Breakfast Topic: Define this
by Mike Schramm 
Oct 24th 2007 at 8:01AM
Lavinia over on WoW Ladies found a pretty funny definition for "gold plz" that got me thinking. What if we "redefined" a few WoW phrases to make them a little more "accurate"?PUG: (noun) A group of people who probably aren't finishing an instance today.
DEATH KNIGHT: (noun) What we'll call Ret Pallys after WotLK is released.
THE BARRENS: (noun) A section of the world where those who can't play, chat.
OVERPOWERED: (adjective) Anyone who beats me in PvP.
Those are all right, but I bet you all could come up with even better ones. Choose a term from WoW and "redefine" it to better describe what our world is really like.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Breakfast Topics, Humor
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Crak Oct 24th 2007 8:10AM
WoW - No life world. IF you aint soon youll become.
Safety Dancer Oct 24th 2007 8:24AM
GANK:(Verb) The act of killing a player in certain circumstances
(active PvE, 50% health, AFK), that you could not kill under normal
circumstances (100% health).Chucknorris Ganked me while I was AFK, he
is such an effin n00b.
Richard L Oct 24th 2007 8:24AM
Carebear (noun) a person who does not get an e-peen boost by hunting vastly weaker opponents.
Raider (noun) A person who bases his self esteem on how shiney his pixellated shoulders are.
RP server: a mythical place, rumored to exist but no evidence of it has been seen.
Baluki Oct 24th 2007 8:29AM
Loser: anyone who plays more than you.
Noob: anyonoe who plays less than you.
dacamper Oct 24th 2007 8:32AM
Hunter: (noun) Class designed by Blizzard for use as a farming bot. Often spotted in low level or low population old-world areas, grinding on mobs. Typically trained with skinning. Pet usually Boar or Owl. Heavy drinking is suspected to be rife among the hunter population - their walking patterns are often comparable to the drunk, wandering this way and that.
mwisconsin Oct 24th 2007 8:36AM
WoWInsider: A place where you can find [Filler Item] blog posts with a question at the end to inspire comments. What do you think about [Filler Item]?
/I keed.
Dr. Awesome Oct 24th 2007 8:36AM
Dots: The nasty stuff that will kill you when the warlock is to lazy to do it himself.
sephirah Oct 24th 2007 8:39AM
Felguard: The nasty stuff that will kill you when the warlock is too lazy to dot you.
Josh Oct 24th 2007 8:42AM
Murloc (noun): The collective name given to the one bipedal amphibious blue or purple creature you see... and the 4 others you don't.
Erika Oct 24th 2007 8:42AM
Vanish: (Verb) A rogues attempt to disappear but will usually fails due to Blizz not wanting to give rogues a chance in pvp against hunters.
Merus Oct 24th 2007 8:59AM
Hardcore (n) hAhd-kOr: A player who has wrapped their identity far too tightly to World of Warcraft, and one day is going to be bitterly disappointed at the amount of time they've wasted in a game that everyone now thinks is lame.
Casual (n) Kas-eu-Al: A player whose only consistency is their general lack of consistency.
zod Oct 24th 2007 9:09AM
PuG: The best place to meet the worst players from your realm.
PTR: The best place to meet the worst players from all realms.
Ni Hao: Please gank me (related to some players culture, you might shame them to commit a real live suicide if you don't).
Casual: Players in the denial step
Hardcore: player in the acceptance step.
Shalkis Oct 24th 2007 9:09AM
Working as intended (phrase): Obviously bugged/imbalanced/broken to everyone else but the person that utters the phrase.
A slap to the face (phrase): Any change that I don't like.
Rouge (noun): A mythical entity that can defeat any opponent during stunlock. Clearly overpowdered.
Overpowdered (adjective): Same as overpowered, only with the added effect of humiliating the victim in the process.
Imbalanced (adjective): Anything that I cannot handle, counter or overcome.
Balanced (adjective): Anything that you cannot handle, counter or overcome.
Purple fever (noun): A disease which causes people to obtain gear faster than me.
Easymode (noun): The way the other faction is playing.
Blueshielder (noun): 1. A person that for some unknown reason doesn't want to try fighting alone against my full raid group. 2. Scum of the earth who ruin PvP servers.
OOCtard (adjective): 1. Anyone who doesn't speak like Shakespeare. 2. Scum of the earth who ruin RP servers.
RP Nazi (noun): 1. Intolerant oppressor who is too busy nitpicking to play the game. 2. Valiant Defender of the One True Way of Roleplaying.
ThorinII Oct 24th 2007 9:16AM
Huntard (n): The word used by those who wish they'd rolled a hunter class toon but didn't. Now they can't because their ego will not let them get past their jealousy of the class and join them. Also used by those who are pwnd by hunters on a regular basis and just can't deal with defeat. These players also like to use the word OVERPOWERED defined in the article above.
Fai Oct 24th 2007 9:24AM
Noob: anyone with worse gear than yourself
Elitist jerk: anyone with better gear than yourself
Charlie Oct 24th 2007 9:25AM
@10
Omg, that it so my new forum signature!
Chris Oct 24th 2007 9:43AM
Huntard: The class least expected to play well, often proving this point.
Hunter: The Huntard with actual skill who has been highly overpowered by Blue to offset the huntard population
Overpowered: A word used to describe hunters in respect to other classes in game
Warlock: the mushroom in the rock paper scissors of the WoW universe
Rogue: 1.the sneaky buggers that endager the huntard community. 2. The hunters favorite prey
Druid: 1. That guy/girl who couldn't pick a single class at the character select screen, so he chose the all in one. 2. the class that hates hunters, for fear of the skills of fear beast, snake trap, frost trap, kite, stun, concussive shot, and overall druid killing tactics given to hunters.
Paladin: 1. Mythical fighters given the power to fight with the gods holy powers. 2. turned into pansies by blue, who are basic healers with the ability to wear plate and a shield.
Shaman: A mythical being. nuff said
Warrior: 1.that guy who was dumb enough to charge into battle hoping he would come out alive, while the smarter of beings choose to hide sneak behind their opponent, or kill them from a distance. often seen with a shield in hand, and larger force behind him.
2. Meat Shield
Priest: 1. Wannabeawarlock
2. wannabeapaladin
Mage: 1. The middle grey area between hunter and huntard, not smart enough to be a hutner, but smart enough to avoid being a huntard.
Jon Oct 24th 2007 9:43AM
PUG: Keeping repair NPCs in business since 2005
Flight Path: how to take the least direct route between 2 places
Warlock: a DPS caster class with the annoying ability to make you run away before you finish what you were doi ...
Vylemacer Oct 24th 2007 10:01AM
Paladin (n): A character developed by Blizzard that does so little damage, it allows a person to respond to a blog while currently attacking a murloc... oh wait... 4 murlocs.
BrianD Oct 24th 2007 10:04AM
PVP: A way of playing World of Warcraft that removes all of the fun and makes you whine a lot.