Where can I learn the jargon of the Diablo 3 community?
The Diablo wiki contains a page dedicated to terms and acronyms of Diablo III. The page can be viewed here.
An uber list of abbreviations, acronyms, and other terms specifically related to Diablo III. To streamline it, this list has been purged of general online chat acronyms and terms. Those can be found in the Diablo 2 version of this list elsewhere in this wiki.
Most of the key terms on this page are linked to articles that explain them in greater detail.
See the Diablo Glossary for a concise list of common Diablo 3 game terms/concepts, with links to full pages of info.
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"leet speak" has a long history of being used in Blizzard games (and others as well).
The language itself is rather all encompassing, since it is not technically defined.
Some more straightforward ones you may come across in chat for Diablo 3 are
- LFM : Looking for more
- WTT : Want to trade
- WTS : Want to sell
- WTB : Want to buy
- KW : Keywarden
- A1-A5 : Act 1 through Act5
- GR : Greater Rift
- T1-T16 : Torment 1 through Torment 16
- TP : Town Portal
At this point, there really aren't numbers being used as letters anymore since all the OG h8x0rz have moved on to real jobs. Most of the abbreviations you will now encounter are rather straightforward acronyms. If it seems to match, then it is probably what you are thinking. DH... Demon Hunter... Not rocket science :)
Some of the less straightforward ones are more historical, such as
- mob : an enemy or group of enemies
- aggro : to have a mob notice you and begin pathing towards you or attacking you
- kite : to make an aggro'd mob follow you somewhere
- speedrun : to skip all mobs / goals aside from the target mob / goal
- loot / drops : an item in the game
- spec / build : your character's talent choices
- tank : a character built for taking as much damage as possible
- tanking : to occupy a mob or to be in charge of aggroing mobs
- glass canon : a character built with no defense and pure offense
- op : "over powered", to be far stronger than the expected level for that area
- sherpa : to take an OP character and help other characters get better loot
- carry : to do all the work
- power level : to have a much stronger (op) character take a much lower level character through high level content in order to level them faster
- mule : a level 1 character which is used only for extra storage of loot