Like many online communities, the Skylords Reborn community uses a wide range of different terms and abbreviations. On this page, you can see a list of these terms and abbreviations used in chat or on the forums, along with their meaning. Capitalization may vary. This list is never complete as it is constantly changing.
These terms and abbreviations are common to many online games.
- AA = Anti Air or Autoattack
- Admin = Administrator
- AFAIK = As Far As I Know
- AFK = Away From Keyboard
- AH = Auction House (marketplace)
- AKA = Also Known As
- AoE = Area of Effect
- APM = Actions per Minute
- ATM = At The Minute / At This Moment
- BoT = Back on Topic
- BRB = Be Right Back
- BTW = By The Way
- Buff = Increase in strength or usefulness caused by a spell or effect. Also refers to a power increase due to a balance patch.
- Bump = Posting on a thread just to keep it in the top of the forum page.
- C = Common (rarity)
- CC = Crowd Control. Spells or abilities that make it impossible for units to attack and/or move.
- Cheese = Any card, or a combination of cards and playstyle that is considered very hard or impossible to beat efficiently and generally
- Cya l8er = See you later
- DC = Disconnect
- DD = Direct Damage
- Debuff = Decrease in strength or usefulness caused by a spell or effect.
- Dmg = Damage. Often used to tell the damage value stated on the card.
- DND = Do Not Disturb
- DoT = Damage over Time (debuffs like poison that cause periodic damage)
- DPS = Damage Per Second
- easy to use.
- Elo = The Elo-rating system used for PvP ranking and matchmaking.
- F2P = Free To Play. A game that is free, or a player that has not spent any money.
- Farming = Repeating an action for a long time to obtain something, like playing a lot of rPvE to gain a lot of gold, similar
- Flamer = A player who is consistently rude to others, "flaming" them.
- FoW = Fog of War
- FTW = For The Win
- G = Gold. The ingame currency.
- G2G = Got To Go
- GG = Good game
- GJ = Good Job
- GL = Good Luck
- GLHF = Good Luck, Have Fun. (Friendly way to start a game ^_^)
- Grinding = Repeating an action for a long time to obtain something, like playing a lot of rPvE to gain a lot of gold.
- GW = Good Work
- HF = Have Fun
- HP = Hit Points
- HRU = How are you?
- IGN = In Game Name
- IKR = I Know, Right?
- Ily = I love you
- IMHO = In My Honest Opinion
- IMO = In My Opinion
- JK = Just Kidding / Joking
- K / KK = Okay
- LF = Looking For
- LFG = Looking For Group / Looking For Game
- LMAO = Laughing My Ass Off
- LOL = Laughing Out Loud ("Haha XD")
- LTP / L2P = Learn To Play
- M8 = Mate
- Mod = Moderator
- MVP = Most Valuable Person/Player/Poster
- Nerf = A power decrease due to a balance patch.
- NFS = Not For Sale.
- Ninja looting = When the host takes all the upgrades in an assign game without the other players' consent.
- Ninja'd = When somebody posts something right before you while you are typing the message.
- Noob = Newbie, a new player. It is also used as an insult.
- NP = No Problem
- Ofc = Of Course
- OMG = Oh my God
- OP = Overpowered, Overpriced, Original Poster / Opening Post
- OT = Off-Topic
- Plz / Pls = Please
- PM = Private/Personal Mail or Private Message
- PvE = Player versus Environment
- PvP = Player versus Player
- QFT = Quoted For Truth
- QQ = Crying
- r / Rdy = Ready
- R = Rare (rarity)
- ROFL = Rolling On the Floor Laughing
- Spam = Repeating the same message many times.
- Splash = When a deck has mainly cards of one color with a few cards of another color. For example a Shadow deck with Frost splash.
- Sry = Sorry
- TBH = To be honest
- Thread Necro = Posting in an old forum thread (often 1 year old or older), bumping it back to the front page.
- Tldr / TL;DR = Too long, didn't read
- to Grinding.
- Troll = Person who posts inappropriate or offensive messages to gain a response or start an argument.
- TY / Thx = Thanks, thank you.
- Tyvm = Thank you very much
- U2 = You too
- UC = Uncommon (rarity)
- UP = Underpowered or Under priced
- UR = Ultra Rare (rarity)
- W8 = Wait
- W81m = Wait a minute.
- Wb = Welcome back
- WBU = What about you?
- WP = Well Played
- WTB = Want to buy
- WTS = Want to sell
- WTT = Want to trade
- YW = You're Welcome
These abbreviations are used for BattleForge (Skylords Reborn) specific terms.
- BF / BaFo = BattleForge
- BFP = BattleForge Points
- BG = Battlegrounds (random PvE)
- Blue = Frost (can also refer to the blessed affinity.)
- Cliffing = Attacking with (long) range units over a cliff, to make counterplay difficult.
- CRD = Crusade
- DPTS / DP20 = Damage Per Twenty Seconds (the damage value displayed on a card.)
- F / Fi / Fr = Fire and Frost
- Full = A deck consisting of all 4 colors.
- Gold Run = Collecting all gold chests in a map and disenchanting all upgrade rewards into gold.
- Green = Nature (can also refer to the gifted affinity.)
- IPD = Indirect Power Disadvantage
- KOTG = King of the Giants
- LS = Lost Souls
- MTFBWY = "May the force be with you", a quote from the Star Wars films. It basically means "Good Luck". In BattleForge they often talk about "May the forge be with you".
- PPD = Permanent Power Disadvantage
- Promo = Promo Cards
- Pure = A deck consisting of cards in only one color.
- Purple = Shadow (can also refer to the tainted affinity.)
- Red = Fire (can also refer to the infused affinity.)
- RPvE = Random PvE
- Spam = A strategy that involves playing lots of the same unit. (e.g. Master Archers spam)
- SR = Skylords Reborn
- T1 / T2 / T3 / T4 = Tier 1-4, a way of telling how many orbs you have.
- U0 / U1 / U2 / U3 = Upgrade level of a card, where U0 stands for no upgrades and U3 to a completely upgraded card.
These abbreviations refer to specific cards, occasionally one abbreviation could refer to multiple cards depending on the context.
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- DO =
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- Harv / Harvy / Harvey =
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- IG =
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- Jugg / Juggy / Jugger =
- KoC =
- LB =
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- LK =
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- MA =
- Maddie =
- MotK =
- Mounty =
- Nasty =
- NC =
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- Nox =
- Oink =
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- RB =
- Roots =
- Shammy =
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- UA =
- Unholy / UP / UH = /
- WBG =
- Wings =
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- WW =