RotMG Slang to English (Rev. 2)

Due to the fast-paced nature of the game, quickly-typed abbreviations are often used for trading and battle purposes. Here is a list (in progress) of the abbreviations you may encounter in-game:

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T
U V W X Y Z


#
0 This is said by frustrated players who got nothing after raiding a dungeon or an event boss. May follow curses or exclamation marks.
0/8, 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8 Describes how many stats a character has maxed.


A
Aby/Abby: Abyssal Armor, a very high tier heavy armor.
Abyss: Refers to the Abyss of Demons
Acrop: Acropolis armor ,the tier 13 (and thus very strong) plate armor.
AFK: Acronym for Away From Keyboard. Do not be this in the high forests or God's land.
All Tops: Having each of the best pieces of equipment for your player's class.
Alt An alternative account which a player uses.
Anchor: A person who stays in an area of importance (an area near gods or event bosses) so that his/her group can tele to them when needed.
Att/Atk: Abbreviation for Attack, a Character Stat, used when referring to the respective type of potion, ring, or actual stat.
Autolooter: A cheater using a program to grab items faster than humanly possible
Ammy/Amulet: Refers to the Cursed Amulet of Resurrection


B
BDagger/Bone/Bdag: Bone Dagger, an untiered dagger.
Bomb: The red AoE attack used by the Medusa God, Pentaract, and various others.
Boost: A request for a nearby Warrior or a Paladin to boost the stats of nearby allies. Most commonly used to break a Mysterious Crystal.
Brb: Means Be Right Back, that you are going to come back in a moment.
Buff: Dealing significant damage to an Ent Ancient, Ghost King, or Lich making the monster harder to kill.


C
CAmmy: Also refers to the Cursed Amulet of Resurrection
Cbow: Coral Bow
CC Armour: Refers to Candy coated armour, a UT armour that is dropped in the Candyland Hunting Grounds
Cem: Refers to the dungeon Haunted Cemetery.
Circle/Circling: A tactic where a player continuously fires whilst strafing around an enemy. This tactic is best used against enemies with narrow attacks like Medusa, but against enemies with omnidirectional particles like Ghost Gods, it's fairly ineffective.
CLeg Chicken Leg of Doom, a Limited Edition dagger.
Construct Party: A location in the God Lands where a gathering of 3 or more sets of Constructs are huddled forming a wall. These are considered highly annoying by fame/potion farmers.
Covert: Refers to Bow of Covert Havens,a tier 12 bow.
Cube: Cube God, one of the events.
Cyclops: Refers to either the server name or the Event Boss Cyclops God.
C Trap: Coral Venom Trap, an untiered Trap.


D
Deep: Verb. The act of 'going deep' entails going as close as you dare to a high level enemy.
Def: Abbreviation for Defense, a Character Stat, used when referring to the respective type of potion, ring, or actual stat.
Deselecting: A type of scamming which involves deselecting an item just before trading, in the hope that the other player won't notice.
Deso: Desolation Armor, a Tier-10 heavy armor.
Dex: Abbreviation for Dexterity, a Character Stat, used when referring to the respective type of potion, ring, or actual stat.
Davy: Abbreviation for Davy Jones Locker
Dhide:An Abbreviation for Drake Hide Armor
DoomC: The Doom Circle, the top shuriken.
Drag: To attract enemies to follow you. e.g. Dragging a group of gods toward other players (AKA: Aggro).
Drop?: Shorthand for "What dropped?", asking about what items were in a bag or event.
Dscale: Dragonscale Armor, a Tier-9 heavy armor.
Dbow: Doom Bow (sometimes Double Bow in scammers' terms)
Duck/Duck Staff: Anatis Staff, a LE staff.


