Transmuting Mithril To Truesilver
Let’’s say you”ve just recently put together your Alchemist’’s Stone and got to Artisan level. After heading to Gadgetzan, the first transmute you”ll gain access to is the Mithril->Truesilver one. (There’’s also the Iron->Gold one, that’’s really good for nothing so you might as well skip buying it). The only wow gold reason to use this one is for cheap leveling of your alchemy skill, to get to 275 skill. You will make a profit with it too, but it won”t be very large.
Consider investing in a stack of Mithril bars. Make sure you haggle for the price, get it as cheap as you can. When you start burning through them, sell the resulting bars one-by-one at the AH. Unless you”re selling on a bad day or something, you will more than double your per-bar investment in mithril. Say you bought your stack for 10-15 silver per bar - well, you”ll be selling your truesilver for 40-60 silver a piece. At that rate it takes about one week to pay off the initial investment, the rest is money for nothing, in your pockets. Won”t amount to a whole lot, but in your early levels you need all the help you can get - and besides, you will get the occasional skill-up while at it, too.
Arcanite Transmute
Once you reach level 275, you can learn the Arcanite transmutation. This recipe will last you a good long while - in fact, unless you luck out and find the Undeath->Water essence transmute somewhere, you”ll be using it right up to level 60 when you have completed the Scholomance ghost quest chain.
The price of Arcanite as well as arcanite transmutes has been heading downhill for a while, as is the case with all things in WoW. Like most people, I started out by offering transmutation services for a fee of 5 gold, but soon that price started lowering as more alchemists entered the market, and on my server it’’s now settled in at 3 gold. But I got to thinking… I”m wasting a lot of time advertising my services in Ironforge and putting up with annoying customers - for what? A few gold every few days? Considering my time and effort spent advertising and bargaining, I knew I had to find an easier way out.
By this time I had a few gold in my pocket already, and even though selling my own bars meant tying up almost 30 gold of my cash, risking unsuccessful sales in the AH and paying 5% for even the successful ones, none of these wow gold things were a real obstacle to me. I bought a stack of Thorium Bars for a few gold, and started browsing for arcane crystal prices. I quickly learned that there was quite a gap between the price of a crystal and the price of the finished Arcanite bar: A crystal would go for 19-22 gold, whereas the bar prices ranged from 25 to almost 30 gold.
By entering the bar sales business, you”ll bring in an average of at least 6 gold profit per sale - which should be twice the amount you”d get from selling the service alone, and without the hassle of haggling and advertising.
Undeath to Water
I got lucky and found the Undeath->water transmute recipe in Un”Goro, so I don”t know what this is worth in the AH. Probably a lot, since it’’s a world drop recipe. If you find it, it’’s a gold mine. If you see it in the AH, you”ll have to weigh the cost/future profit carefully, because you”ll probably switch to doing a different transmute later. It won”t be wise to spend obscene amounts on this recipe.
Assuming you have it one way or another, here’’s the deal. Essence of undeath is a somewhat useless and one of the more common world of warcraft gold essences, found often in Stratholme and Scholomance as well as other mobs. I could buy these essences for anything from as low as 50 silver to 1,5G from the AH. To my delight, Essences of Water are far more difficult to attain and are used in a number of high level crafted items. Their AH price fluctuates as farmers have better and worse terms, but it has stayed in the 7-10G region for a couple of months now on my server.
So, from this transmute you”ll earn 6-8 gold or more per transmute - the same amount you got for arcanite - with one major exception: The cool down is only 1 day. Congratulations, you are now making 250 gold per month doing absolutely nothing. But if you want to double that for just 2 hours per week, read on.
Water to Air
Complete the quest chain in Scholomance given to you by Eva Sarkhoff, the ghost outside the entrance, you gain an item that allows you to interact with the other ghosts on the island. Among them you will find a vendor that will sell you the Water->Air transmute recipe (binds when picked up).
Essences of air are found in Silithus, but their drop rate is highly irregular. They are also used in various rare and epic crafted items. Thus they have earned their AH price of approximately 15-20 gold on my server. By buying Water essences and selling Air essences, you will make 7-8 gold or more per day - only slightly more than by doing Undeath->Water. Prices may vary on your server, of course. This is the easy way of doing things.
If you are of the grinding mindset, you can of course grind your own essences to double your profit. This is not difficult, if a bit tedious.
You can find Essences of Water from high-level water elemental mobs. The two convenient places I frequent are: Felwood, or Eastern Plaguelands. Both locations are heavily farmed, and with the advent of the new warlock quests in Felwood that happen to be very close to the elemental area, the small area is often packed with 3 or more players competing for the spawns in the relatively small world of warcraft gold area. The Plaguelands areas are also farmed, but instead of one there are two, and the other one is significantly large which allows for many players to grind there without stepping on each other’’s toes too much. It’’s of course more fun to do it when you”re alone at it, so you don”t have to wait around and compete for the spawns.
The drop rate of these essences is not too low, but low enough to make you really suffer on an unlucky day. Sometimes you can go for an hour without seeing the first sign of any essences, but other times you get two on consecutive kills. Farming random drops is like this, and it’’s often boring, and the elementals don”t really drop anything else of value. Almost no greens, just enchanted water and the occasional elemental water or globe of water. I guess this is why the price of the essences remains fairly high.
But if you”re persistent, and have the tenacity to grind for 2 hours straight, you will probably be rewarded with at least 4-6 essences, if not more. For about 2 hours worth of grinding, you”re set for a week of transmuting at 15-20G a sale.
There’’s your 500G a month, 2 hours per week.
As with everything, expect these prices to lower over time. I”ve been doing this for about a month now, with no significant drop in profits (Air essence prices have gone down, but Water essence prices have gone up). By the end of the year I don”t think it”ll be as profitable, but considering the time spent it should still be well worth it.
Other transmutes
The transmutes I outlined above are arguably your best path to 300 skill, and your ultimate moneymakers as far as transmutes go. There are other transmutes available, but they really serve little purpose from a moneymaking perspective at least until Blizzard adds new crafted items or quests that shift the value of various essences and minerals.
In particular I recall once reading a funny comment about the Air->Fire transmute: Someone compared its usefulness to that of an ”Arcanite->Copper” transmute… And really, that’’s what it sounds like to me as well ;).
However, there is one alternative to consider, and you can do your own math on your server to see if it’’s worth doing. Thank you to Squigipapa on the forums for bringing up this idea.
Earth to Water (to Air)
If Water essences are too heavily farmed on your server for you to step in and get your own in a reasonable amount of time, you might consider farming Essences of Earth. First of all you need to be friendly with the Timbermaw Furbolgs to purchase the Earth->Water transmute recipe from then.
You can then grind Essences of Earth in Silithus, where rock elementals are plentiful and not quite as farmed as Water Elementals. By transmuting them to Water, and then to Air the next day, you may be able to turn up a nice profit, although the time involved in the process does leave you with only half the gold you could make from directly grinding Essences of Water. Alternatively you could also sell the Water Essences depending on how the essence market is working out on your server. Just some food for thought.

