Unfortunately, Izlude's thread containing DDO's internet lingo
hasn't been updated in years. The fact that its seen activity as
late as June 2009, goes to show how important the work is that was
first started by Izlude in June 2006. I've recreated Izlude's
original thread, and took it a couple of steps further. Now, not
only will this thread be properly maintained, but it will also
include links to the DDO Compendium.
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1337 | Leet, or Elite |
28 / 32 Point Build | Number of points used for stat allocation when building new characters |
3BC | Three Barrel Cove (quest) |
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AA | Arcane Archer, an undead archer skeleton |
AC | Armor Class |
ADQ | Against the Demon Queen (quest) |
AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
AFK | Away From Keyboard |
Aggro | Aggression, when you have "aggro," then the enemy's attacks are focused on you. |
AH | Auction House |
AHAP | As Hard As Possible. Usually used in LFMs to say the quest will be done in the hardest difficulty that can by opened by the party. |
Alt | Alternative, usually an alternative character on the same account |
AOE | Area of Effect |
Arcane | An Arcane would refer to arcane casters, such as the wizard or sorcerer classes, and would exclude other casters (ie cleric) |
AS / ASB | Airship or Airship Buffs |
ATM | At the Moment |
Avatar | Term used to describe a users character, or the small pic beside your username on a forum post |
Axer Package | A phase referring to a collection of buffs in DDO. Generally refers to every possible useful buff for the given quest. |
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BAB | Base Attack Bonus |
Battle Cleric | A cleric who likes to and is built to fight in melee combat |
BB | Blade Barrier (spell) |
BBL | Be Back Later |
BIO | Bathroom Break |
Bind / Binding | The process of setting a resurrection point in a tavern, usually by talking to a priest of the silver flame that presides there. |
Bind / Bound / Binding | Binding an item to a character will make that item immune to permanent damage, but the item cannot be auctioned or traded |
Body Pull | Technique of getting close enough to a MOB to get only its attention and not its friends, and pull them back to fight alone |
Box of Rocks | A chest full of gemstones |
BRB | Be Right Back |
BRT | Be Right There |
BTA | Bound By Account |
BTC | Bound By Character |
BTW | By The Way |
BS | Bastard Sword (item), Bulls Strength (buff) at lower levels, or BarkSkin (buff) at higher levels |
Buff / Buffs / Buffed | Buffs are generally cast on characters at the beginning of quests and after shrining to give resistance to damaging effects |
BYOH | Bring Your Own Heals, generally seen on the lfm to let people know that there isnt a healer in the group |
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Capped | The point in which a character has reached the maximum amount of experience they can get |
Caster | Typically a wizard or sorcerer, but technically any class that casts spells. (ie cleric) |
CC | Crowd Control |
CE | Combat Expertise (feat) |
Char | Character |
Chew Toy | A Tank who's main job is to acquire and maintain agro from a specific mob/mobs |
Chump Block | A character that tanks, even though they are likely to die in the process |
Clickie | An item that, upon double clicking the item icon, generates a spell or other effect. (ie haste clickie, grease clickie) |
CO6 | Cult of Six (quest series) |
Coyle | An infamous NPC you must protect in the Threnal East quests who dies quite easily |
CR | Challenge Rating |
Crawl | A dungeon crawl to show newbies the ropes, and/or to complete all side quests and objectives |
Crit | Critical Hit, high attack rolls that occur naturally on the dice, give bonuses to damage |
CSW | Cure Serious Wounds, also CMW and CLW for light and moderate |
CYA | See You |
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DA | Dwarven Axe (item) or Dungeon Alert |
DBF | Delayed Blast Firewall (spell) |
DC | Disconnect or lose internet connection, also stands for Difficulty Check for spells and saves. |
DD | Dimension Door (spell) |
Death Taxi | A technique of killing your toon, to quickly return to your bind point |
Dev | Developers, as in "game developers" |
Diplo | Diplomacy (skill), used to redirect aggro onto others |
Disco Inferno | Firewall & Otto's Sphere of Dancing used together |
Divine | Divine spell casters excel at curing ailments and healing allies (ie Cleric, Favored Soul, Paladin) |
DM | Dungeon Master, the game referee |
DoT | Damage over time |
DPS | Damage Per Second |
DR | Damage Reduction, formatted DR N/TYPE, where N = Absorbed Damage, and type = what ignores the DR |
Dragonmark | (feat) A dragonmark looks like an elaboate tatoo and grants magical powers to the bearer. |
DS | Deepwood Sniper (path), the path a ranger follows to focus skills on ranged attacks, and scouting |
Dump Stat | A starting attribute you put no build points into |
DV | Divine Vitality (enhancement), enhancement available to clerics to give spell points back to casters |
DQ1 | Against the Demon Queen chapter 1(quest) |
