Post by Xxsuperheroxx on Aug 28, 2022 16:18:04 GMT -6
General
AD - Astral Diamonds
AH - Auction House
AoE - Area of Effect
AP - Action Points
APE - Used to describe the Epic Demonic Summoning in Avernus. The demon, a Soul-Infused Barlgura, appears as a large gorilla.
BHE - Big Heroic Encounter - used often to describe the Epic Heroic Encounters.
BiS - Best in Slot (Colloquially referring to Encounter powers, enchantments, artifacts, etc.)
BI - Black Ice
BoA - Binds on Account. You can't put it on the Auction House, but you can move it between your characters.
BoE - Binds on Equip. Trade-able. You can get it, pass it between your characters or resell it, up to when your character wears or uses some aspect of it.
BoP - Binds on Pickup - As soon as your character touches it, it's staying with them until you sell (not trade), use, salvage, or discard it.
Burn - refer to attack without a specific battle plan or without caring about the fight mechanic.
CL - Demonic Closure
CTA - Call to Arms - a special version of existing skirmishes, typically with other special rewards attached to it
DD - Dungeon Delves
DF - Death Forge (only in the Dread Ring) - One of the three lairs.
DOT - Damage Over Time
DPS - Damage per Second
DS - Dread Spire (only in the Dread Ring) outside the Dread Ring it can mean Demonic Slaughter.
gg - good game - can be meant sincerely or to deride others, so be careful of the context it is used in
gj - good job
GS - Gear Score - the rating of a character that includes things like stats, gear, enchantments, boons, etc - Replaced by Item Level (IL)
gtg - good to go (ready for whatever is next) or got to go (have to leave)
HE - Heroic Encounter, timed events where a group of 5+ players is suggested for completion.
HOT - Heal Over Time
HPS - Heals Per Second
ICD - Internal Cool Down (time)
IL - Item Level, replacement for Gear Score
LFG - Looking for Group
LFM/LF(n)M - Looking for more or looking for (n) more, where n is the number of players specifically sought after.
LFT - [Lightfoot Thief]
NPC - Non Player Character
NW - Neverwinter (Game; Official Acronym)
NW:O - Neverwinter Online (Game; Community Devised)
NWN - Neverwinter Nights (Game)
NWN1 - Neverwinter Nights (Game)
NWN2 - Neverwinter Nights 2 (Game)
NWO - Neverwinter Online (Game; Community Devised)
OP - Over-Powered or (related to forum posts) Original Poster. (Can also refer to the class Oathbound Paladin)
PE - Protector's Enclave
PF - Phantasmal Fortress (only in the Dread Ring) - One of the three lairs.
PVE - person versus environment -or- player versus environment
PVP - person versus person -or- player versus player
PUG - Pick up group, indicating groups created by random queue. Also used to indicate a team missing 1 or more components and accessing the queue to complete the team.
