DDO Acronyms and Slang Terminology

[binnsr]

I actually like more OOM = out of mana.

I usually stick to hitting PTT and saying something like "on scrolls" or "well's dry folks .. watch your own backsides"

[BrinLondo]

Here's a thought...

Why not just fully type out or speak what you're trying to say instead of learning a foreign language?

I read these posts that go on and on and on about someone's character build--paragraphs upon paragraphs... and with all the words, why bother with an acronym? Did it really save that much time?

I don't know how new players are suppose to get better, if they're trying to learn a new game and a new language at the same time.

ITFS = it's really friggin' stupid.

[IronClan]

whats GISH? I see that here in character build threads.

IMO people get tired of typing the same common terms over and over... Most new players aren't going to look for or find the forums until well after they've waded right into the game and already decided it's fun and time to learn some more about it or ask some questions that have accumulated from lvl 1 to lvl 3 or 4... acronyms aren't hurting anyone but the most stubbornly unwilling to absorb info. It's a lot more like learning slang than a new language...

[binnsr]

whats GISH? I see that here in character build threads.

IMO people get tired of typing the same common terms over and over... Most new players aren't going to look for or find the forums until well after they've waded right into the game and already decided it's fun and time to learn some more about it or ask some questions that have accumulated from lvl 1 to lvl 3 or 4... acronyms aren't hurting anyone but the most stubbornly unwilling to absorb info. It's a lot more like learning slang than a new language...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gish

[imLuck]

so much win :3

[Tendare]

Awesome Job

TR = a character that has been True Resurected.

[Paul-Van-Dyk]

think that says it all

[Lorz]

IP = in LFM means In Progress

[Shal]

will update soon ... thanks for the new content. :goodvibes:

[FreeMemory]

Great thread; extremely useful +1!

Some suggestions:

"TP farming" Running a new character on quick/easy low levels to earn Favor & Turbine Points, then rerolling it repeatedly.

"Grinding" Repetitious questing just to earn free TP - making the game just a grind. (See also TP farming).

Expand "Reroll" to: To delete a character and create a new one, often used jokingly to suggest someone's character is gimped.

Expand "TR" to: Tangle Root (quest), or True Resurrection (start a character over at level 1 with a few perks).


Note: On the old PnP version, you didn't distribute points, rather you rolled 3 six-sided dice for each attribute. It was actually possible to get a roll of 3 for one of your attributes. If your unlucky rolls created a gimped character you scrapped it and rerolled the dice for a new one until you got something that could survive.

[AmaDraque]

IIRC

Took me forever to figure out what that one means.....

If I remember correctly, it took me nearly two years!

Yeah, I've had many things I didn't know the meaning of even after years of playing some MMOs, even after I asked others what it meant. There is a tendency towards "Don't tell, don't ask" (in some games more than others).

.......

What does AC mean? 'A' would be 'Attack', but I can't quite figure out the meaning of the 'C'.

AC = ...?

Thanks in advance.


Ps. The inter-player supportiveness in DDO is very high as compared to other MMOs out there, and I really appreciate it! ^L^,

[Pwesiela]

Yeah, I've had many things I didn't know the meaning of even after years of playing some MMOs, even after I asked others what it meant. There is a tendency towards "Don't tell, don't ask" (in some games more than others).

.......

What does AC mean? 'A' would be 'Attack', but I can't quite figure out the meaning of the 'C'.

AC = ...?

Thanks in advance.


Ps. The inter-player supportiveness in DDO is very high as compared to other MMOs out there, and I really appreciate it! ^L^,

Armor Class

That having been said, I hope you got the joke in that post.

[IronClan]

What does AC mean? 'A' would be 'Attack', but I can't quite figure out the meaning of the 'C'.

AC = ...?

Armor Class it goes directly back to times when D&D and the minitures table top warefare rules the game spawned from, used a number to quantify light medium and heavy armored troop types... Plate armored cavalry weren't so much "wearing platemail" as having "class 8 armor" (or heavy armor) I don't remember the actual numbers. Which explains why the word "class" was used there was even a time when Armor class was a negative number and the lower the number the better... a -20 AC was very good...

Like a lot of things D&D the origin of the acronym makes a lot of sense but the acronym itself isn't very intuitively obvious from a more modern viewpoint... Such as "hit points" most people would immediately assume HP means HEALTH points... but D&D came from table top where you don't talk about the "health" of the troopers in a large scale battle, but the hits they could sustain as an abstraction of unit manpower... Not much later the first D&D rule books started to justify it as HP representing all facets of a characters physical being... health stamina and mental fortitude... so a hit might take 6 hp off 2 points of which might be actual cut 2 points might be the energy it took away and 2 points might be the mental "will to fight"... For this reason minus hit points were commonly used as a house rule until D&D adopted them officially... And it's also the reason you can quickly heal SOME hp (but not all) simply by resting... you're assumed to be catching your breath or getting your courage back up.

[edit] one other piece of erratta, "armor class" was so ingrained in early D&D that some early rule books actually have tables where the class number is the first column and the actual name of some types of armor in that class are in the LAST column... almost like a reverse look up... like "hey I have 8 AC what kind of armor might be I be wearing,... oh here's a handy table showing it might be Ring, splint or Scale mail..." I kid you not.

[Lyniaer]

Why am I only finding this now? This could have been so very useful so many times.

Also, not to nit-pick, but the way I understood it, (as I did not start hearing this term until I began playing Quake darn near 14 years ago) WOOT is an acronym that stood for We Own(ed) the Other Team. All though in recent years it's been translated to stand for dozens of different things and mis-quoted in dozens more. One of them including being a term derived from the excitement of discovering loot whilst playing Dungeons and Dragons! >: D

[TheHazShow]

NHE or N/H/E - normal, hard, elite

[IronClan]

woot, actually started on IRC and was usually spelled w00t and meant litterally "woop!" or "woohoo!" "yeehaw" and anything else a "wolf whistle" might be used for (howling at girls obviously) rebel yell... whatever.

Like a lot of things in Quake and early internet games including "owned" which nowadays is pwned (the p came later p0wned aka pwned) "pr0n"... "lama" etc. all originated from IRC.

[Seren24]

What does "twitchy" mean?

[AlacrityFitzhugh]

What does "twitchy" mean?

"Twitchy" refers to a type of game that relies on quick reflexes to play, like a first-person-shooter.

[ninjaeli]

Great now if you can get the newer people to use the lfm's and make their own, and read and understand it better.
+1 rep!

[AlacrityFitzhugh]

"Chew Toy" -- Hah! Never heard that term before, but I've been one often enough!