I have come to understand that this is not common knowledge to all rogues and I have yet to see it on any site upon performing multiple searches.

This can be soloed for about 200G per hour or done with 2 rogues for about 1000G.

I do this solo but in fairness I have exceptional gear. I’m sure it could be done with good blue gear. If you have problems cheap world of warcraft gold with this, get a partner to help you. Frankly, as much money as this can make you, it wouldn’t be a horrible crime to complely stock up on greater fire protection pots, elixir of mongoose, giant potions, etc. A death will cost you about 6 minutes and time is money.

You will also need improved sap. 100G worth of respeccing is a small price to pay for a weekend of making thousands.

On to the solo strategy:

In Lower Blackrock Spire you want to stealth to the right in the same manner as you would normally clear the dungeon. You’ll come around to the left after dropping off the first ledge and work your way to two doors (one after the other) that are very close to each other and have roaming mobs going through them. After you pass the second door, stop. To your right you should see a ledge. Across from that ledge is another ledge where you will see a bunch of ogres. If you move towards that ledge and look down you will see a platform that you can jump onto. Jump to it. Now move forward and you will see another platform. Jump to it. Lastly you will jump to the wow gold ground floor where you will see several tents. When you jump down, fall, don’t jump or it will break your stealth. Watch out for roaming mobs. You don’t want to fall on them.

