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The World of Warcraft (WoW) can be a very confusing place. As with any large game, and especially any Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) there are a veritable ton of acronyms and terminology that is used by its players. This can be very daunting to the new player, and can even be confusing to many veterans that simply can not remember all the terms. That's where this guide steps in. It is a collection of all common terms an acronyms found in WoW. To find any term, simply go to the page that has its starting letter and either scroll down to it or press CTRL+F to bring up your find window and type in what you are looking for.

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Term	Description
1H	Short for one handed weapon. This describes any weapon that is carried in and fought with using one hand.
2H	Short for two handed weapon. This describes any weapon that is carried and fought with using both hands.

A

Term	Description
AB	Arathi Basin, a 15 person battleground found in the Arathi Highlands.
AFK	Away from Keyboard. By typing this or using the /afk command, you are letting players know that you are going to be away from your computer. It is common to see messages such as "AFK 2 min" when in a group, this means the player is leaving the computer for the next few minutes.
Aggro	Aggro is short for aggression, but means a lot more that that. What it means in actual fact is that the player being referred to in a statement like "The tank has aggro" is that the tank has enough threat on the MOB that he is its target.
Aggro Lock	This is a term to describe when the tank has enough threat on a MOB that there is no realistic way another player will pull the MOB off of him.
Aggro Radius	This is the distance at which a MOB will aggro you just by seeing you. While this can vary by design on various MOBs or Bosses it is generally 20 yards if the MOB is the same level as you are. This distance gets shortend by roughly 1 yard per level higher than the MOB you are, or lengthened if you are a lower level. The upper maximum radius seems to be about 40 yards, and the minimum is the combat radius of 5 yards.
Agi	This refers to your agility statistic. Agility affects your attack power, critical strike chance and dodge ability.
AH	Refers to the Auction Houses, located in all major cities in Azeroth, although not in the Outlands.
Alt	Generally refers to any character that you have that is not the one you play the most often. Usually also refers to any character that is not your highest level character, although many players stop playing a high level character and start a new main character and then do not refer to it as an alt.
AoE	Area of Effect, commonly referring to a spell or event that affects everyone in a specific area. Such as a mage's blizzard spell that hits every enemy within 15 yards.
AofM	This refers to the hunter ability called Aspect of the Monkey. This ability increases your dodge ability by granting you an additional 8% dodge. A hunter can only have one aspect active at a time.
AotC	This refers to the hunter ability called Aspect of the Cheetah. This ability speeds up the hunter's movement by 30% but hunters that are hit will be stunned. A hunter can only have one aspect active at a time.
AotH	This refers to the hunter ability called Aspect of the Hawk. This ability raises the hunter's ranged attack power by a set amount per level of the ability. A hunter can only have one aspect active at a time.
AotP	This refers to the hunter ability called Aspect of the Pack. This is essentially a group version of AotC and works in a similar way. This ability speeds up the hunter and all his parties movement by 30% but if they are hit they will be stunned. A hunter can only have one aspect active at a time.
AP	Short for Attack Power, or the bonus damage you are going to gain from strength, agility and / or other bonuses. Comes in either ranged or melee varieties, although usually AP refers to melee and RAP to ranged.
AR	Short for Arcane Resistance, which is the number value use to calculate how much arcane damage you will not take when hit with an arcane based magic attack.
Attack Power	Attack power is generated from strength, agility and other bonuses and / or abilities. Attack Power increases your base damage by 1 point for every 14 attack power.
Attack Speed	Attack speed is the time in between your attacks with a weapon. It is found on the weapon you are attacking with and then can be modified by other abilities or bonuses, such as a quiver effecting the attack speed of a bow.
AV	Alterac Valley, a 40 person battleground located in northern Hillsbrad. It can be entered into from that zone or from the battlemasters in the major cities.

