Age of Conan Terminology
Playing an MMORPG, especially one like Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, can be a little hard to understand especially if you're a first-time player.
There's pretty much a completely separate language that MMORPG players use to communicate when playing the game, certain terms, and acronyms of abbreviations that you might not understand.
A lot of them are to do with game play actions or conventions.
AFK is a common one - this basically means 'away from keyboard' and that you're not going to be playing your character for a few moments.
Be sure to not do this too much, or it makes players not like you.
If you don't think you'll be able to devote time to playing, don't log in.
Aggro is a term used to talk about an enemy's willingness to attack.
Think aggression and that's basically what it is.
It's usually the job of the tank character to build up agro so the enemy attacks him/her the most as the other players deal damage.
This is the most common strategy in MMORPGs, but in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures you have to do it a bit differently by having your tank well out of the way of other characters, because sword blows and other attacks are just as damaging to people who just happen to be in the way as they are to the target of the attack.
AC is Armor Class.
This is how much damage your armor can withstand the higher the number, the better the armor.
It's a convention that's reversed in this game - most MMORPGs I've seen have it as better armor having a lower numbered AC.
Bio is a term players use during chat to let other players know they have to attend to personal functions (read as: take a bathroom break).
The full phrase is biological functioning, but bio works just as well.
BRB means 'be right back' This is much the same as AFK, except it's theoretically supposed to mean you're only going to be gone for a very short time.
Some people use the two interchangeably.
Tanking is the act of a character deliberately taking damage for the rest of the group; this job is usually the Guardian class in Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
Looting is a pretty obvious term - this is when you kill a fellow player or an NPC or enemy and proceed to take all items, weapons and armor they were wearing.
A subset of this (and not highly liked) is Ninja Looting, which is looting done on a caffeine rush where you take everything practically before the corpse hits the ground.
Spawning/respawning is a term that's carried over from FPS games.
When you died in MMORPGs, you're not actually dead; your character will revive with all his possessions (hopefully) at the nearest respawn point.
Camping is the act of standing in one spot and killing nearby enemies but not putting yourself in any danger.
This is usually highly disliked.
PvP is the most common term you're going to hear likely.
This means player vs player combat.
Instead of fighting the non-player characters, you're fighting other players.
Most games have servers specifically for this.
There's pretty much a completely separate language that MMORPG players use to communicate when playing the game, certain terms, and acronyms of abbreviations that you might not understand.
A lot of them are to do with game play actions or conventions.
AFK is a common one - this basically means 'away from keyboard' and that you're not going to be playing your character for a few moments.
Be sure to not do this too much, or it makes players not like you.
If you don't think you'll be able to devote time to playing, don't log in.
Aggro is a term used to talk about an enemy's willingness to attack.
Think aggression and that's basically what it is.
It's usually the job of the tank character to build up agro so the enemy attacks him/her the most as the other players deal damage.
This is the most common strategy in MMORPGs, but in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures you have to do it a bit differently by having your tank well out of the way of other characters, because sword blows and other attacks are just as damaging to people who just happen to be in the way as they are to the target of the attack.
AC is Armor Class.
This is how much damage your armor can withstand the higher the number, the better the armor.
It's a convention that's reversed in this game - most MMORPGs I've seen have it as better armor having a lower numbered AC.
Bio is a term players use during chat to let other players know they have to attend to personal functions (read as: take a bathroom break).
The full phrase is biological functioning, but bio works just as well.
BRB means 'be right back' This is much the same as AFK, except it's theoretically supposed to mean you're only going to be gone for a very short time.
Some people use the two interchangeably.
Tanking is the act of a character deliberately taking damage for the rest of the group; this job is usually the Guardian class in Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
Looting is a pretty obvious term - this is when you kill a fellow player or an NPC or enemy and proceed to take all items, weapons and armor they were wearing.
A subset of this (and not highly liked) is Ninja Looting, which is looting done on a caffeine rush where you take everything practically before the corpse hits the ground.
Spawning/respawning is a term that's carried over from FPS games.
When you died in MMORPGs, you're not actually dead; your character will revive with all his possessions (hopefully) at the nearest respawn point.
Camping is the act of standing in one spot and killing nearby enemies but not putting yourself in any danger.
This is usually highly disliked.
PvP is the most common term you're going to hear likely.
This means player vs player combat.
Instead of fighting the non-player characters, you're fighting other players.
Most games have servers specifically for this.