Continue on until you get to the hill where the spiders are. As soon as you reach this hill you will come to a nook on your right that most groups that do LBRS skip. In that nook you will see three groups of mobs. To the left are 3 mobs, to the right are 3 mobs and in the back right corner are 2 mobs. The two groups of 3 are not linked but all 6 will aggro if you pull one because the two groups are too close together.

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What you want is one of the two mobs in the back. One of these mobs is a Blackrock Pyromancer. He is what you will want to kill, so sap the other guy and go up the little hill behind you. Ranged pull the pyromancer. Just before he gets in range hit evasion and kill him as quickly as possible. He will flee just before he dies, so crippling poison is your friend. You could use kidney shot just before he gets to 20% life but why waste it on a fleeing mob?

As soon as you kill him, loot him and vanish.

Duo Strategy

Kill the group in the back in the same manner but don’t waste your vanish. Two rogues shouls make extremely short work of both mobs. Heal up, wait for your curses and such to fade and get ready for some big packs.

The problem with the next pull is that you have 6 mobs to deal with. If the two ‘inside mobs’ are both Pyromancers, dump this pull and reset. The only way you can continue is to reset, fight 4 elits at the same time or kill a couple, die and come back to an easier pull. In any other case, you want to sap ‘inside mob1′ or wow gold inside mob2′. If one of them is a pyromancer, don’t sap it, sap the other one and have your partner sap one of the other mobs in sapped mob’s group. See this diagram.

Kill the unsapped pyromancer and vanish.

The duo strat is complicated. You will find that there are several configurations to deal with. I prefer to solo but I make a ton of money if I duo all of the mobs.

It is one of the best robes that a mage can find if he doesn’t raid and that is more than 99% of the mage population. Even raiding mages have bought these from me as gaining archanist or something similar isn’t necessarily an overnight process for a new raider. The best part of this robe is that it’s bind on pickup. The pattern is bind on use but the robe binds when you make it, so the crafter can only make it for himself.

Yes the downside is that the mage has to be a 300 tailor. I have sold this pattern to 100 people that picked up tailoring just to make this wow gold robe. Many dumped tailoring after making it.

These patterns sell for about 200 gold on my server. I’ve found and sold as many as 5 in a day.

They sell for 300-400 gold on my server. They don’t drop nearly as often as the robe pattern does but it’s a nice payday when they do. I also find a ton of blues (shadowcraft, valor, etc). Those always sell pretty nicely.

My worst one hour session was about 70 gold. My best was 1000 gold (3 patterns, 1 fire recipie and 2 blues).

Again, if you’re having trouble with the solo strat, get a partner. Two rogues in green gear can easily handle the solo strat.

Happy hunting!

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Yesterday my friend was using his Lev 60 hunter to help me run quests for a new char I am grinding. He took me to an amazing spot I hadn’t seen previously.
In the far Western shore/cliff there is a windmill surrounded by about 15 members of the local Derathi thieves guild. This is by no means unique in Westfall, however the amount of them are……and they all INSTA spawn wow gold after being looted. While I was running about killing boars and harvesters for a few quests he sat there and pelted these guys for about 20-30 minutes just to get linen cloth for the AH.
Lo and behold, after about 20 minutes he had 300 linen in his coiffers! So this little spot is SUPERB for low level 10-20 grinding, and also a great money maker at HIGH levels.
Let’s do the quick math on the linen for my pal. As of this morning stacks of 20 linen are selling for 50s on the Zul’Jin AH.
300/20 = 15 stacks
Now assuming he continued making that 300 linen in 20 minutes, multiply that by 3. 600 linen or 45 stacks. That’s 22 gold on the AH. Certainly nothing groundbreaking but for people at lower levels, or even wow gold and higher levels who simply want no risk gold grinding.
The best part about this place is it is NON STOP. Literally NON STOP. Check it out, amazing stuff.

