Acronyms & Abbreviations

Acronyms & Abbreviations

The below list of shorthand is courtesy of Siosilvar.

General Acronyms and Terms

• 1h - one-handed
• 2h - two-handed
• AoE - area of effect
• CD - cooldown
• cLoD - Classic Lord of Destruction (unmodded Diablo II)
• D2 - Diablo II
• DPS - damage per second
• DoT - damage over time
• Dump - to put any leftover points into something
• Elemental - Fire, Cold, Lightning, and Poison
• GS - Game Server
• LCS - Lying Character Screen (so named because it does several things wrong, most notably including elemental spell damage on weapon attacks that don't actually benefit from it)
• MXL - Median XL
• Namelock - clicking and holding on an enemy to continuously attack them
• Regen - regeneration (usually of life or mana)
• ST - single target
• TSW - The Sin War, the official game servers run by the Median XL team
• Zdps - Zero damage per second, usually an exaggeration to say that something does very low damage
• HC - hardcore
• SC - softcore
• Early game - The game from level 1 to around 115-120, where most things can be done with deterministically created gear like tiered uniques and honorifics.
• Midgame - The part of the game where characters typically need to upgrade out of tiered uniques and into set or crafted items and common sacred uniques, usually around level 120-130.
• Lategame - The part of the game where characters upgrade to better and rarer gear, with some SSU items and better crafted jewels.
• Endgame - Attempting the higher tiers of Dimensional Labyrinth, Samael, and/or Deimoss.

Levels

• Alvl - Area Level or Affix Level
• Blvl - Base Level (of a skill, the number of skill points put into it)
• Clvl - Character Level
• Ilvl - Item Level (either the level of a specific item drop or the minimum monster level to drop a specific unique or set item)
• Mlvl - Monster Level (equal to area level, or higher for some boss monsters)
• Slvl - Skill Level
• Qlvl - Quality Level (minimum item level for a specific base item to appear)
• Smax - supermax, to put as many base levels into a skill as possible

Trading

• WTB - want to buy
• WTS - want to sell
• WTT - want to trade
• ISO - in search of
• N - need
• O - offering
• tg - trade gold

Stats

• Str - strength
• Dex - dexterity
• Vit, Vita - vitality
• Ene, NRG - energy
• AA - all attributes (strength, dexterity, vitality, and energy)
• Ele - elemental (fire, cold, lightning, and poison)
• Phys - physical
• Lite - lightning
• Psn - poison
• Rainbow, FCL, F/C/L - fire, cold, and lighting
• Res, resist - resistance
• PR, DR - Physical Resistance (known as Damage Reduction in unmodded Diablo II)
• MR - Maximum Elemental Resistances or Magic Resistance
• PLR - Poison Length Reduced
• PDR, MDR - Physical/Magic Damage Reduced, a flat damage reduction calculated before % resist
• Pierce - -% enemy resistance
• WDM - A skill that deals % Weapon Damage.
• ED - Enhanced Damage or Enhanced Defense. Local bonus to the base damage or defense on the item that has it, added before flat damage and defense bonuses.
• EWD - % Enhanced Weapon Damage, sometimes called % Weapon Physical Damage or just % Physical Damage. Global multiplier to weapon damage after flat damage bonuses. Adds to the strength/dexterity damage bonus.
• TCD - % Bonus to Defense, previously known as Total Character Defense. Global multiplier to all your defense.
• Min - Minimum (usually minimum damage)
• Max - Maximum (usually maximum damage)
• CB - Crushing Blow, chance to deal 25% of enemy life on weapon damage hits (doesn't work on bosses)
• DS - Deadly Strike, chance to double your physical weapon damage
• AR - Attack Rating. More AR increases your chance to hit with weapon damage skills.
• Def - Defense. More defense makes you be hit less often by enemy attacks.
• ITD - Ignore Target Defense. Enemy defense is counted as 0 (doesn't work on bosses)
• SD - Spell Damage
• FSD - Fire Spell Damage
• CSD - Cold Spell Damage
• LSD - Lightning Spell Damage
• PSD - Poison Spell Damage
• PMSD - Physical and Magic Spell Damage
• SF - Spell Focus
• EF - Energy Factor, an old stat that became Spell Focus.
• Leech, LL, ML - % life/mana stolen per hit. Restores life or mana equal to part of the physical weapon damage you deal (with some other reductions based on the difficulty and target hit).
• LoMA, MoMA, LoA, MoA - Life/Mana on Melee Attack. Restores life or mana once when a melee attack hits a target directly.
• LoS, MoS - Life/Mana on Striking. Restores life or mana on any weapon damage hit.
• LAEK, MAEK - Life/Mana After Each Kill. Works for any monster that you kill - summons and mercenary kills don't count.
• FPA - Frames Per Action. Animations in Diablo II can only take an integer number of frames to complete, known as their FPA.
• IAS - Attack Speed (Increased Attack Speed)
• FCR - Cast Speed (Faster Cast Rate)
• FHR - Hit Recovery (Faster Hit Recovery)
• FBR - Block Speed (Faster Block Rate)
• FRW - Move Speed (Faster Run/Walk)
• GF - Gold Find, but more often The Grandfather
• MF - Magic Find
• CBF, CNBF - Cannot Be Frozen
• IED - Innate Elemental Damage; either an item with innate elemental damage like Crystal Sword or the stat that increases the damage scaling on those items.
• Sk - + to All Skills (sometimes + to a specific class's skills)

