MapleStory/Glossary

Here is a list of common MapleStory-specific acronyms and shortforms used when discussing MapleStory. For more general terms, see Multiplayer/Glossary.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

A

AB

Arrow Blow — Archer skill

AC

Auto-Clicker. Before Nexon's implementation of GameGuard, these programs were one of the most popular way to gain entrance to the Kerning City and Ludibrium Party Quests. Nexon now prohibits their use. Despite the ban, they still are very popular today.

AE

Arrow Eruption — Sniper skill

AFK

Away From Keyboard

AFMS

Away From MapleStory

AP

Ability Points

APQ

Amorian Challenge Party Quest

AR

Arrow Rain — Ranger skill

Aqua Road

Asi, Asianic

Asianic Bow — Bowman bow

Azn

Asian

B

Bagged

Death by another player's summoning bag.

Banditsin (AKA Sindit)

A Rogue that maxes Lucky 7 and makes the second job advancement as a Bandit.

BB

Bow Booster — Bowman skill

Black Bandana

BC

Black Crystal

BF

Bigfoot

BM

Bowmaster (4th job advancement of a bowman.)

BMM

Blue Mushmom

BMS

Brazilian version of MapleStory

Bomb

Arrow Bomb — Hunter skill

Meso Explosion — Chief Bandit skill

Booster

Weapon booster skill — Most classes have a skill to boost their attack speed.

BoT

Band of Thieves — Chief Bandit skill

"B>"

Shorthand used to mean "Buying". For example; "B>Black Crystal"

BW

Blunt weapon (may also be known as a mace)

BWG

Brown Work Gloves — An expensive item due to its 7 slots

C

CB

Chief Bandit — 3rd job advancement of Bandits

Crossbow Booster — Crossbowman skill

CC

Change channel(s). Considered very rude to most people. To change channels means to leave a map (presumably to another channel) that someone is training on to avoid Kill Stealing them.

CC Plz

Change channel(s) please. Another way to use "CC".

CE

Curse Eyes, found around Sleepywood and Ellinia.

Cold Eyes

Clean

An equipment with all of its slots remaining.

CMS

China MapleStory

Comp, Compo

Element Composition: Ice/Lightning and Fire/Poison Mage 3rd job skill

Coolies

The Coolie Zombies in the Forest of Dead Trees maps deep in El Nath.

Coward

A term commonly used in Monster Carnival referring to a party inside whom frequently rejects others outside the room into competing in the Party Quest.

CP5

Cloud Park 5 — a popular training spot.

CPQ

(Monster) Carnival Party Quest

Crimson (AKA CRog)

Crimson Balrog

Crus

Crusader — 3rd job advancement of Fighters

CS

Cash Shop

Cursed Sanctuary — the map where Jr. Balrog spawns.

Critical Shot — Archer skill

CS EAX

A form of vaccing (see vaccing). This one involves standing in one place while attacking any monster in the screen range.

CSI

Cash Shop Item

CWK

Crimsonwood Keep

CWKPQ

Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest

D

Dark YnP

Dark Yeti & Dark Pepe combined — Enemy found in Dangerous Cliff in El Nath

DC

Dark Crystal

Defame

The act of defaming a player

DG

Drop game. A scam-related game in which two (or more) players drop items in turn order to obtain the other players' item(s).

Dit

Bandit

DK

Dragon Knight — 3rd job advancement of the Spearman.

Dark Knight — 4th job advancement of the Spearman.

DrK

Dark Knight — 4th job advancement of the Spearman.

DM

Dead Mines — Dungeon of El Nath.

DMT

Drake's Meal Table — Map in the dungeon, contains Cold Eyes, Cargos, and Drakes.

DR

Dark Ritual — Level 75 Magician staff

DS

Double Shot — Bowman skill

Dark Sight — Thief skill

Double Stab — Thief skill

Devil's Sunrise — Level 90 two-handed sword for Warriors

Drop steal — Stealing the drops of another player's kill if they don't pick it up.