Tip 1 - Read your Quest JournalNow we hate to snipe here, people, but the “L” key on your keyboard opens up your Quest Journal. This wow gold handy-dandy little item contains literally all the information you need to solve whatever quest your given. Check it early and check it often because if you’re cluttering up the “General” chat channel asking “Where’s the Wailing Caverns?” 47 times not only will you learn all sort of new Azerothian insults, but when you eventually find the place, it’s not going to win you any friends when you then start looking for a group to explore with. Your Quest Journal has directions so precise they make MapQuest look vague to avoid precisely this situation. Read your Quest Journal! Read your Quest Journal! Read your Quest Journal!Tip 2 - The City Guards are your friends - use them well.This is kind of an adjunct to the whole “Read your Quest Journal” thing, but the other thing that clogs up the general chat channels is people asking for directions in the hub cities. Fortunately Blizzard has come up with a simple solution - just ask a city guard! They’ll give you directions to everything in the city and even provide you with a little flag in your mini-map! You know, the employment situation in Azeroth must be pretty bad when you consider that most of these guards are level 75 or so and can easily wipe out wow gold virtually every monster in the game and they’re taking the time out of their busy schedule to help you. The least you can do is avail yourself of their services. I don’t even think they get paid!

Tip 3 - Every trade skill in World of Warcraft has a complement.

Players can only learn two “professional” trade skills (Fishing, Cooking, First Aid and a few others don’t count). Be aware that with the exception of Enchanting and Tailoring, every trade skill has a “gathering” skill and a “crafting” skill. Blacksmithing, for example, requires raw materials that can only be retrieved by Mining. Be sure you select the appropriate skill; otherwise you will end up buying raw materials at auction or trying to trade your raw materials for finished goods. Tip 4 - The Num Lock key is your auto run.This should be obvious, but you’d be surprised how many players forget to use their auto run. Auto run is your best friend, though. During long runs you can be checking your quest log, futzing with your inventory, or chatting with friends. Use it!Tip 5 - Control your Pets.This, of course, only applies to pet classes (Warlocks and Hunters), but if we had a gold piece for every Warlock and Hunter who left his pet on “Aggressive” we’d - well, we’d have a lot of gold pieces. Your pets are tools. They’re used for very specific purposes. Putting them on Aggressive lets them attack indiscriminately and can draw a lot more monster attention than your group is ready to deal with. All too often a pet on the loose means death for the group and a long, boring corpse run.

World of Warcraft Alliance Player Tips
Tip 6 - Looking to solo? Get yourself a Night Elf Hunter or a Warlock. While there isn’t any one particular character template that works perfectly for soloing, this is about the best that there is on the Alliance side. First, there really isn’t any buy wow gold equal level monster in the game that a properly tricked out Hunter can’t tackle one-on-one without breaking a sweat. While Warlocks are a bit more fragile, they have an excellent complement of damage dealing spells that will let them survive - albeit while taking more damage. Unfortunately, many creatures will attack in groups if they notice one of their buddies getting pounded on (Elite creatures are particularly nasty with this).That’s where pets come in, Any “Pet” class can use their animal (or demonic) companion to do what’s called “crowd control” - basically pulling one creature away from a group and a time and killing it. The Warlock’s Void Walker is particularly good at this. Night Elves quest lines at low levels are also pretty self-contained within the geographically isolated Teldrassil, meaning you never have far to run to reach a quest destination or to retrieve your corpse.Tip 7 - Gnomes have the best (worst) dancing emotes.Trust us on this one. Simply typing /dance into the wow gold game while playing as a gnome will show you what we mean. Gnome dancing is the most offensive thing in Azeroth - rumor has it that the Horde offers 10 gold pieces to anyone who can actually manage to kill a Gnome in PvP during a dance. Therefore it makes Gnomes perfect for role-players who want to annoy other players and have a good laugh.Tip 8 - Everyone loves a Human Priest.This is the perfect class for players looking to group. Humans’ racial talents help a Priest hold his or her own in combat and there isn’t a group alive that isn’t thrilled when a Priest shows up just before heading into an Elite dungeon or an instance. Priests are also pretty rare in the game, there aren’t really all that many players who enjoy taking on the social/support roles, so your skills will always be in demand - and you’ll level pretty fast.

