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What is MMORPG game?

MMORPG stands for massively multiplayer’s online role playing games.

By: zhu jing
Category: Games
: Sports
Posted: Jan 31, 2012
Updated: Jan 31, 2012
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It allows large number of players to interact with one another and think of an imaginary world as a real place with rules .These rules covers everything like what happens when you complete your quest, what skills you get when you join particular class or what happens when one player in the team cheat others .In an MMORPG game virtual world you are allowed to team up with players to knock down player who are more powerful to tackle by yourself , you can name yourself , you can upgrade your skill, you can choose your class. Players can move around, kill monster take their stuff and level up their game. Different games will have different specified language that players will use. Some common abbreviation used in online MMORPG games are as:

Builds: Characters have specific builds or stats points on how they are setup. MMORPG players can create different type of builds for their appropriate character classes and can play online MMORPG.

Classes: Online MMORPG games usually have different type of classes of characters that you can play online and these classes specialize in certain area of the MMORPG game such as Tank, DPS, Buff Support, and Heal Support.

Quests: These are little tasks in MMORPG games that can be mostly done with little amount of time such as delivering item to a certain NPC or killing certain amount of mobs in MMORPG world .

Tank: This term refers to a specific class build that specializes in defense, this class usually draws heavy fire either from bosses or other players in an online MMORPG game.

Leveling: In MMORPG world leveling refers to the act of killing mobs to gain EXP in order to gain additional levels.

NPC: Non-player controlled characters. These characters are very important to the MMORPG world because they serve as merchants, stores, auction houses, quest givers, and more.

DC: Disconnected from Server.

DPS: DPS originally means damage per second. MMORPG players describe main damage player as DPS.

EXP: Experience Points. Same as XP.

HP: Health Points.

AOE: AOE means area of effect damage. This term is usually grouped with Mob/Pull to emphasize the act of leveling in an online MMORPG game.

ASPD: Refers to Attack Speed in an online MMORPG game.

Buffs: Buffs refers to passive or active skills that players use to further increase stats in their characters. Buffs is used in best MMORPG to either increase combat skills or sometimes life skills.

Instance Dungeons: Nowadays MMORPGS generate a set of parallel dungeons in servers that players can play in without the interference with the majority of the other players. Many of the instance dungeons typically has a difficulty that requires a group of players to participate.

LFP, LFG, LFM: For MMORPG one of the major concept is to play with other people and form parties .LFP means Looking For Party/Player, LFG means Looking for Group, LFM means Looking for Member/More.

Mobs : They refer to monsters or enemies in online MMORPG game that you can kill.

Mob, mobbing: Group monsters together. Usually used together with AOE in order to achieve faster leveling speed in online MMORPG.

MP: Mana or Magic Points They refer the action to group monsters in order to kill them with AOE skills that can generate more expin an online MMORPG.

OOM: Out of Mana. Most often used by a healer when they are unable to heal due to mana.

Power Level or Plvl: Refers to a two MMORPG players leveling together, which one player is significantly stronger than the other one and thus bring more exp for the lower leveled player.

Pull: They refer the action to group monsters in order to kill them with AOE skills that can generate more exp

PK: Player Kill, or PVP. Private Message. Same as Tell, Whisper.

PST: Please send Tell - Often used in a public chat channel to ask others to send a message when looking for more group members or trying to trade an item in an online MMORPG

. PVE: Player Versus Environment. Environment being the targets controlled by the MMORPG game servers.

PVM: Player Versus Monsters.

PVP: Player Versus Players.

Tell: Same as a whisper or PM - meaning to send a message to the MMORPG player.

Vent: Ventrilo is a popular gamer software that enable MMORPG players to have real time audio chat while in game. This empowers players to communicate and focus on game play without spending time to type

Whisper: Same as a Tell or PM - meaning to send a message to the MMORPG player.

XP: Experience Points. MMO World is very interesting virtual world. If you learn the above basic then you can able to play MMORPG games online. So, start playing today & Enjoy

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