Post by k03pp3n on Mar 20, 2008 15:54:30 GMT -5
This article is a reference guide for people just getting into the competitive arena scene. The terms and acronyms that arena players can see very odd at times, but this guide should give you an idea of just what players are talking about. If you do know where a term listed here originated from, let me know via a comment.
Name (other known names)
Definition
Origin (If Known)
Usage
2345
A 5v5 Setup using Arms Warrior, Holy or Disc Priest, Holy Paladin, Elemental Shaman, and a Mage.
The origin of this term stems from Noktyn and Sck during the online regional stage against The Fighting Mongooses. They were spamming 23452345235425 in party chat and irc, since the setup's strength is to activate Heroism/Bloodlust and press as many offensive buttons as you can.
Pandemic was running 2345 last night.
2346
A 5v5 setup using Arms Warrior, Holy or Disc Priest, Holy Paladin, Elemental Shaman, and a Felguard Warlock. This is a play on '2345', using the more powerful Warlock in the place of the Mage.
Cutebabyelephants was one of the first good 2346 groups.
4dps
A 5v5 setup using a single healer, and 4 classes that are spec'd for damage. This setup is notorious for being very easy to play, and skill less.
No known origin.
Kalgan was running 4dps last night with his warrior.
Backpedaling
When you hold the move backwards key to move backwards, instead of turning and moving. This is very inefficient, and players will criticize you for doing this.
General MMO PvP term.
Mordo was backpedaling to get into intercept range on Hammura, but he got himself out of range and Hammura got away with 5% hp. -Xyi
Baiting
Movements/abilities that fake the enemy into attacking you.
General Gaming term.
Binds
Abbreviation for Key Bindings. This refers to where on your keyboard your spells/abilities are. Players will compare binds to see which is more efficient. This can also refer to ventrilo text to speech macros.
General gaming term.
Not hard to come into this channel and spam binds Arto.
Burning
When a Priest is using mana burn over and over on a single target.
General WoW PvP term.
Do something to stop that Priest from burning, he's emptying my mana.
Buttons
Trinkets and abilities that increase your damage output.
Savor from Nurfed first used this term in early 5v5 tournaments at level 60.
You got buttons?
CC
Short for Crowd Control – Abilities that control the enemy target – immobilizing Warriors, sheeping Priests.
General MMO PvP term.
Clicker
A player who uses his mouse to click some or all abilities.
General WoW arena term, unknown origin.
I can't believe Serennia is a clicker, he was #1 in bg9.
Comp (Matrix, Composition)
The selection of classes and/or specs on a team.
Matrix was first heard on World of Ming.
Rogue/Mage/Priest is a 3v3 comp.
Cooldown
The time till an ability can be used again.
This term was used in Warcraft 3, a RTS created by Blizzard.
Divine Shield has a four minute cooldown.
CS
Acronym for Counterspell. This can also refer to other lockout abilities such as spell lock.
General WoW PvP term.
I was CS'd, I couldn't heal him.
DB
Acronym for drainburn, a 5v5 setup featuring Hunter/Warlock.
European Arena Term.
DR
Acronym for Diminishing Returns. Crowd control is less and less effective on a target the more times you use it on a single target multiple times.
General WoW Arena term.
I won't trinket this fear, I'm on DR.
Drain Team
An arena team setup using one or more of Hunter/Warlock/Priest as the highlight of the group. The strategy of the group is to drain the enemy healer and/or caster dps's mana, then go for a kill.
General WoW Arena term.
It's not hard to spam to proc rng imp hampstrings and entrapment to get your drain team to burn me to zero mana - Nevetslol
Eurocomp
RMPWD
Droodrog
All meaning the new 5v5 setup Rogue/Mage/Priest/Warlock/Druid.
European Arena Term.
Sk gaming just started running the eurocomp, and will be running it in the BG9 tourney.
Farm
To defeat a team over and over, and lower their rating.
