Abbreviations Glossary

Jargon develops around the need for shortened representations of in-game phenomena. Without the formation of this jargon, communicating various events inside the game world becomes tedious and even impossible in some scenarios. As shown above (grouping, soloing, raiding, pulling, etc.), EverQuest has its own jargon.

Abbreviations and acronyms also may aid, or at least shorten, communication among players. Examples include SoW (Spirit of Wolf - a popular spell which accelerates run or walk speed), C (an acronym for Clarity - another popular spell which accelerates mana regeneration), "rez" (Resurrect - any of several spells or abilities cast on a corpse to summon the player to it, often restoring lost experience points). "Crack" refers to mana regeneration spells such as Clarity. Additionally, a "mezz" (noun or verb, short for "mesmerize") refers to an ability that several classes and mobs have: the ability to render a target momentarily unable to act in any way, until the mezz wears off or the target sustains damage, which will instantly break the mezz.

Nerf refers to game balance changes when they reduce the impact of a particular power. DKP (Dragon kill points), a raid loot distribution method, originated in Everquest, and is now used within the game World of Warcraft. Proc (short for "Programmed Random OCcurence" by which an item's effect is generated) and Farm are credited as coming to WoW from EQ. Some terms have made their way into EQ from other games, such as the term zerg from the computer game StarCraft--used when a raid's main strategy is to overwhelm an enemy by sheer force of numbers. Monsters are sometimes called mobs, a shorthand term for "mobile", meaning a computer controlled character in the game world; this is a practice that started in MUDs. Another example of this jargon can be seen in the word "Con" (consider).

While mostly consistent throughout the entire EQ community, there was also some differences in jargon among servers, and among Asian, European and American gaming communities. In-game chat may prove quite impenetrable to anyone who has not played EQ extensively.

List of abbreviations

Abbreviation	Meaning	Notes
AC	Armor Class / Ancient Cyclops (Ocean of Tears, South Ro) / Ancient Croc (Upper Guk)	Increase with level and AC gear. Zone
ADD	Additional mob	Needs a Tanking, Mezzing or Parking
AFAIK	As Far As I Know	You're being honest about something
AFK	Away From Keyboard	A message can be placed after /afk to auto reply to sender
AGGRO	Aggression	mob is angry, degree of mob anger
AGI	Agility	Increases with buffs and gear
AGRO	Aggression	mob is angry, degree of mob anger
ANON	Anonymous	Hides Level and Class
AOE	Area of Effect (aka AE)	spell line that hits targets within an area rather than target only
AoW	Avatar of War	Mob in Keal
ASAP	As Soon As Possible	Chat
ATK	Attack / Attack Power	Stat
BA	Blood Ember	SK Armour
BAR	Barbarian	Race
BB	Butcherblock Mountains / Blackburrow	Zone
BD	Blue Diamond	Trade skill ingredients
BLUE	Blue con / EXP	Mob level rating compared to yours. Also displays faction with the NPC targeted
BP	Breastplate	Armor
BRB	Be Right Back	Chat
BRD	Bard	Class
BRT	Be Right There	Chat
BTM	Blue to Me	refers to /con of PC/NPC
BTW	By The Way	Chat
BUB	Bubble	refers to visual representation of HPs, mana, exp,etc
BW	Burning Woods	Zone
C C1 C2	Clarity/Clarity II	Enchanter buff for mana regen aka "crack"
CAMO	Camouflage	Invisibility
CB	Crushbone	Zone
CC	Crystal Caverns / Crowd Control / Camp Check (when posed as a question)	Zone / Off Tanking, Parking, Mezzing / Used when someone want to know what camps are open in a zone
CE	Castle Entrance (Mistmoore)
CH	Complete Healing	Cleric 7500hp heal
CHA	Charisma	Stat Buff
COAT	Thistlecoat, Barbcoat, Bramblecoat...	Ranger, Druid Buff
CoM	City of Mist	Zone
CON	/consider	Check level compared to yours and faction with an NPC
CoV	Claws of Veeshan	A faction of dragons that inhabit Velious.
CR	Corpse Retrieval	You getting your corpse back
CR	Cold Resistance	Your resistance to cold. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
CRIT	Critical Hit	A random melee or spell hit that does additional damage.
