EverQuest – Abbreviations

Allot of NEWBs see an OOC and ask “WTF?”. This should help clear things up for them.

Abbreviation	Meaning	Notes
AA	Alternate Advancement	points or abilities
AC	Armor Class / Ancient Cyclops (Ocean of Tears, South Ro) / Ancient Croc (Upper Guk)	Increase with level and AC gear. Zone
ADD	Additional mob	Needs a Tanking, Mezzing or Parking
AFAIK	As Far As I Know	Your being Honest about something
AFK	Away From Keyboard	A message can be placed after /afk to auto reply to sender
AGGRO	Aggression	mob is angry, degree of mob anger
AGI	Agility	Increases with buffs and gear
AGRO	Aggression	mob is angry, degree of mob anger
AL	Arch Lich	Mob in
ANON	Anonymous	Hides Level and Class
AOE	Area Of Effect (aka AE)	spell line that hits targets within an area rather than target only
AoW	Avatar of War	Mob in Keal
AP	Adventure Points	LDoN
AP	Akheva Ruins	Zone
ASAP	As Soon As Possible	Chat
ATK	Attack	Stat
BA	Blood Ember	SK Armour
Barb	Barbarian	Race
Baz	Bazaar	Zone
BB	Butcherblock Mountains / Black Burrow	Zone
BD	Blue Diamond	Trade skill ingredients
BL	Beastlord	Class
BLUE	Blue con / EXP	Mob level rating compared to yours. Also displays faction with the NPC targeted
BOOK	Travel using PoK stones	Also books / Spell book
BP	Breastplate	Armour
BRB	Be Right Back	Chat
BRD	Bard	Class
BRT	Be Right There	Chat
BST	Beastlord	Class
BTM	Blue to Me	refers to /con of PC/NPC
BTW	By The Way	Chat
BUB	Bubble	refers to visual representation of HP's, mana, exp,etc
BW	Burning Woods	Zone
C	Clarity/Clarity 2/KEI/Tranquility/VOQ	Enchanter buff for mana regen aka "crack"
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5	Clarity/Clarity 2/KEI/Tranquility/VOQ	Enchanter buff for mana regen aka "crack"
CAMO	Camouflage	Invisibility
CB	Crushbone	Zone
CC	Crystal Caverns / Crowd Control	Zone / Off Tanking, Parking, Mezzing
CH	Complete Healing	Cleric 7500hp heal
CHA	Charisma	Stat Buff
COAT	Thistlecoat, Barbcoat, Bramblecoat...	Ranger, Druid Buff
CoD	Crypt of Decay / Command of Druzzil	Zone / Enchanter Spell
CoM	City of Mist	Zone
CON	/consider	Check level compared to yours and faction with an NPC
CoV	Claws of Veeshan	Dragon faction
CR	Corpse Retrieval / Cold Resistance	Your getting your corpse back / Your resistance to cold. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
CS	Cobalt Scar	Zone
CT	Cazic Thule / Temple of Cazic Thule	server, deity / Zone
CYA	See You Later	Goodbye
CYC	Cyclops	aka "One Eye"
DC	Dagnor's Cauldron / Dire Charm	Zone / Druid and Enchanter AA Skill
DD	Direct Damage	aka "burn" or "nuke"
DE	Dark Elf	Race
DEX	Dexterity	Stat
DING	Just Leveled	You get new spells and better stats, HP, Mana pool
DKP	Dragon-Kill Points	system of distributing loot, assigns point value to mobs killed; points spent to "buy" loot
DL	The Dreadlands	Zone
DLY	Delay	Weapon speed
DMF	Dead Man Floating	Necro Spell
DMG	Damage	Damage done to NPC by weapons or spells
DORF	Dwarf	Race, derogatory but funny
DOT	Damage Over Time / Peridot	Spell damage / Spell and trade skill component
DP	Dawnshroud Peaks	Zone
DPS	Damage-per-second	Damage rating
DR	Disease Resistance	Your resistance to Disease. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
DROOD	Druid	Class / derogatory but funny/cool also: Dr00d
DRU	Druid	Class / also Dr00d
DS	Damage Shield / Doomshade	DRU,MAG,RNG spell / Mob
DSP	Dawnshroud Peaks	Zone
DWF	Dwarf	Race
EB	Enduring Breath	Lets you breath underwater or in zone such as The Gray
EC	East Commons	Zone