Tip 9 - You don’t have follow the quest lines for your own race!

One of the biggest misconceptions that new players have about World of Warcraft is that quests are restricted by race - in other words, that if you’re playing a Human, you must take the “Human” quests in Elwynn Forest when you start out. That’s simply not true. Players can take any level-appropriate quest regardless of their race. For Alliance players looking to level up a bit faster, there is a bit of a shortcut. Simply head to the hub cities of Ironforge or Stormwind as soon as you’re strong enough to get out of the newbie zone (around level 5). From there, find the cheap wow gold passage to Teldrassil, the Night Elf homeland and start collecting quests. Teldrassil is very small, contains the hub city of Darnassus that offers every service, and players rarely have to run far to complete quests. You’ll find yourself at level 10 or even higher in no time!Tip 10 - The Alliance means more content, but more people.For whatever reason, the Alliance races as a whole (Humans, Night Elves, Dwarves, and Gnomes) are more popular with players. This can often mean severe crowding in popular regions along with what we like to call “mass extinction events”. That basically means that several quests in the area that require players to kill a particular animal may make it hard to find that animal for a while - and that you may be racing other players who are standing around waiting for them to spawn. The good news is that the Alliance has a lot more quest-based content than the Horde. While this isn’t noticeable at the earlier levels, many Horde players often find themselves running low on quests around level 25-30 and being forced to just “farm” random creatures for experience.

World of Warcraft Horde Player Tips
Tip 11 - You will end up in the Barrens - accept it. Throughout the beta process, the one zone that everybody complained about the most was the Barrens, a level 15-20 zone that is quite literally in the center of everything for the Horde. As a result, this zone has the dubious distinction of undergoing almost constant revisions. The good news is, it’s much better than it was - the bad news is, it can still be long and tedious. The thing is, most Horde quest lines eventually send players to the Barrens and it contains access to one of the neutral towns where Horde and Alliance players can get together, so the place is absolutely crawling with players. While that can be good for making friends, it’s also the place that’s the most hunted and overcrowded on the Horde side. Unfortunately, the Barrens is just a fact of life for Horde players - better to go, do what needs to be done, and get out.

Tip 12 - Want to get to level 10 quickly? Visit dead people.
More accurately, visit Undead people. Since Quests aren’t race specific, players can accept any level appropriate quest regardless of their race. That means that Horde players have access to a slight shortcut to level 10 similar to the one enjoyed by Alliance players. In the Horde’s case it means hightailing it to the Orc hub city of Orgrimmar as soon as you can survive the trip and catching a zeppelin ride to Tirisfal Glades. Head south from the zeppelin tower to the Undead town of Brill and start looking for quests. Like Teldrassil for Night Elves, the quests in Brill are a bit easier and can usually be solved without a tremendous amount of traveling, significantly shortening your trip to level 10.

Tip 13 - The Horde has the best and worst hub cities in the game.
Both sides in World of Warcraft have three hub cities designed for players to congregate, buy and sell items, and deal with NPC vendors and trainers. The Horde is blessed with the best and cursed with one of the worst hub cities in the game. The best city to do business with NPCs in is the Undead Undercity. If you have a choice of heading to one hub city, this is the one to pick. It’s the smallest major city, meaning you don’t have to do a tremendous amount of running to get to the shops you want. The city is also basically a circle - meaning it’s almost impossible to get lost. Orgrimmar, the Orc hub city, on the other hand, is incredibly confusing, with twisting paths that sometime loop back on themselves. Orgrimmar means a lot of running and it’s all too easy to get lost. It’s also kind of the center of the universe for Horde players, so you really do need to learn it if you hope to use the auction or make new friends.

Tip 14 - Tired of fighting for elbow room? Join the Horde!
For some odd reason, players seem to choose to play as Alliance characters far more often than as Horde characters. The good news for Horde players, though, is that fewer players mean fewer people jockeying for resources. Even the Barrens, probably the most crowded Horde region, never see the problems with “mass extinction events” that routinely plague the Alliance. If you’re interested in questing and not interested in hanging around with ten other people (at peak hours) waiting for a monster spawn, why not join the Horde?