B

Term	Description
BB	Short for Booty Bay, a neutral city on the southern tip of the Eastern Kingdoms in Azeroth.
BC	Short form for the Burning Crusade, World of Warcrafts first expansion. The Burning Crusade added many new features and areas to the game including all of the Outlands and the Blood Elf and Draenei races.
BE	Short form for Blood Elf. This was the new Horde race added in the Burning Crusade expansion.
BEM	Short form for the Blade's Edge Mountains, a mountainous zone in the Outlands mainly populated by ogres.
BF	Short form for the Blood Furnace, which is the second instance in the Hellfire Citadel. It is a 5 man instance meant for level 60 characters.
BFD	Short for Blackfathom Deeps, a 5 man low level instance, meant for players 20-30. It is located in the northwestern corner of Ashenvale.
BG	Battlegrounds. This can be any of the battlegrounds established such as the Eye of the Storm.
Bind	This has two possible meanings: Most commonly referring to the bind status of an item, such as bind on pickup or bind on equip. Also refers to where you are bound for your hearthstone. You can bind yourself to an city or in of your faction. In this way you travel back to that in when you activate your hearthstone. Sometimes called your Bind Point.
Bio	Biology break or going to the bathroom. When in a group it is polite to let them know you are going to be away from the computer and unable to play. To do this you normally let them know that you are going AFK (Away from Keyboard) or taking a Bio break.
Block	A Block is what a Warrior, Paladin or Shaman do with their shield. A block absorbs some of the melee damage inflicted, but can still pass damage on to the character if any is remaining after subtracting the block value.
Blue	Blue refers to any item that is color coded to be blue or rare. Items are available in color ranks ranging from gray, white, green, blue, purple and orange. Blue items are normally received from difficult quests or from instance bosses.
Body Pull	This is a pull that comes about due to the player moving close enough to a MOB to enter their aggro radius and get them to attack.
BoE	This refers to all loot or equipment that is Bind on Equip, meaning that it can freely be traded and handed back and forth between players until someone equips it. At that point it becomes soulbound to that player.
BoK	This refers to the Paladin blessing ability called Blessing of Kings. This ability grants a 10% increase to all character statistics. Can also refer to the greater version of the blessing. A player may only be affected by one blessing at a time per paladin.
BoM	This refers to the Paladin blessing ability called Blessing of Might. This ability grants an increase to the characters strength statistics. Can also refer to the greater version of the blessing. A player may only be affected by one blessing at a time per paladin.
Boomkin	This refers to a druid that has specialized in the balance talent tree for abilities that boost their spell casting ability, and have the moonkin form.
BoP	This refers to all loot or equipment that is Bind on Pickup, meaning that as soon as someone picks it up it becomes soulbound to that player.
BoS	This acronym can be confusing as it can refer to several different abilities but most commonly refers to the Paladin blessing ability called Blessing of Salvation. This ability reduces the threat generated by the affected player by 30%. Can also refer to the greater version of the blessing or the Paladin abilities Blessing of Sacrifice or Blessing of Sanctuary. Because Salvation is far more common though, the others are normally spelled out. A player may only be affected by one blessing at a time per paladin.
Boss	Boss refers to the main characters in an instance or in the world (in the case of outdoor raid bosses). A Boss always has a unique name and will not be found anywhere else. Bosses are normally immune to crowd control and come in three basic types: mini bosses, bosses, and raid bosses. Mini bosses are found in instances and are used as gate keepers or event fights. Regular bosses are the main characters in normal 5 man instances. They usually have special abilities that require you to use specific tactics that you need to use to defeat them. Raid Bosses are the most difficult MOBs in WoW. They do not show as having a level at all, instead they show as having a skull level. This means that they act as a boss 3 levels higher than you are for combat purposes. They have even more special abilities that normal bosses, but generally drop even better loot.
BoU	This refers to all loot or equipment that is Bind on Use, meaning that it can freely be traded and handed back and forth between players and even equipped. However, as soon as it is used for the first time, it will be bound to that player. There are very few BoU items in the game, the only really numerous type of BoU item is small pets.
BoW	This refers to the Paladin blessing ability called Blessing of Wisdom. This ability grants an increase to the character mana regeneration ability. The amount of mana regenerated by the blessing varies by the blessings level. Can also refer to the greater version of the blessing. A player may only be affected by one blessing at a time per paladin.
BRB	Short for Be Right Back. This is is used when you are running off to do something in game, but don't need or want the rest of the group following you. It can also be used as al alternative to AFK.
BRD	Short for Blackrock Depths, which is a 5 man instance meant for level 50-56 players. It is located in Blackrock Mountain and is one of the longer instances in Azeroth. At the end of the instance you can find the entrance to Molten Core, and you need to fight your way there to become attuned to it.
BRS	Short for Blackrock Spire, which is further subdivided into Lower and Upper Blackrock Spire. Each is usually done as a separate instance run as lower requires only 5 level 55-60 people, while Upper requires 10 level 60's.
BS	Refers to the profession of Blacksmithing. Usually blacksmiths are also miners to feed the ore requirement of the profession.
BT	Short for Black Temple, which is a 25 man raid located in Shadowmoon Valley. It was added in patch 2.1 and houses the Tier 6 raid sets, and Illidan Stormrage.
Bubble	This term refers to two separate things and its meaning bust be taken from the context it was used in. Bubble could refer to how many "bubbles" or little blocks left in your experience bar before you gain your next level Bubble also refers to the paladin classes spells Blessing of Protection, Divine Shield and Diving Protection
Buff	Buff is slang term for a temporary beneficial effect that affects your character or any other. Buff's come in many different varieties that either boost abilities, stats, resistance's or provide some other beneficial effect such as healing over time or a shield from damage. Buffs can be dismissed by right clicking on them in your buff list in the top right hand corner of the screen.
Burn	To Burn or Burn Down a MOB is to have the player or party put out as much damage as possible to kill the MOB as quickly as possible.
BWL	Short for Blackwing Lair, which is a 40 man raid located at the top of Blackrock Mountain. It was the second 40 man raid implemented in WoW and houses Nefarian the Dragon as the final boss and the tier 2 raid set.

