PvM Abbreviations
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0 spec - Getting 0 specs/mechanics (varies based on boss)
110% - Heightened Senses (Archaeology relic)
1cc - 1 cycle core/crystal (kill core on Solak P1 in one go OR kill all Seiryu crystals in one go)
2h - Two-handed
4T/4TAA - 4 tick autoattack
5T/5TAA - 5 tick autoattack (Melee/Ranged only)
Abil - Ability
ABS - Armadyl battlestaff (equipment)
Adren - Adrenaline
Aggro - Aggression
Ambi - Ambassador (boss)
Anti - Anticipation (Defence ability)
AoD - Angel of Death (boss)
AoE - Area of effect
AoS - Amulet of souls
Apot - Adrenaline potion (generally more refers to replenishments and adrenaline renewal potions)
Arma - Armadyl equipment
AS# - Aftershock # (Invention perk)
Asc - Ascension crossbows (equipment)
ASR - Asylum surgeon’s ring (equipment)
Asphyx - Asphyxiate (Magic ability)
ATN - All Together Now (Yakamaru feat)
Auto - Autoattack
Bane - Bane equipment (dragonbane, abyssalbane, revenantbane)
Base - Base tank
Basic - Basic ability
BBC/Blights - Blightbound crossbows (equipment)
BD - Bladed Dive (Melee ability)
BHD - Bring Him Down (Vorago mechanic)
BiS - Best-in-slot
BM - Beastmaster Durzag (boss)
BoLG - Bow of the Last Guardian (equipment)
Bombard - Bombardment (Ranged ability)
BP - Borrowed Power (Lunar spell), blowpipe (equipment)
BSA - Black stone arrows (Ranged equipment)
BSD - Black Stone Dragon (boss)
BT - Bomb tank (Vorago), Base tank (Raids)
BU - Backup tank (Beastmaster Durzag role)
Build - Get adrenaline
C# - Crackling # (Invention perk, use this if R#C#) OR Caroming # (Invention perk)
C4TAA - Continuous 4 tick autoattack (patched technique)
Cade - Barricade (Defence ability)
Cane - Hurricane (Melee ability)
Cept - Intercept (Seren spell)
CD - Cooldown
Chin - Mechanised chinchompas (equipment)
Chincend - Ranged technique; stalled Incendiary Shot out of range, equipping chinchompas and releasing the stalled Incendiary Shot for massive AoE
ChinSGB - Ranged technique; using Seren godbow spec with an Essence of Finality while equipping chinchompas
Cinders - Cinderbane gloves (equipment)
Claws - Dragon claws (equipment)
Clear bleeds - Freedom (Defence ability)
CoE - Conservation of Energy (Archaeology relic)
Conc - Concentration Blast (Magic ability)
Corr/Corrupt - Corruption Shot/Blast (Ranged/Magic ability)
Corp - Corporeal Beast (boss)
Crit - Critical hit
DB - Dragonbreath (Magic ability), dark bow (equipment)
DBA/Dbaxe - Dragon battleaxe (equipment)
Dbow - Dark bow (equipment)
DD - Death dot (stand on the same square)
DDS - Dragon dagger (equipment)
Debil - Debilitate (Defence ability)
Debuffs - Vulnerability, Stagger, and/or Enfeeble (Standard spells)
Deci - Decimate (Melee ability), Decimation (Ranged weapon/spec)
Deto - Detonate (Magic ability)
Deto boots - Blast diffusion boots (equipment)
Devo - Devotion (Defence ability)
Devo# - Devoted (Invention perk)
Dh - Dharok (refers to either Berserker’s Fury or Dharok’s set)
DI - Deep Impact (Magic ability)
Disrupt - Disruption Shield (Lunar spell)
Dom gloves - Dominion gloves (equipment)
Dom tower - Dominion Tower
DoT - Damage over time (bleeds)
Double - Double poison (Yakamaru role)
DPM - Damage per minute
DPS - Damage per second (literal), attack as hard as possible (command), non-specific role (preparation)
Dry/Drys - Drygore weaponry (equipment)
DS - Death's Swiftness (Ranged ultimate), Disruption Shield (Lunar spell), Dazing Shot (Ranged ability, less commonly used)
DTB - Deathtouch bracelet (equipment)
DTD - Deathtouched dart
Dum - Combat dummy
DW - Dual wield
ECB - Eldritch crossbow (equipment)
