Glossary and acronyms Gamer and Hack and Slash: find all the abbreviations you need to easily understand gaming jargon!

Equipment

The gear and loot section, a key part of many games

• Drop: literally the fact that a monster drops an object, in fact, it amounts to recovering an object ("I dropped a legendary!")
• GF: Gold Find, your additional chance to find gold
• Item: object
• Loot: Loot: The reason for being in life
• MF: Magic Find, your additional chance to find magic items
• Stuff / Gear: Equipment

Interactions with the world

This section deals with interactions with your game world:

• Bestiary: constitutes the variety of enemies in a game
• Craft: craft, craft an item
• Casu / Casual: occasional player or playing little
• Creep: the enemies of the game
• Event: an event often of limited duration
• Farm: repetitive activity focused on an objective (collecting items, gold, experience, etc.).
• Grind: gain experience, gain ranking
• Instance: a limited area in a world (for example dungeon or event)
• Map: the world map, dungeon, etc.
• Mobs: the enemies of the game (synonymous with creep)
• Pex: action of gaining experience
• NPC or NPC: Non-Player or Non-Playable Character, the characters implanted in the game who give you quests or sell / buy equipment for example
• PVE: Player Versus Element, you face creeps and bosses
• PVP: Player Versus Player, you face other players 
• PVX: Player Versus X, you face players and creeps (for example a farm area with the possibility of facing players)
• Random: Random (example: a random drop item corresponds to an item that can be dropped on any monster in the game)
• Rush: do an action quickly, kill the boss of an instance without taking care of the monsters around for example
• Minion: another name for creeps, especially when they have a master
• Spawn: area where creeps or players appear 
• Speed: do a repetitive activity as quickly as possible in order to optimize it
• TP: Town Portal, used to return to town
• WP: WayPoint, save point for an area allowing you to return to it at will
• XP: Experience

Interactions with players

Below everything that will be related to interactions with other players

• Boost: a help from another person stronger than you, a version less abused than PL
• Gank: Ask a player for help killing someone
• LF / LFM: Looking for Mate, a group is looking for a person
• LFG: Looking For Group, a player is looking for a group
• Matchmaking: find players to play with or against
• Need: means a need (in equipment or in person)
• Noob / Newbie: New player / Little experience
• Owned / Pwed: literally "fucked up!"
• Ping: indicate an element by an audio and visual signal
• PK: Player Killer, Player Killer, the fact of killing a player with the right or not
• PL: Power Level, when you ask someone much stronger than you to level up, kill bosses, collect items, etc.
• WTS: Want to Sell, the person wants to sell an item
• WTB: Want to Buy, the person wants to buy an item

Rôles

Everything about your character's functions

• Alt: alternative, a character that you play from time to time, for example only with a friend
• Brain Dead: Brain Dead, a very simple character to play
• CaC: character who types Corp to Corp
• Crystal: the fact of not having any point of life or resistance, often to privilege the damage
• DPS: Damage Per Second
• Glass Barrel: Glass barrel, identical to Crystal
• Healer: a person whose main role is to heal
• Off tank: a tank that does damage at the cost of lower defense
• Main: main, the character you play most often
• Range: a character typing from a distance
• Switch: switch from one character to another ("I switch my hand on my alt, I come back!")
• Tank: character whose role is to take damage, can be used in a sentence: "tank me this pack!"

Effects

Anything that will alter your condition or that of your enemies

• AoE: Area of ​​Effect, Zone d'Effet in French. The size of your spells or whether a spell hits a large area
• Buff: improving one or more stats or skills of a character
• Debuff: decreasing one or more stats or skills of a character
• DoT: Damage over Time, damage that is done over a period of time (poisoning or burning for example). It is important to differentiate them because this damage is often calculated differently (for example no critical hit or no possible effect)
• Status: all positive or negative effects will change your character's state and influence their mobility, damage, etc. (disease, silence, root etc.).
• Fear: Fear, like a silence with in addition a displacement opposite to the direction of chosen
• Overheal: Made to chain healing spells without taking into account the life bar in order to anticipate large damage
• OS: One Shot, killing or being killed in one shot
• Root: a target can no longer move but can still cast a spell or attack
• Silence: a target can no longer cast a spell, but can still attack or move
• Slow: Slowdown
• Spike: doing a much greater damage than the rest, especially for bosses who hit on average after example at 50 and then hit 400
• Stack: accumulate a type, like resistances or spell effects ("I have 100 frost ray stacks")
• Stance: Posture, for example defensive or offensive posture
• Stun: A stunned target cannot attack, cast, or move

