AV
PvPAlso: Alterac Valley
Alterac Valley: 40 v 40 across a whole zone, ends when a faction boss dies. Can last hours or minutes depending on the era.
“AV weekend, honor is doubled, everyone's queueing.”
See also: Battleground, Honor
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2 of 304 words for “Grand Marshal”
Also: GM, High Warlord, HWL
Rank 14 on the Alliance side, with the best PvP weapons in vanilla. High Warlord for the Horde.
“A Grand Marshal's Claymore on a fury warrior in 2005 was terrifying.”
Rank
PvPThe vanilla PvP ranking, 1 to 14, based on weekly honor against everyone else on the server. Rank 14 — Grand Marshal or High Warlord — took months of near-full-time play.
“He hit rank 14 in 2005 and never got a job.”
“Rank 10 weapons are pre-raid BiS for a lot of specs.”
See also: Honor, Grand Marshal
WoW
World of Warcraft, especially vanilla, Classic and Forever.
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Raiding & dungeons
Group PvE: pulls, loot rules, wipes and parses.
47 words
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Battlegrounds, duels, twinks and world PvP.
31 words
MMO
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Esports
Competitive play, broadcasts and the meta.
21 words
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79 words
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