Guide to WvW Vocabulary

Fight Callouts

• CCs - Short for Crowd Control. For WvW mainly refers to: Stun, Knockdown, Pull, Float, Immobilize
  • Immob - alternate call for Immobilize
  • Pulls – Skills that have Pull.
    • Temporal Curtain is the typical example
• (Range) Spike – Coordinated ranged damage at a location with short cooldown abilities. Often includes pulls
  • Phase Smash is a common example
• Shades/Shade Spike – Area spike using Manifest Sand Shade ⇒ Nefarious Favor + Sand Cascade + Garish Pillar + Desert Shroud from every scourge in the group at the same time
  • Should be assisted by high damage skills and CC skills from other professions
  • Often followed up by pushing into the enemy group to take advantage of ground control
• Bomb – Coordinated damage at a location
  • Sometimes used as a general call for damage at a location
• Wells/Well Bomb – High damage area spike using Well of Suffering and Well of Corruption from every necromancer in the group at the same time
  • Should be assisted by high damage skills and CC skills from other professions
  • Often followed up by pushing into the enemy group to take advantage of ground control
• Cleave (the downs/downies) – Call to focus on killing downstate enemies
• Kite/Peel – moving away from the enemy quickly.
  • Usually without attempting to do damage, but sometimes to make enemies follow through damage
• Small stab(ility) – Refers to skills that give small amounts of Stability, especially for range spikes.
• Big stab(ility) – "Stand Your Ground!"
• Empower/Stack might - Refers to Guardian Staff skill 4 - Empower
  • Also indicates the commander wants to stand still for a moment while casting Empower

• Breaches – Ghastly Breach
• Traps -
• Bubble/Winds – Winds of Disenchantment
• Gyro - Sneak Gyro
• Smoke/Stealth-
• Veil - Veil
• Blast(s) -
• Portal – Portal
• Superspeed – Superspeed

General Callouts

• WvW = short form for World vs World
• Matchup/MU = World vs World is split into matchups which changes every week. During a matchup you will find yourself against two other servers. The reset time is every Friday at 20.00 (GMT+1)
• Team Chat
• EWP - Emergency Waypoint tactic

Maps

• EBG - Eternal Battlegrounds
• Alpine - Alpine Borderlands
• Desert - Desert Borderlands
• OS - Obsidian Sanctum
• EotM - Edge of the Mists

Objectives

• SM/SMC = short form for Stonemist Castle
• Garri - Garrison/Earth Keep
• Inner - Outer: this only applies to keep and SM, both have two defensive layers, the first one you meet as an attacker is the outer, the second one is the inner.
• WK/EK - West Keep (Bay, Fire)/East Keep (Hills, Air)
• T = Tower, typically seen in callouts
• Camp = short form for Supply Camp
• WG = Water Gate
• Lord(s) - Short for Lord's Room, where the lord and capture point resides in every keep/tower.
• T1/T2/T3 - Upgrade level of an objective, 3 being highest. May also refer to matchup tiers.
• Paper - Any structure that hasn't upgraded past wooden walls.
  • Includes T1
• Doly/Yak - Dolyak

Siege

• AC - Arrow Cart
• Treb - Trebuchet
• Balli - Ballista
• Cata - Catapult
• Treb - Trebuchet
• Gen/Gennie - Shield Generator
• Omega/Alpha - Omega/Alpha Golem
• Oil - Burning Oil

Group Sizes

• Roamer/Roamers - Between 1-5 players that roam around maps looking for fights and flipping small objectives (sentries, camps, ruins)
• Havoc - A group of 5-10 players, usually focused on capturing objectives and pulling the attention of larger groups.
• Zerg - A group of 20 or more enemies.
• Blob/Map Blob - A group of 40 or more enemies, usually the only enemy force on a map or a combination of multiple zergs.

Server Names

Server names are often shorted or abbreviated

NA

• Anvil Rock — AR
• Blackgate — BG
• Borlis Pass — BP
• Crystal Desert — CD
• Darkhaven — DH
• Devona's Rest — DR
• Dragonbrand — DB
• Ehmry Bay — EB
• Eredon Terrace — ET
• Ferguson's Crossing — FC
• Fort Aspenwood — FA
• Gate of Madness — GoM
• Henge of Denravi — HoD
• Isle of Janthir — IoJ
• Jade Quarry — JQ
• Kaineng — KN
• Maguuma — Mag
• Northern Shiverpeaks — NSP
• Sanctum of Rall — SoR
• Sea of Sorrows — SoS
• Sorrow's Furnace — SF
• Stormbluff Isle - SBI
• Tarnished Coast - TC
• Yak's Bend - YB

EU

• Auora Glade - AG
• Blacktide -
• Desolation - Deso
• Far Shiverpeaks - FSP
• Fissure of Woe - FoW
• Gandara - none
• Gunnar's Hold - GH
• Piken Square - Piken
• Ring of Fire - RoF
• Ruins of Surmia - RoS
• Seafarer's Rest - SFR
• Underworld - UW
• Vabbi - none
• Whiteside Ridge - WSR
• Arborstone -
• Augury Rock -
• Fort Ranik - FR
• Jade Sea -
• Vizunah Square -
• Abaddon's Mouth - AM
• Drakkar Lake - DL
• Dzagonur -
• Elona Reach - Elona/ER
• Kodash -
• Miller's Sound - Millers/MS
• Riverside - RS
• Baruch Bay - BB