Boneblack Brigade

Welcome and have a flick through this thread to get to grips with all those strange and bewildering terminology you keep hearing, along with other general concepts, tips and tricks.

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General

1. Bookah | Human in Asurian | Big, clumsy creatures with loud, bellowing voices. Not too bright, either.
2. Persistent World | A world is shared between players. Most changes made are visible to all players. Continues to exists even when players log out.
3. Instance | A private copy of an area created for a player or a party. Ceases to exist when the player or party leaves the area. All changes are therefore lost.
4. XP | Experience Points | These points are gathered from nearly everything you do and are used to gain levels which requires set amounts of XP.
5. NPC | Non Player Character | These are characters in-game that are controlled by AI (Artificial Intelligence) and not players.
6. PvP | Player vs Player | Playing against other players.
7. PvE | Player vs Enviroment | Playing against AI enemies
8. PvX | Player vs Environment/Player | Playing against either environment and player.
9. sPvP | Structured Player vs Player | Playing against other players in a organise/purpose built mode.
10. WvW (WvWvW) | World vs World | 3 Servers are pitched against each other for 2 weeks.
11. RP | Roll Playing | For those player who want total immersion by acting out in-game dialogue and actions.
12. AFK / BRB / BIO | Away from keyboard / Be Right Back / Biological codename for Toilet | All meanings mean a player is currently idle.
13. GTG | Got to Go
14. Raid | A group of player that equipped/trained with gear ready for a event.
15. PuG | Pick Up Group | When the partied with random players who you don't know (PvP Quick Join Matches)
16. LFG | Looking for Group | Used to find/forms raids.
17. BoE | Bound on Equip | Once the item in question is equip to an character it is forever only wearable by that character.
18. BoP | Bound on Pick-up | Once the item in question is 'Pick-up' via either loot drops or merchant purchasing that item is only usable by that character.
19. BoA | Bound on Account | Items that are shared across character for that account.
20. AH | Auction House | Place to Buy/Sell shit!
21. GM | Game Master | The players with the power of GOD! (Normally Developers)
22. HoM | Hall of Monuments | These are achievements from the first Guildwars.
23. Mats | Just short for Materials, which are used to craft.
24. Farming | When you do the same task over and over to obtain a resource. I.e. Farmed Lowlands for Copper Orr.
25. Nerf | The reference has been weaked / made easier.
26. WTT | Want to Trade
27. OMW | On My Way
28. Emotes | These are actions/animations your character will preform. Use chat to iniate them. Emotes
29. GG | Good Game | Used when a match is ended as a goodwill gesture to all players and opponents alike.
30. BWE | Beta Weekend Events | These were closed GW2 events held before the launch of the game to test every aspect of the game.
31. Noob / Nab / Newb / NewBie | New Player | Used to decribe someone's abilty as under-par.
32. Vet | Veteran | Skilled and Experince player (opposite of above )
33. IRL | In Real Life | As opposed to something in the game.
34. OOC | Out of Character or Out of Combat
35. TL:DR | To Long : Don't Read / To Long : Didn't Read | Or in other words, another one of Lakvars post
36. GLHF | Good Luck Have Fun