Tip 15 - The Undead are just psychotically cool!
While everyone has their own opinion, ours is that no World of Warcraft race gets as many “coolness points” as the Undead. First, the character models are just a riot with hairstyles that literally defy physics and a facial customization options straight out of the Velvet Dungeon. The designers also clearly had a ball putting the Undead lands together because every area and storyline within the Undead zones is filled with clever asides and subtle (and not so subtle) humor about the Forsaken’s unusual situation. Role-players will also enjoy playing the Undead since they’re as close as any World of Warcraft race comes to being “evil”. True - they are an oppressed minority, but they’re also planning universal genocide, so you make your own call.

This is an awesome WoW glossary for those of us who can’t seem to comprehend certain WoW terms. I remember my noob days and someone would say something like WTB and I’d say “What does WTB mean?” and they’d be wow gold all like “n00b” haha lol. I wish I found this back when i didn’t understands it all cause it would have been useful to understand what certain acronyms meant.
A
AC Armour Class, high AC reduces the damage you take when attacked.
Add When another monster joins an existing battle.
AFAIK As far as I know
AFK “Away From Keyboard” term used when you can’t respond or do anything in-game for a short amount of time, since you’re temporarily not at your computer.
Agi Agility
Aggro Short for aggressive; when a monster will attack you if you get within a certain distance of it, and/or are most “hated” by the monster. Also the act of a monster attacking you without provocation.
Aggro Radius Area around an aggressive monster where it will wow gold aggro on you when entered.
Alpha Test Internal testing that doesn’t include the public.
Anti / Anti-PK A player who kills PK’s.
ASAP “As soon as possible”
Avatar A PC character. “Avatar” really means the representation of a god on earth; in-game this means the representation of you in-game.
Area of Effect (AE/AoE) Usually referred to spells that affect a designated area.
Auc Short for auctioning.

B
BC Short for The Burning Crusade
BE / BElf Blood Elf
Beta Test Public testing; closed beta is a restricted public test, and open beta means anyone who wants to join may join.
BFD Black Fathom Deeps; an mid-level instanced dungeon in North-Western Ashenvale Forest
Bind Point Area where you will return to if you use your hearthstone. You will need to speak to an innkeeper to bind in a different location.
BRB Be Right Back. A term signalizing that you will leave your computer for a short amount of time, then come back, or that you will, in-game, leave the person you are talking to for a short amount of time (For instance to go to a town and drop off loot).
BRD/BRS Blackrock Depths/Spire, high-level instanced dungeons in The Burning Steppes
Broken A spell, ability, class,or tactic that is unbalanced and overpowered; also see cheesey
BRT “Be Right There”
BTW By the way
Buff Spell that enhances a player’s abilities.

C
Camp Area where a certain group of monster(s) spawn, ideal place to group up and get XP from; can mean same as Log.
Camping When a player or a group of players stay on the exact same place to hunt a special kind of creep, often with very little risk for their own life, only to reap benefits like gold, items or experience, making it hard or impossible for other players to hunt there. Can also mean killing the same player(s) over and over.
Carebear Player who prefers PvE over PvP
Caster A spellcaster; a class that rely more on damage-dealing spells than physical combat.
Char A character, see avatar.
Cheese(y) A spell, ability, class, or tactic that’s more powerful than any other and offers an unfair advantage to a player; often referred to as broken.
Critter Harmless ambient life that doesn’t give XP.
Creep Same as mob.

D
Damage over Time (DoT) Something that hurts target over a period of time; I.E. poison.
Debuff Spell that hinders a player’s abilities.
Direct Damage (DD) Spell that instantly hurts a target as soon as it’s cast.
Disc. / Discon. An involuntary disconnection from a game server.
Dmg Damage.
DPS Damage per second.
Dorf Short for dwarf
Draenei Alliance race available in the expansion The Burning Crusade

E
Experience (XP) Points you gain from killing enemies; get enough and you’ll gain a level.