PWE - Perfect World Entertainment (Company)
PWI - Perfect World International (Game)
RAD - Rough Astral Diamonds
RaDq - Randon Advanced Dungeon Queue
RBI - Raw Black Ice
RP - Refinement Points
RNG - Random Number Generator
RTI - Return To Instance
SH - Stronghold
ToD - Tyranny of Dragons
WAI - Working as Intended
ZAX - Zen AD Exchange
Zerg - Force of large group of lower level players who use numbers rather then strategy to defeat the enemy
Dungeons
ADWP - advanced demon web pits
eCC - Epic Cragmire Crypt
Cela - Tower of Celadaine - 3rd area lair (Sharandar)
CN - Castle Never
CoDG - Cradle of the Death God
CT - Cloak Tower
(e/m)Demo - Demogorgon
DF - Death Forge (Dread Ring)
DS - Dread Spire (Dread Ring)
DV - Dread Vault
FBI - Fangbreaker Island
FH - Frozen Heart
Gnarl or GR - Gnarlroot Caves in Feywild - 1st area lair (Sharandar)
(G)WD - Grey Wolf Den
KR - Kessel's Retreat
(L)MD/LoMD - Lair of the Mad Dragon
eLoL - Epic Lair of Lostmauth
MC - Malabog's Castle
NVOS - Normal Vault Of Star's
PF - Phantasmal Fortress (Dread Ring)
RED - Random Epic Dungeon
SC/SP - Spellplague Caverns
(e)SoT - Epic Shores of Tuern
SVA - Assault on Svardborg
ToS - Temple of the Spider
T9 - Tomb of the Nine Gods
VT - Valindra's Tower
CR - Castle Ravenloft
Zone Related
DR: Dread Ring
DF - Death Forge in Dread Ring
DS - Dreadspire lair in Dread Ring
PF - Phantasmal Fortress in Dread Ring
GG: Gauntlgrym
FC - Fardelver's Crypt
DK - Dwarf King Crypt
IWD: Icewind Dale
AB - Arcane Brotherhood
BG - Biggrin's Tomb, (A weekly lair in Icewind Pass - gives 50 Konig coins and about 1200 black ice)
BiB/Beho - Black Ice Beholder (Epic HE in Dwarven Valley)
HE - Heroic Encounter
HQ/Queen - Hammerstone Queen - weekly quest started from a hammer item that randomly drops off corrupted dwarves in Dwarven Valley
KR - Kessel's Retreat (sometimes just called Kessel's) - the special skirmish for IWD
Remo/Rem - Remorhaz (Epic HE in Icewind Pass)
TT - Ten Towners
DV - Dwarven Valley
IP/IwP - Icewind Pass
SH: Stronghold
DF - Dragon Flight (Refering to Greed of the Dragonflight)
INF - Influence Run (Doing Heroic Encounters in the SH)
SHE - Stronghold Heroic Events
WoD: Well of Dragons
CP - Cult Prison, one of the 3 lairs in WoD
DP - Drake Pens, one of the 3 lairs in WoD
TMS - Thayan magical shelter, one of the 3 lairs in WoD
UD: Underdark
PoM - Prophecy of Madness
ToDG - Throne of the Dwarven Gods
UM: Undermountain
FE - Fragment Expedition (Stardock)
ME - Master Expedition (Yawning Protal)
WE - Warden Expedition (Stardock)
Character Statistics
Action Points - (AP)
Charisma - (CHA) Measures force of personality, persuasiveness, and leadership. Affects: Companion influence and recharge speed.
Constitution - (CON) Represents health, stamina and vital force. Affects: Hit points and Action Points.
Dexterity - (DEX) Measures hand-eye coordination, agility, reflexes, and balance. Affects: Critical severity and movement speed.
Hit Points - (HP) A character’s life/health
Intelligence - (INT) Describes how well you learn and reason. Affects: Control bonus (?) and magical damage.
Strength - (STR) Measures physical power. Affects: Stamina regeneration and physical damage.
Wisdom - (WIS) Measures common sense, perception, self-discipline, and empathy. Affects: Control resist (?) and outgoing healing.
Equipment, Gear, and Items
General gear
BI - Black Ice
CN set - The weapon sets dropped from the Dracolich in Castle Never. Ancient Spymater(TR), Castle Champion(GWF), etc. A catch-all.
DL - Dread Legion weapons(Also armor, but less frequently)
FD - Fallen Dragon weapons
FF - Fabled Fomorian weapons
RBI - Raw Black Ice
Enchantments
Bark/BS - Barkshield
Bile/BT - Bilethorn
G - Greater
L - Lesser
P - Perfect
PF - Plague Fire
SF - Soulforged enchant
Vorp - Vorpal enchant
Example usages: GPF - Greater Plague Fire, highest level of PF; P.Vorp - Perfect Vorpal, LSF - Lesser Soulforged, P.Terror - Perfect Terror. I usually see the prefix-less versions of enchants referred to as 'normal', but I don't recall ever seeing an N used as abbreviation for this.
