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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

ok!

as per chel's request i'm starting a sort of "urbandictionary" style thread for WoW terms....

in WoW we like abbreviations. one of the most popular one is "bg"...this stands for Battlegrounds...there are several battlegrounds on can join in the game....they work by lvls:

lvl 10-19
lvl 20-29
lvl 30-39
lvl 40-49
lvl 50-59
lvl 60-69
and lvl 70

and side note: lvl is another popular abbreviation for level. haha.

ok.

so here's the bg breakdown...there is:

WSG....aka Warsong Gulch....basically capture the flag

AB....aka Arathi Basin...this is a defense based game where you have to control nodes and resources to win

AV...aka Alterac Valley...this one you can enter at 51....51 and under no can do. it's hard to explain. Torgo and i can make a tread on that alone....his from the ally POV, mine from the horde pov...resources are involved as well and towers/bunkers/graveyards must be controlled or you lose resources. as well there are pve objectives in them and "bosses" to kill...

EotS...aka Eye of the Storm...a combo conceptually between AB/WSG...node controlling and capture the flag. lvl requirements for this is 61-69 and 70....so if you're lower than that...sorry! you'll have to wait!

as well there are arenas. the bgs and arenas are PVP oriented (player versus player...ie, horde kill ally and vice versa)...PVE (player versus environment) is quest oriented.

WoW has PVP servers, PVE servers and RPPVP (Role Playing Player Versus Player)....upon starting your WoW adventure, your first step would be to decide which you think you'd like best.

if you're like the rest of us addicts, you'll have alts everywhere to sample them all.

if you think you'd like to quest the most, go w/PVE...if the idea of attacking another player while you're questing sounds fun, go w/PVP.

Next topic will be: race and classes.....but i'm tired and need to go to bed. torgo, laughing, everyone...feel free to pipe in hehe....

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3093 Location: Chambersburg

Taken from WoW thread

Question

larp'ers

spirit res

hearth

accept res

Question

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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

larp'ers --- um dunno this one...i'll ask around....

spirit res ----spirit resing is another term for resurrection of your dead body....itis what happens if you die and you either a) don't feel like running back to your body or b) you've been bad (like i usually am) and made so many pvp'rs mad at you they're camping your body so you have no choice but to res at the GY spirit guide (hence the spirit res)...if you res at the spirit guide you will take a 10 minute penalty that consists of a 25% decrease in your stats/gear. basically if you try to kill something you're dead meat. so, if i take spirit res, it's usually cuz of b, but if i'm questing and i spirit res, i do it when i've died far away from the turn in and i'm actually closer at the gy to my quest turn in than my body. (lazy)

hearth ---- each player is given a hearthstone (it's in your bag on startup)...the hearth stone has to be 'set' with an innkeeper of your choice (and you can change this as much as you want) and you can "hearth" home...so if i'm out in the Crossroads and my hearth is set to Orgimmar, when i click on it, i'll return to orgimmar. it's a handy dandy that one!

accept res ---- similar to spirit res, but this one's resurrecting at your corpse. in the game, when you die, you start your 'death walk' back to your corpse from the graveyard (aka GY)...in the game there's a minimap at the top right and it points and arrow in the direction of your corpse (you can also flip to your map using the 'm' key if you haven't changed your key bindings)....so you start at gy dead and run run run run run to your corpse. when you get near to your corpse you'll have a button pop up that says: accept resurrection? yes if you're in the clear....or if there's a baddie by you...try to reposition yourself before you res so you don't die again. not fun..

this is a fun video about classes:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=riHdSlYiy-E

Torgo · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

I believe LARP stands for "Live Action Role Playing."

Need more be said?

LOL
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

um.

well.

no.

hahahahaha!

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3093 Location: Chambersburg

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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

as per a question chel wrote in other wow thread:

lowbie: a low lvl'd character*

(*your characters can be referenced to as: toons or alts, depending on your preference)

main: your "main" character

(for example, my main is a 70 UD priest)

which brings us to: race abbreviations

UD = undead
BE = bloodelf
NE = night elf

orcs are orcs. you'll hear tauren referred to as cows. the rest are pretty much as they are: troll, human, gnome, dwarf, etc.

i'll do a posting soon on races. then one on classes. haha....just a little appetizer. speaking of appetizers..lunch time! Very Happy

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3093 Location: Chambersburg

Referring to what you mentioned in the other thread>>>
Why does everyone like to kill priests?
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

usually the battle cry heard at the beginning of battlegrounds or arenas is: kill the healer (or healers)...since they are the ones 'fixing' everyone. several classes can heal: priests, druids, shammys, pallys....however....of all of them, priests are the most "Squishy" (as it is referred to)...squishy is equavalent of being a 'clothie' (one who's gear is made of cloth....depending on your class your gear can be cloth, leather, mail, plate)...of these healing classes, priests typically have the quickest deaths because we're all cloth (pallys are plate/mail, shammys/druids leather...all of those are 'better' for health points/armor than cloth, but what can you do)

so, as a priest you will die. alot. but you res, get back in there, heal who can can, die and repeat.

/shakes fist at plate wearing paladins....

all part of the fun. hehe

Torgo · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

*whistles innocently
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg

oh, innocent are we?

HAR!

you....you....PALADINS.

in a bg last night, i was running around healing like a madman(girl?) and renew, flash heal, prayer of mending, binding heal, renew, shield....heals going like CRAZY.....and then....in the final bg stats my friend Q whomped my measly 35k with his 115k heals (he's a druid) and then lo-and-behold the crazy 135k from a pally.

why does bliz even have a priest class. i mean, i KNOW (as do my guildies) they hate casters (see next arenas s4 gear)...my lvl 49 pally does better heals in wsg and ab than bigVal ever does. oh, and my 59 druid's heals are SICK.

why WHY WHY blizz do you hate us priests so??

(grumbles at huntards)

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3093 Location: Chambersburg

Cause priests believe in aliens?

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90KSE100&amp;amp;amp;show_article=1
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.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 3093 Location: Chambersburg

Ya'll are just making stuff up now, aren't ya?

'Kay, so I know about the new expansion coming up... is it going to be something you buy at the store and install or is it something you pay to play online?

And translations would be appreciated

Laughing Man · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 497 Location: Earth

mine were what the minions that i summon are called. succubus, voidwalker

and Death Knight is the first ever legendary Hero Class

I'm pretty sure you'll have to buy the expansion/ idk- you may be able to buy a download.

the bit about rougues in the back- rougues get atack bonuses when they attack from behind

cookies stuff was just gibberish... she made it up Smile

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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 2289 Location: shippensburg