Glossary

Vanilla had its own language, Forever added a second one, and the guild Discord has a third. Returning players lose more time to “what does SR mean” than to any boss. This page defines all three languages once, in tables, so the rest of the site can use the words without stopping to explain them. Forever-specific entries carry evidence tags; the vanilla entries are how the words were used in 2005 and in Classic and mean the same thing here unless the table says otherwise.

Loot and raiding

Term	Meaning
MS>OS	Main spec over off spec. Anyone who needs an item for the spec they raid as rolls before anyone who wants it for a secondary spec. The guild’s default rule for the 10 and 20.
SR, soft reserve	Before the raid, each player names one item they want; if it drops, only the people who reserved it roll. Declared in the Discord thread before pull one.
HR, hard reserve	An item the raid leader or host removes from the roll entirely, usually for the host. The guild does not hard reserve inside guild runs.
+1	A tally mark. Once you win an item you have a +1 and lose ties to anyone at zero until they catch up. Optional in the 10.
BoP	Bind on pickup. Bound to whoever loots it, so it cannot be traded or sold. Vanilla had a short trade window only in later patches; Forever’s window is unconfirmed. vanilla baseline
BoE	Bind on equip. Tradeable and sellable until someone equips it. Raid BoEs go to the bank alt or a roll; the loot rules say which.
BiS	Best in slot. The single best item for a slot in the current tier. No trustworthy Forever BiS list exists yet. verified
pre-BiS, pre-raid BiS	The best gear you can get from dungeons, quests, crafting and PvP before raiding. Forever re-itemized every dungeon drop, so Classic lists do not apply. verified
Tier set, T1	The class armor set that drops in a raid tier. Forever’s “Season 1” sets have 2, 3, 4 and 5 piece bonuses instead of vanilla’s 3, 5 and 8. verified
Set bonus	The extra effect from wearing several pieces of one set.
Legendary	Orange-quality item. Blizzard confirmed one tied to the launch raids and a separate questline in Spring 2027; item unknown. verified
DKP	Dragon kill points. Points earned by attendance, spent on loot by bidding. The guild does not run DKP below 25 raiders.
EPGP	Effort points divided by gear points. A DKP variant where priority is the ratio of what you have contributed to what you have received. Not used here.
Loot council	A small group applies a written rubric (upgrade size, attendance, items received this tier, role impact) and assigns loot. The guild’s rule for the 20, with public loot history.
GDKP	Gold DKP. Loot is auctioned for gold and the pot is split among the raid. Banned in Forever by Blizzard. verified
Master loot, ML	A loot mode where one person hands out every drop. Whether Forever keeps it is unanswered. unverified
Need / greed / pass	The group loot roll buttons. Need is a /100 roll for use, greed for vendor or disenchant.
/roll	The in-game random number, 1 to 100. The tiebreak for everything.
Ninja	Someone who takes loot they were not entitled to, or loots a chest the group was rolling for. Wearing the tabard while doing it in a pug is a kick offense.
Lockout, raid ID	Once a boss dies your character is saved to that raid until it resets. Forever’s lockout lengths are unannounced. verified
Reset	The moment a lockout clears. Vanilla: Onyxia 5 days, Molten Core 7. vanilla baseline
Farm vs progression	Farm is content you clear reliably; progression is content you are still learning. Loot and bench rules differ between them.
Bench	Signed up, present, not in the raid. Benched players keep attendance credit in this guild.
Pug	Pick-up group: strangers from chat. Also a verb.
Premade	A pre-formed group, usually for battlegrounds.
Consumes, consumables	Potions, elixirs, flasks, food, oils and stones you use up. Healing potions are First Aid now. verified
Flask	A long buff that persists through death. Vanilla flasks’ Forever status is unconfirmed. vanilla baseline
Elixir	A 30-minute stat buff. Vanilla’s battle plus guardian stacking rules are unconfirmed for Forever. vanilla baseline
World buff	A powerful zone-wide buff from a turn-in or event (Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer, Songflower, Warchief’s Blessing, Darkmoon Faire, Dire Maul tribute). Reportedly disabled inside Forever raids, no blue post. unverified
Debuff limit	Vanilla capped debuffs on a target at 16, which squeezed Warlocks and Shadow Priests. Forever’s limit is undocumented. unverified
Attunement	A quest chain required to enter a raid. None for the three launch raids. verified
Dungeon key	An item needed to open a dungeon or wing (Seal of Ascension for UBRS, Crescent Key for Dire Maul West). Unconfirmed for Forever. vanilla baseline
Warlock summon	Ritual of Summoning needs the Warlock plus two helpers at the instance. Meeting stones do not summon in Forever. verified
Logs	Combat logs uploaded to Warcraft Logs for review. Forever support is not announced. unverified
Parse	Your ranking on a log compared to others on the same boss. Parses are never posted here without consent.

