Wipe
Raiding & dungeonsEveryone dies. Then the corpse run, the buffs, and the second attempt.
“We wiped at 2%.”
“Wipe it, the tank's dead and the healers are OOM.”
See also: Corpse run, Progression
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3 of 304 words for “Logs”
Logs
Raiding & dungeonsAlso: 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
Parse
Raiding & dungeonsYour 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
Sim
WoWA 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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