In early EQ alot of terms, words, call them what you will were created or born in EQ and are still being used to this day on other MMO's lets see if any of you know any. =)
The populer term (NINJA LOOTER) first appeard on Veeshan server as my guild and I take down Lord Nagafen for a server first,as we sat their waiting for our leeder to decide who got what I notice a lil dwarf just run up and BAM nagy's corpse goes poof. In my mind I thought did that just realy happen ROFL then in GC cant remember who it was exactly said did we just get "Ninja Looted" thus the birth of the ever so populer term Ninja Looter..
I am sure their is a plethera of these words lets see who can remember any and their origins.....
Kailo said:In early EQ alot of terms, words, call them what you will were created or born in EQ and are still being used to this day on other MMO's lets see if any of you know any. =)
The populer term (NINJA LOOTER) first appeard on Veeshan server as my guild and I take down Lord Nagafen for a server first,as we sat their waiting for our leeder to decide who got what I notice a lil dwarf just run up and BAM nagy's corpse goes poof. In my mind I thought did that just realy happen ROFL then in GC cant remember who it was exactly said did we just get "Ninja Looted" thus the birth of the ever so populer term Ninja Looter..
I am sure their is a plethera of these words lets see who can remember any and their origins.....
I don't know where it came from but my server people used to say "kk" instead of "ok". No idea why. I think I even did it myself. I mean its only marginally easier to type. I'm sure there were loads of things we used to say in EQ that became quite popular. I just can't remember any of them. Its been so long since I last played an MMO properly (my last proper MMO was Vanguard).
In fact I actually taught myself to touch type by playing EQ. It was a skill I was quite proud of being able to run around a zone while typing messages to my group. Ah those were the days before VoIP was a thing. Also raiding without VoIP and having to type out all the instructions to everyone. You got pretty fast at typing pretty quickly back then when playing EQ.
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I am sorry Kilsin it was early when I posted this was not thinking wont happen again...
Before I drink my coffie I have the IQ of a brick..
We could go on forever here.
Pally
Rouge (Otherwise correctly known as Rogue)
Drood
"Camp"
Mez
CC
ninja looter (as someone already said)
KoS
Kill Stealer
Zerg
Gank
PK'er
Hell Level
Port
Farming
L33t
Best in Slot
Raid (Was this term coined by Vertan/SOE when they created these? Or was a term applied to these encounters by the players?)
Truly, EQ created its own language.
Tralyan said:We could go on forever here.
Pally
Rouge (Otherwise correctly known as Rogue)
Drood
"Camp"
Mez
CC
ninja looter (as someone already said)
KoS
Kill Stealer
Zerg
Gank
PK'er
Hell Level
Port
Farming
L33t
Best in Slot
Raid (Was this term coined by Vertan/SOE when they created these? Or was a term applied to these encounters by the players?)
Truly, EQ created its own language.
It totaly did and alot of those terms are widely used in other MMos...
I remember "Epic Fail","Vendor Loot","Kill on sight", "Reverse Kiting", "AE Group", "Dragon Kill Points"(DKP),"Evak", "Puller", "off tank" "May I have a SOW please","Mind Candy","Aggro", "Wife Aggro","Buff","Debuff","Skele","XP", "NoOb","Nice Sac Man" (if you looted a spider venom sac for example), "Monk Droppings", I think I could go on for a while longer, EQ Created a language for sure, Much of which is still used in all of Gaming.
NoobieDoo said:Just like 'kk' there was another simple common word where a letter was switched around. I might be wrong but I want to say it was the word 'the' and a lot of people spelled it 'teh' and I never saw it used like this anywhere before EQ.
A bunch of folks on Veeshan used "maby" instead of maybe and "prolly" instead of probably. I had never heard those before either.
It might be that I was just exposed to common forms of speech from other areas of the country that I had never heard before.
Tralyan said:Zerg
The term "Zerg" did not originate in EQ. It comes from the race of the same name in StarCraft, whose primary battle tactics revolve around overwhelming the enemy with very large quantities of creatures that are relatively weak on their own, but strong in numbers.
Ping - for the AA DING ..which now occurs every few minutes
Pat - Pathing NPC inc.
At 1st there was wife agro, then DDO came out..and it turned into "storm giant agro" because the wife got cat butt face when you said wife agro over the mic...so Strom giant agro was safer and therefore used in every MMO since for me.
INC - Incoming!!
TRAIN INC - See Pantheon live stream for one of the newest variety.
Tag! ...nm....- usually paired with a "Soandso has fallen to the ground"
SOANDSO - Various EQ resource sites had this name there..and it is embarassing yet comical to reveal that for the longest time I was like "holy hell Soandso gets around and must be a good bard name"
WTF Pwned?! - Usually in response to a insta gib...during a split of a raid mob or just a really bad group split
DEEPS - used on slacking DPS characters
kite - not just your diamond in the sky anymore...
EB Item - for those Fishbone earring campers...
Insta clicky - Junk buff slots forever!
Junk Buffs! - always fun to throw this on that knight (usually a Paladin) who had to have their buffs ALWAYS in the right order and slot placement.
CC DOWN - Grab yer ankles b/c in 5 seconds you're all dead.
MOAR DOTS - STOP DOTS!
Port INC! - and you immediately zone before you can say WAIT WTFZOR I wasn't ready....and that porter you paid 50 plat to dropped grp and zoned back already before you could get that item out of the bank that had you wanting a port to begin with (or the porter was really smart and blocked the spell so they never zoned on dialup)
HJEALS!!
Summon tanking
MT - Main Tank
RT - Rampage Tank
CHEAL chain....or the forever immortalized CCH chain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5y_VpHp8o)
CR - Corpse Run
Consent! - usually the tell you got from a testy Rouge (see Rouge above) during a corpse recovery
NPC: non-player character
Toon: another word for "character" or "avatar"
Lvl: a lazy way of saying "level"
Main: your favorite/highest lvl toon and therefore the one you usually played
Alt: any toon you played that wasn't your main
Mob: enemy NPC
Adds: mobs that are accidentally aggro'd and join an existing fight, therefore causing panic to the party
At-lvl: a zone or mob that was more or less the same level as you
Twink: an alt toon covered in gear that had no minimum lvl, but had stats that were way better than anything they could have gotten on their own, therefore making them basically invincible to all at-lvl mobs thanks to a high lvl alt/main or friend that got it for them :)
I'm not sure how many of all these actually originated in Ultima Online, but who cares :P