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"Pete B" <xxxh.RemoveThis@_someething.com> wrote in message
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> So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
> "toons" and those who refuse?

Truthfully, I called mine "toons" for awhile because that's what I thought
the accepted term/jargon for them was.* Then I found out (on this ng) that
some people really ***hate*** that term, and I now refer to them as alts.

*I was frequently, at my beginning, having to look up the commonly tossed
around Warcraft shortspeak: mobs, DoT, DPS, AoE, STV, DM, PuG, etc.

Xymmie

>
> (Like me, I don't have no stinking toons! *g*)
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"Xymmie" <xymmie.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Pete B" <xxxh.TakeThisOut@_someething.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
>> "toons" and those who refuse?
>
> Truthfully, I called mine "toons" for awhile because that's what I thought
> the accepted term/jargon for them was.* Then I found out (on this ng)
> that some people really ***hate*** that term, and I now refer to them as
> alts.
>
> *I was frequently, at my beginning, having to look up the commonly tossed
> around Warcraft shortspeak: mobs, DoT, DPS, AoE, STV, DM, PuG, etc.

Monsters

Date of Transfer?

Damage Per Second

Area of Effect

StrangleThorn Vale

Dead Mines

Pick up Group

And also dungeons: Scarlet Monastery, RazorFen Down, RazorFen Krail?

-- Ken from Chicago
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:56:19 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
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>Date of Transfer?

Damage Over Time - basically a spell that causes damage over a set amount
of time, like priest's shadow word pain, warlock's corruption, curse of
agony etc. Also HoT = Heal over Time, like a priest's renew.

>Dead Mines

Or Dire Maul.

>And also dungeons: Scarlet Monastery, RazorFen Down, RazorFen Krail?

Yup, almost all instances have been turned into acronyms, I'll list the
ones I can think of that are commonly used:

Azeroth Instances:

RFC = Ragefire Chasm
DM or VC = Deadmines (VanCleef)
WC = Wailing Caverns
RFK = Razorfen Kraul
RFD = Razorfen Downs
SM = Scarlet Monastery
ZF = Zul'Farrak
ST = Sunken Temple (The Temple of Atal'Hakkar, to give it its full name)
BRD = Blackrock Depths
DM = Dire Maul
LBRS = Lower Blackrock Spire
UBRS = Upper Blackrock Spire
ZG = Zul'Gurub
MC = Molten Core
BWL = Blackwing Lair
AQ = Ahn'Qiraj (usually referred to as AQ20 or AQ40, as there are two
instances, one for 20 people and one for 40)

Outlands instances (separated by group):

HFC = Hellfire Citadel
BF = Blood Furnace
SH = Shattered Halls
(Never seen acronyms used for Ramparts or Magtheridon's lair, that's not to
say they aren't used though, just not on my server)

CFR = Coilfang Reservoir
SP = Slave Pen
UB = Underbog
SV = Steamvault
SSC = Serpentshrine Cavern

Auch = Auchindoun
MT = Mana Tombs
SL = Shadow Labyrinth
(Don't usually see acronyms for Auchenai Crypts or Sethekk Halls, people
usually just call them Crypts or Sethekk)

TK = Tempest Keep
Mech = Mechanar
Bot = Botanica
Arca = Arcatraz
(The Raid instance called The Eye usually just gets referred to as TK)

CoT = Caverns of Time (yeah ok not in Outland but it's over lvl 60 )
OHB = Old Hillsbrad
BM = Black Morass

KZ = Karazhan, also referred to as Kara.
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Sealgair - Dwarf Hunter (lvl 70)
Sagart - Undead Priest (lvl 60)
Rosad - Human Warlock (lvl 55)
Sgoildubh - Human Mage (lvl 52)
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On Jul 16, 9:09 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS....RemoveThis@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> >Dead Mines
>
> Or Dire Maul.

Context dependent. Had someone on one server in
Westfall get really upset about this. Someone
asked for groups for "DM" and this person would
*not* accept that in Westfall "DM" referred to
Deadmines. Kept complaining that they were too
low level for Dire Maul, and that they were idiots
for not using the same abbreviations he did, etc.

I tend to just spell things about fully, and
say Deadmines, or Ragefire Chasm, or whatnot.
I find it amusing that this often confuses people
who never bothered learning the real names of
places.

> SM = Scarlet Monastery

Would be nice if this had abbreviations for the individual
four wings.

> (Never seen acronyms used for Ramparts or Magtheridon's lair, that's not to
> say they aren't used though, just not on my server)

I hear people say "ramps" sometimes, which confused
me at first until I figured it out.

--
Darin Johnson
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I think "mob" comes from MOBile NPC. Confused me in the early days
cuz I too thought it was a group of things.
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On Jul 16, 1:11 pm, "john...@gmail.com" <john....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's just MMO terminology. I don't much like "mob" because to me a mob
> with a group of creatures, but I still say it. I'm sure it's dated,
> just like "proc" is. One thing I correct people on a lot is the
> difference between "aggro" and "threat." People always say "Don't
> steal aggro from the tank." No, everyone in combat already haaas
> aggro; what they don't want to steal is the threat!

Um, hate to correct you on something you say you've been correcting
others about, but that's backwards LOL. Everyone fighting it has
threat (it's why it's call a threat meter, and why spells like
Counterspell say "This spell generates a high amount of threat.".).
Aggro is the focus of the mob, and it truly is aggro that you don't
want to steal from the tank.