Farm originally comes from Everquest as a general MMO term, but was first used in arena terminology in season1.
Who farmed CLC last night? They were might higher yesterday.
Fotm
Acronym for 'Feature of the Month' or 'Flavor of the Month'. Abilities or setups that are popular due to being adjusted by game developers for the better.
General gaming term.
The fotm 5v5 setup is currently Disc Priest, Felguard Warlock, Ice Mage, Resto Druid and a Rogue.
Humping
To stick to an object to break LoS of casters.
General WoW arena term.
That hunter was pillar humping in Nagrand, we couldn't get to him.
Locked
This term refers to when a player is counterspell'd while casting a spell. The 8 second school lockout that follows is normally referred to as being locked.
General WoW PvP term.
I locked the paladin, switch to the warrior and burst.
LoS
Line of Sight. Almost every spell/ability in World of Warcraft requires your target to be in line of sight (no obstructions) during the casting of the spell/ability.
Various games dating back to pen and paper RPG's.
I'm using the pillar to LoS the burns.
Nerf
When a developer tunes an ability/spell, and makes it less powerful.
General gaming term.
They nerfed the hell out of Prayer of Mending early first season.
Outs
Abilities with a decently long cooldown that removes the target from danger.
No known origin. I first heard of this when Pandemic was practicing 3v3's before WSVG China.
I just used my PvP Trinket, I have no more outs.
Overextend
In World of Warcraft, this term refers to when a member of your group out ranges their healers.
This term originated in Dark Age of Camelot, from groups that would snare a whole group and run. This was referred to as an Extension group, where they would bait a single target into extending into their casting range, and away from their healers.
Inactive is overextended, swap to him, I'll lock Clickerz.
Peel
Using abilities to remove pressure from your teammates, normally used on melee opponents with immobilizing spells.
Peel was first used in Dark Age of Camelot PvP,
Peel this warrior off me, I gotta go drink.
Pulling Out
Having your melee classes move back towards your healers, to a defensive position.
General WoW Arena term.
Pull out, the shaman's gonna timer on you.
Proc
Abbreviation for process. If a talent, ability, or weapon has a chance to activate, this is called a proc.
This term originated in Everquest, off of weapons that had a chance to activate such as the Short Sword of Yheska.
That warrior's stormherald always procs when he misses a pummel.
Qlimax'd
When you give your account info to someone, and they get it banned/deleted.
Qlimax is a Warrior from Dethecus, who's account was farmed from rank12 to rank1 overnight.
No quote needed here
Quick Swap
Flash Nuke (European)
To switch to a target all at the same time and dumping damage into it. This puts stress on the enemy healers, and can normally cause a death if the healers and/or the target aren't prepared for it.
You see the warrior? You see? BOOOOOOOM DEAD. You see? Less than 3 seconds mother fucker. That's how we play, we use flash nukes. - Athene from MovieLOL
Rinse
Rinsing refers to killing a target quickly.
European arena term.
"RINSE HIM" is just something like "RAPE HIM" like totally "owning/destroying someone" "damn he got rinsed like a little girl" -Phixus
s1,s2,s3
Acronym for Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, normally referring to gear.
General WoW arena term.
4/5 s3 Hunter looking for 2v2 team that can get 1850 rating. -Various Tichondrius Trade Chat Members
Shatter Combo
Using the 41 point frost talent, Water Elemental to instantly frost nova a target and casting a frostbolt and ice lance at said target. Due to the increased crit chance from the 15 point frost talent, Shatter, this is the primary way a frost mage will do damage.
Unlike shatter combo which is very hard to land, POM pyro requires zero set-up time and is perfect for fast target switches. -worldofming
Spam (Spamming)
Using an ability over and over.
General gaming term.
Priests will spam dispel magic on a Warlock after the Warlock's pet dies to try to dispel the Fel Domination that is coming.