DQ2 | Against the Demon Queen chapter 2(raid) |
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End Game | Term used to refer to the activities or quests done by characters at the maximum level. |
EULA | End User Licence Agreement |
EZ | Easy |
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Farming | Running a quest, or explorer area, multiple times for loot. |
Favor | Points given for completing quests. Special benefits are made available to users who obtain enough favor with certain patrons |
FF | Feather Fall |
Finger | Finger of Death (spell) |
Firewall | Wall of Fire (spell) the terminology used often misleads people to search for the spell in the F's, as opposed to the W's |
Flagged | having completed the required quests, or gathered the required items, to move onto the next chapter of a story line. usually a raid. |
Fleshy | is the term used for denoting a "flesh and bone" race (ie human) |
FO | Finish Out, recall out of a finished quest |
FOD | Finger of Death (spell) |
FOM | Freedom of Movement (buff) |
Fred | Fred The Mind Flayer can respec feats, and is found under the garden in House J |
FTW | For The Win |
FVS | Favored Soul (class) |
F2P | Free to Play, new to mod 9. users can now play DDO without paying, but suffer some drawbacks (ie limited chars) |
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GA | Greataxe |
GG | Good Game |
GH | Greater Heroism (buff), can also reference the Gianthold Area or Good Hope (spell) |
Ghost Run | When players intentionally die to have someone carries their soul stone through the quest |
Gimped | Typically a character or item with sub standard abilities or a character that lacks sufficient equipment, armor and/or weapons |
GIMPO | God In My Personal Opinion, typically used to describe a good character build. |
GISH | A magician, or character, that is skilled in both physical combat and the use of magic. |
GJ | Good Job |
GLOER | Good Luck On End Reward |
GM | Game Master, employees of Turbine that help with unusual problems, like characters getting stuck, or monsters not spawning, ect. |
GMW | Gray Moon Waining (quest series), quest series following the Cult of Six series |
Gold Farmers | People who try to sell gold or platinum in game |
Grind | Repetitious questing for a specific goal, also called farming |
Grinding | Repetitious questing for a specific goal, also called farming |
GS | Green Steel (item), could also mean Great Sword (item) |
GTG | "Got to Go" or "Good to Go", sometimes creating confusion, especially at the beginning of quests |
GTWF | Greater Two Weapon Fighting (feat) |
Guild Group | A group comprised mostly or entirely of members of a guild. Usually a very different experiance than that found in a PUG. |
G2G | Got To Go, players often use G2G as opposed to GTG which has two different meanings. |
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Haggro | Husband has aggro on your game playing and you have to log out to go to Bed Bath and Beyond for example. Also see Waggro |
Healbot | A character dedicated to healing and who does little else in a quest |
Helf | Half-Elf |
HIPS | Hiding In Plain Sight (quest) |
Hound | Hound of Xoriat (raid) |
House C | House Cannith is an area accessed through the Marketplace, or patrons of favor. |
House D | House Deneith is an area accessed through the Marketplace, or patrons of favor. |
House J | House Jorasco is an area accessed through the Marketplace, or patrons of favor. |
House K | House Kundarak is an area accessed through the Marketplace, or patrons of favor. |
House P | House Phiarlan is an area accessed through the Marketplace, or patrons of favor. |
HoX | Hound of Xoriat (raid) |
HP | Hit Points |
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IC | In Character, an RP Term, or "I See," or Improved Critical (feat) |
IDK | I Don't Know |
IIRC | If I Remember Correctly |
IK | InstaKill, or more specifically, spells where the effect is instant death such as Finger of Death |
IMO | In My Opinion |
INC | Incoming, term used to warn users that mobs are coming |
Incapped | Incapacitated is the term to describe a character who has fallen but is not yet dead |
Intimitank | Usually a high AC and/or DR character who uses intimidate to draw agro |
IP | In Progress, usually found in the LFM when a quest is underway but more members are desired. |
IRL | In Real Life |
ISO | In Seek Of or In Search Of |
ITWF | Improved Two Weapon Fighting (feat) |
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JK | Just Kidding |
JMO | Just My Opinion |
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KEK | Another version of LOL, KEK was commonly used in World of Warcraft |
Kite / Kiting | Strategy of pulling an enemy, or group of enemies, to a strategic point where the party will then engage in combat. |
KK | OK |
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Lag | Delayed or slowed gaming experience due to, but not limited to; internet connection or pc problems. usually results in a frozen frame in-game. |
LD | Link Dead, an alternate description of a disconnection. |
Leet | Elite |
LFG | Looking For Group |
LFH | Looking For Ham (outdated terminology) consuming ham was the way to regenerate hp & sp before the induction of the rest shrine. |