Combat

1. DPS | Damage Per Second | Used to compare player's expected optimal damage output.
2. LoS | Line of Sight | To avoid/hide from a Foe's damage.
3. Pull | Refered to gaining the initial aggro of an enemy.
4. Mob | Mobile | Referring to non-player character or characters (general foes) that can be moved or pulled.
5. Regen | Regeneration | How quickly your that stat regenerates, normal it just refereed to health.
6. Rez | Resurrection | Player may call for a rez/revives during battles.
7. AoE/AE | Area of Effect | Any skills that effect more than one target is considered a Area of Effect skill.
8. HoT | Heal over Time | How much healing is applied per second.
9. DoT | Damage over Time | How much damage is applied per second or over a time period.
10. Boons | aka Buffs | These give a positive effect to players stats Boons
11. Conditions | aka DOTs | These give negative effect to players stats Conditions
12. CD | Cool Down | Some skills once activated have a timer before it can be used again, in this period the skill is in 'Cool Down'
13. OP | Over Powered | Dam! that skill is so OP!!! Blah blah blah, whine whine whine.
[*]Melee| Attacks that happen within a limited distanced anything within weapon swinging distance is consider Melee.
14. Ranged | Attacks that can be preformed from a distanced.
15. Kite / Kiting | Running in circles with purpose, while simultaneously shooting with your range weapon at enemies who just happen to run more poorly than you and are daft enough to have no ranged weapon. If they do not run more poorly, use magic to make it so. Also, flying kites in the park.
16. Zerg | When a group amounts a tactical engagement with numerical superiority. Proven to be worthy tactic trough all human history.
17. Proc | Programmed Random Occurrence | Relying on luck and in-game randomization to make up for your lack of skill. Also, a random beneficial (to you) spell, which gives you an advantage at never the right time.
18. Crit | Critical | Digital means for enhancing penis size or boosting feeling of superiority. Often followed by PrntScrn. Those who lack our insight call it "scoring a Critical Hit"
19. CC | Crowd Control | CC of paramount importance during kiting, CC is useful for dispersing public demonstrations (e.g. tear gas) or debilitating the ability of other players to perform well against you, which often leads to 1. your successful escape or 2. kill and desecrating of corpse (theirs) and a lasting feeling of resentment from the victim towards your self.
20. Pwnd | Demonstration of skill so superior to your opponent, that you amaze your own self and feel the need to say something in encouragement afterwards.
21. Spike | More or less instantanious damage made by several players with the sole intent to kill within the blink of an eye.
22. Burst/Nuke | A Prolonged spike and therefore pushing the the resources of the player to the limit and trying to do as much damage as possible in a short duration disregarding any form of later sustainability.
23. Tank | Can tank enormous amount of damage but deals very little in return.
24. Glass Cannon The exact opposite of a tank.. a players choice to solely consentrate on max damage output but if its getting hit much or at all it is most likely dead.
25. Gank | Ganking constitutes focusing on one enemy and pressing all of your buttons in a diminishing succession, from highest damage to lowest. A process in which a group of characters gang up on one or more players that do not have a chance to defend themselves.
26. Aggro | Not really present in GW2 but it means to keep at Foe target/concentrated on you.
27. Wipe | When the whole party has been killed.
28. Stomp | Finishing a downed player to make them defeated. Stomp by default is the action of stomping a flag apon a downed opponent but other things can be used like a cow
29. Synergy | Synergy is when the combined effect (from skills or players) is greater than the two individual effects added together.
30. RNG | Random Number Generator, in GW2 some stills use RnG to pick a skill from a list of skills..

Other MMO (some/all wont apply to GW2)

1. Roll (#1) | Generates a random number between 1-100, used to see who wins an item. (can also do roll # to indicate range, example roll 2000)
2. Roll (#2) | Roll can also refer to 'rolling a new character' as creating a new character in traditional RPGs is rolling a dice to select your stats.
3. DKP | Dungeon K P | A currency that's earned through raids which can be used to purchase its
4. WTS | Want to Sell
5. WTB | Want to Buy
6. WTT | Want to Trade
7. LFG | Looking for Group (Sometimes Guild)
8. LFM | Looking for More | Used to fine more players for a group
9. LF1M | Looking for One More
10. Parser | A parser is a tool the analyse data (normally via Battle.log) and numerate the data for realtime HUD's or post reviews.

Currency

1. Coin | Common form of currency and is the basis for player trade.
2. Gems | Bought for real money and used to purchase items from the in-game store. (can be used to buy coin too)
3. Glory | Earned by participating in Structured PvP and used to unlock skins for use in that game mode.
4. Influence | Awarded to guilds for the activities of members. <--
5. Karma | Earned by participating in dynamic events and helping others with their personal storyline.
6. Skill Points | Are used to unlock new skills and Miyani will take them in exchange for mystic items or recipes.
7. Badge of Honor | Gathered from defeating enemies in WvW, used to buy weapons and seige weapons in WvW.
8. Supply | is acquired through and used in WvW to build and upgrade structures and siege weapons.