EF	Everfrost	Zone
EFP	East Freeport / Everfrost Peaks	Zone's
EJ	Emerald Jungle	Zone
EK	East Karana	Zone
ELF	Woodelf	Race
ENC	Enchanter (aka Chanter)	Class
EP	Ethereal Parchment / Experience Points	Quest item / Show as a % bar
EVAC	Succor (Evacuate)	Fast port to another zone or current zone safe point, slight risk of leaving someone behind
EW	Eastern Wastes	Zone
EWBER	Ewber	Greater than all
EXP	Experience	Show as a % bar
FD	Feign Death	Necromancer/Shadow knight/Monk skill or spell
FFA	Free For All	Anyone can get/have
FG	Fungus Grove	Zone
FM	Full Mana / Frontier Mountains	Max mana / Zone
FoE	Flight of Eagles	Druid Spell
FP	Freeport	Zone
FR	Fire Resistance	Your resistance to fire. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
FUBAR	Fucked up beyond all recognition	Opps, something went wrong
FV	Firona Vie	server, deity, zone
GD	The Great Divide	Zone
GE	Grieg's End	Zone
GF	Greater Faydark	Zone - Old school auctioning zone, before bazaar
GFLUX	Gravity Flux	Enchanter spell
GL	Good Luck / Guild Leader / Group Leader	Says it all
GMR	Group Magic Resist	Enchanter spell - Increases your resistance to Magic.
GN	Good Night	Time to sleep
GNO	Gnome	Race
GRATS	Congratulations	something went well 🙂
GTG	Good To Go	Telling everyone you are ready
GU	Guildchat (aka /GU)	Your guild chat
HEF	Half-Elf	Race
HFL	Halfling	Race
HH	Highpass Hold	Zone
HHK	Highhold Keep	Zone
HIE	High Elf	Race
HK	Highhold Keep	Zone
HoH	Halls of Honor	Zone
HoT	Halls of Testing	Zone in ToV
HoT	Heal over Time	Healing spell
HP	Hit Points	Characters health, have lots of these is a good thing
HPH	Highpass Hold	Zone
HPK	Highhold Keep	Zone
HS	Howling Stones	Zone
HT	Harm Touch	SK NEC Skill, can do lots of damage in small burst
HUM	Human	Race
IC	Iceclad Ocean	Zone
ID	Identify / Improved Damage	Spell / Focus item
IIRC	If I Remember Correctly	Lets hope you do 🙂
IMNSHO	In My Not So Humble Opinion	??
IMO	In My Opinion	Your view on something
IMOA	In My Humble Opinion	Being Honest
INC	Incoming	Your bring a mob back to your party, hopefully to kill it
INT	Intelligence	Your Intelligence. Effects INC casters mana pool. Increased by Items, Buffs.
INV	Inventory	Space to carry your gear / lewts
INVIS	Invisibility	Spell that makes you invis to some NPC's
IRL	In Real Life	Not in EQ, but in the real world
JBOOTS	Journeyman Boots	Quest item - Almost a must for all
JK	Just Kidding	Joking around
K	Okay	OK
KC	Karnor's Castle / Katta Castellum	Zone
KEI	Koadic's Endless Intellect (aka Clarity 3)	Enchanter mana regen buff
KITH	Kithicor Forest	Zone
KOS	Kill On Sight	NPC will attack you on sight
KS	Kill Steal	Stealing someone else's mob
KT	King Tormax	Mob in Keal
LB	Light Blue	Refers to /con of PC/NPC
LD	Linkdead	Player has lost connection to the server
LDoN	Lost Dungeons of Norrath	Expansion
LEWT	Items	Singly or collectively
LF	Lesser Faydark	Zone
LFG	Looking For Group	Your looking group of players going on the hunt
LG	Lower Guk (aka LGuk)	Zone
LMAO	Laughing My Ass Off	You think something is funny
LMFAO	Laughing My Fucking Ass Off	You think something is fucking funny
LOC	Location	Give your location in X, Y, Z coordinates
LoH	Lay On Hands / Low On Health	Paladan skill / Your health is low
LOIO	Lake Of Ill Omen	Zone
LoL	Laughing Out Loud	Your Laughing
LoM	Low On Mana	Mana pool is low
LoY	Legacy of Ykesha	Expansion
LR	Lake Rathe	Zone
LTB	Light Blue	Refers to /con of PC/NPC
MA	Main Assist	Player you assist in your group or raid
MAG	Magician (aka Mage)	Class