DSG

Dark Stone Golem — Monster found in Sleepywood Dungeon III, IV, V and Golem Temple 3

DT

Death Teddy — Monster found in Forgotten Path of Time 3

Dragon Tail — Level 80 Bandit Dagger

E

EE

Evil Eye — A monster found deep in the Ant Tunnel.

EEC(1-4)

Evil Eye Caves 1-4.

EMS

Europe MapleStory

END

El Nath Dungeon

EOS

Eos Tower

ER

Elemental Resistance — Dragon Knight skill

Elemental Resistance — Priest skill

ET

Evil Tale — Level 58 Magician Wand

EW

Evil Wing — Level 65 Magician Staff

F

FA

Final Attack — Bowman & Warrior skill

Fire Arrow — Fire/Poison Wizard skill

Farming PQ

In Ludi PQ, a party consisting of weak people that can't make it to the boss and repeatedly rush at a certain stage for the EXP

Farrow

Fire Arrow — Fire/Poison Wizard skill

Fizard

Fire/Poison Wizard — One of three possible 2nd job advancement for Magicians

FJ

Flash Jump — Hermit skill

FL

Friends List

FM

Free Market

FoG

Forest of Golem — A hidden street found in Sleepy Dungeon V, with Dark Stone Golems and Mix Stone Golems

FS

Facestompers

F/P

Fire/Poison Wizard/Mage

G

GC

Golden Crow — Level 60 Crossbow

GFA

Gloves for Attack Scroll (usually referring to 60%)

GK

Gatekeeper — A powerful monster found deep within the Warped Passage.

GL

An official abbreviation for GLobal (WeddingGL, ThemeGL, etc.)

Glitch PQ

A rush pq that takes advantage of a glitch to gain more exp. One primary example is smuggling items from a pq. However most glitches in pqs are now patched.

GM

Game Master — The employees of Wizet/Nexon/Asiasoft/Gamania/Level Up! Games/VinaGame who strive to maintain order in MapleStory. Easily identifiable by the GM symbol above their heads.

Guild Master — The leader of the guild.

GMS

Global MapleStory

GQ (AKA GPQ)

Guild Quest

Grim

Grim Phantom Watches — High-leveled monsters that are found deep within Ludibrium.

H

HA

Holy Arrow — Cleric skill

HB

Hyper Body — Spearman skill

HH

Headless Horseman

HHG

Henesys Hunting Grounds — The first map to the left of Henesys.

Hime

Dreamy Ghosts — A high-leveled monster found deep within Zipangu.

HKMS

Hong Kong MapleStory (CLOSED)

HP

Health/Hit Point(s) — the amount of life, or health, a player may have. Acquiring damage may result in the decreasing of health/hit points, while consuming any type of health-providing products may result in the increasing of health/hit points. HP is indicated by a medium-sized red bar that is located at the very bottom of the screen right to the left of the MP bar.

HPQ

Henesys PQ

Herb Town PQ

HS

Holy Symbol — Priest skill

Hidden Street — A popular MapleStory database website.

HT

Horntail: A huge dragon boss in Leafre.

HTP

Horntail Pendant

Horntail pre-quest/PQ.

Hybrid

A class which can use 2 different weapons efficiently. (A spearman who uses both spears and polearms, or a bandit that uses luck and str daggers).

I

IA

Iron Arrow — Bowman skill

I/L, IceLit

Ice/Lightning Wizard/Mage

J

Jaeger

Gross Jaeger — Level 70 Crossbow

Jeti, J-Yeti

Jr. Yeti — Enemy found just east of El Nath

JMS

Japan MapleStory

JQ

Jump Quest

JRog

Jr. Balrog

JPQ or J>PQ

Joining Party Quest — used when someone wants to join your party for a party quest

K

KB

Knockback — Ability to knock an enemy back by doing more than a certain amount of (monster dependant) damage.

KFT

Korean Folk Town — A town located near Ludibrium.

Kittens, Kitties

Jr. Cellions/Jr.Lioners/Jr. Grupins — Enemies found in Garden area of Cloud Park.

KMS

Korea MapleStory

KPQ

Kerning Party Quest

KS/KSed

Kill Steal/Kill Stolen — Kill steal is when one user kills a monster that another user is fighting, or is about to fight.