CS	Cobalt Scar	Zone
CT	Cazic Thule	server, deity, raid target
CT	Temple of Cazic Thule	Zone
DC	Dagnor's Cauldron	Zone
DD	Direct Damage	aka "burn" or "nuke", a spell that immediately applies an amount of damage. contrast with DoT (Damage over Time)
DEF	Dark Elf	Race
DEX	Dexterity	Stat
DF	Darkforge	SK armour
DING	Just Leveled	You get new spells and better stats, HP, Mana pool
DKP	Dragon-Kill Points	system of distributing loot, assigns point value to mobs killed; points spent to "buy" loot
DL	Dreadlands	Zone
DLY	Delay	Weapon speed
DMF	Dead Man Floating	Necro Spell
DMG	Damage	Damage done to NPC by weapons or spells
DOT	Damage Over Time	Spell damage over a period of time such as a curse, poison or disease. Contrast with DD (Direct damage)
DOT	Peridot	Spell and trade skill component
DPS	Damage-per-second	Rate of damage = damage / second
DR	Disease Resistance	Your resistance to Disease. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
DRU	Druid	Class / also Dr00d
DS	Damage Shield	A beneficial spell which damages enemies when the recipient is attacked with melee hits. i.e. Cadeau of Flame, Feedback, Shield of Thorns
DS	Doomshade	Mob
DWF	Dwarf	Race
EB	Enduring Breath	Lets you breath underwater or in zone such as The Gray
EC	East Commonlands	Zone, the informal trading hub of p99, server subforum for trading purposes
EF	Everfrost Peaks	Zone
EFP	East Freeport	Zone
EFP	Everfrost Peaks	Zone
EJ	Emerald Jungle	Zone
EJAC	Evac to Emerald Jungle (via Wind of the South or Markar's Relocation)	Spell
EK	East Karana	Zone
ELF	Wood Elf	Race
ENC	Enchanter (aka Chanter)	Class
ERU	Erudite	Race
EVAC	Succor (Evacuate)	Fast port to another zone or current zone safe point, slight risk of leaving someone behind
EW	Eastern Wastes	Zone
EXP	Experience	Shown as a % bar
FD	Feign Death	Monk skill and Necromancer/Shadow knight spell which reduces hate and removes the aggro of all NPCs
FFA	Free For All	Anyone can loot an item, or all items, without restriction
FG	Fire Giant	There are two types of Fire Giants found in Nagafen's Lair
FG	Frost Giant	A race of giants which inhabit Velious
FM	Full Mana	Mana bar is full, often implies readiness
FM	Frontier Mountains	Zone
FOM	Full Of Mana	Mana bar is full, often implies readiness. Contrast with OOM (out of mana)
FP	Freeport	Zone
FR	Fire Resistance	Your resistance to fire. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
FTE	First to Engage	Zone wide yellow message with character name when a raid mob is first aggoed which indicates ownership of the kill
FV	Firiona Vie	princess, zone
GD	The Great Divide	Zone
GF	Greater Faydark	Zone
GFLUX	Gravity Flux	Enchanter spell
GL	Good Luck / Guild Leader / Group Leader	Says it all
GM	Game Master	A guide or administrator of the P99 project.
GM	Guild Master	A type of NPC found in cities which allow players of a matching class to buy or add skill points.
GRM / GMR	Group Resist Magic	Enchanter spell - Increases your resistance to Magic.
GN	Good Night	Time to sleep
GNM	Gnome	Race
GRATS	Congratulations	something went well :)
GTG	Good To Go	Telling everyone you are ready
GU	Guildchat (aka /GU)	Your guild chat
HEF	Half-Elf	Race
HFL	Halfling	Race
HH	Highpass Hold / Hammer Hill in Overthere	Zone / Spawn point on proc for Worker Sledgemallet
HHK	High Keep	Zone
HIE	High Elf	Race
HK	High Keep	Zone
HoT	Heal over Time	Healing spell
HP	Hit Points	Characters health, have lots of these is a good thing
HPH	Highpass Hold	Zone
HPK	High Keep	Zone
HS	Howling Stones	Zone
HT	Harm Touch	Shadowknight skill, large direct damage with a 72-minute cooldown and somewhat short range
HUM	Human	Race
IC	Iceclad Ocean	Zone
ID	Identify	Spell
IIRC	If I Remember Correctly	Lets hope you do :)
IKS	Iksar	Race
IMO	In My Opinion	Your view on something
INC	Incoming	Your bring a mob back to your party, hopefully to kill it
INT	Intelligence	Your Intelligence. Effects INC casters mana pool. Increased by Items, Buffs.
