Online Game Terminology

Most of these Terminologies were found on the gamer wikis, urban dictionary, and also from Blu's own online gaming encounters. I have choosen the best discriptions I have found to describe the terms and the terms often used and that most people may not know. WARNING R RATED LANGUAGE 

A

Alpha

(General software term) First phase of testing software. The structure and most of the content has been developed but not all the intended features may be present. Alpha tests are typically run in-house or by specialist testing agencies.

ADD

When you are fighting a mob and another one pops up to attack  

B

BTW 

"by the way"

Buffs 

Spells that enhance strength, power, or other abilities. One of the primary functions of the healer classes and some caster classes

BAF

When you attract a mob and it brings along more then expected 

Beta

(General software term) Second phase of testing software (not exclusively games) and last development phase prior to release. Most features have been implemented but some of these may be removed during the beta phase if they turn out to be too problematic to fix.

Open beta

The beta version of the software is available for anyone to test and report bugs to the company.

Closed beta

The software is only available to selected people who may be testing for very specific things. 

Bug

Faults in the programming which cause unintended effects both good and bad – crashes, unintentionally high character advancement, etc.

Bio

Another way to say "brb" when you are going to use the bathroom 

BoE 

"bind on equip" - refers to loot drops that anyone can pick up to use, sell, or give away.

BoP 

"bind on pickup" - the moment you pick it up, it becomes bound (soulbound in WoW) to you. In groups, if you pick up a BoP item which you cannot personally use and without asking first, you will die and go to the deepest, coldest hell ever imagined by any gamer anywhere. Your first response to any BoP drop is to PASS.

C

Camp

To remain in one strategic place and repeatedly kill people or mobs.

D

Ding! 

You've achieved a new level in your game.(can also be said over voice as "WOOSH!") 

DOT 

 A pesky spell or poison that causes "damage over time" - repeatedly hurting you until it is cured, wears off, or leaves you lying on the ground looking for a rez.

DPS 

 "damage per second." 

E

Expansion Pack

Lots of additional content for a game that is created by the developer and often costs almost as much as the original game did in the first place.

F

Faction

A group of allies, either racial or ideological.

FTA

For the Alliance. It refers to The Horde one of the two factions in World of Warcraft.

FTW! 

"For the win!" As in, "Skimpily-clad, epic-busted, bouncy-bottomed chick avatars ftw!

Frag

Kill.

For the Horde 

For the Horde. It refers to "The Horde" one of the two factions in World of Warcraft.

G

GRATZ! 
(or the variations: Grats!, Gratzz! Gratzzzz!) Gratz is an easy abbreviation to decode; it is simply a contraction of "Congratulations". Use it often, make friends, play nice.

GTFO

"Get the Fuck out" normally yelled by a raid leader when the monsters in the area are too tough 

Gate

A potion in Everquest 

Grind

Performing mindlessly repetitive tasks in order to level up or proceed in the game – most often seen in MMORPGs where you frequently have to kill massive numbers of unchallenging creatures around your level to gain the necessary experience to level up, or to get a specific prestigious item.


Guild

 Can be a mixture of races and similar ideologies. Normally people in a guild like to hang out and do quests together.

K

KITE 

 A term in video gaming and elsewhere to describe when a ranged fighter skirmishes with a hand-to-hand fighter by running and shooting. This can have 2 purposes: a) to damage the enemy while staying outside of hand-to-hand range, or b) to make the enemy follow you so you can lead them to a specific locatio

L

LOS 

"line of sight." Casters can't make firebolts curve around obstacles the way that guy in Wanted could.

Leet, 1337

Elite

LFG/LFP

Looking for group/party/person

M

Main 

Your most played, highest level, or first created character.

Mine, Farm, Pharm 

To stay in one place, killing the same mob over and over and over again, for loot or xp.

Mob

NPC monsters or opponents.

N

Noob

Newbie, new person, inexperienced person

Ninja Looting

grabbing loot from a slain monster, chest, etc., that you don't have a right to grab, or that you didn't earn, or that you don't need. Ninja looting is very, very bad. Its so bad most games don't have the ability to take loot from something you didn't kill

Nerf

To weaken or make less dangerous. Taken from the "Nerf" brand name, which makes sports equipment toys out of a soft foam (e.g., the Nerf football is soft foam rather than the hard leather of a real football). Used frequently in the context of computer game balance changes. 

"The chaingun was awesome til they nerfed it, now you can't hit shit with it." 

O

OTW 
"on the way"

OOC

Out of Character" If a game requires roleplaying you say this to stipulate that you are not playing the character but speaking as youself

P

PK, PKing

Player-killing. Usually used in the context of MMOs, where killing other players is not necessarily the object of the game.

Pwned

Owned. One of those strange internet variations that start at typos and become words unto themselves

PVP
Play vs Play. Normally these are done on online gaming in only certain locations since all people dont enjoy being killed by others.

S

Spawn

The act of a character popping into existence in the game world.

Spawn point 

A position at which several characters will pop into existence.

Snare Train

(Ever Quest) Druid or Wizard cast a snare effect run circles around the mob while attacking them keeping them snared

Spawn camp 

To sit within range of a spawn point and kill characters as they appear, often before the newly-spawned players have a chance to get their bearings. Very heavily frowned-upon in most circles.

T

Train

A whole bunch of mobs chasing after someone who can't handle them. Choo choo!

Trained 

Someone pulls mobs ontop of you normally one that is way to strong or over powering

Tank

Character who can take a lot of damage. Normally sonething of a melee class who hits hard, and distracts the enemy.

W

WTG 

"way to go!" Self-explanatory

WTS/WTB/WTT

Want to sell/Want to buy/Want to Trade. Commonly heard in the general areas of MMOs

WTFO

stands for what the fuck over normally used after some 'trained' you. 

Z

Zone

Many on-line gaming worlds are so vast they have to be divided into areas or "zones."




Here are the sites I used and many more definitions can be found that aren't listed here 
http://www.theaveragegamer.com/terminology/
http://www.squidoo.com/gamingacronyms
http://www.urbandictionary.com/