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Add
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Adds are to describe when more than the intended amount of creatures come during a pull, or when unexpected patrolling monsters join into the current battle.
Some monsters yell for help, calling others to their aid - these extras would constitute as adds as well.
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Aggro
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1) Aggro is a term to describe the act of an NPC creature attacking a player. Getting too close to a creature can have it aggro
on you. I.E.: "Cave Yetis have a huge aggro range in which they will aggro." 2) Aggro is also a synonym to Threat and Hate, used
to label the mathematical meter which designers use to determine which character an NPC attacks when engaged by more than one PC. I.E.: "Heal
spells can draw huge amounts of aggro, and may cause the Yeti to aggro on the healer."
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AH
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An acronym for Auction House. One is located in Orgrimmar(Durotar), and one is located in Gadgetzhan(in Tanaris).
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Anduin Wrynn
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The child-king of the humans of Stormwind, a level 5 NPC. Protected by some ?? (BOSS) nasties.
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AoE
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An acronym for Area Of Effect, any spell or effect which has a diameter/radius/range instead of targetting a specific target.
I.E.: Volley, Hellfire, Dynamite, Prayer Of Healing/Fortitude, Magma Totem, etc.
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Armor
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Your total accumulated armor rating(or Armor Class), and in this game, determines the percentage of damage asborbed from each hit recieved.
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Arthas
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Fallen Paladin, Evil Crusader, Usurper of the Lich King, Commander of The Undead(unwilled) Legions, Pimp of Lady Sylvanas and wickedly badass man.
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Backup Healer
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The Healer that is designated to be Main Healer should the previous Main Healer die or run out of mana. Also, the Backup
Healer is responsible for keeping the Main Healer alive, and keeping tertiary healing targets healthy while the Main Healer
focuses on the tanks.
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Backup Tank
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The Backup Tank, much like the Main Tank, is responible for taking damage and keeping it off those who have less damage
mitigation. He replaces the Main Tank should he Main Tank die or become disables, and he also helps to manage crowd control
by tanking any adds that happen to aggro onto the healers.
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BB
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An acronym for Booty Bay, an independently factioned goblin town located in the southern-most tip of Stranglethorn Vale - also accessible
via a boat ride from Ratchet.
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BFD
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An acronym for Blackfathom Deep, an elite instance zone north of the Zoram'gar horde outpost in the northwestern coast of Ashenvale.
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BG
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An acronym for Battlegrounds: a term describing the PvP instances: Warsong Lumber Camp, Alterac Valley, and Arathi Basin.
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Bind Point
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The location in which your soul is anchored, and you return to upon using your hearthstone or using a similar effect.
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Blood Elves
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A race of elves which are addicted to the raw energies of magic as if it were nicotine, and they are independently aligned.
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BOP
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An acronym for Bind On Pickup, a synonym to the EQ term No Drop, which defines an item that can not be traded or sold to another
player once it is looted.
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BRD
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An acronym for Blackrock Depths, and instance beneathe Blackrock Spires - no key is required to enter but some bosses are hidden behind
locked doors.
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Buff
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Is a term used to describe any spell or effect which gives bonuses or advantages to a character's attributes, abilities, or special powers.
It can also be used as a verb, I.E.: "Would you buff me with Powerword Fortitude?"
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Cairne Bloodhoof
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Chieftain of the Tauren Race, located on the third tier of Thunder Bluff. A valorous warrior.
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Caster
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Caster is a loose term used to describe any type of character which relies heavily on spells, and isinept without spending mana.
He usually can only wear light armoring, and haslow hit points.
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Class
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Class is a technical term to describe the lifestyle of your character, his combat techniques, and his general path in life.
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Damage Dealers
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Damage Dealers is used to describe any class, whether Caster or Melee or Hybrid, which has the ability to put out massive damage
in a short amount of time, and the ability of high DPS.
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Debuff
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A Debuff is a term used to define any spell which is cast upon an enemy which reduces, weakens, incapacitates, or hinders them in
some way. Crippling Poison is a Movement Speed Debuff. Debuff is an antonym to Buff, and may alo be used as an action for oneself or
used against another. I.E.: "Quick, debuff Viper Sting off of me."
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DM
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An acronym for Dire Maul, a high level instance zone located in the center of Feralas.
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DoT
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An acronym for Damage Over Time, which is used to describe any spell that does not deal it's full amount of damage instantly
upon completion of casting the spell, but instead removes a certain amount of HPs per tick, per second, etc.
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DPS
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An acronym for Damage Per Second, a way to calculate the damage output of a weapon, class, combat style, form of attack, or an entire
group session.
