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Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Lem » Sun Mar 16, 2014 10:15 am

Well they aren't always three letters! I originally posted this in response to someone's query, but thought a stickied post would be useful! Feel free to add more!

General
LFG - Looking for Group
LF(#)M - Looking for # More
PVE - Player vs Environment
PvP - Player vs Player or sPvP - structured Player vs Player (these are basically the same thing)
PvX - Player vs All
WvW - World vs World
TS - Teamspeak
AoE - Area of Effect
DPS - Damage per Second
XP - Experience
TP - Trading Post
WP - Waypoint
PoI - Point of Interest
JP - Jumping Puzzle
SP - Skill Point
OSD - OverShardDistrict (a particular instance of a Megaserver map, still trying to get this one to catch on!)
CC - Crowd Control (refers to conditions which like cripple, immobilised, stun, chilled, which impede the movement of the enemy)

Dungeons
CoF - Citadel of Flame
CoE - Crucible of Eternity
HotW - Honor of the Waves
AC - Ascalon Catacombs
TA - Twilight Arbor
SE - Sorrow's Embrace
CM - Cadecus Manor
FotM - Fractal of the Mists
(P1,P2,P3,P4 refers to a path of a dungeon usually used in conjunction with the above, eg. LF2M HOTW P1)

Other
BoH - Badges of Honor (reward from WvW)
AR - Agony Resist (only relevant to Fractals)
DS - Death Shroud (Necromancer profession skill)
PVT - Power Vitality Toughness (popular defensive item stat combo)

Servers
NSP - Northern Shiverpeaks (The only one you need to know!)

BG - Blackgate
IoJ - Isle of Janthir
JQ - Jade Quarry
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby JenaeRenae » Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:23 pm

That's what DPS means?! Ooohhhh... Thanks for the list!
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Ammorth » Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:20 pm

Couple of slight corrections:

PVE - Player vs Environment
CoF - Citadel of Flame

And some to add:

AOE - Area of Effect
PTV - Power Toughness Vitality (armor stats)
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Evelyn Sedai » Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:58 am

Add OF means Overflow. I've had people ask me that one before.
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Pugmannis » Tue Mar 18, 2014 2:09 pm

Though it's not a three letter or acronym-
Zerg - A large group of people moving as one to accomplish a task.
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Circle Squared » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:00 pm

CC should be added. That's one that often escapes me.
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Khal Bloodfang » Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:05 am

Thanks for sharing...useful info!
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Luna Moth » Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:05 pm

Is OSD for Oversharddistrict enough of a thing to add?
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Nestor Hrin » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:11 pm

I suppose it is. Replaced Overflow (OF).
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Nisha Tellerrae » Thu Dec 11, 2014 2:28 pm

Another common one: "OP", which means "Overpowered".
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Trouble Unleashed » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:01 pm

how many of these are actually two letter acronyms?
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Re: Useful TLA (Three Letter Acronym) list for GW2

Postby Luna Moth » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:07 pm

how many of these are actually two letter acronyms?

A couple of them, by the looks of it. OP, CC, WG (water gate), etc.

WvW ones:
PVD = Player vs. Door, a.k.a. IoJ'ing the door: to attack an objective's gate with personal DPS (damage per second) rather than building and/or using siege. It is also called IoJ'ing the door due to that server's (Isle of Janthir) apparent dislike of siege use.
PVW = Player vs. Wall, a fortunately rare phenomenon wherein the player attacks the breakable wall instead of using siege. Since it doesn't do any damage, it's discouraged but funny to watch. :D

Everything else I can think of is more jargon (Hills, Bay, oj's (which I guess if you spell 'swords' with a j works), hammer down, cc, door cata/treb, etc.).
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