WoW Forever glossary

An item that teaches a tier-2 or tier-3 camp feature.

In Spanish: PlanoCamp planner

The bonus week of one battleground: while it lasts, that battleground gives extra rewards. The battlegrounds take turns.

In Spanish: Llamamiento a las armasPvP ranks

Forever’s group camp: a cook lights the fire and each profession adds a feature, such as a station or a buff. A campfire has a limited number of feature slots.

In Spanish: HogueraCamp planner

The permanent Classic realms: the original game at its final patch, with no new content. This site compares Forever with its client.

In Spanish: Classic EraWhat’s new

What players call a Classic game that keeps getting new content instead of replaying the old patches. Forever is Blizzard’s official take on it.

In Spanish: Classic+

A mage-only skill in Forever. You raise it by deciphering scrolls, and higher scroll tiers need more skill.

In Spanish: ComprensiónComprehension

Forever’s Tier 1 sets come per specialization, and four pieces of each set are made by crafting professions. You can wear only one crafted piece at a time.

In Spanish: Tier 1 fabricadoCrafted Tier 1

A crafting order: make the items it names and hand it in for a reward. Forever adds new ones.

In Spanish: Libranza del artesanoProfessions

A ruleset where death is permanent: a character who dies there can only be resurrected by moving to another ruleset. Forever’s Hardcore ruleset opens after launch.

In Spanish: HardcoreLaunch guide

One of the copies a ruleset’s world is split into so it never gets crowded; players also call them shards. Joining a group moves you to the group’s layer.

In Spanish: CapaLaunch guide

Forever’s account-wide progression: each challenge you complete gives 1 Legacy point, and your total earns rewards.

In Spanish: LegadoLegacy

A Forever currency you get for Waylaid Crates. Durotar Supply and Logistics and the Azeroth Commerce Authority trade for it.

In Spanish: Favor de mercaderProfessions

An account setting that puts you with players who chose the same language. It decides who you meet, not your client’s language, and has a 24-hour cooldown.

In Spanish: Idioma preferido en líneaLaunch guide

Forever’s PvP ranking currency, from tasks given in Gadgetzan and from battlegrounds: they add up over the season, never decay, and a weekly cap sets the pace.

In Spanish: Puntos de rangoPvP ranks

What Forever has instead of realms: Normal, PvP, Roleplay and later Hardcore. Each one is a single big world per region, split into layers.

In Spanish: Conjunto de reglasLaunch guide

A rare gathering result marked “Scarce”, used by new high-end recipes.

In Spanish: EscasoProfessions

A dungeon or raid whose maps and bosses are encrypted in the beta files. Until it opens, we know it from its achievements and Blizzard’s level ranges.

In Spanish: SelladaDungeons & raids

Forever characters have a first name and a secondary name (a surname). Only the pair must be unique in your region, so first names can repeat. You can hide it.

In Spanish: Nombre secundarioLaunch guide

Classic Hardcore’s solo-economy mode: no trading, mail or auction house, only what you find or make yourself. Blizzard has not said if Forever will have it.

In Spanish: Opción personal

Forever’s new playable race: elves of Zephras Isle bound to the wind spirits, in two variants, High Order Skyborne (Alliance) and Windshaper Skyborne (Horde).

In Spanish: CielonatoRaces

A Classic season with runes, new raids and reworked classes. Forever brings back some of its talents and spells, marked “SoD” on this site.

In Spanish: SoD (Temporada de Descubrimiento)Classes

Profession supply crates new in Forever, such as “Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Herbs”, that you exchange for Merchant’s Favor.

In Spanish: Cajón saqueadoProfessionsItem page

Blizzard’s Classic+ version of World of Warcraft: the original game up to level 60, with new races, zones, dungeons, professions and systems.

In Spanish: WoW ForeverWhat’s new

An extra monster that joins a fight already under way, often a patrol or the result of a bad pull.

In Spanish: Add

A monster’s attention. The tank holds aggro; if you deal or heal too much, you “pull aggro” and the monster comes for you.

In Spanish: Agro

Where players sell items to each other for gold, through the auctioneers in the main cities.

In Spanish: AH (Casa de subastas)

An effect that hits everything in an area. In an “AoE pull”, the group gathers many monsters and kills them together.

In Spanish: AoE (Área de efecto)

The best item for one equipment slot for your class and spec. Forever’s new and changed items rewrite many Classic BiS lists.

In Spanish: BiS (Lo mejor para esa ranura)Best in slot (BiS)

A helpful effect on a character, such as Power Word: Fortitude or a food bonus. Many classes bring a buff the whole group wants.

In Spanish: Buff (Beneficio)

Taking a monster out of the fight for a while without killing it, with spells such as Polymorph, Sap or Shackle Undead.

In Spanish: CC (Control de masas)

Running back to your body as a ghost after you release your spirit, to revive without the Spirit Healer’s penalty.

In Spanish: Corpse run

A harmful effect on a character or monster: a curse, poison, disease, slow or armor reduction.

In Spanish: Debuff (Perjuicio)

Effects that deal damage (DoT) or heal (HoT) in ticks over several seconds instead of all at once.