E
Event: Event Gods (ex. Cube God, Pentaract, Skull Shrine), high-level Quest Bosses
Ex/Exa: Short term referring to Exalted Rings Which give +8 of a given stat or +140 HP/MP


F
F5: Refresh button built into computers, used by players when they are near death or need to get out of a tricky situation.
Fulmi: Scepter of Fulmination


G
GB: Abbreviation of Guild Board. Example: "Read the GB"
Gbow: Golden Bow
GH/Ghall: A short abbreviation of Guild Hall.
Gods: The largest, most powerful monsters in the game. See Gods of the Realm..
Godlands/God's land/Glands: The area where Realm Gods can be found, usually around the mountain terrain.
God wall/Godwall: A huge cluster of Gods which is incredibly dangerous and difficult to take down. Although officially patched, they do still occur on smaller scales.
Golden Cookie/Gcookie: Seal of the Blessed Champion, a high tier seal.
Grenade: See Bomb.
Griff: Griffon Hide Armor. Sometimes confused with Hippogriff Hide Armor (see below).
Gsorc: Robe of the Grand Sorcerer, a tier 13 robe.


H
Home: See Nexus.
Hp/H: "Heal please", usually used in battles to request a heal from a priest or paladin.
Hippo: Hippogriff Hide Armor.
Horse/Horsey: Refers to the Headless Horseman enemy, which has a chance of dropping the Haunted Cemetery dungeon.
Hydra: Hydra Skin Armor, a Tier-13 Light/Leather Armor
Hugging: When you stand on an enemy.
Warning! Hugging a god may result in serious injury or death. Do not attempt.


I
Inc: Wine Cellar Incantation, used to open Locked Wine Cellar Portals.


J
Jugg: Refers to Helm of the Juggernaut, an untiered helm that gives armored and berserk.


K
KO: Abbreviation of knocked out. Means killed or stunned. Example: "I KO'ed a Medusa yesterday". This could mean that he stunned or killed a Medusa. You should be able to tell by the context KO is used in.
KFC: Refers to Chicken Leg of Doom, a LE dagger.
Kalle in nexus: What players often say when they want a noob or random player to leave an area they are in, it is used as a joke as only true noobs would ever believe that Kalle would be in the nexus.


L
Lagromancer/Lagro: What frustrated players call the Necromancer any time he uses his special ability on a large crowd of enemies. This causes the game to lag.
Lobby: See Nexus.
Looter: Anyone who picks up loot. We're all looters, but can have a negative connotation. "Curse that looter!", for example.
Lord/LotLL/: Lord of the Lost Lands: one of the events.


M
Maxed: Raising all or a certain stat to the highest that class allows. #/8 refers to the number of stats maxed.
Med: Referring to the realm god monster Medusa or the server name.
Middleman: A trusted, third party facilitator used to ensure safe trades between 2 or more people.
Mith: Refers to an item made from Mithril or directly refers to the Mithril Shield.
Milk: Baneserpent Poison, the Tier-6 poison.
mp: Request for someone to drop a mana potion. Usually said by priests, necromancers and paladins.
Mule: An alternate account someone may use to carry items when they run out of space, often used for scamming, trading, and the alike.


N
Necro: Necromancer, a player class. Also, Staff of the Necrotic Arcana, a Tier 9 staff.
NPE: New Player Experience, shorthand for an unnamed alternate account made by an experienced player, usually made for the increased challenge of being unable to trade
Nexus: The area players first access when they enter the game. This area is known by many names: Lobby, Home, Valhalla, etc.
Nexusing. The act of hitting the return to nexus button.
Ninja'd: What a player may say after beating somebody to saying something or doing something by a small amount through their speed.
np: "No problem". Most commonly used way of saying "you're welcome" in the realm.


O
Old Top: Tier 11 Weapons, Tier 12 Armor, and Tier 5 Abilities.
@OP: On the forums, to indicate a reply to the original post in the thread.
OP: Overpowered. Also Overpay.
Oreo: Seal of Blasphemous Prayer, an untiered seal.
Oryx1/O1: The Oryx you fight in the blue chamber after he whisks everybody away to their doom.
Oryx2/O2: The Oryx you fight in the Wine Cellar.
Overpay: Paying more than an items' value.


P
Pala/Pally: Paladin, a player class.
Para: Short term referring to Paramount Rings, Which gives +7 of a given stat or +120 HP/MP.
Pent/Penta: Pentaract, one of the events.
Plane: Cloak of the Planewalker, a rogue's cloak that allows short range teleportation.
Pot: Any kind of potion. This term can sometimes be synonymous with Stat-increasing Potions, which are much more valuable than your everyday Health and Mana Potions.
Pot Rage: When a player gets frustrated about how little status increase potions he/she receives.
Puri: Tome of Purification, an untiered tome
Prot: Tome of Holy Protection, an untiered tome that doubles the user's armor for 4 seconds.
Pyra: The Ring of the Pyramid, an Untiered ring that drops from Bes in the Tomb of the Ancients.


