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0-Dog: or "Zero Dogs," a witch doctor build that revolves around items that reduce the cooldown of the Zombie Dogs ability (see: 'ZD'). With the proper items, Zombie Dogs can be reduced to little or no cooldown. The build then utilizes the witch doctor's "Sacrifice" ability, which destroys existing Zombie Dogs to deal massive damage to enemies in an area. In vanilla, the build was designed to deal significant damage. In Reaper of Souls, the build offers more utility. Warning: may drastically reduce frame rates.
1: short for "elite." Less often used than "e" (see: 'e'), the short-hand "1" originated from players that do not use an English keyboard and will hit 1 as a universal notification to alert party members of elite and champion packs. "1" is also pronounced exactly the same as "E" in Mandarin Chinese, so you often see it used by Chinese players.
1H & 2H: refers to one-handed and two-handed weapons, respectively.
1K Set: or 1K set, 1000 set or Storms set, referring to the "Raiment of a Thousand Storms" set (example: Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners) for the monk class.
AC short for "Acid Cloud," a witch doctor ability or "Akarat's Champion," a crusader ability.
AD short for "Arcane Dynamo," a wizard passive skill.
Affix: a term that refers to properties that are assigned to a given object, which can include magical properties on items or abilities on in-game monsters. It is usually associated with the latter and can also be called “boss modifiers.” They include: Arcane Enchanted, Avenger, Desecrator, Electrified, Extra Health, Fast, Fire Chains, Frozen, Frozen Pulse, Health Link, Horde, Illusionist, Jailer, Knockback, Missile Dampening, Molten, Mortar, Nightmarish, Orbital, Plagued, Poison Enchanted, Reflect Damage, Shielding, Teleporter, Thunderstorm, Vampiric, Vortex, Waller, and Wormhole.
AH: vanilla - short for “Auction House,” a feature of Diablo III that acts as a trading hub for players. Players buy, bid on, and sell items and commodities (see: ‘Commodity’) anonymously on the Auction House much like people do on auction websites like eBay. The Auction House comes in two different entities, the Gold Auction House (see: ‘GAH’) and the Real Money Auction House (see: ‘RMAH’). Both Auction Houses will be shut down on March 18, 2014.
Aggro: a term that gained popularity in MMORPG and MUD games that represents the act of "aggravating" or triggering "aggression" from enemies without initiating an attack. For example, enemies can be "aggro'd" simply when a player comes within a certain range. Sometimes refers to real life instances that interrupt gaming sessions, such as receiving an important phone call or a significant other demanding attention.
Alt: short for "alternate" character or any character a player uses second to his/her main character. See: 'Main.' Usually receives less love or hand-me-down gear. See: 'Twink.'
Ammy: short for "amulet," a type of gear that falls in the neck category. Can also sometimes be abbreviated as "amu."
Andy's: short for "Andariel's Visage," a legendary helm known for being the only helm capable of rolling any elemental bonus at the cost of taking additional fire damage.
AOE: short for "area of effect." Refers to spells that influence targets over an area rather than a single target.
AP: short for "Arcane Power," the primary resource used by the wizard class. See: 'Resource.'
APD: short for "Ancient Parthan Defenders," a pair of legendary bracers.
APoC: short for "Arcane Power on Critical Hits" or "AP on crit," a stat that is specific to the wizard class. See: 'AP' and 'crit.'
APS: short for "attacks per second," which refers to the rate at which a character launches attacks, e.g. "1.93 APS," "2.01 APS," "3.0 APS," etc. Can also refer to a weapon's swing speed (for example, a standard two-handed crossbow is 1.10 APS). Not to be confused with “actions per second.”
AR: short for "resistance to all elements" or most commonly "all resistance" or just "resist." It's a highly desired stat that boosts a character's survivability. See: 'EHP.'
AT: short for "Arcane Torrent," a wizard skill.
Bag: refers to Horadric Caches. See: 'Cache.'
Ball of Death: a nickname used for the wizard's Archon form, based on the character's transformation into a ball that can usually promptly melt most or all enemy mobs with a single click.