Spec
Abbreviation for specialization. In WoW this refers to how you spent your talent points.
This term was originated from Dark Age of Camelot, when you leveled you received a specialization point to put into one of 3 trees. These trees determined your style of play, just like talents do in WoW.
That Warlock is UA spec, get on him!
Strip
Using Purge, Dispel Magic, Spellsteal or Devour Magic to remove the buffs an opponent has.
General WoW PvP term.
Help me strip the Warlock at the start, then the Warrior - Kollektiv
Swap Sides
To move the positioning of your team to the opposite side of the map. To Swap Sides on Nagrand Arena is to move your healers and ranged classes towards the enemy's start.
The first time I heard this term was when Sck joined our team early in season1.
They're pushed way in on us, I'm swapping sides. -Sck
Tunnel Vision
When a player focuses on a single thing in the arena, and loses focus on the entire fight.
Unknown WoW origin, first used early first arena season in regards to healers losing focus and letting members die to player swaps.
Meatball has such tunnel vision, all he does is spam mana burn while his group dies.
Turtling
An arena tactic where a team plays very defensively.
The origin in WoW stems from Warsong Gulch match where a team puts most of it's player on defense.
The secret to destroying a turtle combo is to flip it over on its back, exposing it's soft belly. -Saris
Trinket
To use your Medallion of the Alliance/Horde to get out of crowd control. Keeping track of when the enemy uses their PvP trinket is a way to win a lot of 2v2/3v3's.
This term originates back to when the PvP trinket was first introduced.
The Druid trinket'd, blind him now.
Xahilor'd
As a warrior, when you run away from your healers and die to damage. See: overextending
I first heard this term in #battlegroup9 during season1.
That warrior charged our priest behind the pillar, so we xahilor'd him.
Zerg
Overwhelming attack on a single target by multiple members of your team.
Short for Zergling, a race in Blizzard's RTS Starcraft that attacked by overwhelming it's enemy with a lot of units
Honestly a lot of people really hate TGS (me included) because they zerg the Warlock/pet EVERY SINGLE GAME. -Swarm
Copied from: www.teampandemic.net/features/81
Name (other known names)
Definition
Origin (If Known)
Usage
2345
A 5v5 Setup using Arms Warrior, Holy or Disc Priest, Holy Paladin, Elemental Shaman, and a Mage.
The origin of this term stems from Noktyn and Sck during the online regional stage against The Fighting Mongooses. They were spamming 23452345235425 in party chat and irc, since the setup's strength is to activate Heroism/Bloodlust and press as many offensive buttons as you can.
Pandemic was running 2345 last night.
2346
A 5v5 setup using Arms Warrior, Holy or Disc Priest, Holy Paladin, Elemental Shaman, and a Felguard Warlock. This is a play on '2345', using the more powerful Warlock in the place of the Mage.
Cutebabyelephants was one of the first good 2346 groups.
4dps
A 5v5 setup using a single healer, and 4 classes that are spec'd for damage. This setup is notorious for being very easy to play, and skill less.
No known origin.
Kalgan was running 4dps last night with his warrior.
Backpedaling
When you hold the move backwards key to move backwards, instead of turning and moving. This is very inefficient, and players will criticize you for doing this.
General MMO PvP term.
Mordo was backpedaling to get into intercept range on Hammura, but he got himself out of range and Hammura got away with 5% hp. -Xyi
Baiting
Movements/abilities that fake the enemy into attacking you.
General Gaming term.
Binds
Abbreviation for Key Bindings. This refers to where on your keyboard your spells/abilities are. Players will compare binds to see which is more efficient. This can also refer to ventrilo text to speech macros.
General gaming term.
Not hard to come into this channel and spam binds Arto.
Burning
When a Priest is using mana burn over and over on a single target.
General WoW PvP term.
Do something to stop that Priest from burning, he's emptying my mana.
Buttons
Trinkets and abilities that increase your damage output.
