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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Sheep
WoWPolymorph, the mage's crowd control that turns a target into a sheep (or a pig, or a turtle). Damage breaks it.
“Sheep the caster, tank the rest.”
“Don't hit the sheep!”
CC
PvPAlso: Crowd control
Crowd control: anything that takes an enemy out of the fight for a while — sheep, sap, fear, stun, root.
“CC the healer, then burst the mage.”
“That pack needs two CCs.”
See also: Diminishing returns, Sheep, Sap
Pull
Raiding & dungeonsTo start a fight by getting the enemy's attention. Also the group of enemies you pull.
“Tank pulls, nobody else.”
“That's a big pull, sheep the mage.”
Tab target
Gaming slangCycling targets with the Tab key. How WoW-style combat picks enemies.
“Tab-targeted the sheep, sorry.”
See also: Sheep
Trinket
PvPThe PvP trinket that breaks you out of crowd control on a two-minute cooldown. 'Trinketing' is using it.
“He trinketed the sheep, re-sheep!”
“Don't blow your trinket on a Hamstring.”
See also: CC
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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