INV	Inventory	Space to carry your gear / lewts
INVIS	Invisibility	Spell that makes you invis to some NPC's
IRL	In Real Life	Not in EQ, but in the real world
IVU	Invisibility versus Undead	also known as ITU
JBOOTS	Journeyman's Boots	Instant-cast clicky item which provides a self-only movement speed buff. Similar to Spirit of Wolf but with shorter duration and lesser effect
JD	Jaled Dar`s Shade	Dragon Necropolis turn in mob for Key to Sleeper's Tomb
KC	Karnor's Castle	Zone
KITH	Kithicor Forest	Zone
KOS	Kill On Sight	NPC will attack you on sight
KS	Kill Steal	Stealing someone else's mob. See Play nice policy
KT	King Tormax	King of the storm giants and frost giants of Kael Drakkel
LB	Light Blue	Refers to /con of PC/NPC
LD	Linkdead	Player has lost connection to the server
LEWT	Items	Singly or collectively
LF	Lesser Faydark / Looking For	Zone
LFG	Looking For Group	The act of seeking a group
LG	Lower Guk (aka LGuk)	Zone
LOC	Location	Give your location in X, Y, Z coordinates, from /loc command
LoH	Skill Lay Hands / Low On Health	Paladan skill / Your health is low
LOIO	Lake of Ill Omen	Zone
LM / LoM	Low On Mana	Mana pool is low
LR	Lake Rathetear	Zone
LTB	Light Blue	Refers to /con of PC/NPC
MA	Main Assist	Player you assist in your group or raid
MAG	Magician (aka Mage)	Class
MC	Main Enchanter	Crowd Controller
MED	Meditate	Helps mana regeneration
MEM	Scribing a spell	Memorizing a spell
MEZ	Mesmerize	ENC/BRD/NEC spell line
MH	Main Healer	Mainly a cleric but can also be high level druids also
MIN	Minute	60 seconds
ML	Main Looter	Player to lewt all corpse and let group know if there is anything good
MM	Mistmoore Castle	Zone
MNK	Monk	Class
MOB	Mobile Object	NPC, Monster
MP	Mana Preservation (aka Mana Pres)	Focus item
MR	Magic Resistance	Your resistance to Magic. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
MT	Mistell	Sent a tell to the wrong person or channel
MT	Main Tank	Main Warrior. This is not always the Main Assist.
NEC	Necromancer (aka NECRO)	Class
NEK	Nektulos Forest	Zone
NEWB	Newbie (aka Noobie, n00b)	New player to the game
NFP	North Freeport	Zone
NINJA	Person taking undeserved or undesignated loot	Not a good thing to be. Can cause the suspension of your character or your entire guild.
NK	North Karana	Zone
NPC	Non-Player Character	Mob, Monster, computer character
NRO	Northern Desert of Ro	Zone
OGR	Ogre	Race
OOC	Out Of Character	Non game related chat
OOM	Out Of Mana	Mana pool is depleted
OOT	Ocean of Tears	Zone
OS	Old Sebilis	Zone
OT	The Overthere	Zone
OTM	On The Move	Group/Raid is about to move out
OTW	On The Way	Stopping OTW for a fast AFK
PAL	Paladin (aka PALLY)	Class
PAW	Splitpaw Lair	Zone
PBAoE	Point-Blank Area Of Effect	Line of spells
PC	Player Character	A human player
PC	Price Check	Asking for price opinion
PH	Place Holder	A mob that takes the place of a Named Mob.
PERMA	Permafrost	Zone
PK	Player Killer (aka PKer)	Player thats kills other players
PL	Power Leveling	High level character helping a low level character gain experience
PoA	Plane of Air / Plane of Sky	Zone
PoD	Priest of Discord	NPC that enables you as a PKer by handing him your book
PoF	Plane of Fear	Zone
PoG	Plane of Growth	Zone
PoH	Plane of Hate	Zone
PoM	Plane of Mischief	Zone
PoP	MOB has appeared	NPC Spawned
PoS	Plane of Sky	Zone
PR	Poison Resistance	Your resistance to poison. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
PROC	Programmed Random Occurence	Weapon Effect triggered by Combat
PST	Please Send Tell	Asking for people to send you a tell
PULL	Bring a mob to the group/raid	Implies the strategy of keeping a group stationary, and having one designated person retrieve enemies to kill. As opposed to a "crawling" strategy commonly used in many other dungeon fantasy contexts.
