Everquest for dummys list

Didokova · Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:20 pm Post subject: Everquest for dummys list

EverQuest - Abbreviations

Allot of NEWBs see an OOC and ask "WTF?". This should help clear things up for them.

Abbreviation Meaning Notes
AA Alternate Advancement points or abilities
AC Armor Class / Ancient Cyclops (Ocean of Tears, South Ro) / Ancient Croc (Upper Guk) Increase with level and AC gear. Zone
ADD Additional mob Needs a Tanking, Mezzing or Parking
AFAIK As Far As I Know Your being Honest about something
AFK Away From Keyboard A message can be placed after /afk to auto reply to sender
AGGRO Aggression mob is angry, degree of mob anger
AGI Agility Increases with buffs and gear
AGRO Aggression mob is angry, degree of mob anger
AL Arch Lich Mob in
ANON Anonymous Hides Level and Class
AOE Area Of Effect (aka AE) spell line that hits targets within an area rather than target only
AoW Avatar of War Mob in Keal
AP Adventure Points LDoN
AP Akheva Ruins Zone
ASAP As Soon As Possible Chat
ATK Attack Stat
BA Blood Ember SK Armour
Barb Barbarian Race
Baz Bazaar Zone
BB Butcherblock Mountains / Black Burrow Zone
BD Blue Diamond Trade skill ingredients
BL Beastlord Class
BLUE Blue con / EXP Mob level rating compared to yours. Also displays faction with the NPC targeted
BOOK Travel using PoK stones Also books / Spell book
BP Breastplate Armour
BRB Be Right Back Chat
BRD Bard Class
BRT Be Right There Chat
BST Beastlord Class
BTM Blue to Me refers to /con of PC/NPC
BTW By The Way Chat
BUB Bubble refers to visual representation of HP's, mana, exp,etc
BW Burning Woods Zone
C Clarity/Clarity 2/KEI/Tranquility/VOQ Enchanter buff for mana regen aka "crack"
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 Clarity/Clarity 2/KEI/Tranquility/VOQ Enchanter buff for mana regen aka "crack"
CAMO Camouflage Invisibility
CB Crushbone Zone
CC Crystal Caverns / Crowd Control Zone / Off Tanking, Parking, Mezzing
CH Complete Healing Cleric 7500hp heal
CHA Charisma Stat Buff
COAT Thistlecoat, Barbcoat, Bramblecoat... Ranger, Druid Buff
CoD Crypt of Decay / Command of Druzzil Zone / Enchanter Spell
CoM City of Mist Zone
CON /consider Check level compared to yours and faction with an NPC
CoV Claws of Veeshan Dragon faction
CR Corpse Retrieval / Cold Resistance Your getting your corpse back / Your resistance to cold. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
CS Cobalt Scar Zone
CT Cazic Thule / Temple of Cazic Thule server, deity / Zone
CYA See You Later Goodbye
CYC Cyclops aka "One Eye"
DC Dagnor's Cauldron / Dire Charm Zone / Druid and Enchanter AA Skill
DD Direct Damage aka "burn" or "nuke"
DE Dark Elf Race
DEX Dexterity Stat
DING Just Leveled You get new spells and better stats, HP, Mana pool
DKP Dragon-Kill Points system of distributing loot, assigns point value to mobs killed; points spent to "buy" loot
DL The Dreadlands Zone
DLY Delay Weapon speed
DMF Dead Man Floating Necro Spell
DMG Damage Damage done to NPC by weapons or spells
DORF Dwarf Race, derogatory but funny
DOT Damage Over Time / Peridot Spell damage / Spell and trade skill component
DP Dawnshroud Peaks Zone
DPS Damage-per-second Damage rating
DR Disease Resistance Your resistance to Disease. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
DROOD Druid Class / derogatory but funny/cool also: Dr00d
DRU Druid Class / also Dr00d
DS Damage Shield / Doomshade DRU,MAG,RNG spell / Mob
DSP Dawnshroud Peaks Zone
DWF Dwarf Race