F
FH / FOH Full (on) Health
FM / FOM Full (on) mana
FTW For the win
FR Fire resist
FWIW For what it’s worth

G
Game Master (GM) In-game customer support; answer questions, help out players, a GM is a Blizzard employee.
Guild Master (GM) The leader of a guild, a cooperation of players of the same faction.
Gank A PvP fight were one side is seriously outnumbered, and have no chance of victory. Often just one character being attacked by four or five others.
Gimp A character who doesn’t live up to his full potential, often using low level equipment or focusing on poor skill combinations
GG Good game
GJ Good job
GL Good luck
Goldshire (GS) A city in Elywnn Forest.
Gratz/gz Short for “Congratulations”. Might sometimes be spelled with an “s” instead of a “z”.
Griefing Disrupting others gaming experience even though there is no reward for the griefer. (Thus the term “Griefing”, causing grief to others)
GTG Good to go or alternatively got to go, it can mean either depending on it’s context.

H
Handle Screen name/Online Alias.
HF Have Fun
Hit Points (HP) Your health, amount of “hits” you can take; measured in points.
Hume Short for human

I
IF Ironforge
IMO / IMHO In my cheap wow gold opinion / In my humble opinion.
INC Incoming; used when a target is moving towards you to attack.
Instance A copy of a dungeon loaded for your or your party’s personal use.
INT Intelligence
IRL In Real Life

J
J/K Just Kidding
joo / j00 L33t for you.

K
KK Okay
KOS Killed on Sight, used in some MMOG’s when the guards of a city attacks a criminal, and the criminal gets instantly killed.
Kill-Stealer Someone who, without consent, kills a target someone else is attacking.

L
Lag Latency; connection to server.
Lamer Someone who does something which disrupts someone else’s gaming experience, usually to gain something (Like exp).
Leveling Fighting monsters with the purpose of gaining a level.
L33t / Leet / 1337 Used about something that is “cool”, a particularly powerful character, someone who’s skilled in PvP, or about someone who speaks in a particular way. Instead of saying “You’re a poor player, and I’m better than you in PvP” these say “Omgz, U sUck, I oWnzor u in PvP”.
Leech Stealing XP from some other person’s/people’s work without self effort, usually without consent.
LFG Looking for group
LOM Low on mana
Loot The items that you can pick up from a mob/player that you killed; the act of taking said items.
LOL / lol “Laugh out loud” commonly used term when something funny happens / someone says something funny, generally when you would have laughed in real life.
LOS Line of Sight. Some spells and abilities requires your character to be able to “see” the mob/player without any environmental obstructions.
Log / Logging Signing off; leaving game.
LMAO “Laughing My Ass Off”
Lvl Level

M
Mana Energy you use to cast spells; measured in points.
MT Main tank. The primary person responsible of holding a monster’s attention.
Meatshield One who takes all the enemy’s hits to hinder the enemy from attacking more vulnerable team members, like priests or spellcasters.
Med/Medding/Meditate Resting to get your mana back.
MMOG / MMORPG Massively Multiplayer Online (Role Playing) Game, like World of Warcraft or Everquest
Mob Monster
Mule A character made solely for storing items or to gain proficiency in crafting skills to “backup” the players main character.

N
Naxx Short for Naxxramas, a high level winged instance in Plaguelands.
NE Night Elf
Nerf When a skill or a class gets some of its benefits lessened or removed, in order to balance the game, that skill or class gets nerfed.
Newb/Newbie/n00b A person that has never played the game before; saying “n00b” implies that you think they’re a complete idiot, so avoid using that version.
Newbie Zone Area around starting cities where newbies first start killing mobs.
NPC “No Player Character” A computer controlled character or creep.
No prob / NP “No Problem”
NT No text
Nuke To shower a target with damage spells.
Nuker Spellcaster who throws a lot of damage spells on a target.
NM Can be either “not much” or “never mind”
NVM / NM Never mind or not much

O
OMG “Oh my god!” term used to express surprise about something.
OOC “Out of character” Term used to signal that it’s “you”, the person playing, who’s talking, not the ingame character/avatar. Mostly used by roleplayers.
OOM Out of mana.
OMW / OOW On my way / on our way
Onyxia Onyxia is a dragon and is the first “raid content” in the game.
Owned When something gets beaten severely.
OT Off tank. The secondary tank (and so on) to hold the attention of monster(s).

