What do the abbreviations mean?

HrolleifTheUnbroken · December 2016

Hey all,

What do all the abbreviations mean? I'm kinda newish to this and still don't get it. What does AoE mean or DoT or stuff like that?

THanks!

DPShiro · December 2016

AoE= Area of Effect
DoT= Damage over Time

drakhan2002_ESO · December 2016

Try here: https://mmos.com/mmo-terms

There are a bunch of dictionaries available online...Google is your friend here...

Pixel_Zealot · December 2016

https://mmos.com/mmo-terms Check it out.

You should find most of the terms/abbreviations there.

anitajoneb17_ESO · December 2016

AOE = area of effect. Means a skill/ability that is targeted at an area (usually ground based) instead of a specific mob. Also (mis)used for designating any multitarget effect.

DOT : damage over time. Some skills do all their effect at once, other skills have an effect like X damage per second for Y seconds. Those are called DOTS (or HOTS - heal over time - if they're healing skills).

You can ask your friend Google : those abbreviations are not ESO-specific, they're afaik widely used in the MMO-universe. Even maybe the entire gaming culture.

Glaiceana · December 2016

And some others that might help: DD: damage dealer, DPS: Damage per second, Wtb: want to buy, WTS: want to sell, LFG: looking for group. Can't think of anymore right now. Hope that helps though

Tyrion87 · December 2016

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136290/the-eso-slang-and-abbreviation-dictionary/p1

ZOS_JohanaB · December 2016

We've moved this thread to Players Helping Players

Milvan · December 2016

L2P: Learn to Play
gitgud: Get good