In Spanish: DoT / HoT (Daño en el tiempo / sanación en el tiempo)

How fast you deal damage, and also the damage-dealer role (the game calls it Damage). Forever has a built-in damage meter.

In Spanish: DPS (Daño por segundo)

A flight route between two flight masters. You must discover a flight point before you can fly to it.

In Spanish: FP (Ruta de vuelo)

Killing another player who has no fair chance, like a much lower level or someone already busy with monsters. Common on the PvP ruleset.

In Spanish: Gank

The short lock, usually 1.5 seconds, after most spells and abilities before you can use another one.

In Spanish: GCD (Tiempo de reutilización global)

The role that keeps the group alive with heals and by removing poisons, curses and diseases.

In Spanish: Sanador

The item that teleports you to the inn you set as your home with an innkeeper. It has a long cooldown.

In Spanish: HS (Piedra de hogar)Item page

Looking for a group, and the chat channel where players post it (LFM: looking for more). Forever also has a Group Finder.

In Spanish: LFG (Buscar grupo)

Being saved to a raid: until the raid resets you return to the same copy, with the bosses you killed still dead.

In Spanish: Registro (Registro en la estancia)Today in Forever

The reagents a recipe needs. “Your mats” means you bring them and the crafter only does the work, often for a tip.

In Spanish: Mats (Materiales)

Any monster or creature you can fight. The word comes from the old text games (“mobile”).

In Spanish: Mob

The loot roll buttons: Need if you will use the item, Greed if you want it to sell or disenchant. Need beats Greed.

In Spanish: Necesidad / Codicia

Taking loot that was not yours to take, such as rolling Need on an item you cannot use or opening a chest before the group agrees.

In Spanish: Ninja

Out of mana. When the healer is OOM, the group stops and waits for them to drink before the next pull.

In Spanish: OOM (Sin maná)

An effect that triggers by chance, such as a weapon’s “Chance on hit” line or a talent that sometimes makes your next spell free.

In Spanish: Proc

Drawing one group of monsters to the party on purpose, usually by the tank. A bad pull brings more than the group can handle.

In Spanish: Pull

The weekly moment when raid lockouts end and weekly limits start over: Tuesday 15:00 UTC in the Americas and Oceania (early Wednesday in Australia), Wednesday 04:00 UTC in Europe.

In Spanish: ReinicioToday in Forever

Bringing a dead player back to life with a spell or a Soulstone. The Spirit Healer also revives you, but leaves you weakened for a while.

In Spanish: Rez (Resurrección)

Playing your character as a role, in character. The Roleplay ruleset has strict naming and behavior rules for it.

In Spanish: Rol (Juego de rol)Launch guide

A raid loot rule: before the raid, each player reserves one or two items, and only those who reserved an item roll for it.

In Spanish: Soft reserve

Hitting a monster first so it counts for you: only the first player or group to tag it gets the loot, the XP and the quest credit.

In Spanish: Tag

The role that holds the monsters’ attention and takes their hits, so the rest of the group can fight safely.

In Spanish: Tanque

The ordinary monsters between the bosses of a dungeon or raid. They give little loot but stand in the way.

In Spanish: Trash

A low-level character with far better gear, enchants and consumables than usual, often kept at the top level of a battleground bracket.

In Spanish: Twink

When the whole group dies in a fight. The group runs back and tries again, often with a new plan.

In Spanish: Wipe

A strong buff you get in the open world, such as the one a capital gives when a raid boss’s head is turned in. Classic raiders collect them before raiding.

In Spanish: World buff

What a character must earn before it can enter an instance, usually a quest chain or an item: in Classic, Onyxia’s Lair asked for the Drakefire Amulet.

In Spanish: Armonización

An instanced PvP match with a goal, like capturing flags or holding bases. Forever adds Darkspear Islands.

In Spanish: Campo de batallaPvP ranks

The item binds only when you equip it, so until then you can trade it or sell it at the auction house.

In Spanish: BoE (Se liga al equiparlo)

The item becomes soulbound as soon as you loot it: it is yours alone and cannot be traded or sold to other players.

In Spanish: BoP (Se liga al recogerlo)

The NPC who teaches your class’s spells and abilities as you level, and resets your talents for gold.

In Spanish: Instructor de claseClasses

The share of your spell power (or attack power) a spell adds to each hit or heal. A coefficient of 0.8 turns 100 spell power into 80 more damage.

In Spanish: Coeficiente

An instance for a group of five, with its own copy of the monsters and bosses. Forever adds new dungeons and changes old ones.

In Spanish: MazmorraDungeons & raids

An item that opens a locked door or part of a dungeon, such as the Skeleton Key of Scholomance or the Shadowforge Key of Blackrock Depths. Rogues can pick some of these locks.

In Spanish: Llave de mazmorra

A tougher monster, with a gold dragon around its portrait, meant for a group rather than one player.

In Spanish: Élite

The highest reputation standing you can reach with a faction.

In Spanish: Exaltado

The NPC who flies you, for a fee, to the flight points you have already discovered.

