Abbreviation

 

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Basic SWTOR Terminology

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Addon(s) – Third party programs that are added to the game to customize it in such a way

Aggro – Provoking a mob to attack you or someone else

Alt – Any character who is not the person’s main (Alternative)

AoE – Area of Effect, as opposed to a single-target spell or ability

Battleground – any PvP instance

BGs – Battlegrounds (Most are not frequently mentioned, so we won’t get into them here)

BoE – Binds on Equip. All “bound” gear is untradeable to players.

BoP – Binds on Pickup

BoU – Binds on Use

CD - Cooldown. It means the wait time between certain spells or abilities.

Dailies – Refers to daily repeatable quests players do for reputation or money

DoT(s) – Damage(s) over Time

DPS – Damage per Second (Often refers to a class whose role is damage)

Faceroll – Insinuates that something is easy.

FP – Flight Path

Ganking – Attacking a player who has no chance of surviving

GCD - Global Cooldown. The one-second refresh period on most abilities.

Gearscore/GS – An addon which is an outdated version of item level.

GM – Game Master, a person who works for Bioware

Griefer - A player who goes out of their way to anger other players

GTN – Global Trade Network

Heals/Healer – Keeps everyone alive during encounters

Heirloom – Another word for BoA gear.

HK - Honor Kill, you receive honor for killing another player.

HoT(s) – Heal(s) over Time

HP – Hitpoints, Health

HPS – Heals Per Second

Inc – Incoming (Often used in PvP)

iLvl – Item Level. Appears on gear as: “Item Level 15”. Needs no addon.

Kite/Kiting – Staying out of combat range by running while attacking at a distance

LF – Looking For (Usually followed up by someone with a certain profession)

LFG – Looking for Group

LFM – Looking for More (players)

LFW - Looking For Work, used by people with maxed professions

Main – Refers to the person’s main character

mDPS – Melee Damage per Second (Specifically advertises that your class does damage close up)

Mob(s) – Anything that is aggressive to your character

MT – Mistell (Used when a player sent a message to the wrong person or channel)

Nerf – Used to describe an ability which has had its damage, heals, etc reduced.

OS – OffSpec, the spec a person uses least (Opposite of Main or Primary Spec)

PKing - Player killing

Proc – Indicates an ability with a chance to occur, such as certain trinkets.

PST – Please send tell

Pulling – Aggroing.

QFE – Quoted for excellence (Used on forums)

QFT – Quoted for truth (Used on forums)

QQ – A term used to insult someone who is complaining, meant to look like teary eyes

rDPS – Ranged Damage per Second (Specifically advertises that your class does damage at range)

Scrub – community’s version of “noob”, used to describe inexperience

Spec – Specialization. Refers to player talent trees.

Stats – Statistics. Refers to how much agility, stamina, spirit, intellect, etc is on a given object.

Tag - Marking a mob as yours by hitting it, guaranteeing you the loot

Tank – The person who makes mobs attack them

Toon – Character

Twink – A player with the best gear in each slot for their level, usually with disabled XP

UI - User Interface, the place with all your settings

WTB – Want to Buy

WTS – Want to Sell

WTT – Want to Trade

XP – Experience. Also called Exp.

Zerg – Generally means having alot of players attack one object all at once and usually quite quickly

 

Class Abbreviations

Classes

JC – Jedi Consular

JK – Jedi Knight

TR – Trooper

SM – Smuggler

BH – Bounty Hunter

IA – Imperial Agent

SI – Sith Inquisitor

SW – Sith Warrior

 

 

AC Advanced Class

Shad – Shadow

Sage – Sage

Sent – Sentinel

Guad – Guardian

Comm – Commando

Van – Vanguard

Gun – Gunslinger

Sco Scoundrel

PowT – Powertech

Mer – Mercenary

Oper – Operative

Snipe – Sniper

Sorce – Sorceror

Assas – Assassin

Jug – Juggernaut

Mar – Marauder

 

