2/2 in the talent and an instant HoT (HoT is also a Heal over time which most people know and are the bread and butter of lock dps in movement fights :P)

[Grandorf]

You mean Ihot doesn't refer to me?

[El Tanakh]

Originally Posted by Grandorf

You mean Ihot doesn't refer to me?

Still, best post in the thread yet

besides the guys that posted useful info, you know, but who does that?

[crypticchris]

BIO bathroom break were this come from. Nice list HIXX those are the ones i wanted to now. Great List guys

[Lorilie]

Here's one I had to ask about - BC - Burning Crusades. Was driving me nuts before I asked someone else.

Lorilie

[wayneyoung]

Thanks so much for this thread! I needed it badly!

Akasha = awesome!