Term / Abbreviation | Explanation |
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AB | Arathi Basin, a 15v15 battleground |
AH | Action House, where you can sell to and buy from other players |
alt | alternative, could be in the context of an alternative talent specialization or a secondary, alternative player character |
AoE | Area of Effect, something that affects multiple allies/enemies at once |
AP | Attack Power, increases the damage you do. For warriors 1 Str = 2 AP |
AV | Alterac Valley, a 40v40 battleground with lots of PvE elements (e.g. NPCs) |
Avoidance | Any additional effect, that increases your change to dodge, parry or increases the enemies chance to miss. Block is usually not considered "Avoidance". |
BG | Battleground, a PvP instance, e.g. AV, WSG and AB |
BoE | Bind on Equip, item that can be traded until equipped once. Then it becomes soulbound to that character |
BoP | Bind on Pickup, item that becomes soulbound immediately as you receive it (e.g. when looting or crafting). blessing-of-protection, a Paladin ability |
BRD | Blackrock Depths, a non-linear level 50+ dungeon in Blackrock Mountain |
CC | Crowd Control, means to prevent mobs or players from attacking, e.g. Mage's Polymorph. |
EFC | Enemy flag carrier (also often lower-case "efc"). Flag carrier of the enemy faction in Warsong Gulch (WSG) battleground |
EH | Effective health, how much damage you can take to go from 100% to 0% health. Determined by your HP and Armor. |
GCD | Global Cooldown. Time before you can do the next action. 1.5s for all classes except Rogues and Druids in Catform (1s) |
HP | Health Points, if this goes to 0, you die, duh! |
LoS | Line of Sight, most abilities require players/mobs to be in Line of Sight to their target. Breaking LoS prevents those abilities |
MC | Molten Core, the first 40 player raid instance, located in Blackrock Mountain |
MS | mortal-strike Mainspec, your primary PvE talent specialization |
MT | Maintank, usually the best geared tank |
Ony | onyxia, 40 player raid instance and dragon boss |
OS | Offspec, any spec that does not match your PvE role |
OT | Offtank, additional tank(s) besides the Maintank (MT) |
PH | piercing-howl |
PvE | Player versus Environment, fighting against computer-controlled mobs in the world or instances |
PvP | Player versus Player, fighting against other players (might still feel like PvE at times) |
RNG | (Pseudo) Random Number Generator, computer-generated random numbers. Used to indicate that something is more subject to chance than to player ability |
TM | tactical-mastery Tarren Mill, a Horde/Undead town in Hillsbrad Foothills |
WSG | Warsong Gulch, a 10v10 battleground |
WW | whirlwind |