| Abbreviation | Defintion |
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| ACC | Accuracy |
| AFK | Away from keyboard |
| Alt | Alternate character |
| AM | Accelerated Metabolism (group buff) |
| AoE | Area of Effect |
| AP | Atlas Park (low level starter zone in Paragon City) |
| Assist | specific verb usage meaning: targeting (L – Clicking) an ally and blasting. Thus allowing you to target same enemy as selected ally |
| AT | Archetype (blaster, defender, scrapper, controller, tanker, and kheldian |
| ATM | At the moment |
| AV | Arch-villain |
| Bars | the xp bar on the upper right hand of screen that show progression of level (also known as bubbles or blocks) |
| BBL | Be back Later |
| Bio | Going to the bathroom, be right back (also known as biography; story of hero) |
| Blues | Catches of Breath inspiration |
| Boom | Boomtown (hazard zone in Paragon City) |
| BRB | Be right back |
| Bridge | A high level character asks someone 2 – 4 levels below to SK a lower level hero to earn max XP |
| Brick | Brickstown (mid-high level zone in Paragon City) |
| BRT | Be right there |
| BTW | By the way |
| Buff | A power, inspiration, or enhancements that increases the abilities of a hero |
| CaB | Catches of Breath (also known as Blues) |
| CF | Crey’s Folley (a mid-high hazard zone in Paragon City) |
| CK | Clockwork King (AV of Clockwork faction) |
| Clock(s) | Clockwork (enemy faction in Paragon City) |
| CM | Clear Mind (buff against Hold effects) |
| CoH | City of Heroes |
| CoT | Circle of Thorns (enemy faction in Paragon City) |
| CoV | City of Villains |
| CYA | See you later |
| DA | Dark Astoria (mid level hazard zone in Paragon City) |
| DC | Disconnected (removed from game server unexpectedly) |
| DE | Devouring Earth (enemy faction in Paragon City) |
| Debuff | A power, inspiration, or enhancements that decreases the abilities of an opponent |
| Dev(s) | Developers of the game |
| Ding | An exclamation used to indicate that your character achieved a new experience level |
| DO | Dual origin enhancements (2nd most powerful enhancement type…also known as duals) |
| Door | Mission or Waypoint entry |
| DoT | Damage over Time |
| DPS | Damage per second, referring to heroes ability to do fast damage (normally scrappers and blasters) |
| End | Endurance |
| End Break | A call for a period of rest to regain endurance |
| Enh | Enhancements (Training, DO, SO, or HO’s origins) |
| Epics | Powers earned after level 41 (special tertiary power sets) |
| Epic AT’s | Kheldian heroes: warshades and peacebringers (accessible when player achieves security level 50 with a hero) |
| Exp (XP) | Experience (points earned from defeating enemies that help you progress in levels) |
| Farm | To run a mission more than once; each time not completing it to gain experience |
| Fault | Faultline (low-mid level zone in Paragon City; including hazard zone in higher level section) |
| FBZ | Firebase Zulu (high level hazard zone accessed in Portal Corp, Peregrine Island) |
| Flame | To insult someone in a harsh manner |
| Fort | Fortitude (buff that improves a heroes damage, accuracym and defense) |
| Freaks | Freakshow (enemy faction in Paragon City) |
| G2G | Good to go (also known as GTG) or could be Got To Go |
| Gather | A command to gather around specific teammate to receive buffs |
| GC | Galaxy City (low level zone in Paragon City) |
| GM | Game Master or Giant Moster |
| Grats | Congratulations (also known as Gratz) |
| Greens | Respite inspiration; Health |
| Griefer | A player who seems to derive enjoyment from lowering the enjoyment of others |
| GTT | Going to trainer |
| HA | Healing Aura (AoE healing ability) |
| Hami-O’s | Special Enhancement dropped by Hamidon (also known as HO’s) |
| Hold Aggro | Keeping the focus of an opponent on yourself and away from teammates |
| HUD | Heads-up Display (your windows in-game; chat, powers, inspiration, navigation or targets (also known as UI) |
| IDK | I don’t know |
| IIRC | If I recall correctly |
