List of abbreviations

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This is a list of abbreviations in alphabetical order, to avoid information seekers having to search individually. Capital letters of words given as capitals in the abbreviation will be shown as capitals regardless of grammar.

Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 I 10 J 11 K 12 L 13 M 14 N 15 O 16 P 17 Q 18 R 19 S 20 T 21 U 22 V 23 W 24 X 25 Y 26 Z

[edit] A

• AFK - Away From Keyboard.
• AoE - Area of Effect.

[edit] B

• BRB - Be Right Back.
• BS - Ballistics Skill
• BBS - Be Back Soon
• BBL - Be Back Later
• BO - Black Orc

[edit] C

• CAE, Cones - Cone Area Effect.

[edit] D

• DAoC - You may hear about WAR in reference to this game, Dark Age of Camelot.
• DPS - Damage Per Second.
• DoT - Damage over Time.
• DD - Damage Dealer or Direct Damage

[edit] E

[edit] F

• FP - Fate Points, of Warhammer Fantasy Role Play

[edit] G

• GM - Game Master.
• GTAE - Ground Targeted Area Effect.
• GW - Games Workshop (or possibly Guild Wars).

[edit] H

• HoT - Heal over Time.

[edit] I

• IC - Imperial Calendar.
• IP - Intellectual Property.

[edit] J

[edit] K

• Kh. - Khazalid
• KoBS, KotBS - Knight of the Blazing Sun

[edit] L

[edit] M

• MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.
• MMO - Massively Multiplayer Online (game).
• Mob - Mobile Object, often used while referring to a non-player monster, creature, or character.

[edit] N

• NPC - Non Player Character.

[edit] O

[edit] P

• PBAoE, PBAE - Point Blank/Player Based Area of Effect.
• PC - Player Character / personal computer.
• PvE - Player versus Environment.
• PvP - Player versus Player.

[edit] Q

[edit] R

• RPG - Role Playing Game.
• RvR - Realm versus Realm.

[edit] S

• Str - Strength

[edit] T

• T - Toughness

[edit] U

• UI - User Interface.

[edit] V

• VP - Victory points

[edit] W

• WAR - Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
• WHO - Warhammer Online. (Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning)
• WIKI - Wageless Inquisition for Key Information.
• Wiki - A wiki site such as Hammerwiki, or Wikipedia.
• WS - Weapon Skill

[edit] X

• XP, Exp - Experience Points.

[edit] Y

[edit] Z

• Zerg - A reference from Starcraft, referring to a mass of players who attack a target by swarming it.