Combat/Powers/Effects
AoE - Area of Effect
AP - Action Points
ArP - Armor Penetration
CD - Cooldown
CS - Critical Strike
ICD - Internal Cooldown
LS - Life Steal
Class Related
BBN/BN: Barbarian
CLC/CLR/CL: Cleric
FTR/FT: Fighter
PAL/PLD/PL: Paladin
RGR/RR: Ranger
ROG/RG: Rogue
WRK/WAR//WL: Warlock
WIZ/WD: Wizard
CC - Chilling Cloud
EotS - Eye of the Storm
FtF - Fanning the Flame
HV - High Vizier armor set
Icy - Icy Terrain
MM - Magic Missile
MoF - Master of Flame
OF - Oppressive Force
Shard/SotEA - Shard of the Endless Avalanche
Sing(u)/AS - Arcane Singularity
SS - Spellstorm Mage
SW - Shadow Weaver armor set [1]
Thaum - Thaumaturge
Ren - Renegade
DC: Devoted Cleric
AC - Anointed Champion
AS - Astral Shield (DC) (More commonly Astral Seal)
BtS - Break the Spirit
BoH - Bastion of Health
Chains - Chains of Blazing Light
DA - Divine Armor
Daunting/DL - Daunting Light
DO - Divine Oracle
DG - Divine Glow
DP - Divine Power
FS - Flame Strike (Also Foresight)
FF - Forgemaster's Flame
HG - Hallowed Ground
HP - High Prophet armor set (Obsolete)
HW - Healing Word (More commonly for PvP)
MH - Miracle Healer armor set (Obsolete)
SB - Sun Burst
GoH - Gift of Haste
HoT - Heal over time
LoD - Light of Divinity
TI - Terrifying Insight
GF: Guardian Fighter
IV - Iron Vanguard (paragon path)
LS - Lunging Strike
EF - Enforced Threat
GW - Griffon's Wrath
AoD/Anvil - Anvil of Doom
FR - Fighter's Recovery
TR - Threatening Rush
KV - Knight's Valor
ITF - Into the Fray
IS - Indomitable Strength
cS -Commander's Strike
GWF: Great Weapon Fighter
AoW - Avatar of War armor set
CaGI - Come and Get It (less used but I see it occasionally)
FLS - Frontline Surge
IBS - Indomitable Battle Strike
IV - Iron Vanguard
NSF - Not so Fast
Sent - Sentinel
SM - Swordmaster
Wicked/WS - Wicked Strike
HR: Hunter Ranger
CtG - Clear the Ground
ES - Electric Shot
GW - Grand Warden armor set
Marauder's - Marauder's Rush/escape
PF - Pathfinder
RG - Royal Guard armor set
RoA - Rain of Arrows
SS - Split Shot
SW - Stormwarden [1]
OP: Oathbound Paladin
Healadin - Paladin healer
Tankadin - Paladin tank
SW: Scourge Warlock
TT - Tyrannical Threat
PoP - Pillar_of_Power
TR: Trickster Rogue
B&S/BnS - Bait and Switch
CoS - Cloud of Steel
DF - Duelist's Flurry
DS - Dazing Strike
IS - Impact Shot
ItC - Impossible to Catch
LA - Lurker's Assault
Lashing - Lashing Blade
MI - Master Infiltrator
PotB - Path of the Blade
SE - Shocking Execution
SF - Sly Flourish
Smoke/SB - Smoke Bomb
SS - Shadow Strike
Swash - Swashbuckling Captain's armor set
VP - Vengeance's Pursuit
WK - Whisperknife
WoB - Whirlwind of Blades
WR - Wicked Reminder
Unimplmented Classes
Following classes are not implemented on Neverwinter nor are they planned. abbreviations are based on D&D 5e.
