What do those abbreviations mean in Diablo 2?

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After Diablo 3 gets delayed further and further I recently started playing Diablo II online again after aaages. Thanks reddit ;p

Since I never was deep into multiplayer in D2 I have now some problems to understand what people say. Here's a list of abbreviations I don't understand so far:

• ED
• MF
• SoJ
• ft or FT
• ISO
• SC
• HC
• cube/cubing
• Ammy
• torch
• wp
• eth
• e-bugged
• 1/49/69/190 Alma Negra
• 1-4os "some armor name"
• fcr
• fhr
• vit
• dex
• En
• SR
• RS
• Decrep
• Blizz
• BlizzBaller
• MeteOrb
• FRW

I think I'll soon add more when I see them.

Asked by F.S.

Answer

• ED - Enhanced Damage or Enhanced Defense
• MF - Magic Find
• SoJ - Stone of Jordan
• ft or FT - For Trade (the opposite of ISO, below)
• ISO - In Search Of (what people say when they want to trade for something)
• SC - Softcore
• HC - Hardcore
• cube/cubing - Use of the Horadric Cube
• Ammy - Slang for Amulet
• torch - Hellfire Torch
• wp - Waypoint
• eth - Ethereal
• e-bugged - A bug where ethereal body armor has the ethereal defense bonus on it applied twice when sockets are added to it via the Horadric Cube recipe.

• 1/49/69/190 Alma Negra - A shield. The numbers that come before it reference certain stats on it, since the numbers of certain attributes fall within a certain range. For example, here is some guy wanting to trade an Alma Negra, and he describes his stats on it, in words.

  +2 skills, 203% enhanced defense (748 total defense), 40% enhanced damage, 56% bonus to attack rating

  In that example, his is 2/40/56/203.

• 1-4os - OS = Open Sockets
• fcr - Faster Cast Rate
• fhr - Faster Hit Recovery
• vit - Vitality
• dex - Dexterity
• En - Energy
• SR - Summon Resist
• RS - Raise Skeleton
• Decrep - Decrepify
• Blizz - Blizzard
• BlizzBaller - A sorceress who primarily uses a combination of Blizzard and Fireball
• MeteOrb - A sorceress who primarily uses a combination of Meteor and Frost Orb
• FRW - Faster Run/Walk

Source: way too much Diablo 2, supplemented by http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Abbreviations_and_Acronyms and http://www.diablowiki.com/Glossary_(Diablo_II)

Now that you know the definitions, you can look them up pretty easy I think. It would be too much to explain each of them in detail here.

Answered by CptSupermrkt

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