C

Term	Description
C	Used as a short form for Copper in relation to buying something. For example: I will pay you 25c for that item. Copper is the lowest denomination of currency in WoW.
Camp	Camp can refer to several things in WoW but most commonly refers to the either camping a spawn point or camping a body. Camping a spawn point, is waiting in an area for a specific MOB or type of MOBs to respawn over and over again, thereby monopolizing the area and not allowing anyone else to get the kills. Camping a body is usually in PvP combat, where the opponent waits where you have died to kill you again as soon as you resurrect. This is also considered griefing by most players.
Cap	Short for Capture. This refers to the act of capturing a flag or objective in a battleground or PvP area.
Carebear	This is a derogatory term used by players that enjoy PvP combat to insult those that play nice and do not engage in PvP aspects of the game.
Cast Time	This describes the amount of time it takes to cast a spell. Mana is not consumed until the cast is successfully completed.
Caster	This refers to any character class that casts spells. Normally refers to a druid, paladin, shaman, priest, mage, or warlock. All of these characters consume mana to cast their spells.
Casual	Refers to a casual player of the game. There is no definite amount of time that defines a casual player though, as some feel casual at 1-2 hours a week while others play 20-30 hours and still feel casual. Most casual players do not raid though and that is a standard interpretation, any player that does not raid in a preset group is casual.
Casual Raider	Refers to a player that does not play a whole lot in a week, but when they do they are generally raiding. As opposed to hard core raiders, a casual raider is more likely looking for a chance to play using teamwork than progression through the harder raids.
CC	Short for Crowd Control and refers to any number of abilities that limit the number of MOBs that you are fighting at any given time. These abilities include a mage's polymorph, hunter's trap, rogues sap and more. These abilities are used to make a pull of MOBs easier to handle by limiting the number of things each player needs to worry about and limiting the incoming damage against the tank and others.
CD	Short for Cooldown, which describes the time between using a spell or ability and the next time you are allowed to use it again. Some abilities have no cooldown and only activate the Global Cooldown (GCD) but others have set timers such as your hearthstone having a 60 minute cooldown.
Channeling	This refers to casting spells that require to be channeled. While channeling your character remains stationary and a casting bar appears that works backwards. A channeled spell has its mana drawn at the beginning of the spell, and is used regardless of what happens afterwards. Channeled spells can be interrupted in all the normal ways.
Charges	Charges are the number of time a spell or effect will happen before it fades or the number of times an item can be used. Common spells with charges are a paladin's holy shield or fear ward. Items that have charges are several jewel crafted pieces, and mana / wizard oils.
Class Leader	This is a term used in guilds to describe the player assigned to help or guide a specific class.
Clothie	This is a slang term to describe any character class that wears only cloth armor. This means mages, priests and warlocks.
CoA	Short for Curse of Agony, the Warlock debuff spell that does damage over time.
CoD	Short form for either of two things depending on context. Curse of Doom, which is a warlocks spell that does large damage after being on the target for 1 minute. Cash on Delivery meaning the same thing it does in real life. An item will be sent via mail and you will not be able to get it from the mail service until you pay the COD price attached to it.
Combat Log	This is a log of all combat actions taken around you and shows up in your combat log tab of your chat window. You can also force your combat log to be written to a text file using the /combatlog command. The text file can then be filtered through various 3rd party utilities to create damage reports for raid groups.
Combo Point	Combo points are earned by rogues and cat form druids while attacking with special attacks. Once combo points are earned against a target they can be used to do special finishing moves that do extra damage based on the number of combo points on the target to a maximum of 5. After a finishing move is used, the combo points are cleared.
Consumable	A consumable is any item that once you use it it is gone. This includes food items, potions, bandages, poisons, and more. Some consumables such as flasks are very expensive and generally reserved for raid use, unless your character is very wealthy. Players attending a raid are expected to bring the proper consumables or risk getting kicked from the raid (depending on how hard core the raid is).
Cords	Short for coordinates. This refers to the grid reference that is overlaid in WoW that players can gain access to via several third party add-ons. A common response to where can you find MOB X, would be 45,56.
CoS	Short for two things depending on the situation. Short for Curse of Shadows, the warlock spell that increases shadow and arcane damage done to that target. Short for Cloak of Shadows, the rogue ability that clears most debuffs on them.
CoT	Short form for either of two things depending on context. Curse of Tongues which is a warlocks spell that slows down the targets casting time on spells. Caverns of Time, which is a group of instances located in Tanaris. In these instances you travel back in time to key points in the history of Warcraft.
CoW	Short for Curse of Weakness, the Warlock debuff spell that reduces the damage done by the target.
Creep	The official Blizzard term for MOB. Not commonly used by players though.
Crit (Critical Strike)	Critical strikes are attacks that cause extra damage. The percentage change to land a critical strike is based off of agility for melee and ranged attacks and intelligence for magic attacks. Both are also effected by talents, items and abilities. A critical strike generally inflicts an additional 100% damage.
Crushing Blow	A crushing blow is a hit from a raid boss that inflicts 150% of normal damage. To inflict a crushing blow the boss must be at least 3 levels higher than you and
CS	Short for Counter Spell, which is a mages ability that stops the target for casting any spells for the next seconds.
CTF	Short for Capture the Flag. This can be used to either describe a type of battleground game, such as Warsong Gulch or Eye of the Storm, or to actually capture (or cap) the flag while in one of those battlegrounds.
Curse	This refers to a type of debuff spell that warlocks, MOBs or bosses place on characters. The most common curses are those applies by warlocks and some may or may not also be DOTs.