Playing techniques

To manage your enemies more easily, it's below

• Aggro: principle of attracting enemies to you, in a non-forced way (unlike taunt)
• Burn / burst: send all your damage at once, or very quickly
• Broken: Pété, a technique too powerful compared to the rest, in particular likely to be nerfed
• Cast: cast a spell
• Clean: clear an entire room or dungeon
• Dash: leap in one direction
• Gameplay: Your character's play style
• Greed: the fact of not playing carefully, to go as fast as possible, collect as many objects as possible, kill an opponent, etc.
• Kite: the principle of typing backwards, to hit an enemy without him touching you, or as little as possible.
• KS: Kill Steal, you kill the creep or boss when you haven't done any damage to it before
• Last Hit: Give a killing blow to a creep or a boss, no matter how much damage you inflicted on them. Can be useful on some games as it affects loot or completion.
• Loot: items and gold on creeps and chests, or those you picked up ("I looted a super ax!")
• Meta: comes from Greek (and not Most Efficient Technique Avalaible), means an effective technique, currently by abuse of language
• Nerf: reduce the power of a spell or technique
• OP: OverPowered, overpowered. Being stronger than what should be normal
• Perma: permanently, for example "I am perma cc"
• Pack: a group of creeps, useful for killing multiple enemies at the same time
• Proc or Trigger: triggering an effect under certain conditions ("my fireball procs a meteor on a critical hit)
• Sweater: attract a monster or player
• Safe: playing carefully, especially to avoid dying
• Scale: the proportion of becoming stronger as the game progresses, for example a level 1 spell which is weak and level 20 very strong ("This spell scales super well!")
• Slacker: Bathing in AoE damage from enemies, in general not recommended!
• Spam, spamming, spamming: using a capacity a large number of times, especially more than its cooldown allows
• Split: disperse to avoid damage
• Timer: count the time for an enemy or ally to use their ability again
• Target: targeting an opponent 
• Taunt: force enemies to attack you
• Throw: lose a game or a fight that you should have won, especially because you played badly
• Wipe: the fact that everyone is dead and you lost

Statistics and characters

Anything directly related to your character

• Agi: agility, agility 
• CC: the chance to perform a Critical Hit, not to be confused with Critical Hit Damage (DCC)
• CC: Crowd Control, crowd control spells and effects (stun, slow motion, immobilized)
• CD: CoolDown, time to recover your skills
• CDR: CoolDown Reduction, a statistic allowing you to decrease your skill recovery time
• Channel: channel a skill, preventing you from moving
• Char / Character: character
• Dex: dexterity, dexterity 
• DPS: damage per second, the damage you do reduce over one second. For example a spell hitting 200 damage every 10 seconds will have a DPS of 20. A spell hitting 50 every two seconds will have a DPS of 25.
• HP: Health Pool, your life
• HPS: Heal Per Second: Heal per second: allows you to locate the average heal rate over a period
• Intel: intelligence, intelligence
• MP: Mana Pool, your amount of mana
• Person: character
• Setup: your character's equipment and skills
• Skill: your skills as a player ("you have skill, say so!") Or as a character ("my arctic spear skill is level 15")
• Stats: statistics or characteristics of your character
• Str: strength, force
• Vita: vitality, your vitality

Types of games

In full, the different games and their abbreviations:

• Adventure: a game where you play as a character to explore a world
• Local Co-op: you can play with several people on the same screen
• Coop Online: you can play together remotely
• FPS: First Person Shooting, the first person shooting games
• HnS: Hack And Slash, the games where you improve your character with items and levels
• RPG: Role play, often in paper version with dice
• MOBA: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
• Muso: with the help of an army and heroes defeat the army opposite
• RP: Role Playing, interpreting your role in the game
• RPG: Role Playing Game, Role-playing game, fairly wide category where you play a character
• Rogue-like: die, don't get stronger and start over to get further
• Snape-lite: die, get stronger, and start over to go further
• RTS or STR: Real Time Strategy or Real Time Strategy, army management and economy games
• Survival: a game using real conditions, such as food, temperature, etc.
• TCG or JCC: Trading Card Game or Collectible Card Game
• TPS: Third Person Shooting, third person shooting games

Home

Below all that is indirectly related to the games.

• Frieza: Freeze, your game freezes, because of the internet or your pc
• FPS: Frames Per Second, or IPS Frame Per Second. Your number of images in one second
• Hardware: hardware, anything that is physically possible to touch
• Lagger: have latency, your game is slowed down because of your internet connection
• Rammer: your game is slowed down because of your pc
• Setup: your pc, peripheral, stream equipment, etc.
• Software: software, anything that is impossible to physically touch 

Thanks

A very big thank you to the people who helped make the guide, Arktwolk, Asuna and Michel!

By Alchemists, August 2021