P
Player Character (PC) Character in game where an actual person is controlling it.
Pet Summoned NPC that fights for you and does your bidding.
Ping Response time from client to server; measured in milliseconds.
PK Player kill(er); Used in PvP.
Point Blank Area of Effect (PBAE/PBAoE) Spell that affects the area around your character.
Pop Indicates that a target has spawned nearby.
Powerleveling Having a player kill an enemy much much too high for them while a high level character keeps them alive, to quickly gain levels.
PP Perfect play
PPL People
Proc Programmed random occurrence. When a special ability on a piece of equipment activates by chance; e.g. with a fire sword with a 10% chance of doing additional fire damage, the weapon would proc when that activates.
Pull Grabbing an enemy from a distance and making it come your way.
PvE Player versus Enemy; Fighting against game created mobs.
PvP Player versus Player; when actual players are pitched against other actual players.
Pwned Same as owned.

Q
QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum; Latin for “which was to be demonstrated,” when something is proved wrong.
QL Quality Level. Higher quality level means the items is more powerful.

R
Raid Large-scale attack on an area, usually involving guilds.
RDY Short for “ready”
Relog To log off then log back in, often done to fix bugs.
Real Life / RL Not ingame, out in the real world.
Release Usually referred to when a player goes back to the Graveyard instead of waiting around for a Rez, however, the player can still be resurrected after a release.
Respawn When someone or something something appears again after being killed or taken.
RFP Ready for pull
ROFL “Rolling on the floor laughing”, stronger version of lol.
Rez/Res Short for resurrection; bring a dead player back to life so they don’t have to suffer as much death penalty/walk back/etc.

S
SM Scarlet Monestary, a mid-level dungeon found in Tirisfal Glades
SP Skill points
Spawn When a mob first appears or reappears after getting killed.
SPI Spirit
ST Sunken Temple, short for Temple of Attal’Hakkar.
STA Stamina
Stack When multiple of the same item can go into one item spot; a stacked item that reached the maximum amount possible for that stack, or when similar effects work simultaneously on the same target.
STFU Used in the same manner as “Shut Up”, when someone is very annoyed and wants someone to keep silent.
STR Strength
Sup? Short for “What’s up?” often used in the beginning of a conversation.

T
Tank One who takes all the enemy’s hits, due to the characters strong focus on defense and hitpoints.
TB Thunder Bluff
TBA To be announced
TBC The Burning Crusade, the first expansion of WoW
TBD To be determined
Teldrassil The Tree that is central to Night Elf life in World of Warcraft.
Temple Short for Temple of Attal’Hakkar, a 50+ instance in the Swamp of Sorrows
Thx / TY Thanks or Thank You
TP Talent points
Train When a player is followed by a large number of mobs while fleeing, often causing the mobs to attack innocent players. Usually happens by accident, but can be done intentionally. This is considered griefing.
Twinking Giving a low-level character high-level equipment in order to make him better than his level, a twink is the opposite of a lamer.

U
U You
UC Undercity
Ur Your
Über German for big and great, used to signal that something is especially good. A rare sword can be considered “Über” if it’s properties greatly surpasses what is considered normal.

W
WF Westfall
w00t A l33t expression of happiness for something good that has happened.
WoW Abbreviation for “World of Warcraft”
WTB / WTS / WTT (F) Want to buy / Want to sell / Want to trade (for); can be grouped up, e.g. WTSoTF means “Want to sell or trade for.”
WTG Way to go!
WTH An expression of high shock or disbelief.
WTF An expression of extreme shock or disbelief.

X
XP See Experience.
XR The Crossroads is a major flight hub for the Horde in Central Kalimdor in the Barrens, and also serves as a major quest buy wow gold hub for level 15-20 Horde players

Z
ZF Zul’Farrak, a high 40s instance in NW Tanaris
ZG Zul’Gurub, a 20 man raid instance in Stranglethorn Vale.