D

Term	Description
Damage Mitigation	Anything that reduces the incoming damage against a player or target. This includes things like armor, defense, dodge, parry, block, absorption, resilience and resistance.
Daze	Daze is a combat debuff place on characters or MOBs by various abilities and spells. It can force players to dismount if suffering it when mounted.
DE	Disenchant. Refers to having someone with the enchant profession disenchant a green or better quality item to turn it into enchanting materials.
Debuff	Debuff is a slang term for any temperary negative effect that affects your character or any other. Debuff's come in many different varieties that either reduce abilities, stats, resistance's or causes some other negative effect such as damage over time. Unlike buffs, debuffs can not be voluntarily dismissed, instead they must be removed by magic.
Defense	Defense is a player statistic that helps reduce the chance to be hit or critically hit. Each point of defense grants 0.04% chance to be missed, dodge, block and parry incoming attacks.
DI	Short for Divine Intervention, a paladin talent used to prevent complete wipes in instances or raids by removing a party member from combat for up to 3 minutes in a protective bubble.
DM	This is used to refer to two possible instances, either the Deadmines for low level characters or Dire Maul for higher level characters. DM generally now refers to Dire Maul and the Deadmines are referred to as VC in reference to the final boss there Van Cleef.
DMF	Short for Darkmoon Faire. This is an event that takes place monthly in the World of Warcraft and is a carnival type event. Players can earn tickets to cash in for rewards and there are several quests as well.
DoT	Damage over Time. Used to refer to a spell or effect that does a set amount of damage over time, such as a priests Shadow Word: Pain.
DPM	Short for Damage per Mana. This is usually referenced when trying to compare damage spells to determine which one is most mana efficient. To calculate it you divide the damage done by the mana that the spell cost.
DPS	Damage Per Second. This is used in several ways. Either to refer to a character that’s job is to do damage (most commonly rogues, mage's, warlocks, hunters) or to ask what amount of damage you cause when averaged over a long fight or raid.
DPSadin	Refers to a Retribution based paladin that is doing damage through melee.
DW	Short for Dual Wield. This ability allows a character to use a weapon in each hand rather than just their main hand. Rogues, Warriors, Shaman and Hunters can all get the ability to dual wield weapons. Weapons used in your off hand do 1/2 damage unless increased by talents or abilities. The also suffer a much greater miss chance.

E

Term	Description
Elite	This refers to an elite MOB as shown by a gold dragon image around their image. Elites are much harder than other MOBs their level and you typically need to be several levels higher than they are to be able to defeat one by yourself.
EotS	Eye of the Storm, a 15 person battleground accessed only through battleground masters in the major cities.
EPL	Short for Eastern Plaguelands, a zone overrun by the Scourge. The instance Stratholme is located in the zone.
EULA	Short for End User Licence Agreement. This is the licence that you agree to every time you install or patch the game.

F

Term	Description
FD (Feign Death)	Short form for the hunter ability of Feign Death. This ability makes the hunter appear dead to enemy players and MOBs.
Fear	An effect or debuff that causes a player or MOB to lose self control and run around semi-randomly. Depending on the cause the length of time you are effected varies. Warriors, Priests, Warlocks, Hunters(beasts only) and Paladins (undead only) all have fear causing effects.
FFA	Short for Free For All, a type of loot distribution system, that allows anyone pickup loot from any dead MOB.
Flagged	The is used to describe a character status of marked for PvP combat. This happens by making yourself available for PvP combat by either typing the /pvp command or by entering a hostile area on a PvP server. To remove your flag you must use /pvp again and enter a friendly or neutral area and wait 5 minutes. Getting on a flight at a flight point will also clear the flag.
Fort	Used to refer to the Priest ability of Power Word: Fortification. This ability raises the targets stamina for a length of time.
FP	Short for Flight Point. This refers to any flight master in a zone used to travel from one zone to the next. A common question in zones is "Where is the FP?", instead of asking where the flight master is.
FR	Short for Fire Resistance, which is the number value use to calculate how much fire damage you will not take when hit with an fire based magic attack. Sometime players get confused as FR could also refer to frost resistance. However FR is usually reserved for fire, and frost resistance is spelled out or referred to as FrR.
FrR	Short for Frost Resistance, which is the number value use to calculate how much frost damage you will not take when hit with an frost based magic attack.
FTL	This is short form for For The Loss. It is used to refer to something that is the caused something bad to happen. An example would be getting feared into another group ob MOBs or entering a Battleground to find there are no healers. You could say things like "Fear FTL" or "No Healers FTL"
FTW	This is short form for For The Win. It is used to refer to something that is the best or as a compliment, or conversely sarcastically to imply something overrated or poor. An example would be getting through a hard part of an instance using Paladin AoE tanking and saying "Paladin tanking FTW!" to imply that it is great. Similar a Hunter feigning death and then resurrecting someone with jumper cables to prevent a wipe, "FD FTW!". A typical sarcastic use is in battlegrounds "Alliance Teamwork FTW!", sarcastically mentioning how poor typical alliance teamwork in battlegrounds is.