BRD - Bard
DRD - Druid
MNK - Monk
SOR - Sorcerer
AD - Astral Diamonds
AH - Auction House
AoE - Area of Effect
AP - Action Points
APE - Used to describe the Epic Demonic Summoning in Avernus. The demon, a Soul-Infused Barlgura, appears as a large gorilla.
BHE - Big Heroic Encounter - used often to describe the Epic Heroic Encounters.
BiS - Best in Slot (Colloquially referring to Encounter powers, enchantments, artifacts, etc.)
BI - Black Ice
BoA - Binds on Account. You can't put it on the Auction House, but you can move it between your characters.
BoE - Binds on Equip. Trade-able. You can get it, pass it between your characters or resell it, up to when your character wears or uses some aspect of it.
BoP - Binds on Pickup - As soon as your character touches it, it's staying with them until you sell (not trade), use, salvage, or discard it.
Burn - refer to attack without a specific battle plan or without caring about the fight mechanic.
CL - Demonic Closure
CTA - Call to Arms - a special version of existing skirmishes, typically with other special rewards attached to it
DD - Dungeon Delves
DF - Death Forge (only in the Dread Ring) - One of the three lairs.
DOT - Damage Over Time
DPS - Damage per Second
DS - Dread Spire (only in the Dread Ring) outside the Dread Ring it can mean Demonic Slaughter.
gg - good game - can be meant sincerely or to deride others, so be careful of the context it is used in
gj - good job
GS - Gear Score - the rating of a character that includes things like stats, gear, enchantments, boons, etc - Replaced by Item Level (IL)
gtg - good to go (ready for whatever is next) or got to go (have to leave)
HE - Heroic Encounter, timed events where a group of 5+ players is suggested for completion.
HOT - Heal Over Time
HPS - Heals Per Second
ICD - Internal Cool Down (time)
IL - Item Level, replacement for Gear Score
LFG - Looking for Group
LFM/LF(n)M - Looking for more or looking for (n) more, where n is the number of players specifically sought after.
LFT - [Lightfoot Thief]
NPC - Non Player Character
NW - Neverwinter (Game; Official Acronym)
NW:O - Neverwinter Online (Game; Community Devised)
NWN - Neverwinter Nights (Game)
NWN1 - Neverwinter Nights (Game)
NWN2 - Neverwinter Nights 2 (Game)
NWO - Neverwinter Online (Game; Community Devised)
OP - Over-Powered or (related to forum posts) Original Poster. (Can also refer to the class Oathbound Paladin)
PE - Protector's Enclave
PF - Phantasmal Fortress (only in the Dread Ring) - One of the three lairs.
PVE - person versus environment -or- player versus environment
PVP - person versus person -or- player versus player
PUG - Pick up group, indicating groups created by random queue. Also used to indicate a team missing 1 or more components and accessing the queue to complete the team.