EB Enduring Breath Lets you breath underwater or in zone such as The Gray
EC East Commons Zone
EF Everfrost Zone
EFP East Freeport / Everfrost Peaks Zone's
EJ Emerald Jungle Zone
EK East Karana Zone
ELF Woodelf Race
ENC Enchanter (aka Chanter) Class
EP Ethereal Parchment / Experience Points Quest item / Show as a % bar
EVAC Succor (Evacuate) Fast port to another zone or current zone safe point, slight risk of leaving someone behind
EW Eastern Wastes Zone
EWBER Ewber Greater than all
EXP Experience Show as a % bar
FD Feign Death Necromancer/Shadow knight/Monk skill or spell
FFA Free For All Anyone can get/have
FG Fungus Grove Zone
FM Full Mana / Frontier Mountains Max mana / Zone
FoE Flight of Eagles Druid Spell
FP Freeport Zone
FR Fire Resistance Your resistance to fire. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
FUBAR F---ed up beyond all recognition Opps, something went wrong
FV Firona Vie server, deity, zone
GD The Great Divide Zone
GE Grieg's End Zone
GF Greater Faydark Zone - Old school auctioning zone, before bazaar
GFLUX Gravity Flux Enchanter spell
GL Good Luck / Guild Leader / Group Leader Says it all
GMR Group Magic Resist Enchanter spell - Increases your resistance to Magic.
GN Good Night Time to sleep
GNO Gnome Race
GRATS Congratulations something went well Smile

GTG Good To Go Telling everyone you are ready
GU Guildchat (aka /GU) Your guild chat
HEF Half-Elf Race
HFL Halfling Race
HH Highpass Hold Zone
HHK Highhold Keep Zone
HIE High Elf Race
HK Highhold Keep Zone
HoH Halls of Honor Zone
HoT Halls of Testing Zone in ToV
HoT Heal over Time Healing spell
HP Hit Points Characters health, have lots of these is a good thing
HPH Highpass Hold Zone
HPK Highhold Keep Zone
HS Howling Stones Zone
HT Harm Touch SK NEC Skill, can do lots of damage in small burst
HUM Human Race
IC Iceclad Ocean Zone
ID Identify / Improved Damage Spell / Focus item
IIRC If I Remember Correctly Lets hope you do Smile

IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion ??
IMO In My Opinion Your view on something
IMOA In My Humble Opinion Being Honest
INC Incoming Your bring a mob back to your party, hopefully to kill it
INT Intelligence Your Intelligence. Effects INC casters mana pool. Increased by Items, Buffs.
INV Inventory Space to carry your gear / lewts
INVIS Invisibility Spell that makes you invis to some NPC's
IRL In Real Life Not in EQ, but in the real world
JBOOTS Journeyman Boots Quest item - Almost a must for all
JK Just Kidding Joking around
K Okay OK
KC Karnor's Castle / Katta Castellum Zone
KEI Koadic's Endless Intellect (aka Clarity 3) Enchanter mana regen buff
KITH Kithicor Forest Zone
KOS Kill On Sight NPC will attack you on sight
KS Kill Steal Stealing someone else's mob
KT King Tormax Mob in Keal
LB Light Blue Refers to /con of PC/NPC
LD Linkdead Player has lost connection to the server
LDoN Lost Dungeons of Norrath Expansion
LEWT Items Singly or collectively
LF Lesser Faydark Zone
LFG Looking For Group Your looking group of players going on the hunt
LG Lower Guk (aka LGuk) Zone
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off You think something is funny
LMFAO Laughing My F---ing Ass Off You think something is f---ing funny
LOC Location Give your location in X, Y, Z coordinates
LoH Lay On Hands / Low On Health Paladan skill / Your health is low
LOIO Lake Of Ill Omen Zone
LoL Laughing Out Loud Your Laughing
LoM Low On Mana Mana pool is low
LoY Legacy of Ykesha Expansion
LR Lake Rathe Zone
LTB Light Blue Refers to /con of PC/NPC
