Terms

Below is a list of terms, acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms common throughout this Wiki, EverQuest II and MMORPG players in general, grouped by topic.

Quests

 * AQ - Armor Quest or Access Quest
 * HQ - Heritage Quest
 * NPC - Non-Player Character

Monsters

 * PH - Place Holder. a PH is a common monster that, when killed, has a chance to respawn as an uncommon, rare or Named monster.
 * Mob - Mobile Object. This term comes from the pre-MMORPG world if MUDs (Multi-User Dungeon). It means any in-game object that can move and interact. In MMORPGs this usually translates as any NPC or Monster.

Combat

 * DPS - Damage Per Second.

Spells

 * AE - Area Effect, a spell that strikes all enemies within it's Area of Effect (AoE), centered on a target.
 * DOT - Damage Over Time
 * HOT - Healing Over Time
 * DD - Direct Damage, as opposed to a DOT.
 * OOP - Out Of Power. There is also an emote for this: /oop
 * LOS - Line Of Sight
 * AoE - Area of Effect, unlike Radius of Effect, means the diameter of the area. How large an area is covered by the AE spell in question. A spell with a 15m Radius of Effect would have a 30m Area of Effect.
 * COQ or COO - Call of Qeynos or Call of the Overlord. A spell that teleports the player to their home city.
 * Call - using Call of Qeynos or Call of the Overlord. "I'm gonna call out. cya"
 * COH - Call of Heroes. A level 52 Conjuror spell that will teleport any group member to the Conjuror.

Chat
We will keepo this section brief and hit only the MOST used acronyms...
 * OOC - Out Of Character
 * AFK - Away From Keyboard
 * BRB - Be Right Back
 * Bio - I need to go AFK to go to the bathroom
 * LOL - Laughing Out Loud
 * ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
 * ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
 * AFAIK - As Far As I Know
 * IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer
 * IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
 * FTW - For The Win
 * TS - TeamSpeak. A program that supports multi-user voice chat.
 * Vent - Ventrilo. Another voice chat program

General

 * RPG - Role Playing Game
 * MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
 * MUD - Multi-User Dungeon. What we used to do before EverQuest.
 * NDA - Non-Disclosure Agreement
 * TOS - Terms Of Service
 * RP - Role Playing. An RPer would be a Role Player. Someone who likes to stay "in character"
 * LD - Link Dead. It means, for whatever reason, the server lost communication with the player's computer and has removed them from the game world.