Combat and group play

Term	Meaning
Tank	The player whose job is to hold the enemy’s attention and absorb its hits.
MT / OT	Main tank and off tank. The MT holds the boss; OTs hold adds or take over on swaps.
Threat	The hidden number each enemy tracks per player; the highest threat gets attacked. Blizzard’s own words: DPS “still need to respect Threat.” verified
Aggro	Having the enemy’s attention. “Pulling aggro” means overtaking the tank on threat.
TPS	Threat per second. Addons cannot measure it in Forever. verified
Taunt	An ability that forces an enemy onto you. Warriors, Paladins (Seal of Fury makes Judgment a taunt) and bears have one; Shamans do not. verified
Salv, Salvation	Blessing of Salvation, the Paladin blessing that lowers a player’s threat. Any “drop Salv on the tank” call is a mistake. Forever status of the blessing is unconfirmed. vanilla baseline
Sunder	Sunder Armor, the Warrior armor-reduction debuff that stacks to five.
Pull	Starting a fight, or the group of enemies you start it with. “Pulling in 5” means five seconds.
Body pull	Aggroing enemies by walking into their range instead of using an ability.
LoS pull	Pulling around a corner so ranged enemies must walk to you. LoS is line of sight.
Chain pull	Starting the next pull before the last one is fully dead.
Skip	Walking past a pack without fighting it. Common in beta because dungeon kill XP is low. verified
Trash	Non-boss enemies in a dungeon or raid.
Add	An extra enemy that joins a fight, either by spawning or by being pulled accidentally.
Pat, patrol	An enemy that walks a route rather than standing still. The thing that ruins a careful pull.
Tank and spank	A boss with no real mechanics: the tank holds it, everyone hits it.
Enrage	A boss buff that increases its damage, either from a timer (hard enrage) or a mechanic (soft enrage).
Wipe	Everyone dies. The call is a single word; then everyone dies fast to save time.
Res, rez	Resurrection. Priests, Paladins, Shamans and Druids have one; Druids now get Revive at 12 out of combat and keep Rebirth for combat. unverified
Rez sickness	The 10-minute stat penalty for reviving at a spirit healer instead of running back. vanilla baseline
Corpse run	Running from the graveyard back to your body.
Spirit healer	The ghost at the graveyard who can revive you with rez sickness.
Graveyard camp	Killing players as they revive. On the PvP ruleset it happens.
CC	Crowd control: any ability that takes an enemy out of the fight. Blizzard says CC “can be the right answer” in Forever dungeons. verified
Sheep	Polymorph, the Mage CC. “Sheep the square” means Polymorph the enemy marked with the square icon.
Sap	The Rogue stealth CC used before a pull. Sap’s stealth rule changed in beta; sources disagree on how. unverified
Shackle	Shackle Undead, the Priest CC that works only on undead.
Banish	The Warlock CC for demons and elementals.
Fear	Warlock and Priest CC that makes the target run. Warlock Fear’s range dropped to 20 yards in beta. unverified
Root, snare	Root holds the target in place; snare slows it.
Stun	Target can do nothing for the duration.
Interrupt, kick	Stopping a cast (Kick, Counterspell, Earth Shock, Pummel, Shield Bash).
Silence	Prevents casting for a duration. Priest Silence is now a real interrupt with a lockout. unverified
Dispel, purge, decurse	Removing a buff or debuff. Remove Curse now also strips Warlock Banes. unverified
Kiting	Keeping an enemy chasing you while you damage it and never let it reach you. Hunters and Frost Mages.
AoE	Area of effect: damage or healing that hits everything in an area.
Cleave	Hitting two or three targets at once, as opposed to full AoE.
DPS	Damage per second, or the players whose role is damage.
HoT	Heal over time (Renew, Rejuvenation).
DoT	Damage over time (Corruption, Shadow Word: Pain). DoTs can crit in Forever. unverified
Proc	A random effect that triggers off an action.
CD	Cooldown. “Pop CDs” means use your big buttons.
GCD	Global cooldown, the 1.5 second lock after most abilities.
OOM	Out of mana. Say it before you are, not after.
5SR	Five-second rule. In vanilla, mana regeneration from Spirit stops for five seconds after you cast. Forever’s talents (Meditation, Mindfulness, Reflection) let a portion continue. vanilla baseline
mp5	Mana regenerated per five seconds, the healer stat on gear.
AP, SP	Attack power and spell power.
Hit cap	The hit chance at which you never miss a boss. Forever unified hit into one stat; the cap is unpublished. verified
Crit	Critical strike chance, now one stat across spells, melee and ranged. verified
Defense	The tank stat that reduces crit chance against you. Bear crit immunity no longer comes from Thick Hide. unverified
Dodge, parry, block	The three ways to avoid or reduce a melee hit. Forever adds parry and dodge reduction stats for attackers. verified
Weapon skill	Your skill with a weapon type, levelled by hitting things. Still exists; items give less of it. verified
Ready check	The raid leader’s poll before a pull. Answer it.
Raid marks	Skull, cross, square, moon, triangle, diamond, circle, star. Skull dies first, cross second.
Focus	A secondary target you can cast at without switching targets, used for interrupts and sheep.
Assist	Targeting whatever another player targets.
Pull timer	The countdown from DBM or BigWigs before a boss.
Wand	The caster’s ranged weapon. It matters more in Forever because it scales with spell power. unverified
Twink	A low-level character with the best possible gear, usually for battlegrounds.
Main / alt	Your primary character and any others. Mains before alts on loot.
Off spec	The spec you do not raid as.
Respec	Paying a trainer to reset talents. Observed at 1g then 5g at level 20 in beta. unverified
Dual spec	Two saved talent builds. Not announced for Forever. unverified
31/20/0	Talent build notation: points in each tree in order.
Milestone talent	The one-point talent at 11, 16, 21 and 31 points in a tree. The 16 is new. verified