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Basic

1. /s Or /say | Messages nearby players
2. /p Or /party | Messages your party
3. /g Or /guild | Messages your guild
4. /t Or /team | Message all players on your team in world vs. world
5. /squad | Message all players in your wvw squad
6. /m Or /map | Message all players in your current Zone or City
7. /t, /tell, /w, or /whisper [name] | Send a private message to a player
8. /r, /reply, or Backspace | Reply to the most recent private message
9. Post to chat an Item/Skill | Start a chat and Shift+left-click an item to link the item/skill in chat <--
10. Post location to chat | Start a chat and Shift+left-click a waypoint to link the waypoint location in chat <--

Social

1. /friend [name] | Add a player to your contact list
2. /block [name] or /ignore [name] | Prevent a player from contacting you in any way
3. /unblock[name] or /unignore [name] | Remove a player from your block list
4. /LFG [on/off] | Toggle "looking for group"
5. /AFK [on/off] | Toggle "away from keyboard"
6. /invisible [on/off] | Toggle offline status on other contact lists

Informative

1. /age [name] | Says the following message in your chat window: "Across all characters, you have played for <x> hours <y> minutes over the past <z> days/months."
2. /deaths [name] or /ignore [name] | Says the following message in your chat window: "You have died <x> time(s)."

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1. Ctrl+T | Will suggest a target to your party
2. T | Targets the targeted target set by party
3. Tab | Cycles through the Foes
4. C | Targets the closest Foe - Not 100% this is in GW2???
5. Ctrl+Shift+H | Hides the whole UI, great for clean screen shots

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Crafting / Gathering

Tools of the trade, you'll need to grab yourself Tools before you can gather; these can be found at the first villages outside of the main cities. Just buy and equip all three (Sickles, Axes, and Picks), on the Minimap nodes(gather locations) appear just wonder over and gather

Inventory full! Getting that a lot?? Simples make a Reinforced Bronze Box(8 Slot Bag). Get the Amoursmith craft, just collect/buy 20 coppers ores, buy some tin (weaponsmith merchant) and make 10 bronze ingots. Now you can craft a one or more

Leveling

Mobs that gains XP for how long they live, thus mobs that are out in unexplored areas grant greater XP.

You can buy boons that grants Health regen, Might and Double XP.

Leveling guide from lakvar

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Info :
GW2 Wiki : Where would one be without the Gw2 Wiki?
GW2 Guide : Very detailed guide
GW2 101 : A long thread containing all the need to know info.
Crafting Guide
GW2 Census : Roughly 20k characters added, gives rough ideas of character choices along with other decisions.
GW2db.com/ : The go to place for all crafting needs.
GW2 Tips & Tricks article
GW2 naming rules : GW2 naming rules for all races in GW2.
Tales of Tyria #42: Buy High and Sell Higher : A podcast focusing on how to make money.

Reduce LAG : A nice guide to help you reduce your lag.

Forums :
Offical GW2 Forum (Beta Forum)
GW Insider
GuildMag
GW2 Guru
GWEN
Reddit for Gw2

Tools :
Skill Calculator (Gw2DB)
GW2 Skill Tool with Stats
GW2 Codex Skill Tool
Skill Tool Builder #1
Skill Tool Build #2
Charrrrrrrrr Name Geney
Name generator
Any one for a Krytan Translator ?? Seriously!!
GW2 Signature Generator (Enjin)
Interactive Map : More populated.
Crafting Materials Map
Area Map
Guild Emblem Creator
Lore and RP Guide

Skills :
GW2 Elementalist
GW2 Engineer
GW2 Mesmer
GW2 Warrior
GW2 Ranger
GW2 Necromancer
NecroBator
Guardians of Tyria
Thief Craft
Key and Dagger

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Can attached these commands to you GW2 shortcut. Append to end of the target area field, outside of the quote marks like so :

1. Right click on your GW2.exe and click create shortcut.
2. Right click on your GW2 shortcut and select 'Properties'.
3. In the 'Target Area' field you will see the location of your Guild Wars executable file: "<...>\Gw2.exe"
4. Write the desired command line arguments after the quote marks, each beginning with a space: "<...>\Gw2.exe" -windowed -nosound

Log in

• -autologin | Automatically presses the log in button upon launch.
• -email username | Sets the username/email. Good to create multiple shortcuts for multiple accounts. Otherwise obsolete.
• -nopatchui | Launches the game straight away instead of opening patcher first.
• -password password | Enters password. Good to create multiple shortcuts for multiple accounts. Otherwise obsolete.