Savor from Nurfed first used this term in early 5v5 tournaments at level 60.
You got buttons?
CC
Short for Crowd Control – Abilities that control the enemy target – immobilizing Warriors, sheeping Priests.
General MMO PvP term.
Clicker
A player who uses his mouse to click some or all abilities.
General WoW arena term, unknown origin.
I can't believe Serennia is a clicker, he was #1 in bg9.
Comp (Matrix, Composition)
The selection of classes and/or specs on a team.
Matrix was first heard on World of Ming.
Rogue/Mage/Priest is a 3v3 comp.
Cooldown
The time till an ability can be used again.
This term was used in Warcraft 3, a RTS created by Blizzard.
Divine Shield has a four minute cooldown.
CS
Acronym for Counterspell. This can also refer to other lockout abilities such as spell lock.
General WoW PvP term.
I was CS'd, I couldn't heal him.
DB
Acronym for drainburn, a 5v5 setup featuring Hunter/Warlock.
European Arena Term.
DR
Acronym for Diminishing Returns. Crowd control is less and less effective on a target the more times you use it on a single target multiple times.
General WoW Arena term.
I won't trinket this fear, I'm on DR.
Drain Team
An arena team setup using one or more of Hunter/Warlock/Priest as the highlight of the group. The strategy of the group is to drain the enemy healer and/or caster dps's mana, then go for a kill.
General WoW Arena term.
It's not hard to spam to proc rng imp hampstrings and entrapment to get your drain team to burn me to zero mana - Nevetslol
Eurocomp
RMPWD
Droodrog
All meaning the new 5v5 setup Rogue/Mage/Priest/Warlock/Druid.
European Arena Term.
Sk gaming just started running the eurocomp, and will be running it in the BG9 tourney.
Farm
To defeat a team over and over, and lower their rating.
Farm originally comes from Everquest as a general MMO term, but was first used in arena terminology in season1.
Who farmed CLC last night? They were might higher yesterday.
Fotm
Acronym for 'Feature of the Month' or 'Flavor of the Month'. Abilities or setups that are popular due to being adjusted by game developers for the better.
General gaming term.
The fotm 5v5 setup is currently Disc Priest, Felguard Warlock, Ice Mage, Resto Druid and a Rogue.
Humping
To stick to an object to break LoS of casters.
General WoW arena term.
That hunter was pillar humping in Nagrand, we couldn't get to him.
Locked
This term refers to when a player is counterspell'd while casting a spell. The 8 second school lockout that follows is normally referred to as being locked.
General WoW PvP term.
I locked the paladin, switch to the warrior and burst.
LoS
Line of Sight. Almost every spell/ability in World of Warcraft requires your target to be in line of sight (no obstructions) during the casting of the spell/ability.
Various games dating back to pen and paper RPG's.
I'm using the pillar to LoS the burns.
Nerf
When a developer tunes an ability/spell, and makes it less powerful.
General gaming term.
They nerfed the hell out of Prayer of Mending early first season.
Outs
Abilities with a decently long cooldown that removes the target from danger.
No known origin. I first heard of this when Pandemic was practicing 3v3's before WSVG China.
I just used my PvP Trinket, I have no more outs.
Overextend
In World of Warcraft, this term refers to when a member of your group out ranges their healers.
This term originated in Dark Age of Camelot, from groups that would snare a whole group and run. This was referred to as an Extension group, where they would bait a single target into extending into their casting range, and away from their healers.
Inactive is overextended, swap to him, I'll lock Clickerz.
Peel
Using abilities to remove pressure from your teammates, normally used on melee opponents with immobilizing spells.
Peel was first used in Dark Age of Camelot PvP,
Peel this warrior off me, I gotta go drink.
Pulling Out
Having your melee classes move back towards your healers, to a defensive position.
General WoW Arena term.
Pull out, the shaman's gonna timer on you.
