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Elements the Game => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ant-n-ero on June 03, 2010, 09:37:36 pm
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Acronyms are words condensed into just capital letters:
e.g. BH = Black Hole
RoF = Rain of Fire
SoG = Shard of Gratitude
etc etc
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Here is a current list of Acronyms and Abbreviations/Phrases in Elements
If you have any new ones - please post here and I will add them to the list
thanks for everyone who helps :)
(Alphabetical too (by Acronym))
Full List
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Acronyms:
AI0 - AI6: Games AI levels. Most commonly seen are AI3 (Elders), AI5 (Half-Bloods (HB)) and AI6 (known as False-Gods (FG)). Also AI4 is known as T50/t50 (Top 50)
AM: "Antimatter"
AP: Attack points of a creature
BB: "Basilisk Blood"
BH: "Black Hole"
BS: "Blood Sucker"
CC: Creature Control
CS: "Chaos Seed"
DG: "Divine Glory"
DL: "Drain Life"
DS: "Dissipation Shield" (however there is a possibility that this could also mean "Dimensional Shield" - however that is usually refered to as a 'Dim Shield')
EA: "Enchant Artifact"
EB: "Empathic Bond"
EE: "Eagle's Eye"
EQ: "Earthquake" (however there is a possibility that this could also mean "Elite Queen" (FFQ upgraded))
FB: "Feral Bond" (EB upgraded)
FFQ: "Firefly Queen"
FG: False-God (AI6)
FS: "Fire Shield"
HB: Half-Blood (AI5)
HF: "Holy Flash" (HL upgraded)
HL: "Holy Light"
LS: "Liquid Shadow"
OE: "Owl's Eye"
OP: Overpowered
PA: "Protect Artifact" (EA upgraded) (however there is a possibility that this could also mean "Plate Armor")
PU: "Parallel Universe"
PvP: Player verses Player
QP: Quantum Pillars
RoF: "Rain of Fire"
RoL: "Ray of Light"
RT: "Reverse Time" (spell and also ability on "Eternity")
SoD: "Shard of Divinity"
SoG: "Shard of Gratitude"
SoR: "Shard of Readiness"
T50/t50: Top 50 player's decks (AI4)
TU: "Twin Universe" (PU upgraded)
UP: Underpowered
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Abbreviations and Phrases:
aggro: Aggressive deck type based on fast damage or otherwise known as a Rusher/Rush Deck.
Bazaar: Card shop in Elements the game.
bless: When the player or AI uses the spell "Blessing" on a creature.
bolt: Fire Bolt/Ice Bolt.
bond: Usually refers to either "Empathetic Bond" or the upgraded version, "Feral Bond".
Buff: An increase in the power of a card in the next version of the game to fix balancing issues. For example, the Heal spell was buffed.
burrow: The ability of "Shriekers", "Graboids", "Devourers" and "Antlions", that makes them untargetable but their damage is halved (rounded down).
Clock: Number of turns until death, based on current rates of health loss.
Congeal: Similar to 'Freeze' except this time creatures are frozen for 4 turns.
Control: A deck type that is used to control the enemy and win by doing so. This includes destroying the opponent’s creatures, shields, weapons, and any helpful permanents, and/or using the Lobotomize skill. E.g. Creature Control, using 'Mutation' ability on enemy cretures to possibly kill them or weaken them. Permanant Control, using spells like "Deflagration" and "Steal" to remove or take enemy permanants.
chrys: Short for "Chrysaora".
Deck out: To lose the game by running out of cards.
deflag: Short for "Deflagration".
(time )delay: Refers to the ability of the shield "Procrastination", to delay a creature that hits with it's attack to be unable to attack next turn.
Denial/Deny: Deck type that is used to deny your enemy of quanta, either by taking it (by using "Devourers") or destroying pillars (by using "Earthquake", "Deflagration", "Steal" etc).
Desync: Sometimes (rarely) in PvP dueling, when the clients desynchronize (drop connection), it causes the players to drop the game and often causes odd glitches, such as monsters disappearing and other ones appearing, marks changing, monster’s stats set to 0/0, or health changes. These are not the enemy hacking, it is the game glitching, so you should record what is happening and post it in the 'Bugs' area on the forum and then leave the game.
devs: Short for "Devourer"s.
dial: Short for "Sundial".
dim shield: Short for "Dimensional Shield".
disc: Short for "Discord".
div: Short for Divinity (Shard of Divinity -- SoD) (upgraded simple shard (blue).
Dive: The ability on creatures, such as "Pegasus" and "Wyrm", to double their attack for the turn.
drags: Short for Dragons.
druid: Short for Fallen Druid (Fallen Elf upgraded).
dual/duo: A deck containing 2 types of Quanta usage or 2 different elements.
Electrum: The in-game currency used to buy new cards, and play levels, and earned by winning fights or selling cards (also from the quests and from the slot machine).
elf: Short for "Fallen Elf".