Item Qualities

• Eth - Ethereal. Weapons and armor can drop ethereal, which gives them 25% better physical damage or defense but they cannot be repaired.
• Os, sock - socketed
• Sup - Superior
• Grey, white - Nonmagical (normal or superior) items. The name of a normal or superior item will be grey if the item has sockets or is ethereal, and white otherwise.
• Blue - Magic item
• Yellow - Rare item
• RW - Runeword
• Hono - Honorific. Made by cubing a magic item (blue) with the Mark of Infusion dropped by Shenk at the end of the first area in act 5 on all difficulties.
• Lucky - Lucky bonus, a small bonus that has a chance to be added to an item by cubing it with a (greater) oil of luck. See the cube recipes documentation for details.
• Lotto - Lottery bonus, a bigger bonus with a 3% chance to be added to an item by cubing it with a specific charm. See the cube recipes documentation for details.
• Craft - Shrine or jewel crafting, or a shrine or jewel crafted item.
• Bless - Shrine blessing a sacred rare, crafted, or honorific item by cubing it with a shrine + 2 arcane crystals (+ optional Oil of Intensity).
• T1, T2, T3, T4 - tier 1 through 4 base items. Sometimes also different levels of the Dimensional Labyrinth.
• TU - Tiered unique
• SU, SSU, SSSU - Sacred uniques of different item levels and rarity. SU - item level 105. SSU - item level 120 or 125. SSSU - item level 130.

Specific Items

To keep this section short, I won't be including items that can be found by searching the abbreviation directly on the Sacred Uniques page (like Azure, Gotter, or Tesser).

• AC - arcane crystal
• Ammy - amulet
• AotOR - Armor of the Old Religion
• Astro - Astrogha's Moon or Astrogha the uber boss
• Athulua's - usually Athulua's Wrath, sometimes Athulua's Oracle
• Avalor - Arkaine's Valor
• Barn door - Setzschild, an amazon shield base
• BMR - Bad Mood (formerly known as Bad Mood Ring)
• BSS - Black Sun Spear
• Cbarr, cbarrier - Celestial Barrier
• CFM - Crystalline Flame Medallion, the reward for the Judgment Day dungeon
• Class Charm - Class-specific reward from the Ennead Challenge
• CotW - Cornerstone of the World, an old name for Relics
• Ele dom - Elemental Dominion
• Emp Glory - Empyrean Glory
• Erune - Enchanted Rune
• GF - The Grandfather
• Hench, henchie - Henchmen Trophies
• Java - Javelin (of any kind)
• Hat - any kind of helm or circlet
• HoG - Hand of God (two-handed paladin hammer)
• Idol - Idol of Stars
• Laz - Archbishop Lazarus, the uber boss of the same name, or the creator of Median XL (Brother Laz) who they were named after
• Lootbox - Treasure of Fiacla-Gear dropped by corrupted druids in Scosglen. Cubed with an enchanted rune for random item drops (influenced by the level of the rune used).
• MO - Mystic Orbs, usually the ones bought from vendors (in contrast with the drop-only Unique Mystic Orbs)
• Nagi - Naginata (or halberd)
• Nat's - usually Natasha's Legacy, rarely Natalya's Deception
• Path - Path of Brutality
• Pbite - Panthera's Bite
• Pgem - Perfect gem
• QoG - Queen of Glass
• Sag - Sagittarius
• SBS - Strength Beyond Strength
• SotD - Scales of the Drake
• SotS - Scales of the Serpent
• Sunstone - usually Sunstone of the Twin Seas, not Sunstone of the Gods
• Swalker - Spirit Walker
• Timedaddy - Timefather
• Titans - Titan's Revenge
• Tyrone's - Tyrael's Might
• Umbaru - Umbaru Treasure from Teganze
• UMO - any Unique Mystic Orb
• Viz - Vizjerei, used in the name of some items like viz fury (Vizjerei Fury) or viz nec (Vizjerei's Necklace)
• Wakes - Wake of Destruction
• Xbow, xbox - Crossbow (of any kind)
• Xis - Xis rune, used to be a component for crafting enchanted runes but was removed after a rework to enchanted runes in Sigma 2.0
• Zaka - Curse of the Zakarum
• Zayls - either Zayl's Temptation or Zayl's Soul Orb
• ZKT - Zular Khan's Tempest

Skills

Check out the community Oskill Index for more information about specific skills.

OSkills - A skill gained from items that can be used by any character. If the skill is one your character already has (for example, a Sorceress putting on Hide of the Basilisk), the oskill bonus is limited to +3 total per character (not just per item). This includes skills from relics. proc, ctc - A skill with a % chance to cast on some condition.

