DDO Acronyms and Slang Terminology

[Shal]

GIMPO

got it

[Parriiss]

how can i become a premium user?????????what need i to do?

[Shal]

how can i become a premium user?????????what need i to do?

sorry, you must have the wrong thread.

[RuneStriker]

A couple that have been spammed more often (usually in trade chat):

WTB - Want to buy
WTS - Want to sell
WTT - Want to trade

And for all manner of things:

PST - Please send tell

[Shal]

A couple that have been spammed more often (usually in trade chat):

WTB - Want to buy
WTS - Want to sell
WTT - Want to trade

got it, thanks

And for all manner of things:

PST - Please send tell

its already in there

[cloud957]

I am new to DDO so I just want to say thanks to you guys for posting this.

[Shal]

I am new to DDO so I just want to say thanks to you guys for posting this.

welcome, and glad we could help

[11Lonewolf11]

how can i become a premium user?????????what need i to do?

Wow, what does that stand for?Iv never heard it!


I was going to say something much nastier, but refrained.

[T4CTIC]

OSP - Out of Spell Points
LSP - Low Spell Points

[HeavenlyCloud]

OSP - Out of Spell Points
LSP - Low Spell Points

I actually like more OOM = out of mana.

[Shal]

OSP - Out of Spell Points
LSP - Low Spell Points

im pretty sure OOM is used for "out of mana" and by adding OSP would be confusing ... where did these terms come from?

[theDVS1]

Thanks for this! I am pretty MMORPG/web acronym savvy...and have a fair amount of old AD&D experience. Yet, I still found myself lost in almost every one of the guide threads. I love it when a game has a consolidated glossary of terminology.

[Kieranna]

I know I'm probably pretty old-school despite being new here. Rather than PnP, I've often heard it referred to as TT (tabletop).

[Perspicacity]

I know I'm probably pretty old-school despite being new here. Rather than PnP, I've often heard it referred to as TT (tabletop).

I call it TT as well but that's only because I play WoD more than D&D and that's what we call it.

[MeliCat]

Thanks Shal - very helpful. Extremely helpful.

Can you please expand more on PUG though? (Ok, "pick up group" - this is like just an LFM party?) I still don't quite get that. Yeah - I'm a noob/newbie (I hear those terms used interchangeably - or maybe it's just me. )

Also what about just "Pull" as opposed to "Body pull". Probably a definition like "technique when only 1 or a few party members will go out and get the aggros of whole or only part mobs and bring them back to be dealt with by remaining party members at a particular location"

Oh yeah and "death taxi" - technique of leaving yourself bound somewhere such that if you want to get back quickly to a group forming as it's much faster (very common for Shroud).

And stuff with "spell points" ="SP" makes more more sense to me. Although I still talk about it as mana too - it just seems to be consistent with this particular game to call them SP and that's what the parties I've been with seem to all talk about as well.

[MysteryNotes]

Awesome thread!
Finally found out what IIRC means

[Borror0]

Kite or Kiting - Strategy of pulling an enemy, or group of enemies, to a strategic point where the party will then engage in combat.

Does anyone really use that definition? to me, that's body pulling. Kiting refers to "attacking one or more melee monsters with ranged weapons and running around so they can't hit you," in my book. Does kiting really mean body pulling to others?c

I need to know, to keep the wiki's glossary accurate.

[Pwesiela]

Does anyone really use that definition? to me, that's body pulling. Kiting refers to "attacking one or more melee monsters with ranged weapons and running around so they can't hit you," in my book. Does kiting really mean body pulling to others?c

I need to know, to keep the wiki's glossary accurate.

Neither do I. Kiting means having a mob following you with a "string" of arrows between you and them. Pulling is maneuvering one or a few mobs to a more strategic location (i.e. away from their fellows) in order to decimate them with less difficulty.

[normality]

thanks, great guide

[Borror0]

End game is missing. I defined it as "Term used to refer to the activities or quests done by characters at the maximum level." on the wiki.