Visual

• -bmp | Sets your screenshots to bitmap format for better quality.
• -fps 60 | Limits your framerate to a desired value. Good for keeping FPS stable by keeping the distance between your minimum and max framerate down. Also can be used to keep temps in check if not using vsync.
• -noui | Removes the user-interface. Works on login screen too. Same as Ctrl+Shift+H.
-windowed Makes the game load in windowed or FullScreen Windowed. Even after settings reset after a patch.

Audio

• -nomusic | Disables just music.
• -nosound | Disables ALL sound.

Troubleshoot

• -perf Not 100% about this; it adds a debug readout to the right hand side, with stuff like FPS, Number of Texture/Characters/Lights/Polygons and other graphical shit.
• -diag | Does a diagnostics check on your computer. It checks your network hardware, addresses, etc. It then does a traceroute to check your latency/ping, number of hops and packet loss to a number of ANET servers and then performs a direct X diagnostics.
• -image | Used to download ALL data for the game instead of the default bare essentials. Seems to use old patcher UI as well. Obsolete as of BWE as the patcher downloads everything anyway.
• -repair | Attempts to repair the gw2.dat file.
• -useoldlauncher | Reverts to old patcher UI.

Zerg - tactical engagement with numerical superiority. Proven to be worthy tactic trough all human history.

Roll - stupid emote which will force you character roll on the ground, used as sign of superiority in chain of command. Example: "Ok, now who want this item - roll" if officer is pleased you will be awarded with item.

Wow I was about to say well played op, but all the good ideas came from cantide and lakvar.

Now I can't award you any number of internet anymore :/

It's a collaborative effort, plus my writing skills suck!!

I relinquish all my internets to you, Bones - you inspired Cantide, Cantide inspired me, so clearly, I was just a vessel of your ambition

[Tea-bagging] Engineer dropping all his bombs, while you're knocked down from Slick Shoes

Be honest - you love it

#6071293 Lakvar wrote:

[Tea-bagging] Engineer dropping all his bombs, while you're knocked down from Slick Shoes

Be honest - you love it

Haha I love it, that would catch on quickly =P

Leeching:

The process of doing minimal work and taking advantage of other people's work while trying to be obscure about it. Also called Lakvarring.



jk

#6081905 Kalyna wrote:

Leeching:

The process of doing minimal work and taking advantage of other people's work while trying to be obscure about it. Also called Lakvarring.



jk

In every joke, there's a grain of truth ...
but that's why I accepted being a guild-leader - I want credit for all of you's successes in the game

I'll strut around and be like "No, I haven't killed the frigin' elder dragon myself, I send MY guild to do it, you silly commoner!"

I've got a definition request!

"Spike" - I saw it used I think as some central part to a build's normal routine, something like "I use X as my spike and follow with..."

(I'm probably miles away)

#6368755 Pyralspite wrote:

I've got a definition request!

"Spike" - I saw it used I think as some central part to a build's normal routine, something like "I use X as my spike and follow with..."

(I'm probably miles away)

Nope your not miles off, lots of ppl also call it Burst instead of Spike.

#6368755 Pyralspite wrote:

I've got a definition request!

"Spike" - I saw it used I think as some central part to a build's normal routine, something like "I use X as my spike and follow with..."

(I'm probably miles away)

yeah Spike is in general something like if your a team of four elementalists and you have a lightning strike.. and you all use it at the same time on the same guy you are spiking him.. and the idea behind that is you do so much dmg in an instant that you simply kill him at once

Burst as renji mentions is more or less when every partymember or a single guy just uses all their cooldowns to try a burst/burn the mob as low as possible in a shortest amount of time.. generally seen in big raids when your close to reaching an enrange timer and you just have to burst the boss down hope that helps

Clarification, keep all your big burst cooldowns until a party leader calls for a damage spike.
I just imagined Aleiha being one of those four Elementalists and calling Lighting Strike (which btw is autoattack) and then the enemy dodges four lighting bolts striking on the same spot! ...
That's a fraps moment if any!