MA Main Assist Player you assist in your group or raid
MAG Magician (aka Mage) Class
MC Main Enchanter Crowd Controller
ME Maiden's Eye Zone
MED Meditate Helps mana regeneration
MEM Scribing a spell Memorizing a spell
MEZ Mesmerize ENC/BRD/NEC spell line
MH Main Healer Mainly a cleric but can also be high level druids also
MIN Minute 60 seconds
ML Main Looter Player to lewt all corpse and let group know if there is anything good
MM Mistmoore Castle Zone
MOB Mobile Object NPC, Monster
MP Mana Preservation (aka Mana Pres) Focus item
MR Magic Resistance Your resistance to Magic. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
MT Mistell / Main Tank Sent a tell to the wrong person or channel / Main Warrior
NEC Necromancer (aka NECRO) Class
NEK Nektulos Forest Zone
NEWB Newbie (aka Noobie, n00b) New player to the game
NFP North Freeport Zone
NINJA Person taking undeserved or undesignated loot Not a good thing to be
NK North Karana Zone
NM Never mind Don't worry about it
NP No Problem Its no problem
NPC Non-Player Character Mob, Monster, computer character
NRO Northern Desert of Ro Zone
OGR Ogre Race
OMFG Oh My F---ing God D---, you cant believe it
OMG Oh My God D---, you cant believe it
OMW On My Way Your on your way to a location or zone
OOC Out Of Character Non game related chat
OOM Out Of Mana Mana pool is depleted
OOT The Ocean of Tears Zone
OS Old Sebilis Zone
OT The Overthere Zone
OTM On The Move Group/Raid is about to move out
OTW On The Way Stopping OTW for a fast AFK
PAL Paladin (aka PALLY) Class
PAW Splitpaw Lair Zone
PBAoE Point-Blank Area Of Effect Line of spells
PC Player-character / Price Check / Paludal Caverns Human player / Asking for price opinion / Zone
PERMA Permafrost Zone
PK Player Killer (aka PKer) Player thats kills other players
PL Power-levelling High level character helping a low level character gain experience
PLZ Please Please
PoA Plane of Air / Plane of Sky Zone
PoD Plane of Disease / Priest of Discord Zone / NPC that enables you as a PKer by handing him your book
PoF Plane of Fear Zone
PoG Plane of Growth Zone
PoH Plane of Hate Zone
PoK Plane of Knowledge Zone
PoM Plane of Mischief Zone
PoN Plane of Nightmare Zone
PoNB Lair of Terris Thule Zone
PoP MOB has appeared / Planes of Power NPC Spawned / Zone
PoS Plane of Sky / Plane of Storms / Piece of S--t Zone / Zone / Insult
PoT Plane of Time / Plane of Tranquility / Plane of Tactics Zones
PoV Plane of Valor Zone
PR Poison Resistance Your resistance to poison. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
PROB Probably (aka PROLLY) Most likely
PROC Process Weapon Effect triggered by Combat
PST Please Send Tell Asking for people to send you a tell
PULL Bring a mob to the group/raid Bring a mob to the group/raid
QH Qeynos Hills Zone
RC Rumblecrush / Radiant Cure / Remove Curse Mob / Grp AA Cure / Curse cure
RDY Ready Your ready
REZ Resurrection Cleric spell and Effect on cleric epic. Restores lost XP
RFP Ready For Pull Ready to kill mobs
RGC Remove Greater Curse Dispells curses from characters
RL Real Life Not EQ, in the real world
RM Rathe Mountains Zone
RNG Ranger Class
ROFL Rolling on the floor Laughing Find something funny
ROFLMAO Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off Something very funny
ROG Rogue Class
RoS Ring of Scale Kunark dragon faction
RTM Red To Me / Read the Manual Refers to con of PC,NPC / check your instructions
RUJ Rujarkian LDoN Theme
RV Rivervale Zone
RZ Rallos Zek Mob, server, deity
SA Secondary Assist Second player you assist for your group/raid targets