PWE - Perfect World Entertainment (Company)
PWI - Perfect World International (Game)
RAD - Rough Astral Diamonds
RaDq - Randon Advanced Dungeon Queue
RBI - Raw Black Ice
RP - Refinement Points
RNG - Random Number Generator
RTI - Return To Instance
SH - Stronghold
ToD - Tyranny of Dragons
WAI - Working as Intended
ZAX - Zen AD Exchange
Zerg - Force of large group of lower level players who use numbers rather then strategy to defeat the enemy
Dungeons
ADWP - advanced demon web pits
eCC - Epic Cragmire Crypt
Cela - Tower of Celadaine - 3rd area lair (Sharandar)
CN - Castle Never
CoDG - Cradle of the Death God
CT - Cloak Tower
(e/m)Demo - Demogorgon
DF - Death Forge (Dread Ring)
DS - Dread Spire (Dread Ring)
DV - Dread Vault
FBI - Fangbreaker Island
FH - Frozen Heart
Gnarl or GR - Gnarlroot Caves in Feywild - 1st area lair (Sharandar)
(G)WD - Grey Wolf Den
KR - Kessel's Retreat
(L)MD/LoMD - Lair of the Mad Dragon
eLoL - Epic Lair of Lostmauth
MC - Malabog's Castle
NVOS - Normal Vault Of Star's
PF - Phantasmal Fortress (Dread Ring)
RED - Random Epic Dungeon
SC/SP - Spellplague Caverns
(e)SoT - Epic Shores of Tuern
SVA - Assault on Svardborg
ToS - Temple of the Spider
T9 - Tomb of the Nine Gods
VT - Valindra's Tower
CR - Castle Ravenloft
Zone Related
DR: Dread Ring
DF - Death Forge in Dread Ring
DS - Dreadspire lair in Dread Ring
PF - Phantasmal Fortress in Dread Ring
GG: Gauntlgrym
FC - Fardelver's Crypt
DK - Dwarf King Crypt
IWD: Icewind Dale
AB - Arcane Brotherhood
BG - Biggrin's Tomb, (A weekly lair in Icewind Pass - gives 50 Konig coins and about 1200 black ice)
BiB/Beho - Black Ice Beholder (Epic HE in Dwarven Valley)
HE - Heroic Encounter
HQ/Queen - Hammerstone Queen - weekly quest started from a hammer item that randomly drops off corrupted dwarves in Dwarven Valley
KR - Kessel's Retreat (sometimes just called Kessel's) - the special skirmish for IWD
Remo/Rem - Remorhaz (Epic HE in Icewind Pass)
TT - Ten Towners
DV - Dwarven Valley
IP/IwP - Icewind Pass
SH: Stronghold
DF - Dragon Flight (Refering to Greed of the Dragonflight)
INF - Influence Run (Doing Heroic Encounters in the SH)
SHE - Stronghold Heroic Events
WoD: Well of Dragons
CP - Cult Prison, one of the 3 lairs in WoD
DP - Drake Pens, one of the 3 lairs in WoD
TMS - Thayan magical shelter, one of the 3 lairs in WoD
UD: Underdark
PoM - Prophecy of Madness
ToDG - Throne of the Dwarven Gods
UM: Undermountain
FE - Fragment Expedition (Stardock)
ME - Master Expedition (Yawning Protal)
WE - Warden Expedition (Stardock)
Character Statistics
Action Points - (AP)
Charisma - (CHA) Measures force of personality, persuasiveness, and leadership. Affects: Companion influence and recharge speed.
Constitution - (CON) Represents health, stamina and vital force. Affects: Hit points and Action Points.
Dexterity - (DEX) Measures hand-eye coordination, agility, reflexes, and balance. Affects: Critical severity and movement speed.
Hit Points - (HP) A character’s life/health
Intelligence - (INT) Describes how well you learn and reason. Affects: Control bonus (?) and magical damage.
Strength - (STR) Measures physical power. Affects: Stamina regeneration and physical damage.
Wisdom - (WIS) Measures common sense, perception, self-discipline, and empathy. Affects: Control resist (?) and outgoing healing.
Equipment, Gear, and Items
General gear
BI - Black Ice
CN set - The weapon sets dropped from the Dracolich in Castle Never. Ancient Spymater(TR), Castle Champion(GWF), etc. A catch-all.
DL - Dread Legion weapons(Also armor, but less frequently)
FD - Fallen Dragon weapons
FF - Fabled Fomorian weapons
RBI - Raw Black Ice
Enchantments
Bark/BS - Barkshield
Bile/BT - Bilethorn
G - Greater
L - Lesser
P - Perfect
PF - Plague Fire
SF - Soulforged enchant
Vorp - Vorpal enchant
Example usages: GPF - Greater Plague Fire, highest level of PF; P.Vorp - Perfect Vorpal, LSF - Lesser Soulforged, P.Terror - Perfect Terror. I usually see the prefix-less versions of enchants referred to as 'normal', but I don't recall ever seeing an N used as abbreviation for this.