Proc
Abbreviation for process. If a talent, ability, or weapon has a chance to activate, this is called a proc.
This term originated in Everquest, off of weapons that had a chance to activate such as the Short Sword of Yheska.
That warrior's stormherald always procs when he misses a pummel.
Qlimax'd
When you give your account info to someone, and they get it banned/deleted.
Qlimax is a Warrior from Dethecus, who's account was farmed from rank12 to rank1 overnight.
No quote needed here
Quick Swap
Flash Nuke (European)
To switch to a target all at the same time and dumping damage into it. This puts stress on the enemy healers, and can normally cause a death if the healers and/or the target aren't prepared for it.
You see the warrior? You see? BOOOOOOOM DEAD. You see? Less than 3 seconds mother fucker. That's how we play, we use flash nukes. - Athene from MovieLOL
Rinse
Rinsing refers to killing a target quickly.
European arena term.
"RINSE HIM" is just something like "RAPE HIM" like totally "owning/destroying someone" "damn he got rinsed like a little girl" -Phixus
s1,s2,s3
Acronym for Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, normally referring to gear.
General WoW arena term.
4/5 s3 Hunter looking for 2v2 team that can get 1850 rating. -Various Tichondrius Trade Chat Members
Shatter Combo
Using the 41 point frost talent, Water Elemental to instantly frost nova a target and casting a frostbolt and ice lance at said target. Due to the increased crit chance from the 15 point frost talent, Shatter, this is the primary way a frost mage will do damage.
Unlike shatter combo which is very hard to land, POM pyro requires zero set-up time and is perfect for fast target switches. -worldofming
Spam (Spamming)
Using an ability over and over.
General gaming term.
Priests will spam dispel magic on a Warlock after the Warlock's pet dies to try to dispel the Fel Domination that is coming.
Spec
Abbreviation for specialization. In WoW this refers to how you spent your talent points.
This term was originated from Dark Age of Camelot, when you leveled you received a specialization point to put into one of 3 trees. These trees determined your style of play, just like talents do in WoW.
That Warlock is UA spec, get on him!
Strip
Using Purge, Dispel Magic, Spellsteal or Devour Magic to remove the buffs an opponent has.
General WoW PvP term.
Help me strip the Warlock at the start, then the Warrior - Kollektiv
Swap Sides
To move the positioning of your team to the opposite side of the map. To Swap Sides on Nagrand Arena is to move your healers and ranged classes towards the enemy's start.
The first time I heard this term was when Sck joined our team early in season1.
They're pushed way in on us, I'm swapping sides. -Sck
Tunnel Vision
When a player focuses on a single thing in the arena, and loses focus on the entire fight.
Unknown WoW origin, first used early first arena season in regards to healers losing focus and letting members die to player swaps.
Meatball has such tunnel vision, all he does is spam mana burn while his group dies.
Turtling
An arena tactic where a team plays very defensively.
The origin in WoW stems from Warsong Gulch match where a team puts most of it's player on defense.
The secret to destroying a turtle combo is to flip it over on its back, exposing it's soft belly. -Saris
Trinket
To use your Medallion of the Alliance/Horde to get out of crowd control. Keeping track of when the enemy uses their PvP trinket is a way to win a lot of 2v2/3v3's.
This term originates back to when the PvP trinket was first introduced.
The Druid trinket'd, blind him now.
Xahilor'd
As a warrior, when you run away from your healers and die to damage. See: overextending
I first heard this term in #battlegroup9 during season1.
That warrior charged our priest behind the pillar, so we xahilor'd him.
Zerg
Overwhelming attack on a single target by multiple members of your team.
Short for Zergling, a race in Blizzard's RTS Starcraft that attacked by overwhelming it's enemy with a lot of units
Honestly a lot of people really hate TGS (me included) because they zerg the Warlock/pet EVERY SINGLE GAME. -Swarm
Copied from: www.teampandemic.net/features/81
