Glossary & Acronyms

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Acronyms and Abbreviations:
Enemy Toughness (from weakest to strongest)
TW - Too Weak to be Worthwhile
EP - Easy Prey
DC - Decent Challenge
EM - Even Match
T - Tough
VT - Very Tough
IT - Incredibly Tough

Jobs
BLU - Blue Mage
BLM - Black Mage
BST - Beastmaster
COR - Corsair
DNC - Dancer
DRG - Dragoon
DRK - Dark Knight
MNK - Monk
NIN - Ninja
PLD - Paladin
PUP - Puppetmaster
RDM - Red Mage
RNG - Ranger
SAM - Samurai
SCH - Scholar
SMN - Summoner
THF - Thief
WAR - Warrior
WHM - White Mage

Miscellaneous
AA - Ark Angel
A.N. - Allied Notes
acc. - Accuracy
ABC - Ancient Beastcoin
AF - Artifact Armor
AFv2 - Artifact Armor version 2 (relic armor)
AH - Auction House
AU - Aht Urghan Mission
afk - Away from keyboard
BCNM - Burning Circle Notorious Monster
CC - Courier Carrie
CoP - Chains of Promathia*
DD - Damage Dealer
def. - Defense
EU - European
EX - Exclusive
exp - Experience points
FF - Final Fantasy
FFXI - Final Fantasy 11
ftw - For the win
HNM -  Honorary Notorious Monster
HP - Health points/Hit points; Home Point
HQ - High quality
JP - Japanese
jugs - Jug pets
KI - Killing Ifrit's
KSNM - Kindred Seal Notorious Monster
lol - Laughing out loud
LS - Linkshell
lvl - Level
MP - Mana Points/Magic points
mob - Mobile target, Monster
NA - North American
NPC - Non-player character
PM# - Chains of Promathia Mission
RMT - Real Money Trading
RoTZ - Rise of the Zilart
SE - Square Enix
TP - Tactical points
ToAU - Treasures of Aht Urghan*
WotG - Wings of the Goddess*
WS - Weapon Skill
ZM - Zilart Mission
*These are FFXI expansion packs that branch away from the original story.


Glossary:
Job Abilities
Charm - attempts to take control of a monster
Counterstance - increases your chances at nullifying and then countering an enemy's attack
Eagle Eye Shot - a powerful ranged attack
Familiar - adds 30 minutes to your charm duration (does not apply to jug pets) and increases your pet's HP by 10 percent
Leave - releases a charmed pet
Snarl - transfers most of your enmity to a jug pet
Seigan - creates 1+ shadow images and increases your Parrying and "Counter" rate when used with "Third Eye"
Spirit Surge - dismisses your pet Wyvern and adds significant melee bonuses to yourself
Tame - can calm an angry monster and increases "Charm" success rate
Third Eye - creates a single shadow image unless used in conjunction with "Seigan"

Weapon Skills
Rampage - a five-hit, Axe WS with chances to land critical hits
Spiral Hell - a single-hit, Scythe WS that hits very hard at 300 TP

Magic
Bio - a detrimental effect that lowers a target's attack points and HP over time
Dia - a detrimental effect that lowers a target's defense points and HP over time
Raise - allows the user to revive an incapacitated player back to life
Stun - halts the target from moving

Miscellaneous
2hr - a job's special ability; reusable every two hours
/"something" - a reference to perform "something"
/"FFXI job" - denotes a certain sub-job
??? - targets in FFXI that perform miscellaneous tasks when clicked
agro - to aggravate an enemy
alliance - a union of parties; requires at least 2 parties
Assault - a battlefield that requires a PT to perform critical tasks
AF - a five-piece armor set that is iconic of the FF series
AFv2 - another five-piece armor set, similar to AF, but for higher levels
BC - Burning Circles; enclosed battlefields used to fight NMs
Bastok - the industrialized nation founded by the Humes and Galkas
cap - refers to some sort of upper limit or restriction
coffer - treasure boxes that can contain useful items
Courier Carrie - a variant of Snippy
Critical Hit - an attack that deals bonus damage
enmity - an attribute that determines that player a foe will strike at next
EX - items that cannot be traded or sold (usually)
farming - the act of "harvesting" useful items
gil - the currency of FF games
grinding - some slow and repetitive process
HP - the "life" value of a target
HNM - monsters that grant a title when defeated; generally very powerful
jug pet - a summoned pet
limit points - used to define merit points; 10,000 limit points equal one merit point
link - when a foe(s) detects a similar foe in trouble and join(s) the fray
linkshell - a group of players who have banded together for a common purpose
lotting - using the roll of a die to determine the distribution of items
MP - magic/mana points; the cost of using spells in FFXI
merit points - used to purchase additional special abilities or job traits at lvl 75+
newbie - a new user
own - the act of dominating and/or humiliating an entity
parry - to guard against a physical strike with your weapon
party - a group of 2 to 6 players
patch - an update file used to fix bugs (errors in programming) and introduce new game content
pull - the act of luring a monster
rare - one per player
rawr - internet slang for "roar"
San'd'Oria - the forest nation; home of the Elvaan
Salvage - a battlefield that requires players to perform difficult tasks
sea - the underwater region of Al'Taieu and its surrounding areas
shadows - shadow images that absorb physical attacks
Sky - the region known as Tu'Lia, a floating island
Sky god(s) - high-tier NM(s) in Sky
Snippy - a Crab creature (see banner, left)
tank - a character devoted to protecting his/her comrades from harm
tactical points - used to perform Weapon Skills
weapon skill - allows a player to perform special attacks; requires at least 100 TP
Windurst - the nation of magic; home of the Tarutaru and Mithra
zerg - to destroy an enemy quickly via special abilities
zone - to enter or exit an area; it can also refer to the area itself


Races
Elvaan (EV) - elves with tall, slender bodies and pointed ears
Galka (GK) - burly, hulking humanoids with tails
Hume (HM) - the humans
Mithra (MR) - women with feline features
Tarutaru (TT) - diminutive children with enlarged heads

Symbols
\( '-') or ( '-')/ - "Kirby," from the popular Nintendo series
-.- or -.-; or (-.-) - a smiley showing discontent
-.-b - a character displaying a thumbs up
>.> or <.< - a person glancing their eyes in a certain direction
:) or =) or :D or =D or 8) - a generic smiley face
:( or =( or D: or D= or 8( - a generic sad face
>:( - an angry face
>:) - a grinning face
;) - a winking face
:P or =P - a generic smiley of someone sticking their tongue out
^.~ or ~.^ - a person with an arched brow; winking
^^ or ^.^ - a person with two arched brows
XD - laughing hysterically with your eyes closed
:3 - probably a happy/grinning face; an example
X3 - probably a grinning face with one's eyes closed
x.X - an unconscious person; a person in disbelief
; ; - a crying face
<3 - a 2-D heart rotated 90 degrees clockwise

2010 EDIT:
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