The ESO Slang and Abbreviation Dictionary

katkat42

A few more...

DoT - Damage over time. Refers to attacks that do "x damage over y seconds" or "n damage every m seconds".

DoT tick - One pulse of a DoT ability, or the interval between pulses. In the example above, the ability's DoT tick is m seconds. Most abilities in ESO seem to have ticks every 1 or 2 seconds.

HoT, HoT tick - Healing over time. Similar to DoT, but applies to healing abilities.

Dmg - shorthand for "damage".

MQ - Main Quest or Main Questline, the questline involving seeing the Prophet in his Harborage every so often.

FG, MG, TG - Fighters' Guild, Mages' Guild, and Thieves' Guild, respectively. Can refer to the guilds themselves, the services they provide, or their associated questlines. The Thieves' Guild is supposed to debut as a playable questline sometime next year. Not to be confused with guilds established by, and composed entirely of, players.

DB - Dark Brotherhood. In Elder Scrolls lore, the Dark Brotherhood is a cross between a death cult and a professional assassins' guild, and has featured as a very popular playable guild in most Elder Scrolls games. A Dark Brotherhood questline is supposed to be released sometime next year.

g or gp after a number - "Gold" or "gold pieces", the Tamrielic equivalent to "$" for dollars. In most Elder Scrolls games, they're called "septims." But ESO is set well before the Septim dynasty, so the gold coins do not yet feature the Septim emperors' faces.

DE - Disenchant, a shorthand imported from World of Warcraft, meaning to deconstruct something for whatever components it may drop.

AP - Alliance Points, a sort of currency earned through one's exploits in PvP play. The in-game symbol for ap is a hollow green diamond.

DenverRalphy

rikimm16_ESO wrote: »

ez2k.stoobzzub17_ESO wrote: »

Please ad 'QQ' as I still have no idea what this means...even Google doesn't know lol

QQ = represents two crying eyes; also means quit crying!
I think... someone told me that in DAoC

Actually, QQ derived from an online game (that shall remain nameless), where to quit you had to press Q twice. Whenever somebody would rage in chat, everybody would tell them to "QQ" so they wouldn't have to listen to the nerd rage.

The resemblance to QQ looking like crying eyes was a happy accident that resulted in a new definition.

DenverRalphy

Actually, "Mob" is a shortform/acronym for "Moveable Object". Any non-player controlled entity that moves around in the game environment is considered a Mob.

The term came about in the early days of MUDs when monsters were no longer stationary and could actually move around instead of always being found in the exact same location.

Technically, NPCs that can't be attacked by players but move around nonetheless, are also mobs. Though mobs that can't be attacked are typically referred to as NPCs.

So while the English definition of Mob may cloud the meaning... A single monster alone in the world is still referred to as a Mob.

TheBull

emeraldbay wrote: »

ZOS_AmeliaR wrote: »

What a helpful thread, thanks for putting this together! Glad to see that some ubiquitous MMO terms are included as well (maybe it won't take others as long as it took me in my early MMO days to figure out that PST stands for something and isn't just the sound of someone whispering).

If you decide to edit the original post to include suggestions added later in the thread, you may also consider adding bullet-points to the existing list, or perhaps putting the abbreviations in bold to make them stand out from the definitions. Just a thought for improving readability. Great work!

Wait, you mean that actually stands for something?!

By the moons...

haha you don't know what PST means. Someone tell him what it means >.>

k9mouse

OP Says

"Grinding - Performing the same action over and over until a player gets what he wants from it. It is, quite literally, insanity, according to Einstein's Definition of Insanity.
Farming - Same as grinding."

This is not completely right:

Grinding -- One grinds for XP to level one's char
Farming -- One farms for items -- IE crafting books, food items in bags, or crafting drops, etc

They are closely related, but there is a difference.

Thanks, OP for the listing

Luvsfuzzybunnies

ItsMeToo wrote: »

Aeratus wrote: »

Here are some more terms

PVP

Purple - used by AD to describe EP and DC working together
Green/Lime - used by EP to describe AD and DC working together
Orange - used by DC to describe AD and EP working together

Skills abbreviations

GDB - Green dragon blood
BE - Bolt escape

PVE

HM - Hard mode (trials and vet dungeons)

You won't see Green/Lime or Orange in PvP... AD works alone.

I lold

dgoss11b14_ESO

Can't forget FC! Forward Camp

Neizir

Updated the dictionary with your suggestions! ZOS is going to pop in and edit this before publishing it on Social Media channels on Wednesday or Thursday

TehMagnus

I think people also call EP: Peppers

renton1x1x1

this is awesome:)

thanks

AshySamurai

DenverRalphy wrote: »

rikimm16_ESO wrote: »

ez2k.stoobzzub17_ESO wrote: »

Please ad 'QQ' as I still have no idea what this means...even Google doesn't know lol

QQ = represents two crying eyes; also means quit crying!
I think... someone told me that in DAoC

Actually, QQ derived from an online game (that shall remain nameless), where to quit you had to press Q twice. Whenever somebody would rage in chat, everybody would tell them to "QQ" so they wouldn't have to listen to the nerd rage.