MC	Main Enchanter	Crowd Controller
ME	Maiden's Eye	Zone
MED	Meditate	Helps mana regeneration
MEM	Scribing a spell	Memorizing a spell
MEZ	Mesmerize	ENC/BRD/NEC spell line
MH	Main Healer	Mainly a cleric but can also be high level druids also
MIN	Minute	60 seconds
ML	Main Looter	Player to lewt all corpse and let group know if there is anything good
MM	Mistmoore Castle	Zone
MOB	Mobile Object	NPC, Monster
MP	Mana Preservation (aka Mana Pres)	Focus item
MR	Magic Resistance	Your resistance to Magic. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
MT	Mistell / Main Tank	Sent a tell to the wrong person or channel / Main Warrior
NEC	Necromancer (aka NECRO)	Class
NEK	Nektulos Forest	Zone
NEWB	Newbie (aka Noobie, n00b)	New player to the game
NFP	North Freeport	Zone
NINJA	Person taking undeserved or undesignated loot	Not a good thing to be
NK	North Karana	Zone
NM	Never mind	Don't worry about it
NP	No Problem	Its no problem
NPC	Non-Player Character	Mob, Monster, computer character
NRO	Northern Desert of Ro	Zone
OGR	Ogre	Race
OMFG	Oh My Fucking God	Damn, you cant believe it
OMG	Oh My God	Damn, you cant believe it
OMW	On My Way	Your on your way to a location or zone
OOC	Out Of Character	Non game related chat
OOM	Out Of Mana	Mana pool is depleted
OOT	The Ocean of Tears	Zone
OS	Old Sebilis	Zone
OT	The Overthere	Zone
OTM	On The Move	Group/Raid is about to move out
OTW	On The Way	Stopping OTW for a fast AFK
PAL	Paladin (aka PALLY)	Class
PAW	Splitpaw Lair	Zone
PBAoE	Point-Blank Area Of Effect	Line of spells
PC	Player-character / Price Check / Paludal Caverns	Human player / Asking for price opinion / Zone
PERMA	Permafrost	Zone
PK	Player Killer (aka PKer)	Player thats kills other players
PL	Power-levelling	High level character helping a low level character gain experience
PLZ	Please	Please
PoA	Plane of Air / Plane of Sky	Zone
PoD	Plane of Disease / Priest of Discord	Zone / NPC that enables you as a PKer by handing him your book
PoF	Plane of Fear	Zone
PoG	Plane of Growth	Zone
PoH	Plane of Hate	Zone
PoK	Plane of Knowledge	Zone
PoM	Plane of Mischief	Zone
PoN	Plane of Nightmare	Zone
PoNB	Lair of Terris Thule	Zone
PoP	MOB has appeared / Planes of Power	NPC Spawned / Zone
PoS	Plane of Sky / Plane of Storms / Piece of Shit	Zone / Zone / Insult
PoT	Plane of Time / Plane of Tranquility / Plane of Tactics	Zones
PoV	Plane of Valor	Zone
PR	Poison Resistance	Your resistance to poison. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
PROB	Probably (aka PROLLY)	Most likely
PROC	Process	Weapon Effect triggered by Combat
PST	Please Send Tell	Asking for people to send you a tell
PULL	Bring a mob to the group/raid	Bring a mob to the group/raid
QH	Qeynos Hills	Zone
RC	Rumblecrush / Radiant Cure / Remove Curse	Mob / Grp AA Cure / Curse cure
RDY	Ready	Your ready
REZ	Resurrection	Cleric spell and Effect on cleric epic. Restores lost XP
RFP	Ready For Pull	Ready to kill mobs
RGC	Remove Greater Curse	Dispells curses from characters
RL	Real Life	Not EQ, in the real world
RM	Rathe Mountains	Zone
RNG	Ranger	Class
ROFL	Rolling on the floor Laughing	Find something funny
ROFLMAO	Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off	Something very funny
ROG	Rogue	Class
RoS	Ring of Scale	Kunark dragon faction
RTM	Red To Me / Read the Manual	Refers to con of PC,NPC / check your instructions
RUJ	Rujarkian	LDoN Theme
RV	Rivervale	Zone
RZ	Rallos Zek	Mob, server, deity
SA	Secondary Assist	Second player you assist for your group/raid targets