World, travel and chat

Term	Meaning
Hearth	Your Hearthstone, or the inn it is bound to. “Set your hearth forward.”
FP	Flight path, or the flight master. Six new ones in Forever. verified
AH	Auction house. Each faction has its own; Booty Bay, Gadgetzan and Everlook are neutral in vanilla. vanilla baseline
Undercut	Listing below the current cheapest auction. By one copper is the custom.
COD	Cash on delivery mail.
Vendor	Sell to an NPC, or the NPC itself. “Vendor trash” is grey items.
Mats	Materials for crafting.
Skill-up	One point of profession skill. Orange recipes always give one, yellow usually, green rarely, grey never.
DE	Disenchant. Turning green or better gear into enchanting materials.
Transmute	The Alchemy craft that turns one material into another, usually on a daily cooldown.
Bank alt	A level 1 character parked at a capital mailbox to hold and sell things. The guild’s bank until a guild bank is confirmed.
Rested XP	Bonus kill XP accrued while logged out in an inn or city. Doubles kill XP only. vanilla baseline
Ding	Levelling up. Post it; officers react.
Con colors	Grey, green, yellow, orange, red: how hard an enemy or quest is relative to your level. Grey gives nothing.
Elite	An enemy with far more health and damage than its level suggests, marked by a gold dragon frame.
Rare	A named enemy that spawns infrequently and drops better loot. Forever added hundreds of rare drops. verified
World drop	An item that can drop from any enemy in a level range rather than a specific boss.
Contested zone	A zone where the PvP ruleset allows attacks without flagging.
Sanctuary	A zone where nobody can attack anyone. Zephras Isle is one. verified
Flagged	Marked for PvP on the Normal ruleset, by choice or by attacking a flagged player.
Gank	Killing a much lower-level player, usually repeatedly.
Camp	Two meanings now. Vanilla: waiting at a spawn or a corpse. Forever: a Campfire site, see below.
Layering	Splitting one realm’s population into copies of the world so zones are not overcrowded. Forever layers per zone and moves you when you group or when guildmates are elsewhere. unverified
Sharding	The retail word for the same thing; beta players used both.
Phasing	Seeing a different version of a zone based on quest progress. Not a Forever term.
Mega-realm	What each Forever ruleset effectively is: one population per region. verified
Queue	Waiting to log in when the population cap is hit.
LFG / LFM	Looking for group / looking for more. “LFM RFC, need tank and heals.”
PST	Please send tell (a whisper).
w/	With. “LFM SM Lib w/ quests” means the group wants people who have the quests.
BRB / AFK	Be right back / away from keyboard. Say “afk 60s” rather than vanishing.
/g, /o, /p, /ra	Guild chat, officer chat, party chat, raid chat.
MOTD	The guild message of the day, set with `/gmotd`.
Tell, whisper	A private in-game message.
Boost	Two meanings. Blizzard boosts (paid level skips) do not exist in Forever; player-run dungeon boosts for gold are a grey area and paid carries break the EULA. verified
RMT	Real-money trading: buying gold or services for cash. Permanent bans promised. verified
Bot	An automated character farming gold. Report it.