ED# - Enhanced Devoted (Invention perk), Elite Dungeons (boss encounters)
ED trilogy - Elite Dungeons 1, 2, and 3 in consecutive order
ED token farm - Repeat Elite Dungeon 1’s first room for fast Dungeoneering tokens/hour
ED gold farm - Repeat Elite Dungeon 3 up to Crassian Leviathan for fast money
EGWD - Elder God Wars (also referred to as GWD3)
Enh replen - Enhanced replenishment potion
Ent - Entangle (Standard spell)
EoF - Essence of Finality (equipment)
Eq/Equil - Equilibrium (Invention perk or aura)
Exsang - Exsanguinate (Ancient spell)
EZK - Ek-ZekKil (equipment)
F#/Flank - Flanking # (Invention perk)
Flick - Prayer flicking (quickly changing between overhead prayers like protection prayers and Soul Split)
Font - Telos specific mechanic, Font of Life (Archaeology relic)
Fort - Fortitude (curse)
FotS - Fury of the Small (Archaeology relic)
Frag - Fragmentation Shot (Ranged ability)
FSoA - Fractured Staff of Armadyl (equipment)
GBarge/Fury/Flurry - Greater Barge/Fury/Flurry (Melee abilities, old names used to be Mutated Barge/Fury/Flurry but still commonly referred to as MBarge/Fury/Flurry)
GCD - Global cooldown
GChain - Greater Chain (Magic ability)
GConc - Greater Concentrated Blast (Magic ability)
GDS - Greater Death’s Swiftness (Ranged ability)
Gmaul - Granite maul (equipment)
Gores - Drygore weaponry (equipment)
GRico - Greater Ricochet (Ranged ability)
Grim - Erethdor’s grimoire (equipment)
Grimshaw - Switching between Erethdor’s grimoire and a scrimshaw of cruelty/elements to benefit from both
GSun - Greater Sunshine (Magic ability)
Gstaff - Guthix staff (equipment)
GWD - God Wars Dungeon
GWD2 - The Heart of Gielinor
GWD3 - Elder God Wars (also referred to as EGWD)
Ham/Hammer - Statius’s warhammer (equipment)
Hex - Hexhunter bow (equipment)
HSR - Hazelmere’s signet ring (equipment)
HP - Hitpoints (literal), slow down DPS to avoid reset (Vorago specific)
I#/Invig# - Invigorating # (Invention perk)
Ice - Ice Blitz/Barrage (Ancient spell)
Immo/Immort - Immortality (Defence ability)
Imp# - Impatient # (Invention perk)
Imp core - Imperium core (equipment)
Incend - Incendiary Shot (Ranged ability)
Incite - Check for Incite (unintentionally pulling aggression from the base tank), role for Rise of the Six where you turn Incite on and keep aggression of the RotS brothers, Incite Fear (Ancient spell)
Ingen/IotH - Ingenuity of the humans (sigil ability)
Inquis - Inquisitor staff (equipment)
Jaws - Jaws of the Abyss (equipment)
Juice - Utilize X strongly (ranges from Summoning familiars to Berserker’s Fury)
JW - Jelly wrangler (Yakamaru role)
KBD - King Black Dragon (boss)
Khops - Khopeshes (T92 dual wield Melee weapons)
KK - Kalphite King (boss)
KPH - Kills per hour
KQ - Kalphite Queen (boss)
Lengs - Dark Shard/Silver of Leng (equipment)
Lf - Looking for [group]
LotD - Luck of the dwarves (equipment)
LP - Lifepoints
Magma - Magma Tempest (Magic ability)
MD - Melee distance
MDS - Greater Dazing Shot (Ranged ability, old name used to be Mutated Dazing Shot but still commonly referred to as MDS)
MH - Mainhand (equipment slot)
Meta - Metamorphosis (Magic ability)
Mines - Dominion mines
MSoA - Masterwork Spear of Annihilation (equipment)
MW - Masterwork (equipment)
Nami - Tsunami (Magic ability)
Natty - Natural Instinct (Defence ability)
NC - North chargers (Beastmaster Durzag role)
Needle - Needle Strike (Ranged ability)
Nips - Dreadnips
NT - North/sand tank (Yakamaru role)
No mind/realm - Fast Solak P4 (players stay out of mind to DPS as much as possible)
Nox - Noxious weaponry (equipment)
Off - Command to stop DPSing
OH - Offhand (equipment slot)
Omni - Omnipower (Magic ability)