Mike
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On Jul 16, 1:01 pm, "mbga...@gmail.com" <mbga....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 1:11 pm, "john...@gmail.com" <john....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's just MMO terminology. I don't much like "mob" because to me a mob
> > with a group of creatures, but I still say it. I'm sure it's dated,
> > just like "proc" is. One thing I correct people on a lot is the
> > difference between "aggro" and "threat." People always say "Don't
> > steal aggro from the tank." No, everyone in combat already haaas
> > aggro; what they don't want to steal is the threat!
>
> Um, hate to correct you on something you say you've been correcting
> others about, but that's backwards LOL. Everyone fighting it has
> threat (it's why it's call a threat meter, and why spells like
> Counterspell say "This spell generates a high amount of threat.".).
> Aggro is the focus of the mob, and it truly is aggro that you don't
> want to steal from the tank.
>
> Mike

Fair enough. But I'll still correct people who use "generate aggro."
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On Jul 16, 4:12 pm, Polarhound <polarho... DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote:
> And why is each individual monster called a mob?

It's what they were called on the first MUDs. "Mob"
was a "mobile object", or "mobile" for short. Anything
alive that wasn't a player. The term just sort of
stuck around in later multi player games.

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Darin
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On Jul 16, 10:21 am, Pete B <xxxh.TakeThisOut@_someething.com> wrote:
> So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
> "toons" and those who refuse?
>
> (Like me, I don't have no stinking toons! *g*)

It's just MMO terminology. I don't much like "mob" because to me a mob
with a group of creatures, but I still say it. I'm sure it's dated,
just like "proc" is. One thing I correct people on a lot is the
difference between "aggro" and "threat." People always say "Don't
steal aggro from the tank." No, everyone in combat already haaas
aggro; what they don't want to steal is the threat!
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On Jul 16, 3:42 pm, Darin Johnson <da....DeleteThis@usa.net> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 9:09 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS....DeleteThis@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > >Dead Mines

VC

> > SM = Scarlet Monastery
>
> Would be nice if this had abbreviations for the individual
> four wings.

SM Arm
SM Lib
SM Cath
SM GY
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Ken from Chicago wrote:
> "Xymmie" <xymmie.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5g1holF3fbldaU1@mid.individual.net...
>> "Pete B" <xxxh.RemoveThis@_someething.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.2105ab6948ea952c98a894@news.usenetserver.com...
>>> So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
>>> "toons" and those who refuse?
>> Truthfully, I called mine "toons" for awhile because that's what I thought
>> the accepted term/jargon for them was.* Then I found out (on this ng)
>> that some people really ***hate*** that term, and I now refer to them as
>> alts.
>>
>> *I was frequently, at my beginning, having to look up the commonly tossed
>> around Warcraft shortspeak: mobs, DoT, DPS, AoE, STV, DM, PuG, etc.
>
> Monsters

And why is each individual monster called a mob?
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On Jul 16, 10:56 am, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos....TakeThisOut@comcast.net>
wrote:
> "Xymmie" <xym....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "Pete B" <xxxh.TakeThisOut@_someething.com> wrote in message
> >news:MPG.2105ab6948ea952c98a894@news.usenetserver.com...
>
> >> So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
> >> "toons" and those who refuse?
>
> > Truthfully, I called mine "toons" for awhile because that's what I thought
> > the accepted term/jargon for them was.* Then I found out (on this ng)
> > that some people really ***hate*** that term, and I now refer to them as
> > alts.
>
> > *I was frequently, at my beginning, having to look up the commonly tossed
> > around Warcraft shortspeak: mobs, DoT, DPS, AoE, STV, DM, PuG, etc.
>
> Monsters
>
> Date of Transfer?
>
> Damage Per Second
>
> Area of Effect
>
> StrangleThorn Vale
>
> Dead Mines
>
> Pick up Group
>
> And also dungeons: Scarlet Monastery, RazorFen Down, RazorFen Krail?
>
> -- Ken from Chicago

How can you know what all those mean except DoT? :O
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<john.ra RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jul 16, 10:56 am, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos... RemoveThis @comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> "Xymmie" <xym... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> > "Pete B" <xxxh RemoveThis @_someething.com> wrote in message
>> >news:MPG.2105ab6948ea952c98a894@news.usenetserver.com...
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>> >> So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
>> >> "toons" and those who refuse?
>>
>> > Truthfully, I called mine "toons" for awhile because that's what I
>> > thought
>> > the accepted term/jargon for them was.* Then I found out (on this ng)
>> > that some people really ***hate*** that term, and I now refer to them
>> > as
>> > alts.
>>
>> > *I was frequently, at my beginning, having to look up the commonly
>> > tossed
>> > around Warcraft shortspeak: mobs, DoT, DPS, AoE, STV, DM, PuG, etc.
>>
>> Monsters
>>
>> Date of Transfer?
>>
>> Damage Per Second
>>
>> Area of Effect
>>
>> StrangleThorn Vale
>>
>> Dead Mines
>>
>> Pick up Group
>>
>> And also dungeons: Scarlet Monastery, RazorFen Down, RazorFen Krail?
>>
>> -- Ken from Chicago
>
> How can you know what all those mean except DoT? :O
>

Some from Guild Wars (e.g. PuG, AoE), others from a month on WOW (e.g., DM,
STV, SM and more recently noticing RFD, RFK, BRD and just this morning AQ)
and others from websites about WOW (e.g., DPS, mobs). I haven't seen DoT.

-- Ken from Chicago
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