L

L>

"Looking for" - used when shopping. After the ">", players write the name of the item they want.

L7

Lucky Seven — Thief Skill

Leech(ing)

The act of having a higher-leveled character kill a monster so the lower-leveled character can receive some experience. Three ways to accomplish this (for the lower-leveled character): -Be within a five-level range of the monster -Be within a five-level range of the higher-leveled character -Deal some damage to the monster itself

Level/LV./LVL/LEV

Official references to character level.

Lith

Lith Harbor

Lizzard

Lightning Wizard — 2nd Job for Magicians

LMPQ

Ludibrium Maze Party Quest

LOWB (2)

Land of the Wild Boar — located just to the right of Perion, in a Hidden Street, or Land of the Wild Boar II, located in a Hidden Street at the East Domain of Perion.

LPQ

Ludibrium Party Quest

Ludi

Short for the Ludibrium area of Ossyria, or the town with the same name.

Lycan/Lyco

Lycanthrope — Enemies found in Wolf Territory III and IV

M

Macis

Tauromacis — An enemy found on the way to Jr. Balrog

Mass Defame

The act of defaming a character multiple times by either using alternate characters, or calling upon one's friends to defame the character.

Maze PQ

Ludibrium Maze PQ

MB

Mortal Blow — Ranger and Sniper Skill

MC

Magic Claw — Magician Skill

MDT

Master Death Teddies — Monster found in Lost Time, a Hidden Street off Forgotten Path of Time 3

ME

Meso Explosion — Chief Bandit Skill

MG

Mix Golem

Magic Guard — Magician Skill

Meso Guard — Chief Bandit Skill

MM

Mushmom — Boss monster found in 'Someone Else's House' <--(Hidden Street located near taxi cab of Henesys.)

Mushdad

this is the monster Blue Mushmom. it is called mushdad because there already is a mom (mushmom).

MP

Mana/Magic Point(s) — A type of substance that enables a player to cast and perform magic, as in skills. MP is indicated by a medium-sized bar that is light-blue in color, located at the very bottom of the screen right beside the HP bar, while one is running the MapleStory program.

MP3

a Singapore map famous for the Jr. Selkies and Slimies, both of which offer rather high experience. Used by characters that can mob, usually

MPQ

Magatia Party Quest, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH MCPQ.

MCPQ

Monster Carnival Party Quest

MS

MapleStory

MSEA

MapleSEA

N

Nath

EL Nath

NLC

Short term for New Leaf City

NPC

Non-Player Character. (Shop/Quest characters)

Act of selling an item to a shop NPC instead of to another player.

NX

A short version of Nexon.

Nexon cash, used to purchase items in the Cash Shop of some MapleStory versions (other versions, such as MapleSEA, use a different name for this currency).

O

Oly

Olympus — Bowman Bow

"OMG Spear": Omega Spear, level 80 item

OPQ

Orbis PQ

OS

Omega Sector

Ossy

Ossyria

P

Pang

White Fang — A monster found outside El Nath, commonly in Wolf Territory 3-5

Pap

Papulatus — Boss deep within Ludibrium's clock tower.

PC

Price Check, used to get a feel for what the price of a (usually rare) item is.

PG

Power Guard — Fighter and Page skill

Pizard

Poison Wizard — Fire/Poison Wizard who uses pure Poison. Very uncommon build. Becoming more popular because of Pizards' ability to train on high level monsters (Death Teddies, etc) at low levels (50+).

PKB

Power Knock-Back — Hunter and Crossbowman skill.

Poly

Bowman Polyfeather Hat

Pots

Potion

PPQ

Herb Town Party Quest — Pirate PQ

PQ

Party Quest

ppl2pass

People to pass, on rankings.

PS

Power Strike — Warrior Skill

PT

Party. Party members can share part of EXP gained from other members (also known as Training). All members can pick up any mesos or items dropped by monsters killed by other members.

PT Leech

Party Leech(PTL) is who join a party do not kill but gain EXP from party.

PW

Phantom Watch, a strong monster at the bottom of Ludibrium's Clock Tower.

Phoenix Wand, a level 78 magician's weapon.

