DottzGaming.com’s Acronym Dictionary is an alphabetical list of the common acronyms and phrases used by players in the Elder Scrolls Online. If you ever see a player using in-game jargon and you’re not sure what it means, you can consult this guide to find out!

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1H- One Handed weapon

1T- One Tamriel (Really big ESO update that introduced a ton of stuff, including level scaling)

2H- Two Handed weapon

-blade- Nightblade (class) Usually has Mag-/Stam- in front of it to denote the character’s main resource (eg- Magblade)

“n” before any dungeon/trial acronym- Denotes the normal version of the dungeon/trial

-cro – Necromancer (Class).Usually has Mag-/Stam- in front of it to denote the character’s main resource (eg- Magcro)

-plar- Templar (class). Usually has Mag-/Stam- in front of it to denote the character’s main resource (eg- Stamplar)

“v” before any dungeon/trial acronym- Denotes the veteran version of the dungeon/trial

A

AA- Aetherian Archive (trial)

AC – Arx Corinium (dungeon)

AD- Aldmeri Dominion

AS- Asylum Sanctorium (“mini” trial)

Adds- Hostile NPCs in boss fights

AFK- Away from Keyboard

Aggro- Aggression. Determines which player an enemy will attack. Taunting an enemy will increase its aggro towards you.

Alt- An alternative character on a player’s account

AoE- Area of Effect

AotT – Armor of the Trainee (Set)

AP- Alliance Points

AvA- Alliance vs Alliance

B

BC – Banished Cells and/or Blessed Crucible (dungeons)

BF – Bloodroot Forge (dungeon)

BG- Battleground. A 4v4v4 team-based PvP game mode.

BH – Blackheart Haven (dungeon)

BiS- Best in Slot

BoE- Bind on Equip

BoL- Breath of Life (a skill from the Templar Restoring Light skill line. Morphs from Rushed Ceremony)

BoP- Bind on Pickup

BRP – Black Rose Prison

BS – Bar Swap

BSW- Burning Spellweave

Buff – An effect that makes your character/group stronger

Build- Refers to a character’s race, attributes, chosen skills, gear and abilities

C

CC – Crowd Control

Chapter- The equivalent of an expansion in other MMOs. Named “Chapters” because the ESO team wanted to make it clear that content was available to all players at any level, not just max level players like traditional MMOs. The only Chapter right now is Morrowind.

Char- character

Claw – Claw of Yolnakhriin (set)

CoA- City of Ash (dungeon)

COD- Cash on Delivery

CoH- Crypt of Hearts (dungeon)

CoS- Cradle of Shadows (dungeon)

CP- Champion Points

CR – Cloudrest (trial)

Craglorn Trials- The trials located in Craglorn (Aetherian Archive, Hel Ra Citadel, Sanctum Ophidia)

CwC – Clockwork City

Cyro- Cyrodiil

D

DB- Dark Brotherhood

DC- Daggerfall Covenant or Disconnect

DD- Damage Dealer

Debuff – An effect that makes whatever it is applied to weaker

DfK – Direfrost Keep (dungeon)

DgB/DrgB – Dragon Bones

DK- Dragonknight (class)

DM- Direct Message

DoM – Depth of Malatar (dungeon)

DoT- Damage over Time

DPS- Damage Per Second. Can literally mean how much damage a character does per second or can denote a character that does damage as their role in dungeons/trials

Drops – Items that can be looted from enemy’s corpse

DSA- Dragonstar Arena (dungeon)

DsC – Darkshade Caverns (dungeon)

DW- Dual Wield

E

EH – Elden Hollow (dungeon)

EP- Ebonheart Pact

EU- European Megaserver

F

Farming- Grinding for materials and/or gear

FG- Fungal Grotto (dungeon)

FGD – False God’s Devotion (set)

FH – Falkreath Hold (dungeon)

FL – Fang Lair (dungeon)

FOTM – Flavor of the Month. Used to describe new OP builds that don’t last long.

FV – Frostvault (dungeon)

G

Gank- Dealing a lot of damage to a player by catching them by surprise. Usually done from sneak. Also could refer to when a high level player(s) surprise attack lower-level players.

