The World of Dreams

Any online game has its own vocabulary, and the World of Dreams is no exception. Most of these words and phrases are culled from a variety of other games and online experiences, but a few may be new. To help those of you who are starting in our world out, here are some of the common expressions you may hear on WoD:

• AFK - Away From Keyboard
• Benson - An NPC that deals in magic items. Also used to refer low-quality magic items that would probably be best used as trade material for Benson
• BRB - Be Right Back
• Buff - A spell or effect that helps your character. For example, Strength and Bless
• Clone - An NPC duplicate that you can leave behind when you log off
• Death taxes - The skill loss that accompanies dying
• Debuff - A spell or effect that hurts your character. For example, Weakness and Curse
• Dot command - One of the special commands that you can use on WoD that are preceeded by a period. For example, .online
• GM - Game Master, the people who are running the shard
• Humuc - Homunculus, a small flying creater that alchemists can create that follow their master around casting useful spells
• Gump - A pop-up window in-game. For example, .online
• Kiddie Wisp - A blue wisp sometimes granted to young players (as in real-life age young, generally 12 and under) to help them out. A kiddie wisp behaves similarly to a Homunculus in that it follows its master around casting useful spells, especially heal
• MOB - Mobile. And NPC, especially used to refer to aggressive NPCs
• NPC - Non-Player Character: A person or monster in-game that is not being controlled by another player
• Party - Sometimes used to refer to a festive bash, party usually means a group of players who go out hunting together
• POL - The server emulator that WoD runs on
• Primary - One of the 3 skills that you specialized in that can go to 100
• Secondary - One of the 3 skills that you specialized in that can go to 80
• Seer - A sub-class of GM, they run quests
• Skillcap - The maximum limit that you can gain in any one particular skill
• Spec - The skills that you selected to specialize your character in
• Statcap - The maximum limit on stats that you can gain. This is determined by when skills you chose to specialize in (via .spec)
• Totem - An item that can change into a creature and then back into an item. For example, an obsidian horse
• Yoink - the act of grabbing something, especially loot off a monster's corpse
• Young - A new player. The title [young] will appear above the head of a new account for the first 40 hours of playtime.