Forever-specific terms

Term	Meaning
Forever, Classic Plus	World of Warcraft: Forever, Blizzard’s official permanent Classic Plus, its own continuity set in year one of vanilla. Level 60 indefinitely. verified
Forever flavor	The CurseForge game-version tag that marks an addon as built for Forever. If the tag is missing, do not assume the addon works. verified
Midnight API	The retail addon API that Forever uses instead of the Classic API. Old addons must be ported. verified
Addon disarmament	The Midnight rule set that hides combat data from addons. Applies in full to Forever and stays synchronized with retail. verified
Secret values	Numbers such as unit health and combo points that the client hands addons in a form they cannot compare or do math on. Why healing frames and threat meters break. verified
Built-in damage meter	Blizzard’s own meter, present in beta. The meter for this guild. verified
Cooldown manager	Blizzard’s built-in cooldown tracker, exposed in beta options and unfinished for some classes. unverified
Classic / Enhanced preset	The first-login choice. Classic: SD models, quest markers off, one-bag off, transmog off. Enhanced: all on. Every toggle can be changed later. unverified
HD / SD models	High-detail modern character models or the 2004 ones. They share a skeleton. verified
Unified hit / crit	One hit stat and one crit stat for spells, melee and ranged. verified
1/3 rule	Bonus healing grants one third of its value as bonus damage. verified
Realmless	There are no realms. You pick a ruleset and land in one population per region. verified
Ruleset	Normal, PvP, Roleplay at launch; Hardcore later. No cross-ruleset grouping. verified
Faction lock	On the PvP ruleset one account can only make characters of one faction. verified
Preferred Online Language	A setting that filters who you are grouped with by language; changing it has a cooldown. unverified
Two-part name, surname	Every character has a first and second name; the pair is unique per region. verified
Early Name Reservation	Oct 27 to Nov 3, three characters per account, upgrade purchasers only. verified
Server Slam	A promised open beta stress-test window with no date. verified
Invite-A-Friend code	A code for free play Nov 4 to 11 without a subscription. verified
Heroic Pack, Epic Pack, Collection, Collector’s Edition	The four paid editions: $29.99, $59.99, $79.99 and $150. verified
Skyborne	The new paid elven race from Skywall. Self-name shen’dorei. verified
High Order	The Alliance Skyborne variant; adds Mage. verified
Windshaper	The Horde Skyborne variant; adds Shaman. verified
Zephras Isle	The Skyborne starting zone, levels 1 to 12, a flying island in Skywall. verified
Skywall	The Elemental Plane of Air, where Zephras Isle floats. verified
Valanaar	The neutral Skyborne capital with the airship Skydocks. verified
Galestrider	The Skyborne racial mount. unverified
Walk on Air, Wind Blessed, Skysight, Read Ley Line	The Skyborne racials: a glide, +1% haste, a Horde run-speed active, an Alliance regen active. verified
Riverglades	The new 35 to 45 zone in the Eastern Kingdoms, east of the Badlands. Not “Riverlands.” verified
Farholde Keep, Rog’mar, Powderfuse Port	Riverglades’ Alliance hub, Horde hub and neutral goblin port with a boat to Tanaris. verified
Krol’dok Stronghold	The outdoor ogre dungeon in Riverglades, 40 to 45. verified
Shen’dralas	The new hidden-Highborne zone in central Kalimdor with no announced level range. verified
Mount Hyjal	The level-60 zone holding both new raids. verified
Barrow Deeps	The 10-player launch raid under Hyjal, 8 encounters in beta data. verified
Hyjal Summit	The 20-player launch raid, 13 encounters in beta data. verified