LFM | Looking For Members, this is the add you will see in the social panel when people are looking for players to fill a group. |
LMAO | Laughing My Ass Off. Other variations exist, such as Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off, or ROTFLMAO |
Log / Logging | Process of exiting the DDO software completely, or to change characters |
LOH | Lay On Hands (enhancement), the ability of paladins to heal with divine powers |
LOL | Laughing Out Loud or Laughing On-Line |
LotD | Litany of the Dead (quest) |
Lowbie | Reference of low level characters between lvl 1-4 |
LS | Long Sword |
LSP | Low Spell Points |
LVL | Level, typically referring to a characters experience level |
L8ter | Later |
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M/A | Mature Audience |
Main | Main character on a persons account |
Mana | Spell Points |
Meat Shield | A front line character in a group, typically a tank |
ML | Minimum Level requirements, referring to items |
MM | Magic Missile (spell) |
MMO / MMOG | Massive Multi-player On-line Game |
MOB / MOBS | Mobile Object(s), attackable non playing objects. Typically monsters, but anything that moves and attacks or anything you can attack |
MoBB | Maladroit of Bone Breaking, special weapon attributes that saps dexterity from its victims |
Mod | Module or Modification (ie DDO Mod 9) |
MT | Mental Toughness (feat), could also mean MisTell or Main Tank |
MU | Magic User, a character class that casts spells. |
Mule | Character utilized to carry equipment and items for all the toons on an account |
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Necro/Necro 1,2,3 | Necropolis/Necropolis crypt series (quest) |
Nerf | To make less effective |
Newb / Newbie | New player not used to the game mechanics yet |
NHE / N/H/E | Normal/Hard/Elite (quest difficulty levels) sometimes used individually |
NM / Nvm | Nevermind |
NooB, N00b / Nub | (Often Misused) Derogatory term used to describe someone who lacks concern for the group |
NP | No Problem |
NPC | Non Player Character |
NT / NTY | No Thanks or No Thank You |
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OIC | Oh, I See |
OMG | Oh My God |
OMW | On My Way |
OOC | Out Of Character, an RP term |
OOM | Out Of Mana |
OP | Original Poster |
ORLY | Oh Really? |
OSP | Out Of Spell Points |
Owned | This term denotes complete domination, usually in a (virtual) physical sense. |
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PA | Power Attack (feat) |
PC | Player Character |
PD | Perma-Death, a play style that retires a toon after they die for the first time. Strict rules regarding PD groups vary between groups and/or guilds. |
PG | Pure Good |
Piking | A term used to describe someone that is leaching XP from the activity, without contributing anything to the party. |
PK | Phantasmal Killer (spell) |
PnP | Pen and Paper, the original D&D format |
POP | Prison of the Planes (quest) |
POP? | Pearl Of Power (item), an item used to increase a casters mana. The question mark would be replaced with a number designating its power |
Pots | Potions (item) |
Power 5 | +5 equivalent weapon effects, most of which can instantly kill monsters on a good roll. (Vorpal, Paralyzing, Banashing, Smiting, Disrupting) |
Power Leveling | Getting more powerful characters to run quests while you tag along. There are limits in DDO to how far you can take this tactic |
PPL | People |
PrC | Prestige Class, a path a class will take to gain special benifits (ie Rangers' Tempest, Bards' Warchanter) |
PrE | Prestige Enhancement, like PrC's but slightly altered and more limited-scope as Enhancements |
PST | Please Send Tell, the player is requesting that you talk to him/her using the in game 'Tell' feature. |
PUG | Pick Up Group, a group of characters usually with little knowledge of each other, unlike a group of guildies or personal friends |
PvE | Player Vs Environment, running missions, exploring encounter areas and the like. |
PvP | Person vs Person, some taverns have PvP areas where users can fight other users with their toons |
PWN | pronounced 'own,' this means to greatly overpower or defeat an adversary. |
P2P | Pay to Play, a subscriber to the game, or in reference to areas that have to be purchased for f2p users. |
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QFE | Quoted for Emphasis |
QFT | Quoted For Truth |
QQ | Emoticon for crying eyes. Often used as a noun or verb to mean whine/whining |
Quest Chain | A series of quests in a storyline |
QwijyMart | Khyber's exclusive vendor/entrepreneur. Gtar, or other toons in his guild, will sell items listed in their biography for the listed price. |
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Raid | Raid quests are typically epic in scope and intended for 12 players to enter at one time. |
Ransack | When you have opened a chest so many times in one day, its level of treasure starts to degrade and eventually offers no treasure |
Reroll | To delete a character and create a new one, often used jokingly to suggest someone's character is gimped. |
Respec | to change out feats or enhancements. You can respec feats with Fred The Mind Flayer, or respec enhancements at a trainer. |
