Pinned Albion Online Abbreviations and Acronyms

Evoque · May 24th 2018, 6:40pm

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to drop in and outline some abbreviations and acronyms for our newer players that are not quite familiar with some terms just yet.

edit: can also be found here on our Official Wiki!

General

GL/GM: Leader of guild, Guild Master / or Game Master
OW: Open world, refers to non-instanced content
ZvZ: Zerg versus Zerg, fights between bigger groups of players (generally 30+)
WTB: Want to buy
Meta: the current "best" build that everyone is using (changes frequently)
LFG: looking for group, also used for cutting group and subbing other things example: LF Staff Crafter, etc.
LFM: Looking for more (example: LF1M Tank means player has a group and needs 1 more tank player to go to a dungeon etc.)
WTS: Want to sell (ex: WTS direwolf pup 4M) (4 million silver)

Albion Online

SBI/SI: Sandbox Interactive, the studio that develops Albion Online
AH: Auction House / Marketplace
BM: Battle Mount/ or Black Market, a special market in Caerleon/ or Bad Manners
BZ: Black zone, the area also known as Outlands that yields the highest rewards, accessible via the Caerleon Realmgate
Cap: Capturing a monolith in a territory fight/GvG or the Arena
GvG: Guild versus Guild, the fights for territories in Albion Online.
HCE: Hardcore Expedition
HG: Hellgate
IP: Item Power, the base measure for strength of equipment
LP: Learning Points, can be used to progress your mastery or specialty levels quicker
MoC: Master of coin
MP: Masterpiece, refers to the highest quality items
WC/SC: War camp/ Siege camp

Weapons/ Abilities

gig: Gigantify Potion
Meatball: Magma Sphere
Pierce: Armour pierce from curse staff that reduces armor
SOB: Staff Of Balance, a quarterstaff weapon
T/4.3 etc.: Tier 4 with enchantment level 3 - There are 8 Tiers/levels of gear in Albion Online. Using enchanted resources while crafting results in higher enchantment gear that have more item power
Clap: big AOE damage

Worldmap

DH / DR: Darkroot hollow
Wotw / WeWo: Well of the World
HotF: Heart of the Forest
GoE: Grave of Eternity
CoB: Carpet Of Bones
NR: No Respite
BB: Blighted Bog
CV: Circling Vultures

Synonym (often used to refer to zones)

Royals: Royal Continent
Green/low Outlands: Anglia
Yellow/mid Outlands: Cumbria
Red/high Outlands: Mercia

Feel free to post missing ones so we can add them to the list!

Fusionbomb · May 24th 2018, 6:46pm

I commonly see BM as referring to Bad Manners in a HG (ie: attacking ppl while they're on a boss).

Circe1872 · May 25th 2018, 1:57am

BM is also used for Battlemount.

Ravenar · May 25th 2018, 2:13am

I have always thought GvG means: Group vs Group as in small scale PvP, or 5v5... Now I know

Shadari · May 25th 2018, 10:32am

first time ever i hear someone calling the guild master "GM". I always know GM only as Game Master, even in all the other games i played. Why would somebody use this for something else, it will just create confusion....

Bastyon · May 25th 2018, 1:46pm

Lol: Lots of love

W3B5T3R · May 25th 2018, 2:55pm

team?: lets group and if one of us gets knocked down, we leave party to execute you

Ravenar · May 25th 2018, 3:06pm

Shadari wrote:

first time ever i hear someone calling the guild master "GM". I always know GM only as Game Master, even in all the other games i played. Why would somebody use this for something else, it will just create confusion....

I also found this extremely confusing in the beginning when reading the forums. Can we all just agree that GM is Game Master and Guild Leader is GL or something...

maxwellcook607 · Jul 31st 2018, 10:18am

Can we get a running list of acronyms and other relevent info that players whoz haven't played would need to know. ?
Edit Just off the top of my head in no sensible order: (sorry if some of these are painfully obvious, going to assume people haven't played other MMOs)
LFG = looking for group, also used for cutting group and subbing other things example: LF Staff Crafter, etc.
LFM = Looking for more (example: LF1M Tank means player has a group and needs 1 more tank player to go to a dungeon or something)
WTS = Want to sell (ex: WTS direwolf pup 4M) (4 million silver)
WTB = Want to buy
Meta = the current "best" build that everyone is using (changes frequently)
HG = Hellgate
DUNG or DG = dungeon
AH = Auction House

Kralcor · Nov 26th 2018, 9:56pm

Evoque wrote:

OW: Open world, refers to non-instanced content

What is "non-instanced content"? Where can such content occur, i.e. Royal Continent, Black Zones, only certain Tier Zones, etc.

OsKiDo · Nov 26th 2018, 10:06pm

DH / DR = Darkroot hollow
Wotw / WeWo = Well of the World
HotF = Heart of the Forest
GoE = Grave of Eternity
CoB = Carpet Of Bones
NR = No Respite
BB = Blighted Bog

Synonyme :

Green = Anglia
Yellow = Cumbria
Red = Mercia

OsKiDo · Nov 26th 2018, 10:08pm

Also there are guild acronyms such as : MG, BA, CIR . . . but I don't feel like they deserve a place here.

Ravenar · Nov 27th 2018, 11:02am

OsKiDo wrote:

Green = Anglia
Yellow = Cumbria
Red = Mercia

... You BZ-people...

Isn't it confusing because we have yellow and red zones?

OsKiDo · Nov 28th 2018, 10:05pm

Ravenar wrote:

... You BZ-people...
Isn't it confusing because we have yellow and red zones?

It isn't, we say royal zones
+ we who goes in royal ? i'm so high level, royal zones can't handle my t4 claws

Btw is this thread still alive evoque ?

Evoque · Nov 29th 2018, 10:42am

Hey guys,

Yeah it's still alive and kicking, just gone ahead and added those into the list for ya. Thank you for contributing more abbreviations, and good call on the worldmap ones!

- Evoque

Bogul · Nov 29th 2018, 1:12pm

I shamelessly stole this content and put it on the wiki:

wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Alb…bbreviations_and_Acronyms

Pisana · Dec 2nd 2019, 2:35pm

I have seen BM as Black Market.

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