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Player versus Environment, commonly abbreviated as PvE, is a gaming term that originated in MMOs to refer to gameplay in which players fight against computer controlled creatures or characters.
Many games feature poison, but sometimes the art of creating poisons is an available trade skill to learn. Rogues generally excel in this profession.
Power Leveling is a tactic, primarily in MMOs, where a higher level player will assist a lower level player in order to earn the lower level player experience faster than otherwise possible.
Procs (Processes of Action) are magical effects triggered on contact by particular weapons in combat. The effects can be any type of spell including direct damage, stuns, buffs, or even teleportation.
Pulling is a popular tactic in MMOs where one player skillfully separates one NPC from a group and "pulls" them back to their group/raid, who are stationed in a safe area.
Quest tracking is a common theme in RPGs and open-world adventure games, whereby the game monitors, records, and occasionally directs the player as to his next mission.
Random Loot is a popular concept for dungeon crawler and MMO style games. In essence, monsters or objects drop something that is considered valuable to the player with random qualities.
How non-playable characters or factions perceive the player character based on their actions or choices in the game world.
A sound effect that plays once the player has gained a level, solved a puzzle or reached a milestone within the game.
Safe Fall is a skill that, as the skill increases, allows one to fall from higher and higher distances without taking damage.
A location where the player character is relatively assured to avoid patterns of incoming fire or enemy movement.
Instead of having the loot spew out of the corpse it-self, this concept is based on having to interact with the corpse to obtain the loot.
Some things that are meant to be hidden can be seen clear as day thanks to innate abilities of certain characters or perhaps by equipping magical items imbued with this ability.
Shadow Knights are a hybrid of Warriors and Necromancers and are reknowned as the most evil and feared fighters in Norrath.
Shaman are mediums between the mortal and spiritual realms. In games, they are often priests with the ability to heal via magic and crafted potions.
A gesture used to express indifference or resignation. Not that it matters to you, or anything...
Slashing weapons are designed to cut and slice rather than causing blunt trauma. Examples include swords, axes, claws, naginatas, or even whips.
Smithing is a trade skill used to craft and shape metal. Steel, iron, gold, silver, pewter, tin, copper, and other metals can be used to craft armor, blades, guns, coins, arrowheads, locks, and a myriad of other objects.
Quite possibly the most famous spell in all of EverQuest, and easily the most requested buff of all time. Spirit of Wolf (SoW) grants a 34-55% increase in speed depending on the level of the one who casts the spell.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Like a critical hit, this is a special action invoked from certain attacks in games or caused randomly on attacks by a character's statistic. It causes opponents to lose the ability to attack back for a certain period of time, and usually invokes the hit character to go into a special animation.
Using one's own tail as a weapon.
Tailoring is the process of crafting clothing through the sewing and cutting of fabrics. It is a popular trade skill in many RPG's.
In many MMOs, some items, typically keys, will disappear from your inventory once you log out.
Many online games allow text chat with other players.
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
Tinkering is a tradeskill typically reserved for gnomes. It involves the crafting of machinery and gadgets using gears and sprockets sometimes powered by steam or magic.
Tracking is a skill or ability used by classes such as Rangers which allows the player to quickly locate an NPC.
A trash mob is any monster that is not a boss in dungeons, primarily seen in RPGs and MMOs.
Trolls are a mythical race of creatures that have been interpreted many different ways in games.
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