G

Term	Description
G	Used as a short form for Gold in relation to buying something. For example: I will pay you 25g for that item. Gold is the largest denomination of currency in WoW.
GCD	Short for Global Cooldown, which describes the time between using a spell or ability and the next time you can use any other spell or ability. Most spells or abilities trigger of their own cooldown as well as the GCD. The GCD is 1.5 seconds for all classes other than rogues and druids while in cat form, which have 1 second GCDs.
GL	This is short for Guild Leader and refers to the leader (usually founder) of your guild.
GM	This is short for two possible things although only the first is really appropriate. Game Master - This refers to the Blizzard staff that act to resolve issues in game. Guild Master - This refers to a Guild Leader and should really be referred to as GL rather than GM to avoid confusion, but it remains a common used term.
Gold Farmer	This is a character player by someone to farm gold to resell. A normal slang is Chinese or Asian Farmer, as a great many are from Asia, however it can be any person farming for high amounts of gold or items to resell for real world money.
GotW	Short for Gift of the Wild. This is a druid buff that places a mark of the wild type buff on everyone in a party all at once.
GTG	Short for Go To Go, or slang for ready.
GY	Short for Grave Yard. This is where you appear when you die, in ghost form.
GY Run	This is the common term for running back to collect your body and resurrect when you have died and appeared at a grave yard.

H

Term	Description
Healadin	Refers to a Paladin who has spent most of their talents in the holy talent tree for healing abilities. For more information refer to our Guide to Playing a Healadin.
Hearth	This refers to using your hearthstone to return to your base location. This is the inn that you last set as your hearth point by talking to the inn keeper.
HK	Short for Honorable Kill. This is the tracking mechanism to show how many kills you have done (or helped with) in the PvP environment. This could be in the open on a PvP server or in battlegrounds on a PvE server. You also gain HK's for helping those that actually get the kill, for example DOTing the enemy or healing the damage dealer.
HoT	Heal over Time. Used to refer to a spell or effect that heals a set amount of health over time, such as a priests rejuvenation spell.
HPM	Short for Healing per Mana. This is used to compare healing spells to determine which is more mana efficient. To Calculate it you divide the healing done by the spell cost.
HS	This is short for two possible items. This first is your Hearth Stone. This is the item that you must carry to be able to hearth. The most common reference though is to a warlocks Healthstone, that is used as a healing potion on a different timer.

I

Term	Description
IF	Short for Ironforge the Dwarves capital city.
Ignore	Refers to the command /ignore NAME, to add someone to your ignore list so that you do not see messages they send to you.
IMHO	Short for In My Humble Opinion. This is a common gaming term.
IMO	Short for In My Opinion. This is a common gaming term.
Inc	Short for Incoming. This refers to a player pulling or adding more MOBs to the fight. This can be used by the tank to let people know they are pulling, or by players that get an accidental add. It is also used in PvP situations, such as "4 inc BE" to refer to 4 enemies about to attack the Blood Elf Tower in the Eye of the Storm battleground.
Instant	Instants are spells that have no casting time and are cast as soon as selected and activated.
Int	This refers to your intelligence statistic. Intelligence ups your mana pool and your critical strike chance with spells.
Inv	Short for two possible things. Can be used to request and invite to a group or raid, or to let people know that invites are starting. Used commonly in the Looking For Group channel when someone posts that they are looking for a mage, and then a mage can just respond inv. Also short for inventory, which is the items you carry around in your bags.

Term	Description
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K

Term	Description
KB	Short form of Killing Blow. This refers to the person that stuck the player or MOB last, thus causing death.
KOS	Short for Kill On Sight. This is commonly used on PvP servers to announce players that have ganked or grieved players. It is common for KOS orders to go out in guilds or even in general chat.
KZ	Short for Karazhan, which is the 10 man raid instance meant for level 70's located in Deadwind pass. It is the home of the demon Prince Malchezaar and is the first raid that many players do upon reaching level 70.

