Guide:Guide to WvW Vocabulary

Fight Callouts

• Spike – range damage with low to moderate damage but quick cooldowns
• Bomb – range damage with heavy damage but long cooldowns
• Pulls – skills to pull an enemy (to drag them down from walls, or to keep them in your damage)
• CCs - Skills that Stun, Interrdupt, Pull, Knock, elevate... enemies to keep them in our damage

                      -> You also can use skills that immobilise, like cripple, chill, fear, taunt

• Cleave the downies – focus on killing enemy players in downstate
• Kite (or Peel) – kiting away from an enemy to regain cooldowns, to get a better position, or to void damage
• Small stab(ility) – Skills that give fast stability with low stacks, like firebrand elite mantra
• Big stab(ility) – Skalls that apply stability with higher stacks and longer duration
• Empower/Stack might - Skills that apply the Might, like Guardian Staff 4.
• Shades – Scourge skills F1-F4. Used to range pressure enemies and strip their boons

                       -> A shade call also is a call for other skills that strip boons and a spike for damage

• Wells – Necromancer well skills "Well of Suffering" and "Well of Corruption"

                      -> Wells are also a call for a bomb and CCs/Pulls. 
                      -> Wells are mostly followed up by a meele push so prepare stability for that

• Breaches – Necromancer elite skill Ghastly Breach

                             -> Also a call for a spike and CCs/Pulls.:guardian_dragonhunter: DH should use their traps if off cooldown. 

• Bubble – Spellbreaker elite skill "Winds of Disenchantment"

                       -> Used for stripping/ccing enemies. A spike/Well call mostly follows up

• Gyro - Scrapper elite skill "Sneak Gyro" (NOTE:Skill got nerved in 4th october patch)
• Smoke/Stealth- Use skills that create a smokefield that can be blasted for stealthing your party
• Veil - Mesmer skill "veil" applys a field giving stealth. Watch our for your movement so you actually walk into it
• Blast - use blast skills to Work with a specific finisher, like smoke, cleans or heal. Like guardian staff 2, revenant hammer 5 & 3 etc.
• Portal – can refer to Mesmer portal skill or partal area near tower/keep/castle gate,
• Superspeed – skills that provide superspeed. Do not mistake with quickness or swiftness

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

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
• Lords - 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.
• EWP - Emergency Waypoint tactic
• EBG - Eternal Battlegrounds

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 - ER
• Kodash -
• Miller's Sound - MS
• Riverside - RS
• Baruch Bay - BB