• AoD - Angel of Death (melee necromancer jump attack)
• Apoc - Apocalypse (oskill fire spell)
• Ava - Avalanche (oskill cold spell)
• BT - Bloodthorns (unholy paladin melee fire attack/spell)
• BtS - Bend the Shadows (necromancer innate teleport)
• Cheru - Cherubim (oskill melee-ish attack)
• Cspark, spark - Chaotic Spark (oskill lightning spell)
• Dcloud - Devouring Cloud (oskill poison spell)
• DJ - Divine Judgment (holy paladin melee attack)
• EF - Ecstatic Frenzy (amazon attack speed + magic damage buff that sets defense to 0)
• EQ - Earthquake (barbarian melee attack)
• FO - Frozen Orb (oskill cold spell)
• Penta - Pentagram (oskill fire spell)
• Pwave - Phoenix Wave (oskill fire spell)
• GotW - Gift of the Wild (oskill physical weapon and spell damage buff, doesn't stack with mark of the wild)
• GT - Guard Tower (oskill attack)
• HB, banshee - Hunting Banshee (druid cold spell)
• HoZ, hammer - Hammer of Zerae (amazon projectile attack that works like clod's Blessed Hammer)
• IBN - Ice Bolt Nova (oskill cold spell)
• LF - Lightning Fury (oskill lightning ... spell?)
• LL, limp - Limpet Laser (oskill cold spell for assassins)
• MM - Magic Missile (amazon magic spell)
• MotW - Mark of the Wild (druid innate physical weapon and spell damage buff)
• OoA - Orb of Annihilation (oskill magic skill)
• RC - Rathma's Chosen (physical weapon necromancer ultimate)
• RD - Rising Dawn (oskill magic spell that deals maximum damage at skill level 28)
• Scorp, sblade - Scorpion Blade (assassin poison spell-ish thing)
• Singu - Singularity (oskill magic spell)
• SoR - Shower of Rocks (barbarian melee attack)
• SoV - Spirit of Vengeance (amazon ultimate summon that gives % life, some kinds of spell damage, and creates reanimates)
• Tribeam - Trinity Beam (oskill rainbow spell)
• Viru - Virulence (oskill poison spell)
• VK - Veil King (summon necromancer ultimate)
• Ways, WotG, WotP, WotR, WotS - Assassin passives adding flat elemental damage. Griffon - lightning, Phoenix - fire, Raven - cold, Spider - poison.
• WW - Whirlwind (barbarian melee attack) or Werewolf druid

Classes and Builds

• ama, zon - amazon
• sin, ssin, assa - assassin
• barb, baba - barbarian
• dudu - druid
• nec, necro - necromancer
• pala, din - paladin
• sor, sorc - sorceress
• Merc - mercenary
• Jammy - act 1 mercenary (named after our community manager Jammy)
• Wolf, WW - werewolf druid (WW can also mean Whirlwind)
• Bear - werebear druid
• Owl - wereowl druid
• HMP - Holy Melee Paladin (Templar tree)
• HCP - Holy Caster Paladin (Incarnation tree)
• UHM - UnHoly Melee paladin (Ritualist tree)
• UHC - UnHoly Caster paladin (Warlock tree)
• Neutral, neutraldin, vesseldin - Neutral paladin (Nephalem tree)

Areas and Bosses

• a1, a2, a3, a4, a5 - act 1 through 5
• nm - nightmare
• h - hell
• Andy - Andariel
• Meph - Mephisto
• Nihla, Nihl - Nihlathak

Dungeons

• Rift - Riftwalker
• CoF - Creature of Flame
• Jitan - Lord Aldric Jitan
• BPR - Bull Prince Rodeo
• CoV - Cathedral of Vanity, the area for The Veiled Prophet dungeon
• Azmo - Azmodan
• Jday - Judgement Day
• QT - Quov Tsin
• Kab - Kabraxis
• Ureh - Kingdom of Shadow
• Astro - Astrogha, or the set Astrogha's Moon named after him
• Witch - Attana Khan, formerly known as the Startled Witch
• Uldy - Uldyssian
• Laz - Archbishop Lazarus, the set Archbishop Lazarus, or the creator of Median XL (Brother Laz) who they were named after
• Sam - Samael

Rifts

• IOTSS - Island of the Sunless Sea
• Cows - The Secret Cow Level
• Torajan, jungles - Torajan Jungles (not to be confused with Toraja itself, which is another area)
• K3K - Kurast 3000 BA
• Khalimgrad - the previous name for High Heavens
• TA - Tran Athulua
• Teg - Teganze
• Dunc - Duncraig
• Fauzt (or misspelled as fautz) - Fauztinville
• MCS - Master Control System (in Viz-jun)
• Scos - Scosglen
• Lab, labs - Dimensional Labyrinth
• T1, t2, t3, t4, t5, t6, t7, t8, t9, t10 - The levels of the Dimensional Labyrinth
• Phob - Phoboss