Crew Skills Abbreviations

[Generally short terms but use your imagination]

Crafting

 

AM – Armormech

AT – Armstech

Art – Artifice

SyW – Synthweaving

Cyb – Cybertech

BC – Biochemist

 

Gathering

arch – Archaeology

BA – Bioanalysis

Scav – Scavanger

Slicer – Slicing

 

Mission Skills

Dip – Diplomacy

inv – Investigation

TH – Treasure Hunting

UT – Underworld Trading

 

SWTOR Flashpoints and Operation abbreviations/Terminology

 

8m/16m – Refers to 8 man and 13 man raids, usually preceded by the raid’s abbreviation: EV16

Add(s) – A term for additional mob(s) in aggro range of your primary target

Boss – A term for a mob needing more strategy to kill than any mob preceding it (Usually harder)

Buff – A spell which is beneficial when cast on self or others

CC – Crowd control (A spell used to bind, freeze, or otherwise render a mob incapable of attack)

Debuff – A spell which has a negative effect, usually cast by bosses

Flashpoint – An instance requiring 4-person coordination

Instance – An area of the game in which you can only see those in your party/raid group

LoS – Line of Sight; When a player cannot heal or attack because the target is out of LoS

OOF / OOM – Out of Focus/Mana (Usually said by healers & Casters)

Pat – Patrol (A mob or mobs that patrol in an instance)

PUG – Pick-up Group. People found on the spot rather than friends or guild mates

Raid – An instance with harder bosses, requiring more than the usual 5 players

Recount – An addon some people use to display damage output or heal output.

Rez – Resurrect, a spell used by DKs and any class with a healing tree.

Run – Indicates players want to “run”, or do, a certain instance.

Trash – Usually insignificant mobs between and before all raid/dungeon bosses

 

SWTOR Slash Commands

/nameplates – Show/Hide nameplates

/tell – Whisper

/yell – Yell at a larger radius then say

/y – same as /yell

/emote – to make your own emote

/me – Unkown

/setactionpointdisplay – Unkown

/e – Same as /emote

/hideui – hides the entire UI, for screenshots

/chat – Enable chat

/guild – Speak in Guild chat

/g – Used to talk in Guild chat

/gsetrank – Guest rank [unkown]

/gquit – Leave your guild

/gabdicate – Unkown

/gdisband – Delete your entire guild

/dismiss – Disband group

/hewho – Search

/logout – Logout of charecter

/quit – Quit game

/who – opens Who search

/t – Unkown

/group – Group chat

/invite – invite people to group

/party – Speak in Group/Party chat

/p – Used for talking in Party chat

/stuck – Players who are stuck get teleported to a nearby safezone

/say – Speak in a small radius

/s - Same as say

/whisper – message a particular person

/r – Replies to a whisper. Cycle through previous whispers with Tab.

/dnd – Tells people you are busy and leaves a message

/inspect – Looks at a players gear

/grp – group chat

/promote – promote in ops to assistance

/officer – Officer chat in guild chat

/ginvite – Invite to guild

/gremove – Remove player from guild

/ops – For talking in Operation sized groups

/oa – Operation Announcement that all players can see

/t (PlayerName) – Target the player

/1 – Used to talk in the first channel, usually general chat.

/# – #= A specific number to select a particular channel

/who –Brings up the Who menu

 

 

Basic Abbreviations/Terms – Can be used on almost any site

 

AFAIK - As Far As I Know

AFK – Away From Keyboard

ATM – At the Moment

BRB – Be Right Back

BTW – By The Way

FYI – For Your Information

FTL - For the Loss/Lose (meaning you dislike something)

FTW - For the Win (meaning you think something is awesome)

GG – Good Game

GJ – Good Job

GL - Good Luck

H/O – Hold on

IDC – I don’t care (IDRC can also be used for “I don’t really care”).