L

Term	Description
L2P	Short for Learn To Play, a derogatory statement to either new players that people see fumbling around or to PvP opponents that have just been defeated.
LBRS	Short for Lower Blackrock Spire, which is the first half of the Blackrock Spire instance located in Blackrock Mountain. It is meant for 5 level 55-60 players. In it you attempt to collect crystals to create a key to enter the second half of the instance referred to as UBRS.
Leeroy!	This is used as a WoW term to describe charging into combat completely unprepared and unknowing or caring what is ahead. This refers to the now infamous "Leeroy Jenkins" video that circulated about a random change into the egg chamber room in Upper Black Rock Spire.
LFG	Short for Looking For Group, and can be used in any of the chat channels although it is meant to be in the lfg channel. It is used to find groups for specific quests or instances. An example would be "LFG BM", meaning the player is looking for a Black Morass group.
LFM	Short for Looking For Member. This is used in the looking for group channel predominantly, and is used when looking for a few more players for a quest or instance. An example would be "LF2M for Ramp", meaning that you are looking for 2 more members for the Hellfire Ramparts. You can also suffix it with the classes that you need, such as "LF2M for Ramp, Tank and CC".
LMAO	Short for Laugh My Ass Off. This is used in many games to show that you think something is hilariously funny.
Lock	Short form of Warlock.
LoH	Short for the Paladin ability, Lay Of Hands. this is a last ditch heal ability that completely drains the Paladins mana pool but completely heals the target. It is an instant ability.
LOL	Short for Laugh Out Loud. This is used in any game to show that you think something is funny.
LoS	Short for Line Of Sight. This usually refers to something being out of LOS or away from you being able to see it. A great example is when a player goes around a corner and the healer can no longer see them, they die due to the heal being out of LOS.
LoS Pull	Refers to Line of Sight pulling. This is where the tank or puller moves close enough to a group of MOBs to aggro them and then pulls them close by moving around a corner, out of LoS. This is commonly used when pulling caster based MOBs that would otherwise not move into range for melee.
LW	Short for Leatherworking. Leather working is one of the primary professions and usually teamed with skinning.

M

Term	Description
Main	Refers to the character that you either play most or is your highest level character. It may sometimes not be your highest level, but that is the most common.
Main Assist (MA)	A Main Assist is the player in a raid designated with selecting the target that the rest of the players will focus their attacks on.
Mana	Mana is a form of magical energy that spell casters use to power their spells. It regenerates slowly on its own, or can be gained back more quickly by sitting and drinking.
Mark	Normally refers to a Hunter's Mark ability. This ability applies bonus ranged damage to the target (and melee damage with talents) and marks the target with a large red arrow.
Mats	Short for Materials. This refers to any material used in any profession such as leather for leather workers, shards and dust for enchanters, etc.
MC	Short for two possible things: Molten Core, the original 40 man raid in the game. It is located in Blackrock Mountain at the end of Blackrock Depths, although there is a doorway that can teleport you there at the bottom of Blackrock Mountain. Molten Core is the home of Ragnaros the fire lord and you can find the raid tier 1 armor set there. Can also be short for Mind Control. This is the priest ability to take over control of a MOB for a short while. When it fades the MOB will have huge aggro against the priest, and be very difficult to pull off.
MOB	Literally this refers to a Mobile Object. It's a hold over from older online games and really means any monster that walks around. Blizzards official term for a MOB is a creep, although players refer to them as MOBs.
MP5	Short for Mana per 5 seconds, which is a bonus on gear. This is used primarily by healers as a way to regenerate mana even while casting. Also useful to other casters in long fights.
MS Warrior	Refers to a warrior with the mortal strike special ability. Usually used in PvP combat.
MT	Short for Main Tank.This refers to the main tank in a group or raid. The Main Tank is the tank that will take all the boss pulls and the main MOBs.

N

Term	Description
Naxx	Short for Naxxramas, the 40 person raid released just before the burning crusade, and hardest of the 40 man level 60 raids.
Noob	A derogatory term for new or inexperienced players, also sometimes referred to as a newbie. Sometimes used as a self degrogating term as well, such as "Oh, I just had a noob moment".
NPC	Short for Non Player Character and refers to anything in the game that is not controlled by a player. This includes MOBs, Bosses, vendors and more.
NR	Short for Nature Resistance, which is the number value use to calculate how much nature damage you will not take when hit with an nature based magic attack.

O

Term	Description
OH	Short for Off Hand. This refers to any weapon that can be used in your left hand in the game.
OMG	A general gaming term, short for Oh My God. Meant to show surprise or anxiety over an item. Such as, "OMG that's too powerful".
Ony	Short for Onyxia and refers to the 40 man instance and raid boss Onyxia's Lair and Onyxia. This is a very short 40 man level 60 raid that has a few MOBs and then the boss.
OOC	Short of Out Of Combat. This is meant to let players know when you have gotten out of combat so they either know they can expect a rez in an instance or when they can drink / eat after a fight.
OOM	Short for Out of Mana.
OP	Short for Over Powered and used in conversation to describe something that the player feels is too good.
OT	Short for Off Tank. This refers to the tank that is taking the secondary MOBs or adds on boss fights.