QH	Qeynos Hills	Zone
qrg	Surefall Glade	Zone
REZ	Resurrection	Cleric spell and Effect on cleric epic. Restores lost XP
RFP	Ready For Pull	Ready to kill mobs
RL	Real Life	Not EQ, in the real world
RM	Rathe Mountains	Zone
RNG	Ranger	Class
RNG	Random Number Generator	System used to determine results randomly
ROG	Rogue	Class
RoS	Ring of Scale	Kunark dragon faction
RTM	Red To Me	Refers to con of a PC or NPC
RTM	Read the Manual	Check your instructions
RV	Rivervale	Zone
RZ	Rallos Zek	deity
SA	Secondary Assist	Second player you assist for your group/raid targets
SC	Spell Casting	just that
SFG	Surefall Glade	Zone
SHD	Shadow Knight	Class
SHM	Shaman (aka SHAMMY)	Class
SK	Shadow Knight	Class
SK	South Karana	Zone
SKEL	Skeleton (aka Skelly)	Mob, NPC
SLN	Skin Like Nature	Druid AC/HP Buff
SoC	Spirit of Cheetah	Druid run speed Buff
SoE	Sony Online Entertainment	Creators of EQ w/ Verant
SOL A	Solusek's Eye	Zone
SOL B	Nagafen's Lair	Zone
SORZ / Statue	Statue of Rallos Zek	Mob in Keal
SoS	Spirit of Scale	Buff
SoS	Speed of Shissar	Enchanter epic effect
SoW	Spirit of Wolf	Run speed buff
SRO	Southern Desert of Ro	Zone
SS	Skyshrine	Zone
STA	Stamina	Your Stamina. Effects your HP. Increased by Items, Buffs.
STR	Strength	Your Strength. Effects your Attack rating and amount you can carry. Increased by Items, Buffs.
SV	Save versus (C - Cold, F - Fire, P - Poison, D - Disease, M - Magic)	Your resistance to spell effects. Increased by Items, Buffs and Bard songs.
Tick	As in ticking of time.	A tick is a 6-second period that is server based.
TL	Translocate, wizard travel spell	Ports single character to a location
TOFS	Tower of Frozen Shadow	Zone
ToV	Temple of Veeshan	Zone, (also NTOV, WTOV, ETOV - north, west, and east quadrants)
TOX	Toxxulia Forest	Zone
TP	Teleport	DRU/WIZ (aka "port", "ride", "taxi")
TRAIN	Large group of monsters to nearest zone point	Only polite to let unsuspecting players sitting at the zone
TRL	Troll	Race
TT	Trakanon's Teeth	Zone
TT	Trakanon's Tooth	Item
TT	Terris Thule	deity
TZ	Tallon Zek	deity
VEL	Velium / Velious	Trade skill components, effect / Expansion
VP	Veeshan's Peak	Zone
VS	Versus / Venril Sathir	Against something / Mob in KC
VSR	Venril Sathir's Remains	Mob in KC
VT	Verina Tomb	Neriak Enc epic mob
WAR	Warrior	Class
WC	West Commonlands	Zone
WFP	West Freeport	Zone
WIS	Wisdom	Your Wisdom. Effects WIS casters mana pool. Increased by Items, Buffs.
WIZ	Wizard	Class
WK	West Karana	Zone
WMP	When Mana Permits	When asking for buffs, the buffer may be LOM, just letting them know there is no rush
WT	Weight	How much you are/can carry. Item weight
WTB	Want To Buy	Used in a channel to let players know you want to buy something
WTG	Way To Go	Grats
WTS	Want To Sell	Used in a channel to let players know you want to sell something
WTT	Want To Trade	Used in a channel to let players know you want to trade something
WTTF	Want To Trade For	Used in a channel to let players know you want to trade for something specific
WW	Western Wastes / Warsliks Woods	Zones
YELLOW	Amount of experience	Represents visually as a yellow bubble (starting empty and being filled) on the exp bar
YT	Yellow Text	On red p99, the message displayed after a player is killed by another player.
ZEM	Zone Experience Modifier	see wiki
ZERG	Zerg	Using large numbers of players to overwhelm a target, as opposed to smaller numbers of more experienced players.
ZING	Extinguish Fatigue	Letting your group you need a STA regen buff, spell