GF- Good Fight. Usually said after duels.



GG- Good Game

GS- Guild Store

Gz- congratulations

H

HA- Heavy Armor / Heavy Attack

HM- Hardmode

HP- Health

HoF- Halls of Fabrication (trial)

HoT- Heal over Time

HotR- Horns of The Reach

HRC- Hel-Ra Citadel (trial)

I

IA – Infallible Aether (trial set)

ICP- Imperial City Prison (dungeon)

ICR/IR – Icereach (dungeon) (IR can also mean “Immortal Redeemer”, a title.

ICS- Imperial City Sewers

IC- Imperial City (PvP & PvE area)

J

Juli- Julianos (set)

K

KA – Kyne’s Aegis (trial)

L

LA- Light Armor / Light Attack

LF- Looking for

LFDG- Looking for Dolmen Group. Seen commonly in Alik’r Desert.

LFG- Looking for Group/Looking For Guild

Lokk – Tooth of Lokkestiiz

LoM – Lair of Maarselok

M

MA- Maelstrom Arena / Medium Armor / Mechanical Acuity / Master Architect

Mag- Magicka

Magden/Stamden- Magicka Warden/ Stamina Warden (class)

MD – Moondancer (trial set)

Meta – Most Efficient Tactic Available. This is what is regarded as the “standard” for reaching the best performance. Non-Meta: Something that doesn’t follow the commonly believed “standard” for best performance. This does not mean bad, it just means outside the realm of what is believed to be the most optimal.

MF – Moongrave Fane

MHK – Moon Hunter Keep (dungeon)

MK – Martial Knowledge

Mob – Hostile NPC’s

MoL- Maw of Lorkhaj (trial)

MoS – March of Sacrifices (dungeon)

MR – Magicka Recovery

N

NA- North American Megaserver

NB- Nightblade (class)

Necro- Necropotence (set)

NMA – New Moon Acolyte (crafted set)

NPC – non-player character

O

OP- Overpowered

P

PoTL – Power of the Light

Pots- Potions

Proc- Programmed Random Occurrence

PUG- Pick Up Group

PvE- Player vs Environment

PvP- Player vs Player

Q

QQ- Although it is now popularly used as a crying emote, it actually stems from Warcraft. On battlenet, you could press ALT+Q+Q to immediately exit the match and program. So the term “QQ” was used to tell people to quit.

R

RNG- Random Number Generator. Refers to the games algorithms to determine random things such as loot drops.

RO – Roaring Opportunist (trial set from Kyne’s Aegis)

RoM- Ruins of Mazzatun (dungeon)

S

S&B/SnB- “Sword and Board”, meaning sword and shield

SnS – Sword and Shield

SC – Spindleclutch (dungeon)

SO- Sanctum Ophidia (trial)

Sorc- Sorcerer (class)

SotH- Shadows of the Hist

SP/ScP – Scalecaller Peak (dungeon)

SPC – Spell Power Cure

SR – Stamina Recovery

SS – Sunspire

Stam- Stamina

SW – Selene’s Web (dungeon)

Sword and Board- Sword and shield

T

Tank – a character built to withstand repeated and excessive physical blows, so as to divert, distract, or absorb,and also to buff the group.

TBS – Twice Born Star

Temp- Templar (class)

Temp(s)- Tempers (gear upgrade materials)

TFS – Twice-Fanged Serpent (set)

TG- Thieves Guild

TI – Tempest Island (dungeon)

Tick – The frequency of which damage or healing from DoTs or HoTs will occur.

Toon- character

Tyfg- “Thank you for group”

U

UG – Unhallowed Grave (dungeon)

Ulti – Ultimate Ability

V

Vamp- Vampire

Vet- Veteran

VF – Volenfell (dungeon)

VO- Vicious Ophidian (set)

VoM- Vaults of Madness (dungeon)

W

WB- World Boss

WGT- White-Gold Tower (dungeon)

WH – Wolfhunter

WS – Wayrest Sewers (dungeon)

WTB- Want to Buy

WTS- Want to Sell

WTT- Want to Trade

WW- Werewolf

X

XP- Experience

Y

Z