P

Term	Description
Pally	Short for Paladin. Generally players will not write out the full class name of Paladin, but instead refer to them as Pallys or their subclass nicknames: Tankadin, Healadin, Retadin (Dpsadin).
Pat	Short for Patrol. This refers to any group of MOBs that are not stationary. These are the groups that patrol along set lines or in set areas in an instance or zone. Pats are generally the MOBs that turn into Adds.
Port	Short for teleport and refers to the mage's ability to teleport players to the major cities.
PPM	Short for Proc's Per Minute. Some proc's have their likelihood of happening based on a possible number of effects per minute. These are referred to in a # basis such as 6ppm. This would mean that you should expect on average the proc to take place 6 times per minute. Players attempting to maximize the proc % chance will therefore use slower weapons so that each swing has a greater % chance to proc. For example a weapon with a swing speed of 2 would swing 30 times in a minute of which 6 would proc, giving a 20% chance to proc per swing. A weapon with a swing speed of 4 would only swing 15 times and have a 40% chance to proc per swing. The PPM and percentage chance per swing is based on the unmodified weapon speed. Any haste effects will not effect the % chance per swing.
Proc	This is short for special procedure and is a hold over from old MUD's and other MMOG's. It is used to refer to items or abilities that have a secondary effect that may happen. These are effects that have a chance to happen on hit, cast or being hit.
PuG	Short for Pick Up Group and refers to any group that is created from random players found in the area, general chat or the LFG tool or channel. This is the default type of group for most quests and 5 man instances. However they have a very bad reputation as many times you can get players that are either sub-geared or sub-skilled, which causes issues in completing the quest or instance.
Pull	This is a term used to describe the start of controlled combat. If combat starts accidentally it is usually called an add. Pulls are usually done by hitting the MOB with a ranged attack to get their attention and get them to aggro you. They can also however be body pulled. Once aggro'ed the player attempts to move the MOB to a safe distance from any other MOBs in the area so that everyone in the group can fight without causing an Add.
PvE	Player versus Environment. Used in reference to either PvE realms where faction vs faction fighting is not allowed or in general reference to the act of fighting elements controlled by the servers.
PvP	Player versus Player. Used in reference to either PvP realms where each faction can freely fight each other or to battleground and arena combat systems.

Q

Term	Description
QFT	Short form of Quote for Truth. This is a generic gaming term to symbolize agreement with a statement. Example: Player A - "Druids are too good in arena combat", Player B - "QFT".
QQ	Short for Crying, often used as a derogatory or slang term. For example if you defeat someone in a duel and they comment that your class is overpowered, you could comment back QQ, meaning go cry about it.

R

Term	Description
Rage	Rages it the Warriors and Druid Bear Form equivalent of mana or energy. They both consume it to use different abilities. Both start combat without rage and much build it up by doing damage or being hit. When out of combat it fades quickly over time.
Raider	Refers to a player that generally works with a group of other players to progress through the raid instances in WoW.
RAP	Short for Ranged Attack Power, which is the key statistic for most hunters.
Respec	The refers to returning to your class trainer and paying to clear the points placed in your talent tree. Each time you do this the cost rises up to a maximum cost of 50 gold. Over time the cost decreases, but not swiftly.
RFC	Short for Ragefire Chasm, which is the first available instance as a Horde player. It is located in the city of Orgrimmar in the Cleft of Shadows. It is meant for players roughly level 12-14.
RFD	Short for Razorfen Downs, which is an instance located at the southern edge of the Barrens. It is meant for players level 34-36.
RFK	Short for Razorfen Kraul, which is an instance located at the southern edge of the Barrens. It is meant for players level 30-34.
RL	Short for Real Life and refers to anything in the real world as opposed to in-game.
ROFL	Short for Roll On Floor Laughing. This is used in conversation to show that you think something is very funny.
Roll	Refers to rolling a virtual die to determine who gets something. Usually done out of 100 using the standard /random command but can be done out of anything by placing a number after the command, for example /random 200. Usually used for determining who gets loot, chests, mining nodes, etc.
RPG	Short for Roll Playing Game. These are traditionally the pen and paper games such as Dungeons and Dragons that lead to MMORPG's or MMOG's.