SC	Spell Casting	just that
SCM	Spell Casting Mastery	AA Ability
Sec	Second	Just a second
SFG	Surefall Glade	Zone
SHD	Shadow Knight	Class
SHM	Shaman (aka SHAMMY)	Class
SK	Shadow Knight / South Karana	Class / Zone
SKEL	Skeleton (aka Skelly)	Mob, NPC
SLN	Skin Like Nature	Druid AC/HP Buff
SoC	Spirit of Cheetah	Druid run speed Buff
SoE	Sony Online Entertainment / Spirit of Eagle	Creators or EQ / Druid run speed/Lev Buff
SoL	Shadows of Luclin / shit outta luck / Servitor of Luclin	Expansion / Unlucky / Greg's End mob
SOL A	Solusek Eye	Zone
SOL B	Nagafen's Lair	Zone
SORZ	Statue of Rallos Zek	Mob in Keal
SoS	Spirit of Scale / Speed of Shissar	Druid Buff / Enchanter epic effect
SoV	Speed of Vallon	Enchanter haste spell
SoW	Spirit of the Wolf / Shield of words	Druid run speed buff / Cleric AC Buff
SPEC	Spectral Parchment	PoP lewt, hand into guild leaders in PoK for spells
SRA	Scowls, Ready to Attack	Bad faction with an NPC
SRO	Southern Desert of Ro	Zone
SS	Skyshrine	Zone
SSRA	Ssraeshza Temple / Emporer Ssraeshza	Zone / Mob
STA	Stamina	Your Stamina. Effects your HP. Increased by Items, Buffs.
STFU	Shut The Fuck Up	Errr, i think you should be quite
STR	Strength	Your Strength. Effects your Attack rating and amount you can carry. Increased by Items, Buffs.
SV	Save versus (C - Cold, F - Fire, P - Poison, D - Disease, M - Magic)	Your resistance to spell effects. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
THX	Thanks	Cheers, Ta etc
TL	Translocate, wizard travel spell	Ports single character to a location
TOFS	Tower of Frozen Shadow	Zone
ToV	Temple of Veeshan	Zone, (also NTOV, WTOV, ETOV - north, west, and east quadrants)
TOX	Toxxulia Forest	Zone
TP	Teleport	DRU/WIZ (aka "port", "ride", "taxi")
TRAIN	Large group of monsters to nearest zone point	Only polite to let unsuspecting players sitting at the zone
TRL	Troll	Race
TT	Trakanon's Teeth / Trakanon's Tooth / Terris Thule	Zone / Item / Server, Zone, Deity
TX	Thanks	Thanks, Cheers, Ta
TY	Thank You	Thanks, Cheers, Ta
TZ	Tallon Zek	Server, Deity
UP	Umbral Plains	Zone
VAH	Vah Shir	Race
VEL	Velium / Velious	Trade skill components, effect / Expansion
VoQ	Voice of Quellious	Enchanter Spell
VP	Veeshan's Peak	Zone
VS	Versus / Venril Sathir	Against something / Server, Mob in KC
VSR	Venril Sathir's Remains	Mob in KC
VT	Vex Thal	Ewber Zone
WAR	Warrior	Class
WB	Welcome Back	Nice to have the back
WC	West Commons	Zone
WE	Wood Elf	Race
WFP	West Freeport	Zone
WIS	Wisdom	Your Wisdom. Effects WIS casters mana pool. Increased by Items, Buffs.
WIZ	Wizard	Class
WK	West Karana	Zone
WMP	When Mana Permits	When asking for buffs, the buffer may be LOM, just lwtting them know there is no rush
WT	Weight	How much you are/can carry. Item weight
WTB	Want To Buy	Used in a channel to let players know you want to buy something
WTF	What The Fuck	Used to be surprised or in shock about something
WTG	Way To Go	Grats
WTS	Want To Sell	Used in a channel to let players know you want to sell something
WTT	Want To Trade	Used in a channel to let players know you want to trade something
WTTF	Want To Trade For	Used in a channel to let players know you want to trade for something specific
WW	Western Wastes / Warslik's Woods	Zones
YELLOW	Amount of experience	Represents visually as a yellow bubble (starting empty and being filled) on the exp bar
YTM	Yellow to me	Refers to /con of PC/NPC
ZING	Extinguish Fatigue	Letting your group you need a STA regen buff, spell