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Dwarf
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An ugly malformed anteater with the racial abilities to detect treasure chests and to assume a stoneform, which slows
their movement rate but grants them immunity to poison, disease and bleeding debuffs and slightly raises their armor. Simply
outrun them when they drop into this stance until it wears off and then use them to plus a leak in a sick kodo's butt.
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Evac
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An abbrviation for the word, Evacuate. An older term with very little usage in this game, though it refers to an emergency teleportation
spell which retreats from an area into safety.
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Fear
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A broad term applied to any classes' ability to repel, scatter, panic, fear, or send other classes running away. Time length
may vary, as can immunities and resists.
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FFA
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An acronym for Free For All, a form of looting option which anyone can loot at anytime. NEVER should you pick up a Bind On Pickup item until it has been properly discussed, rolled, and allocated. This is usually used in raids and guild groups, where the group members can be trusted.
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Flagged
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A term used to describe when a person becomes PvP activated, a red "Splat" mark appears by their icon/avatar, and the name above their head becomes bright green(if a Horde) or bright yellow(if alliance). Anyone in this state is attackable. You can become flagged by simply attacking someone who is already flagged, or typing /pvp . You will automatically revert back to non-PvP status after 5 mins of no PvP combat unless you manually flagged yourself with the /pvp command, in which case you simply type /pvp once again and then you will revert to non-Pvp status within 5 minutes.
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FP
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An acronym for Flight Path, which are specific locations and points which you may fly to with aerial transportation.
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Gate
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Excluding the literal definition, in this meaning it can also be a synonym for "stone" or "hearth," which is a spell
or item or ability which returns you to your bind point.
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Gnome
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Annoying and unbelievably irritating little creatures spawned from the maniacal canipption-fit of
a female goddess, however the females can be quite cute. Sometimes hard to target in PvP combat(learn to use Tab),
and they possess the ability to break out of any root or snaring effects once every minute(over-powered), as well as
a +10 to arcane resistance.
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Goblins
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A commercially-inclined, independent race of creatures that embody all the annoying features of a gnome and none of their redeeming
cuteness. When they expand into having a third faction, this will most likely be one of the primary playing classes in that faction.
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Group
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Used to define several players which join forces to conquer the world, chat, or to annoy their friends. A raid group, is a group
of groups, and during a raid group no one will recieve benefits for quest hallmarks or accomplishments.
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Hate
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A synonym for "aggro," or a word to define my feelings for the alliance.
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Healer
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A caster or Hybrid class which has the ability to heal AND the efficiency to fill the role as Main/Backup Healer.
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Hearth
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A synonym for "Gate" and "Stone."
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HoT
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An acronym for Heal Over Time, which is similar to a DoT, except that the healing effects span over a duration instead of
instantly taking effect.
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Human
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Humans are filthy alliance-lovers who deserve nothing short of mass-genocide(though the females can be spared if kept as slaves
to the horde since they are easy on the eyes). They gain a racial 5% bonus to spirit, and the Perception ability, which seriously
increases their Stealth detection to an awesome amount for 20 seconds, which is illogical and only given to humans because the
designers failed to conceive anything better.
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IC
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An acronym for In Character, a term used to define actions, speech, lore, or interaction that is being made in the perspective
of a fictional character, acted/roleplayed under the persona of that character.
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KoS
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An acronym for Kill On Sight, a term used to define any NPC that will attack(see: aggro) you if you get too close to them. Alliance guards is a good example, as are tigers, yetis, and anything which isn't afraid to initiate combat on it's own.
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LBRS
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An acronym for Lower Blackrock Spire, one of the two instant zones of Blackrock Spire.
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Loot
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A common term used to define the reward of combat or the spoils of any victory, often retrieved from the corpses of the losers.
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Magni Bronzebeard
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The cross-dressing leader of the dwarven empire, he has 12 male goats he submits to nightly to help make himself feel feminine.
He resides within Ironforge, the dwarven capital.
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Main Healer
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A term used to describe the person in a group who's role throughout the group's durations is primarily keep everyone alive to
see another battle.
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Main Tank
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A term used to describe the person in a group who is supposed to be the target of all incomming damage, as well as the sole
target of the enemy. He is not to be concerned overly with damage output, as his entire job is simply to take the hit and die
if necessary. He is usually chosen from the highest available level, with the highest armor, and must continually use special
maneuvars to taunt the enemy and raise it's aggro. No one else should draw the attention of enemies except for perhaps the Backup Tank
in an effort to control adds.