Ony	Onyxia’s Lair, the 40-player launch raid. verified
Hall of Thanes, Ruins of Lordaeron	The two new dungeons under Ironforge and above Undercity, live in beta week one. verified
Darkspear Islands	The new 15v15 battleground with control points and flag captures. verified
Legacy	The account-wide progression system: challenges earn points, characters spend them in three trees. verified
Legacy Point, Legacy Challenge	One point per challenge; 65 challenges at launch. verified
Professions / Adventure / Resourcefulness trees	The three Legacy trees; 16 points spendable per character at launch. verified
Legacy Rewards Track	Cosmetics by total points earned: air rifle toy, Spectral Bear Cub, tabard, Spectral Bear mount. verified
Well Rested, Talented, Reagent Economy	Legacy perks people ask about most: more rested XP, talent points from level 5, no reagent costs. verified
Camping, Campfire	The Cooking-built campsite that holds profession objects giving one-hour buffs, vendors and stations. verified
Camp object	A crafted item one player adds to a campsite, one per player, one-hour cooldown. verified
Blueprint	A recipe for a tier 2 or tier 3 camp object, dropped by dungeon bosses. verified
Basic / Journeyman / Expert Campfire	Campfires holding 3, 5 and 10 objects. verified
Cozy Sleeping Bag	Lie in it three minutes for 3% XP for two hours. verified
Merchant’s Favor	The profession currency from supply crates, spent at trade camps on recipes, mounts and titles. verified
Waylaid Supply Crate	The item you fill with materials and hand in for Merchant’s Favor. verified
Azeroth Commerce Authority, Durotar Supply and Logistics	The Alliance and Horde trade factions behind Merchant’s Favor. verified
Craftsman’s Writ	Profession turn-in quests that also give trade-faction reputation. verified
Scarce materials	A new rarity flag on gathering drops, doubled by the Bountiful Harvest Legacy perk. verified
Malleable Essence of Nature	The reagent from disenchanting Barrow Deeps and Hyjal drops, used for crafted raid epics. verified
Discolored Healing Potion	The healing line Alchemy kept after real Healing Potions moved to First Aid. verified
Mixology	An Alchemy perk for longer, stronger elixirs and flasks, reported by fan guides. unverified
Comprehension	The Mage-only scroll research skill (Comprehend Scroll, Study). Rewards undocumented. verified
Lost and Found	The Steamwheedle service that mails you loot you forgot in a dungeon. verified
Reagent bag	The fifth bag slot for reagents and crafting materials. verified
Banes	Warlock Bane of Agony, Bane of Doom and Bane of Havoc, which no longer use the Curse slot. unverified
Mangle, Lacerate	The Druid bear tools added “to make Druid tanking more practical.” verified
Seal of Fury	The Paladin seal that makes Judgment a taunt; Blizzard’s stated Protection Paladin tank identity. verified
Penance, Prayer of Mending, Wild Growth, Riptide	New healer talents for Priest, Priest, Druid and Shaman respectively. unverified
Restless Blades	A Combat Rogue talent shown at BlizzCon and removed in beta. Old guides still cite it. verified
Season 1	The launch raid tier and PvP season. verified
Rank Points / Honor Points	Two separate PvP numbers: rank progress with a rising weekly cap, and a currency for gear. unverified
Rank 14	The top Honor rank, reachable within a season in Forever’s per-patch track. verified
Black War mount	The PvP mount at rank 11. unverified
Guardians of Hyjal	The new level-60 reputation in Mount Hyjal. unverified
Theramore Expeditionary Force, Darkspear Raiders	The two Darkspear Islands battleground reputations. unverified
Spectral Bear	The Legacy reward mount at 55 points, a long-term goal under the 16 cap. verified