Combat/Powers/Effects
AoE - Area of Effect
AP - Action Points
ArP - Armor Penetration
CD - Cooldown
CS - Critical Strike
ICD - Internal Cooldown
LS - Life Steal
Class Related
BBN/BN: Barbarian
CLC/CLR/CL: Cleric
FTR/FT: Fighter
PAL/PLD/PL: Paladin
RGR/RR: Ranger
ROG/RG: Rogue
WRK/WAR//WL: Warlock
WIZ/WD: Wizard
CC - Chilling Cloud
EotS - Eye of the Storm
FtF - Fanning the Flame
HV - High Vizier armor set
Icy - Icy Terrain
MM - Magic Missile
MoF - Master of Flame
OF - Oppressive Force
Shard/SotEA - Shard of the Endless Avalanche
Sing(u)/AS - Arcane Singularity
SS - Spellstorm Mage
SW - Shadow Weaver armor set [1]
Thaum - Thaumaturge
Ren - Renegade
DC: Devoted Cleric
AC - Anointed Champion
AS - Astral Shield (DC) (More commonly Astral Seal)
BtS - Break the Spirit
BoH - Bastion of Health
Chains - Chains of Blazing Light
DA - Divine Armor
Daunting/DL - Daunting Light
DO - Divine Oracle
DG - Divine Glow
DP - Divine Power
FS - Flame Strike (Also Foresight)
FF - Forgemaster's Flame
HG - Hallowed Ground
HP - High Prophet armor set (Obsolete)
HW - Healing Word (More commonly for PvP)
MH - Miracle Healer armor set (Obsolete)
SB - Sun Burst
GoH - Gift of Haste
HoT - Heal over time
LoD - Light of Divinity
TI - Terrifying Insight
GF: Guardian Fighter
IV - Iron Vanguard (paragon path)
LS - Lunging Strike
EF - Enforced Threat
GW - Griffon's Wrath
AoD/Anvil - Anvil of Doom
FR - Fighter's Recovery
TR - Threatening Rush
KV - Knight's Valor
ITF - Into the Fray
IS - Indomitable Strength
cS -Commander's Strike
GWF: Great Weapon Fighter
AoW - Avatar of War armor set
CaGI - Come and Get It (less used but I see it occasionally)
FLS - Frontline Surge
IBS - Indomitable Battle Strike
IV - Iron Vanguard
NSF - Not so Fast
Sent - Sentinel
SM - Swordmaster
Wicked/WS - Wicked Strike
HR: Hunter Ranger
CtG - Clear the Ground
ES - Electric Shot
GW - Grand Warden armor set
Marauder's - Marauder's Rush/escape
PF - Pathfinder
RG - Royal Guard armor set
RoA - Rain of Arrows
SS - Split Shot
SW - Stormwarden [1]
OP: Oathbound Paladin
Healadin - Paladin healer
Tankadin - Paladin tank
SW: Scourge Warlock
TT - Tyrannical Threat
PoP - Pillar_of_Power
TR: Trickster Rogue
B&S/BnS - Bait and Switch
CoS - Cloud of Steel
DF - Duelist's Flurry
DS - Dazing Strike
IS - Impact Shot
ItC - Impossible to Catch
LA - Lurker's Assault
Lashing - Lashing Blade
MI - Master Infiltrator
PotB - Path of the Blade
SE - Shocking Execution
SF - Sly Flourish
Smoke/SB - Smoke Bomb
SS - Shadow Strike
Swash - Swashbuckling Captain's armor set
VP - Vengeance's Pursuit
WK - Whisperknife
WoB - Whirlwind of Blades
WR - Wicked Reminder
Unimplmented Classes
Following classes are not implemented on Neverwinter nor are they planned. abbreviations are based on D&D 5e.
BRD - Bard
DRD - Druid
MNK - Monk
SOR - Sorcerer