Barb: short for "Barbarian," a melee strength-based class in D3. Will sometimes also be referred to as "bar," "barbar," or "baba."
Barblo: portmanteau of the words barbarian and Diablo, referencing the idea that the game is built entirely around the one and only barbarian class, while completely neglecting all other classes. It's a false statement, but originated from disgruntled players upset with the perks that come with the barbarian class not found on the others.
beez: stands for "b's" or billions, referring to gold values. Instead of 2 billion or 2b, some players choose to say "2 beez."
Bells: refers to the monk's "Wave of Light" ability (see: 'WOL'), which includes a visual effect that resembles a giant bell falling from the sky.
BIS: short for "Best in Slot," a term that is used to define certain items that cannot be beat in terms of stats.
BK's: short for the "Bul-Kathos" set items, which include the one-handed mighty weapons Bul-Kathos's Solemn Vow and Bul-Kathos's Warrior Blood, items exclusive to the barbarian class. Sometimes includes the legendary ring, Bul-Kathos's Wedding Band, which is not exclusive to barbarians.
Black Weapon: specifically weapons that have no bonus elemental effects, e.g. +X min and +Y max damage, and not +X/Y holy damage, +X/Y poison damage, etc.
Blue: refers to employees of Blizzard Entertainment who post on the official forums. Generally Blues refer to the community managers/representatives (see: ‘CM’), who are heavily responsible for moderating the official forums of Blizzard games, acting as a bridge of communication between the player base and the developers, in addition to providing a constant stream of information regarding such games via company employees and sources, on top of many social media and public relations tasks. Nicknamed "blue" because of the blue-colored font that is used in each forum post or thread, a privilege exclusive to the community managers/reps and other Blizzard employees. Current Diablo III community manager is Lylirra, and the community representatives are Grimiku, Nevalistis and Tyvalir.
BoA: short for "Bind on Account," specifically referring to items that cannot be sold or traded to other players and are "bound" to a single player's account. In Reaper of Souls, all gold, Horadric Cache items, gambled items, Marquise and higher tier gems, crafting materials, plans, and unique items will be bound to the player’s account. Unique items will have a two hour window of time where players can trade with only those from the same game at the time when the unique item first dropped. Not to be confused with Korean musician BoA or Bank of America.
Boon: short for "Boon of the Hoarder," a legendary gem.
BoP: short for "Bane of the Powerful," a legendary gem.
BoT: short for "Bane of the Trapped," a legendary gem. Sometimes abbreviated as "BotT." Not to be confused with a "bot," or an illegal third-party program that automates gameplay.
BP: short for "breakpoint," or hidden numbers associated with various skills in Diablo III that are often tied to attack speed stats. When a player reaches a certain breakpoint, he or she usually experiences a higher level of effectiveness for his or her character (though it isn't always the case).
BR: short for "Blood Ritual," a passive ability specific to witch doctors. Also short for "Battle Rage," a barbarian ability.
BS: short for "Banner Safe," referring to the act of or mentioning of placing a player's banner in a safe location for teammates to rally on (usually by foot). This is primarily done to save teammates the embarrassment of jumping directly to their deaths from the town. Be aware players cannot teleport to the banner, but rather be notified that the coast is clear to teleport to the player. Can also stand for "Blacksmith."
BT: short for the "Blackthorne" set (example: Blackthorne's Surcoat), a set of gear that is mainly used for raising survivability for characters.
Buffed: stands for a character's enhanced statistics after applying effects from passives, self-cast abiltiies and passive abiltiies. See: 'Unbuffed.'
Build: often refers to the skill set that a particular player assigns to his/her character at a given time. May sometimes refer to the "gear build" that a player equips for his/her character.
Buriza: refers to the legendary crossbow "Buriza-do Kyanon." More closely pronounced as Brizado Kyannon (ブリザードキャノン burizādo kyanon, a.k.a. Blizzard Cannon, emphasizing its cold-based weapon damage and also the fact that Diablo is a game published by Blizzard.
BYOM: stands for "bring your own machine," referring to the Infernal Machines that are required to unlock Uber bosses (see: 'Machine' and 'Uber').
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