Help With Acronyms

BMW217

Can someone explain to me the acronyms DoTs and HoTs and DPS and all of the other acronyms that are used in eso? Also, can anyone explain to me all of the builds and roles that people play and all the technical terms that they use. If there is a online guide that explains builds and classes, please reference me to it. I am new to mmo's so I need some clarification. Thanks

Sarenia

DoT - Damage Over Time
HoT - Heal Over Time
DPS - Damage Per Second
WTS - want to sell
WTB - want to buy
PST - please send tell

As for an extensive guide of all acronyms you'll find, I can't help there. Common gaming acronyms are easy to search up though.

People are very fond of acronyms in gaming. Most of them you'll see are probably area names. People just assume if they shorten any random sentence to a string of letters, others will know what they mean.

Laura

DoT = Damage over time

HoT = Heal over time

DPS = Damage per second


these are very old MMO terms

DoT is a debuff you put on an enemy that does damage over the course of its duration (usually described as "ticks" each "tick" does a little of its over all damage)

HoT does exactly what a dot does but it goes on a friendly target and heals

DPS is how much damage you do ON AVERAGE per second.

Greydog

DoT = Damage over time
HoT = heal over time
AOE = Area of effect
DPS = Damage Per Second

Laura

@Sarenia you always beat me to it D=

SuperScrubby

Don't forget LFG, Looking for group. You will rarely use it in this game, but if you play any other MMO you'll run into it.

sociald100ub17_ESO

Laura wrote: »

DoT = Damage over time

HoT = Heal over time

DPS = Damage per second


these are very old MMO terms

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At least I think MMOs are evolving into actually less complication.
Don't see as much the uses of PAOE, PBAOE, TBAOE, Rain AOE, DD, BDD and many many more I used to see a lot.

nudel

Sarenia wrote: »

*snip*
People just assume if they shorten any random sentence to a string of letters, others will know what they mean.

Lol so true.

A few others that haven't made it to this thread yet. I took the liberty of adding a lot of non-acronym MMO terms as well. Feel free to disregard them if you're already familiar though.

WTT = Want to Trade

LoS = Line of Sight. Used to note when you/ your party need to keep visible barriers between you and a ranged mob to prevent their ability to cast towards you.

mt = Mistell. Used to denote a chat that was sent to the wrong user or chat channel.

Mob = any NPC enemy. Typically refers to generic non-boss enemies.

Aggro = (verb) the act of aggravating an enemy to the point that it singles you out for attacks. (noun) the state of being targeted by said enemy. Examples: 'I accidentally aggro'd the boss' or 'I have aggro now'.

Pull = the act of getting the attention of a select enemy or group of enemies, often at range. Similar to aggro except that the one doing the pulling may not always be the one keeping aggro afterwards.

Add = a normal/ less difficult mob, usually in close proximity to a boss, which will aggro when the boss does. Groups typically focus down adds first to quickly reduce the sources of damage and help the boss fight run smoother.

Roamer/Wanderer = an NPC enemy who does not stand in a static position holding ground, but wanders between 2 or more positions (often between two larger packs of enemies). Groups often single out a roamer before attacking a pack so as to not have surprise waves of enemies joining the fight midway.

Kite = the act of running in a tight, but erratic pattern to avoid taking damage and/or lead an enemy towards an area. Players may kite defensively or attempt to kite an enemy towards something (a trap) or away from someone (a wounded healer).

TicToc

Taunt - A tank function where they pull the attention of an hostile NPC onto themselves

CC - Crowd Control. Typically consisting of knockbacks, knockdowns, stuns, roots, disorientations, snares, etc...

Snare - Slows movement speed

Stun - prevents all action for a brief period

Root/immobilize - Prevents movement, but not attacks

Knockdowns - similar to stuns, but with a knockdown animation.

Direct Healing - Front loaded healing where the healing is all done immediately, as opposed to the HoTs that heal over time.

zaria

SuperScrubby wrote: »

Don't forget LFG, Looking for group. You will rarely use it in this game, but if you play any other MMO you'll run into it.

More people looking for tanks, healers or even dps to do specified dungeons.
Often in form of LF tank BC, who is someone who want an tank to do banished cell for them, each zone has 3 dungeons.

ElSlayer

Okay, here some more difficult questions:

1) AqV
2) VGS

Anyone?
I hear them often in /zone chat in Cyrodiil (Auriel's Bow campaign, Aldmeri Dominion).

Censorious

NORWICH is a good one - but you have to be quite old to know it.

Glurin

For roles people play, it's usually separated into the Holy Trinity. Heal, Tank, DPS. Thankfully ESO allows you to blur the line between them, but people still primarily think of groups in this context.

Heal = Group healer. Keeps you alive by healing your boo-boos. Resist the urge to ask for a lollipop.

Tank = Group damage sponge. His job is to be that really annoying guy that everyone just wants to punch in the face, but no matter how ugly he gets he just keeps asking "Is that all you got?" Consequently it's best to let him go first if you see something dangerous.

DPS = Group heavy artillery. They make things dead. Or deader, or dead again or less living, whatever the case happens be. Point is, their main task is to hurt things.


Some lingo you'll see a lot in groups:

g2g = "got to go" or sometimes "good to go". Can be confusing at times.

r = ready. Also r? = are you ready?

afk = away from keyboard. Also appears as "brb". Often paired with "bio", as in "afk bio", meaning that mountain dew is ready to make it's exit.

lag = latency. Essentially slow internet speed, but can have other causes. All the same idea though. Relatively long periods of time between when something should happen and when you saw it happen.

dc = disconnected. (also "dced") Bad thing. Means one of your group members has lost their connection to the game.

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww1w1111111sssssssssssss = Somebody accidentally entered chat mode while in combat.

Mortuum

As no one explained those:

WTB-Want To Buy

WTS-Want To Sell

WTT-Want To Trade

LFM-Looking For More(LF1/xM Looking For 1/x More)

Tiyamel

FFS - For f$%ks sake, when someone makes a stupid mistake repeatedly
IMO - In my opinion, can be IMHO, H = honest
TTYL - Talk to you later
PvP - Player versus player
PvE - Player versus environment
VR - Veteran Rank 1-10 soon 1-12, after reaching level 50 you get to this

Aballister

Don't forget BRB(Be Right Back) just when you have finally got every party member to the right place.

Tiyamel

FTW - For the win, conversely FTL for the lose meaning fail
BRT - Be right there
BTW - By the way
IRL - In real life, meaning everything outside the game
ALT - alternative character
Mule - alternative character used to store stuff
RMT - Real money trading, those dirty goldsellers...