Donator
A player who invests real money into virtual gear
DoT
Damage over time. Refers to a class of spells that deals damage over a period of time. These spells typically do more damage than DD spells overall.
DpS
Damage per second. Used when figuring out weapon speed and damage.
Drow
A Dark Elf race
Druid
Hybrid class in D&D style games—part healer, part support, part fighter.
Enchanter
A mage specializing in buffs
Epic
An extremely rare item or quest. Has come to mean something exceptionally cool and hard to get.
Experience
A quantity gained when completing tasks/quests, killing mobs, or various other achievements in games. When enough experience is accrued, characters often “level up” and become more powerful.
Familiar
Same as pet
Farm(ing)
The act of accumulating currency or a specific item by repeatedly killing a mob or repeatedly performing a series of actions
Gnoll
An NPS (AI-controlled character) race of humanoid hyenas
Guilds
Semi-permanent player groups. In typical games, players must use a substantial amount of capital to start the guild.
Health
A base attribute of characters
LFG
“looking for group”
Lich
A race of the undead
Loot
Currency or items that are dropped by a mob when it is defeated
Mana
A commonly-used pool of magic potential (magical analog of health points)
MMORPG
Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
Mob
An AI controlled monster. 'Mob' originally comes from the MUD era, where it was short for 'mobile', to differentiate monsters that would patrol a set of rooms as opposed to monsters which would stay in one place until killed.
Mount
Any riding animal from a donkey to a dragon
Newbie
A new inexperienced player
Newblette
A new and inexperienced female player
Noob
The pejorative form of newbie or an unskilled arrogant player
NPC
Non-player character (ie. controlled by AI)
Nuke
Refers to casters, to cast the highest damage spell or spell combo to effectively pull or finish of a npc. Mages usually are the most effective class in highest burst damage.
Nuker
A caster who throws a lot of damage spells on a target.
Perma
Permanent, permanently
Pet
A creature that can be summoned to help and defend a player
PK
Player Killer—a derogatory term—as in a person who primarily plays to kill other players
PK counter
Shows the number of players already killed by a PK and allows to calculate the chances of his dropping an item if killed by another player
Port
Short for teleport. Used as a noun and a verb.
Powerlevel
Same as rush. When a higher level player tries to help a lower level player level faster. Most games have mechanisms that prevent power leveling.
Pull
A standard hunting strategy where a player lures a single or a group of mobs to the group so that the group can hunt from a safe area instead of hunting in areas where new mobs may spawn.
PvP
Player vs. Player combat
Quest
A set of tasks of a player to complete
Quest item
An item needed to complete a quest
Race
Typically fantastical creations, such as Elves, Trolls and the like.
Raid
A more substantial engagement involving a large organized group of players typically set in a dungeon and involving difficult mobs
Regen
Short for regeneration (of health, mana, or other replenishable attributes)
Resist
A parameter showing one's chances to resist a spell, whether partially or completely
Respawn
A character's resurrection after being killed
Rogue
A game class used for scouting and spying
Root
Can refer to a class of abilities as well as its effect. A root spell immobilizes a target. The target is then said to be rooted. Early versions of these abilities involved references to plants, hence "root".
Rush
Same as powerlevel
Server
Due to technical reasons, each server can only support a limited amount of players. Each MMORPG typically has several servers. Players cannot interact with players on other servers.
Slot
A storage unit, especially in a player's bag
Snare
An ability which slows down a character's movement speed, but they are still capable of moving.
Solo
The act of playing alone, hunting mobs alone.
Soulbound
An item-control mechanic where an item cannot be traded. In other words, only one person can own the object and it cannot be traded. See also BoE and BoP.
Spawn
Resurrect
Stealth
A type of invisibility that lets stealth characters sneak up on others for large critical strikes or for scouting.
Stun
A typical form of crowd control ability that immobilizes an enemy
Tank
As a noun, refers to character classes that can take a lot of damage. As a verb, refers to the act of drawing aggro from mobs before other team members strike with their abilities.
Uber
Slang form of super
Wonder Waffle
From German Wunderwaffe, a wonder weapon
WTB
“want to buy”
WTS
“want to sell”
Zool
Cool
[i] Sources:
The Daedalus Project. The Psychology of MMORPGs
alteredgamer.com
mmoglossary.com
omegaknights.com
mmoterms.com