(hour)glass: Can refer to either "Golden Hourglass" or the upgraded version, "Electrum Hourglass".
Freeze: Ability of "Arctic Squid"/"Arctic Octopus", the spell "Freeze" and other cards. The target creture is frozen for 3 turns and cannot attack.
golem: Short for "Lava Golem" (however there is a possibility that this could also mean "Hematite Golem" or "Steel Golem").
grabs: Short for "Graboid"s.
grat: Short for Gratitude (Shard of Gratitude -- SoG) (upgraded simple shard (green).
Hatch: The ability of the creature "Fate Egg" which allows it to turn into ANY random creature in the game.
Heal: Healing either your life points or using the ability 'Heal' to heal creatures.
immo: Short for "Immolation".
Immaterial/Immortal: Card that are unable to be targeted because the are 'Immaterial'. Cards can become 'Immaterial' either as an ability of their own (such as an "Immortal" (creature) which becomes immaterial when it is played). Other ways are by spells ("Quintessence" - grants immortality to the target creature) or by abilities ("Anubis" has the ability 'Imortality' which grants the target creature immortaliy).
lance: Short for "Ice Lance".
lobo: Short for "Lobotomise" (ability) or "Lobotomiser" (weapon).
lycan(th): Usually refers to either "Lycanthrope" (creature) or with the 'th' on the end "Lycanthropy" (ability).
mark: The player's or AI's Mark is their element type.
master: Short for Mastery or Mastered, when you win the game with all your HPs left, so to gain double "Electrum" prize.
mono(-deck): e.g. mono-aether -- A deck using only 1 element or 1 type of Quanta usage.
Mutate: Ability of "Fallen Elf" that mutates the target creature into an "Abommination", a mutant (random creature with random ability - e.g. "Black Dragon" with 'Dive' or "Horned Frog" with "Steal") or it dies.
Nerf: The decrease in the power of a card, usually due to overpowered cards. The new card is released in the next version of the game as a weaker card. For example, Phase Dragons and Sundials were both nerfed.
Nymphs: ETREMELY RARE cards of each element type only able to be obtained from 'The Oracle'.
(A)Octo: Short for "Arctic Octopus" (squid upgraded).
Oracle: Each day you are allowed to visit 'The Oracle' who gives you a mini-horroscope and the chance to win electrum and also cards/Rare cards (such as Nymphs). He can only be visited once per day and resets each day (@ 8:00AM English Time (w/Daylight savings))
oty: Short for "Otyugh".
para: Short for "Paradox" (ability).
pegs: Short for "Pegasus".
perms: Short for 'Permanant'. Cards which are not creatures but stay on the field (e.g. Shields or weapons).
Pillar deck: A deck that comprises of only unupgraded basic Pillars, instead of upgraded Towers
Plagued: Creatures that have been posioned for 1 counter by the spell "Plague", which posions every creature on the enemy's side (except those burrowed or immaterial).
Poison: The act of removing 1 HP from the enemy per turn, per poison counter. Either on a creature or on a player's life points.
Posion Counter: The number of Poison attacks totalled. (e.g. the posion counter was at 4 -- means that posion has been inflicted 4 times and 4 HP's are lost each go).
precog: Short for "Precognition".
pull: Short for "Gravity Pull", the ability of "Armagio" and also a spell.
pulvy: Short for "Pulverizer".
Purify: To remove all posion counters from you life points.
Quanta: The points in each element necessary to summon creatures, use abilities, play spells/weapons/shields/permanants, etc. (For those who play Magic the Gathering etc - like 'mana' or 'power'). Multiple "Quanta" become the plural "Quantums".
quint: Short for "Quintessence".
Rainbow: A deck using more than 3 elements or types of Quanta usage. Most commonly Rainbow decks use "Quantum Pillars" (or towers).
rares: Cards that cannot be brought from the Bazaar and have to be won from spins or given from the oracle. E.g. Nymphs.
redi/redy: Short for Rediness (Shard of Rediness -- SoR) (upgraded simple shard (yellow).
Reflect: Ability of the "Mirror Shield" and "Emerald Shield" that reflects any spells used on the owner's HP's to the other player. Only relfects once.
Rusher: Deck that is based on fast damage.
sac: Short for 'Sacrifice'. Used in places such as when playing "Immolation" (spell) to sacrifice your creature to gain 7 fire quanta and 1 of each other quanta. Also used when playing a card with 'Devour' (eating a creature with less HP's to gain +1/+1) to eat/sacrifice one of your own cards to increase the stats of your 'Devour' creature, so to be able to devour a specific enemy creature.
