How well do you know MMO jargon?

I know many of your, including some of our own staff members, are big fans of Massively Multiplayer Online games. These things have been around for a while now, and while we will have a few personality and trivia quizzes about them specifically, we're going to first focus on your ability to speak the language. So let us see how well you can speak MMO.





1.) First off, let us start off super easy. We are going to have a few words that anyone who has used the Internet before should already know. What does lol stand for?

Launching Our Lead
 Leading Our Leaders
 Latitude or Longitude
 Laughing Out Loud
 Street Fighter



2.) AFK stands for :

Another Final Kill
 Asking For Kindness
 Away From Keyboard
 Another Fucking Kid
 A Free Kiss



3.) In the 1980s the phrasae "l337" was created to describe particular hackers. What does it mean?

Elite
 Loser
 legendary to the 337th degree
 Particularly good at math.
 Particularly bad at math.



4.) What term us used to refer to the amount of hostility a player is taking?

AOE
 Class
 BoH
 Aggro
 FTW
 Gank



5.) A "crit" is what?

A critter
 A critical hit
 Criteria for winning
 Slang for a particularly difficult enemy
 An enemy killed by a particularly powerful attack.



6.) Someone who likes to harass other players for no reason.

Griefer
 Ganker
 l337er
 DKP
 Jerk



7.) What does DPS stand for?

Deadly Power Surge
 Dungeon Pickup System
 Disaster Preparedness System
 Double Point Silo
 Damage Per Second



8.) What does "Gank" mean?

To steal someone else's loot.
 Someone who accumulates wealth by waiting for players to die and then stealing what they leave behind.
 To be overwhelmed and killed by a large group.
 To be killed and lose all progress right before finishing a quest.
 To have your account revoked by a system admin.



9.) What does IMHO stand for?

Incoming Mission : Hold On
 In My Humble Opinion
 Inside Mission: Help Out
 I Must Have Order



10.) A character created with the entire purpose of checking auction houses in far away cities or to hold extra items is called:

Mule
 Bot
 Nerf
 Min-Max
 unplayable
 NPC



11.) When an update to a game reduces the power of an ability, item, player or action it is said to be:

Ganked
 Nuked
 Mezzed
 Lamed
 Griefed
 Nerfed



12.) Refers to character classes that are made to be able to take, and potentially dish out, a lot of damage.

Buff
 Shard
 Warrior
 Ward
 Tank
 Ranger
 Uber



13.) Finally, a strategy where a large group of players rush at a target.

Twink
 Tank
 Grief
 Gank
 Zerg
 Zoned
 WTB
 UO
 Stun
 Span
 Soulbound