| Abbreviation | Description |
|---|
| 1h | One handed |
| 2h | Two handed |
| AB | Arathi Basin [location] or Arcane Brilliance or Arcane Blast |
| Add | ADDitional? incoming monster |
| AE | Arcane Explosion |
| AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
| AFK | Away From Keyboard |
| Agg/Aggro | The player that is being attacked is said to be aggroed. Ie, he is the one that the monster has the most agression towards. In raids this is preferrably the tank. |
| AI | Arcane Intellect |
| AoE | Area Of Effect when the effect of a spell is more than one mob or character. Usually a radius. |
| AotH | Aspect of the Hawk |
| AotP | Aspect of the Pack |
| AotV | Aspect of the Viper |
| AotW | Aspect of the Wild |
| AP | Arcane Power or Attack Power |
| AQ20/RAQ | Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj |
| AQ40/TAQ | Temple of Ahn'Qiraj |
| AR | Astral Recall |
| AS | Arcane Shot |
| ATM | At the moment |
| AV | Alterac Valley [location] |
| Ban | Banish |
| BE | Blade?s Edge [location] |
| BF | Blood Furnace [instance] |
| BFD | Blackfathom Depths [instance] |
| BG | Battleground |
| BIO | BIOlogical. Being AFK usually because of toilet visit. |
| BM | Black Morass |
| BoE | Bind on Equip |
| BoP | Bind on Pickup |
| BRB | Be Right Back |
| BRD | Blackrock Depths [instance] |
| BRS | Blackrock Spire [instance] |
| BRT | Be Right There |
| BS | Battle Shout/Battle Stance or BlackSmithing or BackStab |
| BTW | By The Way |
| Buff | Beneficial spell that will make you stronger for a given time period. |
| BWL | Blackwing Lair [instance] |
| CC | Crowd Control |
| CS | Counterspell |
| Darn | Darnassus |
| DC | Death Coil |
| DKP | Dragon Kill Points. Points used in some guilds to distribute loot found in instances. |
| DM | Dire Maul [instance] |
| DND | Do Not Disturb |
| DoT | Damage over Time |
| DPM | Damage per mana |
| DPS | Damage per second (typically a mage does alot DPS) |
| DR | Damage reduction (due to armor) |
| Engi | Engineering |
| EotS | Eye of the Storm |
| EPL | Eastern Plaguelands |
| FA | First Aid |
| FD | Feign Death |
| FFS | For F**k Sake |
| FP | Flight Path |
| FR | Fire resistance |
| FTL | For The Loss (bad) |
| FTW | For the win (great) |
| G2G | Good To Go |
| GG | Good Game |
| GJ | Good Job |
| Gnomer | Gnomeregan |
| GotW or Gift | Gift of the Wild |
| GTAoE | Ground targeted AoE (an AoE spell for which the caster can choose a target, like Flamestrike) |
| GTFO | Get the f**k out |
| GW | Ghost Wolf |
| GY | Graveyard wing |
| GZ | Gadgetzan |
| HFP | Hellfire Peninsula |
| HFR | Hellfire Ramparts |
| HH | Honor Hold |
| HL | Holy Light |
| HM | Hunter?s Mark |
| HoT | Heal over time |
| HotW | Heart of the Wild |
| HoW | Hammer of Wrath |
| HPS | Healing per second |
| HS | Heroic Strike |
| HS/Hearth | Hearthstone |
| HT | Healing Touch |
| IDC | I Don?t Care |
| IDK | I Don?t Know |
| IF | Ironforge |
| IIRC | If I Recall Correctly |
| IMHO | In My Humble Opinion |
| IMO | In my opinion |
| Inc | Incoming |
| IRL | In Real Life |
| KARA | Karazan - an instance |
| Kara/KZ | Karazhan |
| LBRS | Lower Blackrock Spire |
| LF | Looking For (?LF tank,? etc.) |
| LF1M/LF2M/etc. | Looking for one more, two more, etc. |
| LFG | Looking for group |
| LFM | Looking for more (for a group) |
| LMAO | Laughing My Ass Off |
| Lock | Warlock |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud |
| LOM | Low on mana |
| LotP | Leader of the Pack |
| LW | Lightwell |
| MA | Main assist |
| Mara | Mauradon |
| Mats | Short for materials. |
| MB | Mind Blast |
| MC | Molten Core [instance] or Mind Control |
| ML | Master Loot / Master Looter |
| Mob | A 'mobile' - primarily NPCs that are meant to be killed. |
| MotW or Mark | Mark of the Wild |
| MS | Master Summoner |
| MT | MAin Tank or MisTell. If someone accidentally write a messsage on the wrong channel. |
| Naxx | Naxxramas [instance] |
| Nerf | A change to the game that makes a given class/spec weaker |
| NPC | Non Player Character |
| NS | Netherstorm |
| NW | Netherweave |
| Ofc | Of course |
| OMFG | Oh My Fu**ing God |
| OMG | Oh My God |
| OMW | On My Way |
| Ony | Onyxia |
| OOM | Out Of Mana |
| Org | Orgrimmar |
| OT | Off topic |
| Pally | Paladin |
| Pat | Patrol |
| PC | Price Check |
| Poly/Sheep | Polymorph |
| Port | Portal |
| Pot | Potion |
| Premed | Premeditation |
| Prep | Preparation |
| PUG | Pick up group (a group formed "on the spot" by use of the LFG tool or a channel) |
| Pyro | Pyroblast |
| rep | Reputation with a certain faction |
| Res/Rez | Resurrect/Resurrection |
| Resto | Restoration talent tree |
| RFC | Ragefire Chasm |
| RFD | Razorfen Downs |
| RFK | Razorfen Kraul |
| RL | Raid Leader / Real Life |
| ROFL | Rolling On the Floor Laughing |
| ROFLMAO | Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off |
| Roots | Entangling Roots |
| SC or Live Strat | Scarlet side of Stratholme |
| Scholo | Scholomance |
| SFK | Shadowfang Keep |
| SH | Shattered Halls |
| SH or Shat | Shattrath City |
| Shammy | Shaman |
| SL | Shadow Labyrinth |
| SM | Scarlet Monestary |
| SMC | Silvermoon City |
| SMV | Shadowmoon Valley |
| SP | Slave Pens |
| Spec | Specialization |
| ST | Temple of Atal?Hakkar (Sunken Temple) |
| STFU | Shut The F**k Up |
| STM | Stonetalon Mountain |
| Stocks | Stockade |
| STP | Stonetalon Peak |
| Strat | Stratholme |
| STV | Stranglethorn Vale |
| SV | Steamvaults |
| SW | Stormwind City |
| T1,T2/etc. | Class specific sets of gear that drop from raids. |
| TB | Thunder Bluff |
| TBH | To be honest |
| Tele | Teleport |
| Tero | Terokkar |
| Thrall | Thrallmar |
| TP | Teleport |
| TSA | Trueshot Aura |
| UB | Underbog |
| UBRS | Upper Bloackrock Spire |
| UC | Undercity |
| UD Strat | Undead side of Stratholme |
| Ulda | Uldaman |
| Warr | Warrior |
| WC | Wailing Caverns [instance] |
| WPL | Western Plaguelands |
| WSG | Warsong Gulch |
| WTB | want to buy |
| WTF | What the f**k |
| WTH | What the hell |
| WTS | Want to sell |
| WTT | Want to trade |
| ZF | Zul'Farrak |
| ZG | Zul'Gurub [instance] |
| ZM | Zangarmarsh |