Ons - Onslaught (Constitution ability)
Overkill - Adrenaline renewal (outdated term)
Ovl - Overload
P++/P+++ - Weapon poison++/Weapon poison+++
P# - Phase number, Precise (Invention perk)
P#E# - Precise # + Equilibrium # (example: P6E2 = Precise 6 + Equilibrium 2)
PF - Planted Feet (Invention perk)
Pneck - Phoenix necklace (equipment)
Pois - Poison
Portent - Portent of life/death
Proc - Random effect activates
PT - Pet tank (Beastmaster Durzag role as PT1/3 or PT2), poison tank (Yakamaru role)
Puzzle box - Infernal puzzle box
Pwand - Wand of the praesul
QBD - Queen Black Dragon (boss)
R# - Ruthless (Invention perk, general meaning), Relentless (Invention perk, use this if R#C#)
Rago - Vorago (boss)
Rapid/RF - Rapid Fire (Ranged ability)
Rax - Araxxor (boss)
Rejuv - Rejuvenate (Defence ability)
Res/Reso - Resonance (Defence ability)
Ref - Reflect (Defence ability)
Rep - Reprisal (Constitution ability)
Replen - Replenishment potion
Revo - Revolution
Roar - Chaos Roar (Melee ability)
RoD - Ring of Death (equipment)
Root skip - Reaching Phase 1 cap on Solak before the roots special attack at 1:07
Rot/Rota/Rots - Rotation/rotations (not commonly used)
RotS - Rise of the Six (boss)
Salve - Overload variant, Salve amulet (e) (equipment)
SBS - Spellbook Swap (spell)
SC - Smoke Cloud (Ancient spell), South chargers (Beastmaster Durzag role)
Scrim - Scrimshaw (equipment)
SD - Shield Dome
Seis - Seismic equipment
SGB - Seren godbow (equipment)
Shards - Storm Shards (Constitution ability)
Shat - Shatter (Constitution ability)
Sigil - Limitless, ingenuity of the humans, Demon Slayer, Undead Slayer, etc (outdated term since change to “abilities”)
Sign - Sign of life (also Defence cape perk), sign of death
Slow - Slow down DPS
Snap - Snapshot (Ranged ability)
SoA - [Fractured] Staff of Armadyl (equipment), Storm of Armadyl (Standard spell)
SoS - Staff of Sliske (equipment)
SoL - Staff of light (equipment)
Spear - Masterwork Spear of Annihilation (equipment)
Spec - Special attack
Spirit flick - Switch to spirit shield right as enemy attacks you to maintain top dual wield/2h damage with lossless 30% damage reduction
Splash - Missed
SS - Soul Split
Stag10, Shark + 10 - Shark pool tag + 10 planks (Yakamaru role)
Sticks - Incense sticks
Stun5/10, Stun +5/10 - Stun DPS + 5 or 10 planks, commonly 5 (Yakamaru role)
Sub/Subj - Subjugation
Sun - Sunshine (Magic ability)
SWH - Statius's warhammer (equipment)
TC - Target cycle
Tendrils - Blood/Shadow/Smoke Tendrils (abilities), Yakamaru/Telos mechanic
Thresh - Threshold abilities (noun), to use thresholds and basics until death, end of phase, end of mechanic, or otherwise specified (verb)
Tick - Game tick (0.6 seconds)
TL - Top lure (Vorago role where you climb on Vorago on P1)
TL5 - Top lure + Voke 5 (Top lure as well as using Provoke to take the fifth bleed during Vorago smashes)
Tmaul - Terrasaur maul (equipment)
TMW - Trimmed masterwork (equipment)
Turm - Turmoil (curse)
Tuska - Tuska’s Wrath (Constitution ability)
TWP - Teamwork Protection (curse)
T99 [prayers] - Praesul curses
Ult - Ultimate ability
Venge - Vengeance
Vests - Vestments of havoc (equipment)
Vigour - Ring of vigour
VLS - Vesta's longsword (equipment)
Voke - Provoke (Defence ability)
Vuln - Vulnerability (Standard spell)
Ward - Death Ward (Archaeology relic)
Whip - Abyssal scourge (equipment) OR abyssal whip (historical, barely used)
WM - Wild Magic (Magic ability)
Xlog - Forcibly closing client
Yaka - Yakamaru (boss)
Zerk - Berserk (Strength ability)
Zerk ess - Berserk blood essence (equipment)
ZGS - Zaros godsword (equipment) OR Zamorak godsword (historical, not used anymore)