Q
Quest: Quest Bosses, which you are directed to depending on your character level. You must defeat most of them to reach Oryx's Chamber.


R
Red Agent: Refers to a Cloak of the Red Agent. Also a Rogue who uses such a cloak.
Resu: Refers to Resurrected Warrior's Armor, a UT armour that is dropped in the Haunted Cemetery
Roll/Rolling: Leveling a character then examining his stats, if they are below or above average (HP/MP and VIT/WIS are most preferable). Re-rolling is the act of killing your character and starting a new roll.
Rush: To run ahead through a dungeon, killing few enemies, in an attempt to reach the boss before anyone else.


S
Sandman Convention: A presumed bug in the game which causes vast quantities of desert sandmen, sand devils, and giant crabs to spawn in a close proximity. Fatal to low level players, but amusing to others. Also doable on smaller amounts with Goblins. Both may result in a humiliating level 20 death if you decide to go afk smack in the middle of one.
Scammer: Someone who steals your items through deception or otherwise, without your consent.
Scammy: A term reffering to the Cursed Amulet of Resurrection.
Shotgunned: Taking most or every hit from a wave of shots, eg, Medusa or Oryx.
Warning: May result in serious injury, performances of the Harlem Shake, severe pain for your character, instant murder, getting vaporized (e.g. Oryx) or death.
Sin: Assassin, one of the 14 classes. Refers to what said class does.
Sitting: When an enemy literally 'sits' on your character, dealing massive damage to you as all its projectiles will hit. Also refers to when a player 'sits' on an enemy- dealing massive damage to the enemy.
Skull: Skull Shrine, one of the events.
Sorc: Sorcerer, a player class.
Spd: Abbreviation for Speed, a Character Stat, used when referring to the respective type of potion, ring, or actual stat.
Sphinx: Grand Sphinx, one of the events.
Sup:Referring to a Superior Ring Which adds +6 of a given stat or +100HP/MP


T
T#: The Tier level of a Weapon, Armor, Ability, or Ring. Some items have no tier (see Untiered.
Tele or tp: An abbreviation of Teleport.
thx or ty: Shorthand for Thanks and Thank You, respectively.
tl;dr Abbreviation of "too long, don't read." Usually a summary of the thread follows after this.
Tomb: Referring to : Tomb of the Ancients
Top: The most powerful tiered equipment, ie Tier 12 Weapons, T13 Armor, Tier 6 Abilities, Tier 5 Rings.
Train:A big group of players that storm through the land of Oryx,(usually along roads),Set on leveling up fast or fame farming, in hopes of traveling onwards in the world of ranks.
Trix: Another term for Trickster
Tut: Tutorial, which can be accessed by typing /tutorial (was also used for trading and congregation purposes in previous builds).
TY BRUTUS: Brutus is the name of a (long retired) player who opened Wine Cellars publicly. Slowly, the player Express of guild MAFIA began shouting 'TY BRUTUS' even when Brutus wasn't opening the Wine Cellar. This caught on and was a huge trend for several builds, but has begun to die out as of Summer 2012.


U
UDL: Undead Lair.
Untiered/UT: Refers to rare items that are not tiered.


V
Vit Abbreviation for Vitality, a Character Stat, used when referring to the respective type of potion, ring, or actual stat.
Vitamin A Vitality Potions, found in the Abyss of Demons.
Val Short term for the tradeable Valentines Day 2013 pet


W
WC: Wine Cellar
WC Tops: Wine Cellar items, refers to the highest tier items, which can only be found in the Wine Cellar. These are Tier 12 weapons, Tier 13 armor, and Tier 6 ability items.
Wis: Abbreviation for Wisdom, a Character Stat, used when referring to the respective type of potion, ring, or actual stat.
Wiz, Wizzy: Wizard, a player class.


X
XP: Experience Points, which are gained when killing a monster. Before level 20, they help level you up. After level 20, they slowly increase your fame meter.


Y
yw: "You're welcome".

Note: Price guide threads, (such as Tomb Raiders) also include more in- depth trading terms, prices and nicknames.