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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

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3 of 304 words for “Logs”

  1. Logs

    Raiding & dungeons

    Also: WCL, Warcraft Logs

    Combat logs uploaded to a site like Warcraft Logs, where every raid's damage, healing and mistakes are ranked and public.

    “Check the logs, who died to the first breath?”

    See also: Parse, Damage meters

  2. Parse

    Raiding & dungeons

    Your damage or healing on a fight compared to everyone else's logs for that fight and class, as a percentile. 'A 99 parse' is elite; 'a grey parse' is embarrassing.

    “Orange parse on Patchwerk, screenshot it.”

    “He parses 95 and stands in everything.”

    See also: Logs, Damage meters, DPS

  3. Sim

    WoW

    A simulation of a fight to estimate DPS for a gear set or rotation. Later WoW has SimulationCraft; vanilla relies on spreadsheets and logs.

    “Sim says the dagger is a 2% upgrade.”

    See also: Theorycraft, Equivalence points

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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