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Jargon, decoded

The glossary

304 words from World of Warcraft, MMOs, esports and every game chat you have ever been flamed in — what each one means, and how people actually say it. Every entry has its own link, so you can send it to the friend who just asked what a twink is.

Word of the day

AV

PvP

Also: 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

All words

3 of 304 words for “Lockout”

  1. Lockout

    Raiding & dungeons

    Also: Raid ID

    Once you kill a raid boss, you're saved to that raid's instance until it resets: a week for the big raids, three days for Zul'Gurub and Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj.

    “I'm locked to MC this week, can't come.”

    See also: Raid, Reset

  2. Raid

    Raiding & dungeons

    A large-group instance — 20 or 40 players in vanilla — and the group itself. Weekly lockouts, big bosses, epic loot.

    “Raid is Tuesday and Thursday, be on by seven.”

    “Molten Core was the first 40-man raid.”

    See also: Dungeon, Lockout, Tier set

  3. 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

WoW

World of Warcraft, especially vanilla, Classic and Forever.

79 words

Raiding & dungeons

Group PvE: pulls, loot rules, wipes and parses.

47 words

PvP

Battlegrounds, duels, twinks and world PvP.

31 words

MMO

Words shared by every online RPG.

47 words

Esports

Competitive play, broadcasts and the meta.

21 words

Gaming slang

What people say in every chat, every game.

79 words

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