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Master Looter
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One person who is designated to loot everything except items that bind on pick-up, and to distribute later according to the
conditions of the group's looting arrangements.
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MC
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An acronym for Molten Core, a Tier 2 instance(x2 as tough as Onyxia's lair) and is located inside Blackrock Depths(which must be
fully completed before being allowed to enter MC. MC is said to take several days to complete and has some post-epic drops.
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Meleer
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A meleer is a term used to define any class who primarily wields hand-held weapons in close combat against their enemies.
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MH
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An acronym for Main Healer(see above)
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MMOG
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An acronym for MAssively Multiplayer Online Game - defining any game which multitudes of people connect together to play at once.
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MMORPG
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An acronym for MAssively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game - same as above but the game's genre is intended for Roleplaying, which
is used to define WoW, EQ, EQ II, Lineage(I&II), Horizons, Dungeons And Dragons Online, etc...
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MT
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An acronym for Main Tank(see above).
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MUD
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An acronym for Multi-user Dungeon/Dimension/Domain(term varies), but is used to define an environement where multiple
users log in together and interact. While theoreticaly it could be used to define any MMOG, it tends to be an older
term used to define more archaic interactive games from MIST to Gemstone.
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Night Elves
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A beautiful feminine race of individuals(and effete men) that breed like rabits and while they seem sentient, they appear
to lack any higher brain functions. They gain a racial bonus to dodge attacks, travel as ghosts faster than everyone else back to
their corpses, and if they stand still they can disappear like a rogue(void by movement).
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Ninja Loot
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To ninja loot something, is to loot something as soon as it drops before anyone else has the chance to see what it is, without
regard or consideration of fellow group members with the sole intention of hogging loot. Someone who frequently does this is a
ninja looter or loot hog. This is irrelevant with Group Loot, however most other loot methods within WoW have occassional
functionality and therefore ninja looting is still present, though uncommon.
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NPC
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An acronym for a Non-Player Character, defining a character controlled by the computer, the environment, and/or the
GMs.
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Nuke
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Nuke is a loose term used to define heavy-damage spells intent on one purpose: hurting, maiming, and doing one's best to kill
the target quickly. It is often used as a commandin groups, as the group or raid leader will call for something to be "Nuked Out"
at low health(especially healing or gating monsters), so to kill it quickly before it's spell can finish, or before it has time to
react. Nuking early in a fight is a bad way to steal aggro from the MT and ruin efficiency.
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OOC
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An acronym for Out Of Character, used to define any communication or actions that are from the perspective of the player, the mundane
world, and the like.
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Orc
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Passionate savages of brutal proportions, head-race of the horde who make their haven in Orgrimmar.
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PC
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An acronym for Player Character, defining any characters that are actually controlled by other users/subscribers.
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Placeholder
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The average and general monsters which respawn in place of the special or specific monsters, preventing those creatures from appearing until the generic ones are killed or cleared. Generally used to make special monsters or mobs more rare. Though this can apply to anything, especially Spawns which have a random spawn affect(In Durotar, south of Razor Hill, each creature you kill will respawn either as a Boar, or a Scorpion, and it is random). Sometimes a named monster(not so much in this game) once every 5 times his placeholder is killed, which makes his appearance much more rare and random.
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Port
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An abbreviation for Teleport or Portal, often used to ask a mage for a teleport to a distant location.
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PST
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An acronym for Please Send Tell, a simple request asking someone to /tell or /whisper them with an answer, offer, response, or the like.
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PvE
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An acronym for Player Versus Environment, the mirror to PvP, this is used to describe any challenges imposed
by the actual environment, quests, NPCs, or anything the designers implemented. This is competition against the
actual game, not taking into account other players.
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PvP
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An acronym for Player Versus Player, competition against two players where usually their characters fight to the death, though
it can be used indirectly to label any form of gaming user/user confrontation.
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Raid
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Also known as a Raid Group, a Raid is when a group of groups form together to try and engage powerful opposition.
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RFC
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An acronym for Ragefire Chasm, a lower level instance zone located in the Cleft Of Shadows inside Orgrimmar.
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RFD
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An acronym for Razorfen Downs, a mid-level instance zone located in the southern-most edge of the barrens across from RFK.
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RFK
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An acronym for Razorfen Kraul, a mid-level instance zone located in the southern part of the barrens.
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Root
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A term which defines any spell or effect(see: debuff) which completely immobilizes a person.
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RP
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An acronym for Roleplay, which is acting within the context of a false character and persona.
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RPG
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An acronym for Roleplay Game, which is any game that's genre and purpose is to roleplay out the life of a character.