In Spanish: Maestro de vuelo

A lasting club of players with its own chat and ranks. Most raids are organized by guilds.

In Spanish: Hermandad

The hit chance past which more hit adds nothing, because your attacks no longer miss. It depends on the target, and a raid boss needs the most: the character sheet’s hit tooltip gives the figures, and best in slot and the character planner use them.

In Spanish: Tope de golpeCharacter planner

Points for killing enemy players, spent on PvP items (you can hold up to 15,000). In Forever your PvP rank comes from a separate currency, Rank Points.

In Spanish: HonorPvP ranks

The NPC who sets your Hearthstone’s home. Resting in their inn builds up rested XP faster.

In Spanish: Tabernero

A private copy of a dungeon, raid or battleground for your group alone, so no other group shares your monsters.

In Spanish: Estancia

Any character the game controls, from quest givers and vendors to monsters.

In Spanish: PNJ (Personaje no jugador)

Fighting the game’s monsters rather than other players: quests, dungeons and raids.

In Spanish: JcE (Jugador contra entorno)

Fighting other players: duels, battlegrounds and world PvP. Also the ruleset where you can be attacked almost anywhere.

In Spanish: JcJ (Jugador contra Jugador)PvP ranks

A group of up to 40 players, and the instances built for 10, 20 or 40 of them. Raid bosses drop the best gear.

In Spanish: BandaDungeons & raids

Stats an item gets at random when it drops, named by a suffix (“of the Bear”: Strength and Stamina). Two copies of one item can carry different bonuses.

In Spanish: Bonificación aleatoria (Estadísticas aleatorias extras)Gear finder

A rare monster that is also elite: it spawns seldom, hits hard and drops better loot. Its portrait has a silver dragon.

In Spanish: Élite poco común

Your standing with a faction, from Hated to Exalted. A higher standing brings rewards, discounts and quests.

In Spanish: Reputación

Bonus XP that builds up while you are offline, faster in an inn or a city. Kills give double XP until it runs out.

In Spanish: Descansado

Bound to your character: the item cannot be traded, mailed or sold to other players.

In Spanish: Ligado

A separate part of a large dungeon, with its own entrance, bosses and level range: Scarlet Monastery has four wings, Dire Maul three.

In Spanish: AlaDungeons & raids

An item any monster of the right level can drop, anywhere, instead of one boss’s loot. Rare and impossible to farm on purpose.

In Spanish: Botín del mundo

A holiday or festival that changes the world for some days, with its own quests, vendors and rewards, such as the Lunar Festival or the Darkmoon Faire.

In Spanish: Evento del mundoToday in Forever

What you earn from quests, kills and exploring to reach the next level. The Spanish client writes it “PE”.

In Spanish: PE (Puntos de experiencia)Quests

On this site, a count that joins what is new in Forever and what comes from SoD, as in “5 talents added (4 from SoD)”.

In Spanish: Añadido

Forever’s test phase before launch, open to testers and to players whose edition includes beta access. This site is built from the beta files, so its numbers can still change.

In Spanish: BetaToday in Forever

One version of the game client, numbered like 1.60.1.69977. Each new beta build can change data, and this site is rebuilt from every one.

In Spanish: BuildPatches

The servers Blizzard uses to deliver game builds. We download each new build’s files from it, the same files the launcher installs.

In Spanish: CDN (Red de distribución de contenidos)Data sources

Exists in Classic Era but with different values in Forever: stats, levels, reagents or ranks. Our pages show the Classic value next to the new one.

In Spanish: CambiadoPatches

The game program on your computer. Its files hold names, spells, items and maps; the servers keep the rest, such as loot tables and drop chances.

In Spanish: Cliente

Reading the game client’s files to find data the game does not show yet. Most of this site comes from them and the hotfix caches; dates and plans come from Blizzard’s posts.

In Spanish: DataminingData sources

The client’s database tables, such as Item, Spell or AreaTable. The game names and numbers on this site are read from them.

In Spanish: DB2Data sources

Content that ships in the client locked with a key until Blizzard releases it, like the sealed raids. We can tell it exists, not what it holds.

In Spanish: CifradoDungeons & raids

The Spanish client still shows this name in English. It updates on this site when the translation ships.

In Spanish: ES pendienteName translator

A record the servers sent for the first time, usually because a client looked the item up. It is listed apart from real changes.

In Spanish: Visto por primera vezPatches

A change Blizzard applies from its servers without a new client build. We read them from the client’s hotfix cache, so values can change between builds.

In Spanish: HotfixData sources

Not in the Classic Era client, by ID or by name. The site’s “New” badges and counts use this meaning.

In Spanish: Nuevo en ForeverWhat’s new

A temporary name, text or value in the beta files that Blizzard will replace. We leave placeholders out of lists and counts.

In Spanish: Marcador

How much one point of a stat is worth for a spec, compared with the others. Best in slot lists add up each item’s stats times these weights: estimates, not rules.

In Spanish: Peso de estadísticaBest in slot (BiS)

Items whose stats the beta files leave out until someone loots them. We show their effect when it can be read.

In Spanish: Estadísticas ocultasGear finder