Glossary & First Week

FIRST WEEK IN FOREVER

• Pick your realm early and make your character name on day one; good names go fast.
• Read your class's new-player guide and plan your first talents.
• Train your two professions (a gathering one is the easiest gold) plus First Aid.
• Keep every bag you find and buy bigger ones when you can.
• Turn on the quest objective tracker and nameplates in the interface options.
• Join a guild or the Undying Discord to find groups.
• Run your first dungeon when you hit its level range.
• Visit your class trainer every even level.
• Save gold for your level 40 mount from day one.
• Don't vendor greens; sell them or disenchant them.

GLOSSARY

Add

An extra enemy that joins a fight.

Aggro

An enemy's attention. Whoever has aggro gets attacked.

AoE

Area of effect: hits everything in an area.

BiS

Best in slot: the best item for a gear slot.

BoE / BoP

Binds when equipped / binds when picked up. BoE items can be traded or sold until worn.

Buff / Debuff

A helpful effect on you / a harmful effect on an enemy (or on you).

CC

Crowd control: sheep, sap, fear, trap and other ways to take an enemy out of a fight.

Cooldown (CD)

Time before an ability can be used again.

DKP

Dragon kill points. A guild loot system: earn points for raiding, spend them to bid on loot.

DoT / HoT

Damage over time / heal over time.

DPS

Damage per second, or a player whose job is damage.

Elite

A tougher enemy with a gold dragon on its portrait. Bring a group.

GCD

Global cooldown: the short lockout after most abilities.

Gank

Getting killed by a higher-level player, usually on PvP realms.

Kite

Keep an enemy chasing you while you damage it from range.

LFG / LFM

Looking for group / looking for more. Used in chat to form groups.

Loot council

A loot system where officers decide who gets each item.

MS > OS

Main spec over off spec: you roll for gear for your main role first.

Mob

Any computer-controlled enemy.

Mana break

Pause so healers and casters can drink.

Need / Greed

Loot rolls. Need if you'll use it, Greed if you just want the gold.

OOM

Out of mana.

Pat

A patrolling enemy. Watch for it before pulling.

Pull

Starting a fight. Usually the tank's job.

Raid

A large-group instance: 10 or 20 players for WoW Forever's first raids.

Respec

Reset your talents at your class trainer for a gold fee.

SR / Soft res

Soft reserve: before a raid, each player reserves one or two items. Only people who reserved an item roll for it.

Tank

The player who holds aggro and takes the hits.

Threat

The number behind aggro. Do too much damage or healing and you pull threat off the tank.

Trash

Non-boss enemies in a dungeon or raid.

Wipe

The whole group dies.