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Scholo
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An abbreviation for Scholomance, a high-level instance zone located on the island in the middle of the large lake in Western Plaguelands. The entrance
is locked and the key is the result of a quest requiring Argent Dawn faction (or lockpick of 285+)
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SFK
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An acronym for Shadowfang Keep, a lower-level instance zone located in the southern section of Silverpine forest.
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SM
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An acronym for Scarlet Monastery, a mid-level instance zone northeast of Undercity - infested with humans and vigilantes.
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Snare
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A term used to define any spell or effect(see: debuff) which slows or hinders a character's movement speed, but does not completely
immobilize the victim.
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Spawn
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This is a term used to describe the act of a creature appearing, or re-appearing, after being destroyed. It could also apply to a creature appearing for the first time, as the result of a triggered event.
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Spawnrate
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This applies to the rate in which things spawn. It can apply to placeholders, or named creatures, or even an entire Instance. I.E.: "The yardtrash inside Scarlet Monastery takes an hour to respawn, but the Beastmaster has a friggin' 3 hour spawnrate."
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Stone
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A synonym for Gate or Hearth(see above).
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Strath
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An abbreviaton for Stratholme, a high-level instance zone located in the Northwest region of the Eastern Plaguelands. It is
divided into a East and West side, and does require a key or lockpicking.
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Stun
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A term used to define any combat maneuvar or spell which interrupts, dazes, or shocks the victim - especially useful for spellcasters.
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STV
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An acronym for Stranglethorn Vale, a zone on the eastern continent, surrounding and in between of Grom'gol Base Camp and Booty Bay.
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Sylvanas Windrunner
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The sexiest corpse you've ever seen, leader of the Forsaken Undead, Queen of Undercity, Dominatrix and Mistres to Varathimas(her demonboy-toy).
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Tank
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Any class that has high armor and high hit points, capable of living through large amounts of damage. May also refer to the
act of tanking, which is intentionally drawing the attention of the enemy onto yourself so as to avoid damage being inflicted to
less-armored allies.
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Taunt
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Any spell, ability, effect or combat maneuvar which draws aggro/threat/hate, usually more than normal. I.E.: "Taunt him off of me, quick!"
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Tauren
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The amiable race of man-cows that have a fetish for facial piercings and alfalfa. They were raped by their designer gods
and lost the last shred of individuality this game had ever seen, losing their Plainstrider ability. They still can stomp
once every 50 hours and stun any monkeys riding their back, if they don't resist. Their home is ThunderBluff
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TB
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A bad disease in the literal sense, but also known as Thunderbluff, home of the Taurens, located in Mulgore, west of the Barrens.
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Thrall
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The shaman of Shamans, the spiritual don juan, and the true leader of the entire horde. He is the leader of the Orc race and
resides within Orgrimmar.
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Threat
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A snyonym for Hate and Aggro(see above)
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TM
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An acronym for Tarren Mill, an undead horde town within Hillsbrad.
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Troll
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The best race in the game with the sexiest hair-dos, they have the lamest racial abilities that were supposedly fixed. They
are protected by Thrall and they give their service to the horde in return. They tend to be wicked and sadistic in nature, but
thats o.k., they don't mind.
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Tyrande Whisperwind
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A sexy, sassy, bisexual druid night elf, queen of all Night Elves, who keeps her throne in Darnassus(the night elven city).
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UBRS
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An acronym for Upper Blackrock Spire, one of the high-level Blackrock Spire instances.
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Undead(Forsaken)
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The select few undead who managed to regain their free will once they past the veil into undeath. Furthermore, it seems
the story is going that they are rising into undeath on their own instead of being created by necromancers and liches.(since
the plague raises unwilled undead, this is odd). Their capital is Undercity.
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Undead(Unwilled)
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These undead are created by evil casters, evil knights, or evil energies leaked onto the lands. They are usually under the influence
of some evil monster or awesome knight(See: Arthas, King Of Undead, Above) but sometimes are just free-lace marauding monsters.
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Vol'jin
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The sole savior of the Horde, without him the alliance would own Thrall since most horde wah-babies prefer to farm and pick
posies rather than be loyal to their Warchief during sieges. Thankfully, Vol'jin is forever loyal.
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WC
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An acronym for Wailing Caverns, a lower-level instance zone located in the Barrens. |
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WSG
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An acronym for Warsong Gulch, an instance battleground's zone, located between The Barrens and Ashenvale. |
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XR
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An acronym for the Crossroads, the horde town located in the center of the north barrens, and the hub of most aerial travel
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