#6368843 Lakvar wrote:

Clarification, keep all your big burst cooldowns until a party leader calls for a damage spike.
I just imagined Aleiha being one of those four Elementalists and calling Lighting Strike (which btw is autoattack) and then the enemy dodges four lighting bolts striking on the same spot! ...
That's a fraps moment if any!

well i have no idea about elementalists xD but some high dmg skill...

anyway burst and spike is two different thing

Spike / Burst = Nuke | Nuking is dealing the most damage possible in the shortest time possible.

Can amend Nuke to say Nuke (Spike / Burst) ??

nah.. Spike is used in pvp and cant really be used in pve since the bosses where it would be needed have so much hp..

spike= using specific high damage skill instantanious with whole party on 1 single target with the purpos to bring said target down before it is possible for him to react..

Nuke/burst is different and is generally mainly used in pve on bosses but ofcourse also in pvp burst is you throw away everything about your standart rotation(which is good sustained damage [to prevent going out of mana in a traditional mmo]) to make a Burst/Nuke rotation which main objective is to deal the most amount of hurt possible in a short duration of time (10 seconds for example) which would most likely leave you exhausted and out of mana in a traditional mana/energy based mmo but it would provide a much higher damage output for the last bit of time.. which is also why Burst/Nuke is mainly used towards the very end of a bossfight and especially is the party is close to hitting the enrage timer..

or like i mentioned in my first post about it.. especially in a game like gw1 and most likely also gw2 spiking and burting may not me considered the same..

since lets take a gw1 example since thats where i have most pvp experience a rank 200 world guild a few years back.. we tended to use spike builds.. we had for example

6 Elementalists
1 Monk
1 Ritualist

for example.. every elementalist which were the spike team had Obsidian Flame

which at rank 16 does 97 armor ignoring damage..

6*97 = 582

most classes in gw1 in pvp players had around 400-500 hp at most making the Spike from the 6 elementalists if properly timed an insta kill

Wanted to post as well and make the distinction between the three, but was on the train...

Spike: In PvP, dealing maximum damage over minimum time to a single target by one or multiple opponents (in which case simultaneous), where the goal is to not give the player or his allies time to react with heal or defensive cooldowns.
In PvE, it usually concerns boss mechanics and it is the same - spiking damage, dodge, use a protection spell, cast a big heal.

Burst: Mostly concerns professions (classes) and builds - in GW2 dagger/dagger Elementalist, Warrior and Thief can run Burst builds, which means that those professions can deal massive damage right at the start of the engagement, putting most of their heavy hitting skills on CD (or depleting initiative). Those would also be the professions that are best at spiking.

Nuke: synonym for dps down until dead, in raiding mythology called towards the end of a fight and meaning ignore other adds, focus boss/target.

I would say spike damage (as an retired tank) is the description of uncertain and/or unstable damage that can frequently change from being very high to almost none existing under none predicting circumstances.

Unlike nuke/burst where the enemy(or your self) use an ability to increase its damage (or just an high damage move with longer cd then others) output for a period of time. This can be predicted unlike spike damage.

Just to prove that I wasn't talking BS in my reaction:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Spike

Here is a nice sentence from a WoW skill/which according to the most of you is also called burst dmg :
PvP - Lava burst and [Chain Lightning], which has no traveling time, if cast in succession will generally hit at the same time for spike damage.

So tbh, basically spike gets used for lots of forms of dmg. Though in the sentece of Pyralspite:

"Spike" - I saw it used I think as some central part to a build's normal routine, something like "I use X as my spike and follow with..."

You can look at it more as Burst dmg (according to most reactions) than the sudden spike dmg of a pve boss.

Just saying

I'll let you lot swooby until a consensus occurs for Spike, Burst, and Nuke. Want to also add Class-Cannon, anyone care to write a correct description as I'm lazy plus not 100% sure how to define it plus any other that describe how a class play's