MMO Acronyms – Q, R, S, T
S
- SMAT
- -Send me a Tell
- SP
- -Skill Point
T
- Tank
- vb. The act of attracting aggro intentionally from mobs and taking the damage from the mob. Tanking usually requires high defence, a lot of health, and primarily melee abilities.
- Train
- (noun/verb) The event or the act of a player who intentionally or unintentionally aggro a group of enemy and is being chased by a line of that mob much like a train of cars. Generally, this is done in an attempt to flee the enemy. However, there are times when this is done maliciously to bring nasty mobs to a group of low level characters camping. Training intentionally is frowned upon and can lead to expulsion in some MMORPGs. An alternative to Train means to group with people and start getting fast exp while in team.
- TS
- -Tradeskill or Teamspeak
- Teamspeak
- n. Teamspeak is Voice over Ip (VoIP) communications software from TeamSpeak Systems GmbH that allows users to speak to one another using a microphone in a chat channel. An alternative to Ventrilo
- Twink
- n. A Twink is a character with better gear than they could have easily gotten on their own
- Twinking
- vb. Twinking refers to outfitting a new character or player with items or other resources that are not normally available to new or low-level characters. One example of twinking is when a player equips themselves with higher-end gear in order to avoid the “newbie” hump. Another example of twinking is when a player equips themselves with all the best possible gear for his level range and fills them up with end-game enchantments in order to easily kill newer players. Lastly, in some games there are rather sizable percentages of players that have developed low level twinks in order to compete with other twinks in a more competitive manner, some would consider it a meta game after having played in the higher brackets extensively and have lost interest in them.