SG: Short for 'Scaredgirl', administrator of the forums, almighty countess and ruler of the forums. Giver of awards and cookies. :D
skellies: Short for "Skeletons".
spins: After defeating and AI you are allowed to get spins on a slot machine based on who you have defeated. AI0 get 0 spins, AI1 get 1 spin, AI2 gets 2 spins, AI3/AI4/AI5/AI6, all get 3 spins. However AI5 has a chance of winning upgraded cards and AI6 will always be upgraded cards. Match the first 2 slots to win 5 electrum, or all 3 to win the card (and the 5 electrum).
squids: Short for "Arctic Squids".
trio: A deck using 3 types of Quanta usage or 3 different elements.
unupped/unupd: Short for Unupgraded. Cards that are basic and are brought from the Bazaar (unless they are rare).
upped/upd: Short for Upgraded. After you defeat all the quests and recieve your rare weapon card, you can upgrad cards for 1500 electrum.
w/: when someone puts w/ it means with. E.g. Armagio w/ Gravity Pull (Armagio with Gravity Pull). Similarly Armagio w/out Gravity Pull (Armagio without Gravity Pull).
wolf/wolves: Short for "Werewolf" (Lycanthrope upgraded).
Zanz: Short for 'Zanzarino', creator of Elements the game, almighty lord and ruler of all, the most epic and cool person in the world who keeps the game up-to-date and improves it. The one we all love. :)
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Credits for this fine art are:
Me (Ant-n-ero)
Others who have posted in this thread (Unit748596 and finkle)
Others in other posts who have put these acronyms that I have picked up upon
SG for giving a link to the elements wiki page
The elements wiki: http://elementswiki.co.cc/resources/elements-glossary/
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Acronyms:
EQ: earthquake
FS: fire shield
SoD: shard of dvinity
SoR: shard of readiness
PA: protect artifact
FFQ: firefly queen
RoL: ray of light
PU/TU: parallel universe/twin universe
LS: liquid shadow
EE: eagle's eye
BB: basilisk blood
CC: creature control
Abbreviations:
oty: otyugh
pulvy: pulverizer
dim shield: dimensional shield
bond: could refer to either "empathetic bond" or the upgraded version, "feral bond"
lance: ice lance
wolf/wolves: werewolf
elf/druid: fallen elf/fallen druid
hourglass: golden hourglass/electrum hourglass
dial: sundial
precog: precognition
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cool thanks -- I'll make this an 'official' acronyms post unless SG says there is already one -- maybe it can be stickied in Help section or something then (or a link to here in the FAQ)
updating first post with these and adding some others I know :)
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I've seen all sorts of abbreviations/acronyms on this website, so I posted the universal ones. "DS" for example, could refer to dissipation shield or dimensional shield. On specific threads, people abbreviate specific terms which only make sense in context, such as NT (nymph tears), so I only put down terms I was sure are frequently used.
This thread should also be linked to somewhere prominent in "newbie tutorials" so that new players can understand threads, lol. Something like "but then he used pulvy on my grav tower so my oty starved to death cuz of the BS" makes absolutely no sense unless you know what pulvy, grav tower, oty, and BS (blood sucker) all mean.
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lycan makes more sense when talking about the lycanthrops.
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Some of the ones you put (e.g. Wolves) I haven't really heard of before, however there is only one thing it could be (Werewolf) so I put it in...
yes some are only deck specific (only ever used whilst talking in one thread) but it's worth putting them on as a rough guide
as more and more add to this we can refine to the most common acronyms, clearly label if one could mean two things, and skip all the extras that are never ever used...
I was thinking colours here:
Green for 100% this is only ever means this (e.g. quint -- will only ever mean Quintessence)
Yellow for dual ones (e.g. bond -- can be either bond (best example I could think of off the top of my head lol))
Red for rarely used ones or deck specific ones (e.g. BS -- Blood Sucker -- I mean - I would have never guessed that EVER)
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Wiki has some acronyms: http://elementswiki.co.cc/resources/elements-glossary/
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Wiki has some acronyms: http://elementswiki.co.cc/resources/elements-glossary/
cool thanks - I knew I had seen some type of list somewhere
I will put the wiki ones in here and check through to make this complete -- we do need on in the forum, as I for one do not use the wiki (often) and many other I'm sure do not either so it's good to have around here too :)
Equally - this thread can be used to update the wiki too :D
should I put the colour thing on or leave it?
p.s. loving the one under 'Z' -- Zanz :P lol
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Wow, that's a great list on the wiki!
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I strongly advice you not to use colors. They serve very little purpose and would only confuse users.
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Thanks so much for posting this. Now I can understand the postings better.
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Thanks so much for posting this. Now I can understand the postings better.
glad to see it is already helping :D
Sticky this/link in the FAQ to here and/or the wiki?
< Karma is always welcome too (: >
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This is all done now :) w00t
If anyone wants to add/change any one of them -- write it in this thread and I'll be happy to sort it out
Thanks to anyone who helps - it is much appreciated
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The old wiki has also a list:
http://elementsthegame.wikia.com/wiki/Jargon
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what does PSN stand for?
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Divider:
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That.
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SG=Scaredgirl (can't believe it hasn't been mentioned!)
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UG=Unstable Gas
PD=Parallel Dragons (Parallel Universe on any Dragon)
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what does PSN stand for?
PSN= Pendulum Supernova
(use search engine)