Do you know what are the short form for World of Warcraft? Most people call is ‘WOW’. Now, there are many similar phrases that are being used in Warcraft. These are also known as lingo. How many lingo have you heard before? Might as well check the list below for more information:

  • WoW: World Of Warcraft

  • TBC: The Burning Crusade.

  • WotLK (or LK) : Wrath of the Lich King.

  • Mats: Short for Materials, generally used in crafting professions.

  • Prof: Professions.

  • FTL: For the loss, guess what, we just lost.

  • FTW: For the win (d), victory.

  • KK,K: okay, meaning someone is ready or that a deal is fine ect.

  • LFG: Looking For Group, used when someone is looking for someone else to party with, generally for an instance, or quest.

  • LFM: Looking For More,also can have numbers indicating that a group needs that many more people to start (LF1M), used when a group is looking for more people to do an instance or quest, generally a class title and number follow this Ex: (LFM 1 Priest, and 1 Rogue)

  • PST: stands for Please Send Tell, meaing you want to hear back from someone who is interested.

  • Req: Requirment, Pre-requisite. Something that needs to be done before something else happens, (must be level 20 to wear X equipment, must have X in invintory to begin quest)

  • Newb: (Noob, Nub, Nublet, Nubile (oops!), Noobie) Someone without experiance in the game, most people start out with this status, given by other players.

  • Rep: reputation, when killing certain creature, or doing certain quests, The rewards sometimes include reputation with certain factions in the game, these can lead to cheaper product buying, and even some special items only available to people who put in the time to gain the required reputation.

  • QFT: Quoted for truth in my terms. other people will toss it out as quite friggin true (or other F-expletives)

  • Woot: originally We Owned the Other Team (from what ive heard), now its shouted upon success of any endeavors.

  • MO/IMO/IMHO: in my opinion/in my honest opinion. well, imo you should understand by now.

  • WT:B/S/T: Want to buy/sell/trade, trade offers generally start with this in the in-game trade channel.

  • Roll/Reroll/Rickrolled: Roll is another term for the creation of a character, what race/class they are, Re-Roll is to make another character, generally out of dissatisfaction of the first selection. Rickrolled is no satisfaction at all.

As a new player, it is important to learn these lingo because you are likely to come across these many times in the game and you wouldn’t want to waste time finding out what it means while you are in the game.

It is best to learn these out of your playing time to help save your playing time.

Time is the essence of life in WOW so make sure you make the most out of it.

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