Rez | Resurrection |
RL | Real Life |
ROFL | Rolling On Floor Laughing, other variations exist |
RP | Role-Play (RPing, RPer, etc) |
RR | Race Required, refering to items, also ReRoll or Reavers Refuge (Quest) |
Run | Running through a quest in a fairly methodical way for a specific purpose. (ie Loot Run, or Delera's Run) |
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SC | StormCleave (quest) |
SF | Solid Fog (spell) |
Shield Wall | Characters line up in close proximity between obstacles to form a line monsters can't cross |
Shinies | The sparkling collectible nodes in dungeons or the collectable items you get from them |
SoS | Stealer of Souls (quest), or Sword of Shadows (item) |
Soul Train | Using the command "/death" to take you to your bind point. Commonly used for those out of the way areas like Meridia or the Refuge. |
SP | Spell Penetration (feat) |
Spammer | People who try to sell gold or platinum in game |
Spamming | Doing the same attack/ spell over and over again, or sending unsolicited in game mail |
Splash | When you take just a few levels of another class to complement your primary class |
Squishy | Typically refers to a character with low AC and HP's, or a character that cannot defend themselves effectively in normal situations |
SR | Spell Resistance (buff) |
SS | Short Sword (item), or StoneSkin (buff) |
Stealth Humping | Pushing jump while in stealth mode |
Steam Tunnels | The steam tunnels is an explorer area before STK |
STK | Shan-to-Kor (quest) |
Stone(s) | Soul Stones that are left over after you die where your ghost is bound. They can be picked up and carried |
Sub / SubT | Subterrain (area) The explore area before titan and hound raids. also used as a place to launch Greater Teleports from |
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Tank | A high DPS and/or AC toon, thats purpose is to pull aggro and absorb/deal damage. Multiple tanks may be present, even within small groups. |
Tap / Tap Runs | Tapestry, or Tapestry farming in the orchard area outside of Necropolis |
TBF | Trial By Fire (quest) |
THAC0 | To Hit Armour Class Zero |
THF | Two Handed Fighting (feat) |
Tome | An item consumed by a character to increase base attribute scores |
Toon | Another term for a users character |
TP | Turbine Points, the currency used in the DDO Store added with the release of Module 9. |
TPK | Total Party Kill |
TR | Tangle Root (quest), or True Resurrection (start a character over at level 1 with a few perks). |
Trap Monkey | A rogue specializing in disabling traps and opening locks, or any other class with those skills |
Troll | A socially retarded individual that intentially causes grief and distress upon others, while hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. |
TS | Tempest Spine (quest), could also be True Seeing (buff) |
TT | Table Top, also refered to as PnP, the original D&D format. |
TTS | Trap The Soul (Spell/Weapon Effect) |
TTYL | Talk To You Later |
TWF | Two Weapon Fighting (feat) |
Twink | The process of giving items obtained by one of your characters, to another character |
Twitchy | refers to a type of game that relies on quick reflexes to play, like a first-person-shooter, or a reference to a THF tactic described here |
TY / TYVM | Thank You Very Much |
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Uber | Decked Out, typically used to describe a toon equipped with the best of weapons and items, and stats that are buffed with tomes |
UMD | Use Magic Device (skill) |
UWA / UA | Under-Water Action |
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VoD | Vision of Destruction (quest) |
Voice(s) | Voice of the Master (item), usually used at the end of a quest to remind users to "make sure your voices are on" |
VoN | Vault of Night (quest) |
Vorp | Vorpal, a potent weapon with the ability to sever the heads of those it strikes |
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Waggro | Wife has aggro on your game playing and you have to log out to go to Bed Bath and Beyond for example. Also see Waggro |
WF | WarForged (Race) or Weapon Finesse (feat) |
Wilderness Adventure Area | An open area with many mobs and usually with extra quests for exploration and rare encounters. |
WoE | Weakening of Enfeebling, special weapon attributes that saps strength from their victims. |
Woot / W00t | Commonly used to express excitment (Whoohoo!!!), history suggests that it may have stood for "We Owned The Other Team" |
WOP | Wounding of Puncturing. A popular weapon effect combination |
Working As Intended | Typically used to express that even if it's broke, it's not getting fixed |
WTB | Want to buy |
WTS | Want to sell |
WTT | Want to trade |
WW | WaterWorks (quest) |
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XC | Xorian Cipher (quest) |
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YW | Your Welcome |
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Zerg / Zerging | Running a quest as fast as possible without regards to side quests or other non-essential objectives. |
Z??? | Adding Z to the beginning of a term can sometimes put emphasizes the term. (ie ZOMG = OMG!!!) |