IDK – I don’t know.

IIRC - If I Recall Correctly

IMHO/IMCO – In My Honest(Humble) Opinion/In My Considered Opinion

IMO – In My Opinion

IRL – In Real Life

LMAO – Laughing My A__ Off

LMK – Let Me Know

LOL – Laughing Out Loud

MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game

NPC – Non-player character (a computer-run person in the game)

NTY – No, Thank You

OIC – Oh, I See

OMG - Oh my gosh

OMW – On My Way

OP – Original Post (forums), Overpowered (class, spell, etc)

Pls/Plz - Please

PvE – Player versus Environment

PvP – Player versus Player

ROFL – Rolling on Floor Laughing

RP – Role Play (Usually PvE)

RPPvP – Role Play Player versus Player

TL;DR – Too long; didn’t read

Troll(ing) – Insulting term for someone who intentionally provokes unfavorable reactions in others

TY – Thank You

WB – Welcome Back

WTH – What(Who) The Heck

XD – A smiley face. Think of the biggest grin you can make.

Newb – Newbie (A new person), not usually used to insult

Noob – A generally insulting term for someone who is disruptive/inattentive. (Some players think newb and noob mean the same thing, and refer to newbies as noobs.)

Str – Strength

Pre– Presence

Aim – Aim

End – Endurance

Wp – Willpower

Cun– Cunning

Exp – Expertise

XP – Experience Points

Edited December 17, 2011 by mikeyboii

Updated

You should have posted "internet abbreviations" because pretty much none of these are from swtor.

 

EDIT: Also I think you completely made up all of your AC abbreviations.

Edited December 13, 2011 by Crescentfire

The amount of abbreviations are limited at this time, more will be added and updated soon.

 

Also, their just some abbreviation my theorycrafting team uses frequently, as I said, things change.

A Worthy bumpy post, sticky this badboy.

Would love to some opinions.

AFAIK zerg means to die repeatedly trying to kill something until you finally do it. Usually because you either lack the skill or gear to defeat it properly.

Opinion? It's a good idea for a post like this. Many coming in to SWTOR probably have never played MMOs before. Some of the verbage needs to be explained - having something like this handy is a good way to get it started.

 

I'd say just make sure you keep it updated as different types of slang start to appear in SWTOR. Good job! I'd give you a few credits but I'm all out right now.

I have one I use when someone in my group is being rude. dbad= don't be a d.o.u.c.h.e

 

 

Great list for people who dont know the abbreviations!

Edited December 17, 2011 by jediknightReece

The term Zerg comes from Starcraft 2 and it means (here and everywere) a massive amount of people agaist something. Think about 100 people vs one boss or something like that.

The term Zerg comes from Starcraft 2 and it means (here and everywere) a massive amount of people agaist something. Think about 100 people vs one boss or something like that.

 

Thankyou, updated.

 

 

Thankyou all for your posts

 

If you have any more Frequently used and more widely known, I would love to add them to the list.

Sick post man, im bumping and bookmarking .. Can a Mod Sticky this plz aswell

Thankyou, would be nice if I knew how to get this stickied

 

Previous JC Sage thread was stickied.

Nice list, don't know if it applies to Op groups only but /dismiss does nothing when in an Op Group. Haven't tried it in a party.

I don't know if you wanna add /tell [playername] and /whisper [playername], they do the exact same thing. Also /reply , it reply to the last player sent you a tell/whisper.

A few errors in the "raids" section. They're not raids in this game, they're ops. And you mention 13 instead of 16.

 

"Operations" should probably also be added to the terminology section because it might not be obvious that ops are raids.

 

And, just as a thought, this might be better stickied in the new users' forum than here, IMHO.

Edited January 17, 2012 by imtrick

Thanks for this. you answered my question on one that I didn't know...