Q

Quitter

A term referred to someone who quits a party quest.

QP

Quest progress.

R

Repot

Refilling potions from the nearest store (usually a town).

Recharge

Recharging a persons stars or ammunition.

Rocks

A somewhat common term used for both Summoning Rocks and Magic Rocks, which are used in some high level skills.

Rog

Jr. Barlog/Crimson Balrog, mainly Crimson Balrog if heard on the boat to Orbis.

Rush

To exit a PQ in attempt to get in the second time(or more) in a row.

R>

Recruiting

S

SA

Soul Arrow — Bowman Skill

Sader

Shortened and common name to refer to Crusaders.

Sanc

Sanctuary Entrance series of maps.

SB

Slash Blast — Warrior Skill

Savage Blow — Bandit Skill

SC

Silver Crow — Bowman Crossbow

Server Check — time allocated for Nexon to make fixes/add items to the game, without players able to log on

SG

Stone Golems/Singapore.

Sin

Assassin character class. Referring them as "ass" obviously caused confusions and flame wars.

SinDit

Rouges who maxes Lucky 7 in 1st job and chooses bandit as 2nd job class.

Skeles

Skelegons.

Sleepy

Sleepywood

Smuggling (Smug)

The act of taking out a PQ item without losing it by taking advantage of a lagging computer.

Sniping

Attacking a monster from range to prevent taking damage.

SP

Shadow Partner — Hermit Skill

Skill Points

Spears

Taurospear — Enemy found on the way to Jr. Balrog.

SQ

Squids. This could either refer to Black Squids or Lethal Squids, both known for the paltry magical damage they deal.

SQPT

Squid Party. Usually done for Lethal Squids.

SR

Shining Ray — Priest Skill

SW

Sleepywood — The town or the web site www.sleepywood.net

"S>"

Shorthand used to mean "Selling".

STDs

Straw Target Dummies. Found in Basic Training Ground in Mu Lung and is considered a very good leveling spot from level 50 to about 70.

T

Tauros

Tauromacis and Taurospears, two quite high leveled monsters that reside deep in the SleepyWood Dungeon.

THMS

Thailand MapleStory

Track

Repeatedly using the /find command on a player to follow their movement, often used in PQs to determine a current party's location.

Train

If somebody ask for train, it means who want to party with players in higher level and gain much EXP from it. For an effective training, it is suggested to party with player at least 5 level higher than you. But you should note that if the trainer kills monster not for your level, you may not gain any EXP.

TT

Triple Throw 4th Job Night lord skill

TWMS

Taiwan MapleStory

"T>"

Shorthand used to mean "Trading"

V

V2k

Vaulter 2000 — Bowman Bow

Vac/Vaccing

Vacuum Hacks, brings all monsters to a specific location. Wizet bans players who do this.

Vending

Going AFK while using a Shop Permit to sell items while inactive. (i.e. overnight)

Vic

Victoria Island

Vikings

Spirit Vikings, high-level Ludibrium monsters.

VK

Spirit Vikings.

VKPT

Spirit Viking party. A party formed to kill Spirit Vikings.

Gigantic Spirit Vikings, high-level Ludibrium monsters near Spirit Vikings.

VMS

Vietnam MapleStory

W

W/G or WG

Work Gloves

WK

White Knight — 3rd job advancement of Page

WW

Werewolf — Enemy found in Wolf Territory I and II

WS

Wolf Spider — A monster found in New Leaf City, inside of Big Ben.

X

XBow

Crossbow

XBowman

Crossbowman — Archer who specializes in Crossbows.

Y

Yepe, Yepi, YnP

Yeti & Pepe combined — An enemy found in Ice Valley II in El Nath.

Z

Z(1-4)

Refers to the Forest of Dead Trees maps in El Nath (from I to IV).

ZB

Zombie.

Z-Helm

Zakum Helmet

ZLupin

Zombie Lupin

ZS, ZShroom

Zombie Mushroom

ZMM

Zombie Mushmom

Z-Run

A large group of people who defeat Zakum, usually to obtain Z-helms and skill books; many guilds offer Zruns for a high price.