Guild and Discord terms

Term	Meaning
Wing	The gated set of WoW Forever channels inside the family Discord. Nobody outside it sees WoW talk. See the Discord guide.
Gate role	The self-serve `WoW Forever` role from onboarding that reveals the wing. It is not a rank and grants nothing in game.
Ping role	An opt-in role you can be @mentioned by: Raid, Dungeons, PvP, Leveling-buddies. The guild never uses @everyone.
Sheet	The single pinned source-of-truth roster: class, spec, role, professions, attunements. Filled with `!sheet`.
`!guide`	The Discord bot command that searches this compendium by keyword.
Pod	A leveling group of two or three, later five to seven, matched by timezone, with a lead and a thread.
Pod captain	The non-officer who runs a pod for a season.
Buddy, coach	The named person assigned to every newcomer for two weeks, or to every raid trial.
Trial	The two-week period for strangers: social trial (conduct only) or raider trial (attendance and mechanics).
Tavern	The general voice channel where someone is usually parked, and the text channel for anything.
GM, officer	Guild master and the one or two people who run things when the GM is asleep or tilted.
Charter	The written rules, versioned with a change log. Also the in-game item you sign to found the guild.
Signatures	The in-game signatures a charter needs. Vanilla was 9 plus you; Forever’s count is unannounced. vanilla baseline
Tabard	The guild cloak-front, designed at the guild master NPC for a fee. Also reputation: do not ninja while wearing it.
Ledger	The public append-only record of everything in and out of the bank alt.
Raid-Helper	The Discord bot for signups. Statuses: Accepted, Bench, Tentative, Late, Absence.
Signup deadline	24 hours before the raid; the roster and bench post at the deadline.
Absence channel	Where you post that you will miss a raid. Never DMs.
Loot history	The read-only channel where every award is posted with the reasoning.
Kill wall	The channel and site page of first-kill screenshots with a paragraph each.
Raid diary	Five lines the raid leader writes after every night.
Guild Night	The weekly fixed evening with no raid: dungeons, PvP, leveling, chaos.
Story of the Week	The funniest wipe, retold at the end of Guild Night.
Chronicle	The running one-line-per-week guild history thread.
MVP of the Week	Member-nominated, picked by a rotating non-officer.
Returning Hero	The title for anyone who comes back after three months away, no questions asked.
Founding Day	The yearly in-game gathering on the guild’s anniversary.
Name vote	The two-phase October vote (approval shortlist, ranked final) that replaces the working title. See Name vote.
Working title	PassTheTorch, until the vote closes.

Unknown as of 2026-09-24

Whether master loot, the 16-debuff limit, elixir stacking rules and vanilla flasks survive in Forever.
Forever’s guild charter cost and signature count.
The exact mechanics behind layering and the Preferred Online Language cooldown.