| IMHO | In my humble opinion (or can be IMO: in my opinion) |
| Inf | Influence (monetary name in Paragon City) |
| Insp | Inspiration |
| INV | A request for invite to team |
| IP | Independence Port (mid level zone in Paragon City) |
| Kill Steal (KS) | To defeat an opponent that was engaged by another player, without first obtaining that player’s permission (taking xp for half the work) |
| KK | Ok |
| KR | King’s Row (low level zone in Paragon City) |
| LFG | Looking for group (or could be LFT – looking for team) |
| Lieu (LT) | Lieutenant; level of enemy |
| Lock | Any action that prevents an NPC (enemy) from being able to do anything |
| LOL | Laughing out loud (or Laf) |
| Lvl | Level (or security level of hero or enemies) |
| Mez | Mesmerize; hold, sleep effect |
| Mish | Mission |
| MMORPG | Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game |
| Mob | A npc, short for mobile object (normally an enemy or group of enemies) |
| MotD | Message of the Day (Supergroup or Global channel specifically) |
| MT | Mis-tell; accidentally message sent to wrong person or channel |
| Noob | Person new to game (also known as newb or newbie) |
| NP | No problem |
| NPC | Non-playable character |
| Nuke | A very high damage attack that hits everything surrounding it |
| OMG | Oh my goodness or god |
| OMW | On my way |
| OOR | Out of range |
| Own | To dominate and defeat someone (also known as pwn, pwnd, or pwning) |
| PA | Phantom Army (pets of Illusion power set for controllers) |
| PBAoE | Point Black Area of Effect |
| Pets | Summoned NPC’s (Jack Frost, Phantom Army, Fire Imps, etc, etc.) |
| PI | Peregrine Island (high level zone in Paragon City) |
| PL | Power Level |
| Plz | Please |
| PP | Perez Park (low level hazard zone in Paragon City) |
| PPL | People |
| PST | Please Send Tell |
| Pull | Method of hitting specific opponent in order to being combat with just that enemy or group; to lead them away from a closer MoB |
| Purples | Luck inspiration |
| PvE | Player versus Environment |
| PvP | Player versus Player |
| RA | Recovery Aura (Endurance buff) |
| Resp | Respite Inspiration (also known as Greens) |
| Respec | Respecification of powers, process to rechoose powers, and enhancement slots from level 1 to current level of hero |
| Rez | Resurrect, bring back to life a fallen hero |
| Rgr | Roger (or yes) |
| RL | Real life |
| RoF | Rain of Fire |
| ROFL | Rolling on the floor laughing (add to that ROFLMAO, rolling on the floor laughing my ass off) |
| Root | To immobilize an enemy or group of enemies |
| Runner | An NPC that runs from the group being attacked |
| SC | Steel Canyon (low level zone in Paragon City) |
| Screen | Screenshot (picture from game) |
| SG | Supergroup |
| SJ | Super Jump (travel power pool option) |
| SK | Sidekick |
| Sky | Skyraiders (enemy faction in Paragon City) |
| SnD | Seek and Destroy |
| SO | Single Origin Enhancements (most powerful type of enhancement; next to HO’s) |
| Spam | Inane chatter on the public chat channels, usually request for help or free items |
| Spawn | A MoB or group of enemies appearing at a particular location |
| SS | Super Speed (travel power pool option) |
| SW | Skyway City (low level zone in Paragon City) |
| Talos(TI) | Talos Island (mid level zone in Paragon City) |
| TF | Task Force |
| Thx | Thanks |
| Toon | Player’s character |
| TP | Teleport (travel power pool option) |
| Tram | Railway station (an option for transportation between city zones) |
| TV | Terra Volta (mid level hazard zone in Paragon City) |
| TY | Thank You |
| UI | User Interface (same as HUD) |
| Vahz | Vahzilok (enemy faction in Paragon City) |
| WB | Welcome Back |
| Woot | Wow, terrific |
| WTG | Way to go |
| Xmp | Exemplar; a higher level hero will be lowered down to level of a hero below them in security levels |
| XP | Experience Points |
| Yellows | Accuracy inspiration |
| YW | Your Welcome |
| Zone | Specific location in the game |
| Zoning | Process of moving in-between zones |
| ZZZ | Stunned, held, sleeping effect on player |