 

Gracias!!!

it's a useful compilation of terms for noobs, but I've never heard anyone use most of your advanced class terms. Guad? Mer? Sco? o_O

Just wanted to clarify 'Twinking' - generally, in most MMO's (because TOR has many level locked items, suppose it could be different), 'twinking' refers not to necessarily getting the best gear at your level, but to push yourself into gear normally intended for higher levels.

 

E.G. If I were level 10 but had level 13 gear, you might say I was a 'twink' or had 'twinked' into that gear, as most level 10's are going to use level 10 or 11 gear. Twinking is normally applicable when you say, use buffs, items, armor, gear to 'ladder' your way into higher level gear. It's usually more expensive than just using regular gear as you progress, and often takes more time.

 

So far, due to a lack of buffs and nearly everything being level locked (even mods), I haven't really seen any 'twinking'. The closest thing I've seen is getting all blue/purple items, etc, but I don't consider that twinking as it's stuff that you can easily obtain with normal looting/crafting, and only gives you a couple level's worth difference in stats.

 

Just my two thoughts. Also, noone I know of uses 'OS' ingame - nor have I seen it used. I've seen offspec written out, but since OS is often used as 'operating system' and describing system specs, most people tend to shy away from using it in TOR's context. If you ask in chat "Hey, what's your OS?" I'm going to say "Windows 7 Ult," - not "Oh, my offspec is X"

Edited January 18, 2012 by lentWolf

FP = Flashpoint

 

atleast thats how ive seen it used in swtor

You forgot FML... for when Noobs cant pass the huttball >_<

1. The first section is titled Basic SWTOR Abbreviations but the vast majority came from older games, many from WoW specifically, or the internet in general.

 

2. Pretty sure you made up most of your AC terms.

 

 

AC Advanced Class

Shad – Shadow

Sage – Sage

Sent – Sentinel

Guad – Guardian

Comm – Commando

Van – Vanguard

Gun – Gunslinger

Sco Scoundrel

PowT – Powertech

Mer – Mercenary

Oper – Operative

Snipe – Sniper

Sorce – Sorceror

Assas – Assassin

Jug – Juggernaut

Mar – Marauder

 

Mercenary is usually shortened to Merc

Assassin is usually shortened to Sin

Sorceror is usually shortened to Sorc (pronounced sork)

Never seen Sco or Snipe or Mar or Shad

The rest are correct

 

3. I lost interest after your obviously made up AC terms. Nice try though. I suppose someone new to the gaming world may find it useful...

I dont know why nobody has pointed out this before but the whole first section is just a copy paste from a similar list for World of Warcraft and does in fact include quite many words and terms that have absolutely nothing to do with SWTOR and only exist in wow.

 

Would have been a good idea to edit those out.

Addon(s) – Third party programs that are added to the game to customize it in such a way

There are no addons in SWTOR

 

Dailies – Refers to daily repeatable quests players do for reputation or money

Well there are dailies in this game too, but no such thing as "reputation". This is from wow

 

FP – Flight Path

No such thing in SWTOR. Well there is the taxi system that kind of serves similar purpose, but they would not be called FP

Also FP = Flashpoint

 

Gearscore/GS – An addon which is an outdated version of item level.

An addon for World of warcraft. There is not anything like that in SWTOR

 

GM – Game Master, a person who works for Bioware

Well you got that right. I'm actually surprised that you actually had that one corrected so that it does not say Blizzard

 

Heirloom – Another word for BoA gear.

Only WOW has heirlooms

 

HK - Honor Kill, you receive honor for killing another player.

Only WoW has honor points

 

iLvl – Item Level. Appears on gear as: “Item Level 15”. Needs no addon

Again a wow term. While items in swtor kind of have levels, there is not same kind of item level system that is refered here

 

LFW - Looking For Work, used by people with maxed professions

They are called crewskills, not professions in this game

 

OS – OffSpec, the spec a person uses least (Opposite of Main or Primary Spec)

There is no dual spec in this game at the moment, so no such thing as offspec. (it is possible there will be in the future)

 

Proc – Indicates an ability with a chance to occur, such as certain trinkets.

another copy paste from a wow list

 

Spec – Specialization. Refers to player talent trees.