S

Term	Description
S	Used as a short form for Silver in relation to buying something. For example: I will pay you 25s for that item. Silver is the middle denomination of currency in WoW.
Salv	This refers to the Paladin blessing ability called Blessing of Salvation. This ability reduces the threat generated by the affected player by 30%. Can also refer to the greater version of the blessing. A player may only be affected by one blessing at a time per paladin.
Scholo	Short for Scholomance, the level 58-60 instance located in the Western Plaguelands.
SFK	Short for Shadowfang Keep, a low level instance (level 20-25) found in the southern edge of Silverpine Forest. It is controlled by Arugal and his Worgen allies.
Sheep	Refers to the mage ability polymorph. This ability turns a MOB or enemy player into a sheep (or a few different animals) for a short time. While "sheeped" the MOB regenerates health very quickly, but has no control over themselves. Any damage breaks the sheep and returns the MOB or Player to their normal form.
SM	Short for Scarlet Monastery, a level 35-40 instance located deep in Horde territory in northern Tirisfal Glades. It was the first real "winged" instances with 4 separate areas.
SoJ	Short for Seal of Justice, a Paladin seal that stuns the target for a short period of time, based on roughly 5 procs per minute.
SotC	Short for Seal of the Crusader, a Paladin seal that allows the Paladin to attack faster but for less damage each hit.
Spec	Refers to which specialty you are, or which talent tree you have spend the most points in. Such as a BM spec’ed hunter, which refers to a hunter that has spent most of their talents in the Beast Master talent tree.
Spec	This refers to your talent specialization and is essentially how you allocate your talent points. For example, and Paladin that puts his talent points in to the holy talent tree is said to have spec'ed holy.
Squishy	Refers to any cloth wearer. This means that they will die quickly to melee combat once engaged.
SR	Short for Shadow Resistance, which is the number value use to calculate how much shadow damage you will not take when hit with an shadow based magic attack.
SSC	Short for Serpent Shrine Cavern, a 25 person level 70 raid located in Zangarmarsh.
Stam	This refers to your stamina statistic. Stamina ups the health of your character at a rate of 1 stamina providing 10 health.
Stat	Short for statistic. Usually used to refer to character statistics such as strength, stamina, etc.
Stocks	Short for the Stockades, which is a mid level instance located right in Stormwind.
Str	This refers to your strength statistic. Strength affects your melee attack power, block value and more.
Strat (Strath)	Short for Stratholme the level 55-60 instance found on the northern edge of the Western Plaguelands. It is generally referred to as either UD (undead) Strat or SC (Live or Scarlet) Strat, to reference which side you will be doing.
STV	Short for Stranglethorne Vale the jungle zone at the southern edge of the continent of the Eastern Kingdoms.
SW	Short for Stormwind, which it the Human capital city.
SW: P	Short for Shadow Word: Pain, the priest DOT ability. It deals shadow damage over time and is one of a shadow priests main weapons.

T

Term	Description
TB	Short for Thunder Bluff, which is the Tauren capital city.
Tick	A tick refers to the time between effects that happen over time. Depending on the effect it is between a 1 and 3 second period of time.
TM	Short for Tarren Mill, a Horde town in Hillsbrad that used to host running PvP battles from Tarren Mill to Southshore.
Trash	Trash is a slang term coined by raiders to describe all MOBs in a raid that are not bosses. Because they are in the way of the good fights and loot, they are considered trash.

U

Term	Description
UBRS	Short for Upper Blackrock Spire, which is the second half of the Blackrock Spire instance located in Blackrock Mountain. It is considered the first raid in WoW and meant for 10 level 60 players.
UC	Short for Undercity, the Horde Undead capital city.
Uld	Short for Uldaman, a mid level instance found in the Badlands.

V

Term	Description
VC	This is used to refer to the instance of the Deadmines for low level characters. Because DM can be confused for Dire Maul, DM generally now refers to Dire Maul and the Deadmines are referred to as VC in reference to the final boss there Van Cleef.
VT or Vendor Trash	Refers to all the gray and white items that you pick up that are sold off to the vendors.
VW	Short for Voidwalker, which is a Warlocks tank type pet.

W

Term	Description
WC	Short for Wailing Caverns, which is a low level instance meant for Horde players located in the Barrens.
Wife Aggro (Spouse Aggro)	This is a term commonly said while in an instance or raid, "Ooops, have to go, wife aggro". It refers to one's wife or spouse getting mad that you are in WoW instead of doing household chores, watching the kids, paying them attention, etc.
WSG	Warsong Gulch, a 10 person battleground located in Ashenvale. It can be entered into from that zone or from the battlemasters in the major cities. It is won by control resource generation points.

X

Term	Description
XR	Short for Crossroads, which is the main hub of Horde activity in the Barrens.

Y

Term	Description
None

Z

Term	Description
ZA	Short for Zul'Aman, which is a 10 man raid meant for level 70's located in the ghostlands. It is home of the troll warlord Zul'jin and is tuned to be slightly harder than Karazhan and is considered progression for KZ running guilds.
Zerg	A term that refers back the the Starcraft alien race of the Zerg, that win by overwhelming it's opponents with pure numbers. In WoW players refer to a mass rush against an opponent as a zerg.
ZF	Short for Zul'Farrak, a mid-level instance located in the dessert of Tanaris.
ZG	Short for Zul'Gurub, a 20 person level 60 raid located in Stranglethorne Vale. The final boss being the Troll God Hakkar.