SC Spell Casting just that
SCM Spell Casting Mastery AA Ability
Sec Second Just a second
SFG Surefall Glade Zone
SHD Shadow Knight Class
SHM Shaman (aka SHAMMY) Class
SK Shadow Knight / South Karana Class / Zone
SKEL Skeleton (aka Skelly) Mob, NPC
SLN Skin Like Nature Druid AC/HP Buff
SoC Spirit of Cheetah Druid run speed Buff
SoE Sony Online Entertainment / Spirit of Eagle Creators or EQ / Druid run speed/Lev Buff
SoL Shadows of Luclin / s--t outta luck / Servitor of Luclin Expansion / Unlucky / Greg's End mob
SOL A Solusek Eye Zone
SOL B Nagafen's Lair Zone
SORZ Statue of Rallos Zek Mob in Keal
SoS Spirit of Scale / Speed of Shissar Druid Buff / Enchanter epic effect
SoV Speed of Vallon Enchanter haste spell
SoW Spirit of the Wolf / Shield of words Druid run speed buff / Cleric AC Buff
SPEC Spectral Parchment PoP lewt, hand into guild leaders in PoK for spells
SRA Scowls, Ready to Attack Bad faction with an NPC
SRO Southern Desert of Ro Zone
SS Skyshrine Zone
SSRA Ssraeshza Temple / Emporer Ssraeshza Zone / Mob
STA Stamina Your Stamina. Effects your HP. Increased by Items, Buffs.
STFU Shut The F--- Up Errr, i think you should be quite
STR Strength Your Strength. Effects your Attack rating and amount you can carry. Increased by Items, Buffs.
SV Save versus (C - Cold, F - Fire, P - Poison, D - Disease, M - Magic) Your resistance to spell effects. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
THX Thanks Cheers, Ta etc
TL Translocate, wizard travel spell Ports single character to a location
TOFS Tower of Frozen Shadow Zone
ToV Temple of Veeshan Zone, (also NTOV, WTOV, ETOV - north, west, and east quadrants)
TOX Toxxulia Forest Zone
TP Teleport DRU/WIZ (aka "port", "ride", "taxi")
TRAIN Large group of monsters to nearest zone point Only polite to let unsuspecting players sitting at the zone
TRL Troll Race
TT Trakanon's Teeth / Trakanon's Tooth / Terris Thule Zone / Item / Server, Zone, Deity
TX Thanks Thanks, Cheers, Ta
TY Thank You Thanks, Cheers, Ta
TZ Tallon Zek Server, Deity
UP Umbral Plains Zone
VAH Vah Shir Race
VEL Velium / Velious Trade skill components, effect / Expansion
VoQ Voice of Quellious Enchanter Spell
VP Veeshan's Peak Zone
VS Versus / Venril Sathir Against something / Server, Mob in KC
VSR Venril Sathir's Remains Mob in KC
VT Vex Thal Ewber Zone
WAR Warrior Class
WB Welcome Back Nice to have the back
WC West Commons Zone
WE Wood Elf Race
WFP West Freeport Zone
WIS Wisdom Your Wisdom. Effects WIS casters mana pool. Increased by Items, Buffs.
WIZ Wizard Class
WK West Karana Zone
WMP When Mana Permits When asking for buffs, the buffer may be LOM, just lwtting them know there is no rush
WT Weight How much you are/can carry. Item weight
WTB Want To Buy Used in a channel to let players know you want to buy something
WTF What The F--- Used to be surprised or in shock about something
WTG Way To Go Grats
WTS Want To Sell Used in a channel to let players know you want to sell something
WTT Want To Trade Used in a channel to let players know you want to trade something
WTTF Want To Trade For Used in a channel to let players know you want to trade for something specific
WW Western Wastes / Warslik's Woods Zones
YELLOW Amount of experience Represents visually as a yellow bubble (starting empty and being filled) on the exp bar
YTM Yellow to me Refers to /con of PC/NPC
ZING Extinguish Fatigue Letting your group you need a STA regen buff, spell
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