They are actually called skill trees in this game (although majority of players do still call them talent trees)

 

Stats – Statistics. Refers to how much agility, stamina, spirit, intellect, etc is on a given object.

While "stat" is a term that applies to this game too, what you have just listed (much agility, stamina, spirit, intellect) are stats that only exist in World of Warcraft. No such stats in this game

 

Twink – A player with the best gear in each slot for their level, usually with disabled XP

I dont think it is possible to disable xp gain in this game at the moment

 

OOF / OOM – Out of Focus/Mana (Usually said by healers & Casters)

Mana? Focus? No such things in this game

 

Raid – An instance with harder bosses, requiring more than the usual 5 players

In this game they are called operations.

And the normal (non operation) group is 4 not 5 players

 

Recount – An addon some people use to display damage output or heal output.

WoW addon. No such thing in this game.

 

Rez – Resurrect, a spell used by DKs and any class with a healing tree.

There are no Death Knights in this game. Also all classes here can res, although only healing classes/advanced classes can res in combat

 

Others might be ok to use in this game as such, unless I missed something...

Edited January 18, 2012 by Eternalnight

Addon(s) – Third party programs that are added to the game to customize it in such a way

There are no addons in SWTOR

 

Dailies – Refers to daily repeatable quests players do for reputation or money

Well there are dailies in this game too, but no such thing as "reputation". This is from wow

 

FP – Flight Path

No such thing in SWTOR. Well there is the taxi system that kind of serves similar purpose, but they would not be called FP

Also FP = Flashpoint

 

Gearscore/GS – An addon which is an outdated version of item level.

An addon for World of warcraft. There is not anything like that in SWTOR

 

GM – Game Master, a person who works for Bioware

Well you got that right. I'm actually surprised that you actually had that one corrected so that it does not say Blizzard

 

Heirloom – Another word for BoA gear.

Only WOW has heirlooms

 

HK - Honor Kill, you receive honor for killing another player.

Only WoW has honor points

 

iLvl – Item Level. Appears on gear as: “Item Level 15”. Needs no addon

Again a wow term. While items in swtor kind of have levels, there is not same kind of item level system that is refered here

 

LFW - Looking For Work, used by people with maxed professions

They are called crewskills, not professions in this game

 

OS – OffSpec, the spec a person uses least (Opposite of Main or Primary Spec)

There is no dual spec in this game at the moment, so no such thing as offspec. (it is possible there will be in the future)

 

Proc – Indicates an ability with a chance to occur, such as certain trinkets.

another copy paste from a wow list

 

Spec – Specialization. Refers to player talent trees.

They are actually called skill trees in this game (although majority of players do still call them talent trees)

 

Stats – Statistics. Refers to how much agility, stamina, spirit, intellect, etc is on a given object.

While "stat" is a term that applies to this game too, what you have just listed (much agility, stamina, spirit, intellect) are stats that only exist in World of Warcraft. No such stats in this game

 

Twink – A player with the best gear in each slot for their level, usually with disabled XP

I dont think it is possible to disable xp gain in this game at the moment

 

OOF / OOM – Out of Focus/Mana (Usually said by healers & Casters)

Mana? Focus? No such things in this game

 

Raid – An instance with harder bosses, requiring more than the usual 5 players

In this game they are called operations.

And the normal (non operation) group is 4 not 5 players

 

Recount – An addon some people use to display damage output or heal output.

WoW addon. No such thing in this game.

 

Rez – Resurrect, a spell used by DKs and any class with a healing tree.

There are no Death Knights in this game. Also all classes here can res, although only healing classes/advanced classes can res in combat

 

Others might be ok to use in this game as such, unless I missed something...

 

Don't mind your changes...but dbad