Abbreviation guide

This article is an acronym guide.

See World of Warcraft terminology and Category:Acronyms for more detail on these.

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• BG: Battleground
• GY: Grave Yard, or the respawn point when you release
• Twink: A character that has unusually high quality gear & enchants

• BS: Blacksmith
• Farm: Farm
• LM: Lumber Mill
• GM: Goldmine
• Mine: Goldmine
• ST: Stables

• IB: Iceblood
• TP: Tower Point
• FW: Frostwolf (Can be used as part of a longer acronym (FWGY))
• SP: Stormpike (Can be used as part of a longer acronym (SPGY))
• RH: Frostwolf Relief Hut

• LH: Light House
• WW: Water Works
• Mines: Mines

• BET: Blood Elf Tower
• DR: Draenei Ruins
• FRR: Fel Reaver Ruins
• MT: Mage Tower

• Blue
• Green
• etc

• EFC: Enemy Flag Carrier
• EFR: Enemy Flag Room; the room in which the flag resides inside the enemy's base
• FC: Flag Carrier
• FR: Flag Room; the room in which your flag resides, also the main focal point of defense
• Tun: abbreviation for "tunnel", the underground section leading from the FR
• Ramp: the area leading from the FR or EFR that leads outside, once outside they may go GY side or just ramp

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• BB: Booty Bay
• EPL: Eastern Plaguelands
• IF: Ironforge
• SMC: Silvermoon City
• SoS: Swamp of Sorrows
• STV: Stranglethorn Vale
• SW: Stormwind City
• TM: Tarren Mill
• UC: Undercity
• WPL: Western Plaguelands

• Darn: Darnassus
• Exo: Exodar
• Gads/GZ/Gadget: Gadgetzan
• Org: Orgrimmar
• STM: Stonetalon Mountains
• STP: Stonetalon Peak
• TB: Thunder Bluff
• XR: Crossroads

• OL: Outland
• BE: Blade's Edge
• HFP: Hellfire Peninsula
• HH: Honor Hold
• NS: Netherstorm
• SH/Shat: Shattrath City
• SMV: Shadowmoon Valley
• Tero: Terokkar
• TM: Thrallmar
• ZM: Zangarmarsh

• Arm: Scarlet Monastery Armory wing
• BF: Blood Furnace
• BFD: Blackfathom Deeps
• BM: Black Morass
• BRD: Blackrock Depths
• BRS: Blackrock Spire
• Cath: Scarlet Monastery Cathedral wing
• DM East: Dire Maul East
• DM North: Dire Maul North
• DM Trib: Dire Maul tribute run
• DM West: Dire Maul West
• DM: Dire Maul
• Gnomer: Gnomeregan
• GY: Scarlet Monastery Graveyard wing
• HFR: Hellfire Ramparts
• HoS: Halls of Stone
• LBRS: Lower Blackrock Spire
• Lib: Scarlet Monastery Library wing
• Mara: Maraudon
• MGT: Magister's Terrace
• RFC: Ragefire Chasm
• RFD: Razorfen Downs
• RFK: Razorfen Kraul
• SC/Live Strat: Scarlet side of Stratholme
• Scholo: Scholomance
• SFK: Shadowfang Keep
• SH: Shattered Halls
• SL: Shadow Labyrinth
• SM: Scarlet Monastery
• SP: Slave Pens
• ST: Temple of Atal'Hakkar (aka Sunken Temple)
• Stocks: Stockade
• Strat: Stratholme
• SV: The Steamvault
• UB: Underbog
• UBRS: Upper Blackrock Spire
• UD Strat: Undead side of Stratholme
• Ulda: Uldaman
• VC/DM: Deadmines
• WC: Wailing Caverns
• ZF: Zul'Farrak

• AQ20/RAQ: Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj
• AQ40/TAQ: Temple of Ahn'Qiraj
• BT: Black Temple
• BWL: Blackwing Lair
• EoE: The Eye of Eternity
• ICC: Icecrown Citadel
• Kara/KZ: Karazhan
• MAG Magtheridon's Lair
• MC: Molten Core
• Naxx: Naxxramas
• Ony: Onyxia's Lair
• OS: Obsidian Sanctum
• RS: Ruby Sanctum
• SSC: Serpentshrine Cavern
• SWP: Sunwell Plateau
• ToC: Trial of the Crusader (not to be confused with Trial of the Champion)
• ToGC: Trial of the Grand Crusader
• UBRS: Upper Blackrock Spire
• VoA: Vault of Archavon
• ZA: Zul'Aman
• ZG: Zul'Gurub