The resemblance to QQ looking like crying eyes was a happy accident that resulted in a new definition.

I want to add about QQ.

It actually originated with the advent of Warcraft II. On battlenet, you could press ALT+Q+Q to immediately exit the match and program. Thus the term "QQ" was to tell people to just quit because they are unskilled. The term later developed and lost it's origin and is usually mistaken as crying eyes.

dan958

I thought QQ meant 'you should quit'
Some game had the quit shortcut as 'Alt+Q+Q' and people would tell them to 'QQ'

Edit: Just realised (extremely late) that people above already went through this!

AshySamurai

dan958 wrote: »

I thought QQ meant 'you should quit'
Some game had the quit shortcut as 'Alt+Q+Q' and people would tell them to 'QQ'

Yep, you're right.

MasterSpatula

nvm

KingRebz

Noob - A beginner, a low level, a person with low knowledge of the game, low skill etc. It may be used as a sign of disrespect however it represents a person thats a low level. This term is usually applied by a highier level to a lower level.

KingRebz

GG-good game
BG-bad game
GF-good fight

thodoris1008

You should also include L2P.It's definitely the most used abbreviation in these forums (especially in pvp related threads).

leeux

I'd love to know more about the PvP specific jargon...

Like, for example, I've seen in zone chat while in Cyrodiil terms like "zone 5" referring to a place in the map, I guess?
And several others that I don't remember right now.

I tried Googling for several phrases like that with no much luck.

Probably is some hardcore guild's secret code or something

Kartalin

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Actually, "Mob" is a shortform/acronym for "Moveable Object". Any non-player controlled entity that moves around in the game environment is considered a Mob.

The term came about in the early days of MUDs when monsters were no longer stationary and could actually move around instead of always being found in the exact same location.

From my MUDding days I always understood "mob" to mean "mobile", as in not an inanimate object.

AshySamurai

Also about noob and newbie.
Contrary to the belief of many, a noob/n00b and a newbie/newb are not the same thing. Newbs are those who are new to some task and are very beginner at it, possibly a little overconfident about it, but they are willing to learn and fix their errors to move out of that stage. n00bs, on the other hand, know little and have no will to learn any more.

Kvothe

Here are a couple more for the list:
AFK: Away from keyboard
BIO: When nature calls ; )
Glass Cannon: A build that sacrifices survivability for damage output
Port: Teleport to a group member "port to me" or to some other location
Squishy: Someone who dies rapidly
Vend: Sell items to free up inventory space "I need to vend some things"
WB: World boss

AshySamurai

AFK - a free kill ^^

Neizir

Updated the dictionary again It should be appearing on ZOS's social outlets soon.

blueberrydonut

Not sure if this was worth mentioning, but I've also seen"LOS" [Line of Sight] used in vet dungeon bosses.

Illumous

Kiting - Pulling/attacking an enemy from range while moving away from it, similar to flying a kite.

morvegil

Since when is Ganking frowned upon?

Zorrashi

morvegil wrote: »

Since when is Ganking frowned upon?

It's just not classy. A high level player attacking and killing a low level player without provocation? A shameful display I say!

Kalman

Neizir wrote: »

[*]Wrecking Ball - Essentially a zerg with tactics. It involves a zergball clumping together and buffing themselves so they are mega OP (Immune to CC, Immune to AoE and almost anything) and then charging at a high speed towards an enemy. Wrecking Balls are EXTREMELY useful when defending and almost always successful. Contrary to popular belief, a wrecking ball CAN be defeated if you know what to do.

Here is a video example: Wrecking Ball In Action

GnatB

Neizir wrote: »

[*]Lag - Latency or FPS problems.

Just have to pipe in. Lag is when you take an action and there's a significant delay before you see the results. It's exactly what the word means, and it's almost *always* caused by latency. If you're using it to talk about generic FPS issues then you are probably miscommunicating, unless your frame rate is in single digit territory.

And P.S. In some games DD is Direct Damage (Abilities that do all their damage up front at once, or DPS classes that specialize in that form of damage), as opposed to DoT's (abilities that do their damage over times, or DPS classes that specialize in DoT's). While DPS is (AFIAK) always damage per second (or classes that specialize in maximizing the amount of damage in a minimum amount of time.) In some games some DPS classes specialize in DD, whereas others specialize in DoT. Some bosses are easier to take out with one or the other, so LFG DD may actually specifically mean looking for a DPS class that specializes in Direct Damage, as opposed to one that specializes in DoT's.

Generally, you're safer to say DPS if you don't particularly care what type of damage it is.

That said, this game doesn't really have much in the way of a DD vs DoT divide, so it doesn't really matter here. (I'm not even sure there are any really effective DoT centric builds?)

Kartalin

Zorrashi wrote: »

morvegil wrote: »

Since when is Ganking frowned upon?

It's just not classy. A high level player attacking and killing a low level player without provocation? A shameful display I say!

I always understood ganking as the stealth, big hitting, killshot approach to attacking other players without level being considered. Do other people have the same connotation as I do?