The glossary

14 of 304 words for “Dungeon”

1. Dungeon

   Raiding & dungeons

   A five-player instance. Pre-raid gear comes from here.

   “Scholomance, Stratholme and the Blackrock dungeons are the endgame dungeons at 60.”

   See also: Raid, Instance, Pre-raid BiS

2. Boost

   MMO

   A high-level player killing a dungeon while low-level characters collect the XP. Mage boosting was an industry.

   “Selling SM boosts, 5g a run.”

   See also: Boosted, Farm

3. Boosted

   Gaming slang

   Levelled or geared by someone else — a dungeon boost, a paid carry — and not able to play the result.

   “Boosted 60 with no idea what Sunder does.”

   See also: Carry, Boost

4. Elite

   WoW

   A mob with several times the health and damage of a normal one. Group quests and dungeons.

   “That's an elite, don't solo it at 30.”

   See also: Mob, Group quest

5. Instance

   MMO

   A private copy of a dungeon or raid for your group. Nobody else's group is in your instance.

   “Everyone in the instance, we're starting.”

   See also: Dungeon, Raid, Lockout

6. Meeting stone

   WoW

   The stone outside each dungeon. In vanilla it just found groups; in Classic it summons.

   “Meet at the stone.”

   See also: Summon

7. Pre-raid BiS

   Raiding & dungeons

   The best gear available before you set foot in a raid: dungeons, crafting, reputation, PvP and the auction house.

   “Farm pre-raid BiS before you apply to a guild.”

   See also: BiS, Dungeon

8. PUG

   Raiding & dungeons

   Also: Pickup group

   Pickup group: strangers found in chat rather than a guild. Pug a dungeon, pug a raid.

   “Pugging Stratholme was a mistake.”

   “Pug tanks are the hardest to find.”

   See also: LFG, LFM, Guild

9. PvE

   MMO

   Player versus environment: quests, dungeons, raids. Fighting the game, not each other.

   “PvE server, no ganking, just questing.”

   See also: PvP, Raid

10. Rare

    WoW

    Blue-quality item: dungeon drops and good quest rewards. Most pre-raid gear.

    “Blues from Scholo and Strat carry you into Molten Core.”

    See also: Epic, Uncommon

11. Reset

    Raiding & dungeons

    When an instance's lockout ends and the bosses are back. Also: leaving a dungeon and re-entering to respawn everything.

    “Reset is Tuesday morning.”

    “Everyone out, we're resetting the instance.”

    See also: Lockout, Instance

12. Set bonus

    WoW

    Extra effects for wearing several pieces of the same item set: Tier sets, dungeon sets, PvP sets.

    “Five-piece Bloodfang gives the energy proc, that's the bonus you want.”

    See also: Tier set, BiS

13. Carry

    Gaming slang

    To win a fight or run for a group that couldn't do it alone. Also the service of doing so.

    “The mage carried that dungeon.”

    “Paid carries through Onyxia.”

    See also: Boosted, Hard carry

14. Sweaty

    Gaming slang

    Trying very hard, especially where it's not needed.

    “Full consumes in a normal dungeon, sweaty.”

    See also: Tryhard, Min-max