WoW to GW2 Terminology Guide

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Below is a list of popular wow terminology along side their GW2 counterparts. Please be aware that some of these terms can not be directly translated due to the vast number of differences between the two games. This list is purely for reference and should serve as a nice starting point for players making difficult decision to start over in a brand new game.

This thread will be updated as time goes by and is open to suggestions.

Big hugs to everyone who has chipped in so far.

Translations:
Wow................................................GW2
Headstart Access............Extended Beta Test
2hand Sword.............................Greatsword
2hand mace...................................Hammer
Auction House..........................Trading post
Azeroth.............................................Tyria
Buffs...............................................Boons
Classes.....................................Professions
Companion....................................Miniature
Debuffs......................................Conditions
Professions..................................Disciplines
Quests............................................Events
Root...........................................Immobilize
Snare..............................................Cripple
Talents.............................................Traits (closest match)

Class Similarities:
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a direct translation. Classes in both games are very different, this list is to give a loose idea of what classes are similar in terms of visual and behavioural styling.
Wow.........................................GW2
Hunter....................................Ranger
Mage...............................Elementalist
Paladin.................................Guardian
Rogue.......................................Thief
Warlock..........................Necromancer
Warrior...................................Warrior (Duh)
* Mesmers and Engineers have no WoW equivalent.
* DKs, Monks, Priests, Druids, and Shamans have no GW2 equivalent.

Item Quality Colour Chart: - Thanks to Mif for this one.
Junk - grey
Basic - white
Fine - blue
Masterwork - green
Rare - yellow
Exotic - orange/gold
Legendary - red
See Also - Mystic - purple (for certain items - does not denote quality)

NOTE: Exotic and Legendary are the same quality, but Legendary weapons are much more special cosmetically speaking and harder to get. Exotic is the highest quality stats-wise - DrakeWurrum

Common Guild Wars Specific Abbreviations: (NOT translations)
LA = Lion's Arch, the city in central Kryta
CoF = Now the Citadel of Flame (that initialism was used for Cathedral of Flame which was a dungeon in the charr homelands)
MM = Minion Master, this refers to a Necromancer who focuses all of his or her abilities on raising and maintaining minions.


Things To Know:
Many "quests" like hearts and events do not require you to talk to an NPC to collect the quest. Just join in!
Profession Stations also act as a bank.
Mail can be collected anywhere in the world, no need for mailboxes.
There are no mounts in the game.
You do not need to spend time travelling, open the map, click the nearest waypoint and you are teleported there.
Gathering is not a profession, you simply equip the necessary tools and collect materials from nodes.
You can learn 2 of the 8 crafting professions. When you unlearn a profession, you do not lose discovered recipes if you switch back.

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These two can serve as a list of terms from GW1 - while most of them are specific to that game, some of them will occur in GW2 as well.
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Guil...ssary_of_Terms
and
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Categ...official_terms

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These two can serve as a list of terms from GW1 - while most of them are specific to that game, some of them will occur in GW2 as well.

Oh nice, that's a great start. I'll certainly use those links to write a direct WoW-to-GW2 translation table if I can't find anything closer to what I was looking for.

Thanks a lot

[Miah]

Play the game, there's a stress test today at Noon PST

WoW-Stale rehash GW2-Hopefully decent

[plantation]

For me the worst ones are probably going to be the names/abbreviations for spell combinations. I know that at some point some guy will be like "USE FROST ARROW CLEAVE!!!!" and I'll be like wtf is that lol

[Mif]

Wow.....................GW2
Classes.........Professions
Professions.....Disciplines
Buffs...................Boons
Debuffs..........Conditions

[zito]

Bebuffs..........Conditions

I don't see what you did there.

[Ynna]

I don't see what you did there.

It's a copyposted list, and he never bothered to get the error out of the original copy.

[Mif]

I don't see what you did there.

Oh, whoops

---------- Post added 2012-08-21 at 09:57 PM ----------

It's a copyposted list, and he never bothered to get the error out of the original copy.

I don't have to listen to these wild accusations!

/sneaks off to edit original post too.

Edit:
Now I remember why I didn't edit that original, I can't because Fencers locked it

[zito]

Oh, whoops

---------- Post added 2012-08-21 at 09:57 PM ----------

I don't have to listen to these wild accusations!

/sneaks off to edit original post too.

Lol you both fell for my plan

MESMERS RULE

/runs off

[Grable]

Not trying to flame and a bit off-topic, but I find people who have started to play WoW before BWL was released "oldschool", not early-mid TBC :/

Other than that, I think what Mif posted is the most important. Also something I like to "mix" by accident is:

Hunter...Ranger

[Keldrath]

Not trying to flame and a bit off-topic, but I find people who have started to play WoW before BWL was released "oldschool", not early-mid TBC :/

Other than that, I think what Mif posted is the most important. Also something I like to "mix" by accident is:

Hunter...Ranger

Yeah, I found that kinda funny, But I guess TBC was long enough ago to say someone playing then is oldschool now. Heh, i still remember when he was a newbie, heck i still remember long before he even thought of WoW :P

um, boons are buffs, conditions are debuffs, the roles are damage, support, control. rather than dps, tank, healer.

professions are classes, idk what else stands out really.

[Fawxey]

Good thread

I just wish the MMO market would agree on standards (were relevant to story) on the naming of things. It is starting to get tedious when you play many MMO's to remember what each game decides to call EXACTLY the same thing.

[Mif]

Also, item coloring makes more sense than other MMOs because it uses a graduated color scale where hotter colors = better.

Junk
Basic
Fine
Masterwork
Rare
Exotic
Legendary

(There is also Mystic for certain items, which doesn't denote quality)

[Deleted]

Play the game, there's a stress test today at Noon PST

WoW-Stale rehash GW2-Hopefully decent

Thank you for your... um... input?

Not trying to flame and a bit off-topic, but I find people who have started to play WoW before BWL was released "oldschool", not early-mid TBC :/

I was referring more to my attitude. I'm not into all this welfare epic, handout mentality that seems to have been all the rage in the last couple of xpacs but I take your point onboard.

[Thulvaso]

I'm still going to end up using wow terminology like buffs, talents etc it's drilled into my head.

[Ynna]

I'm having trouble with saying Warrior instead of Fighter and Thief instead of Rogue, but this is caused more by D&D than by WoW.

[jvbastel]

also, gnomes - - - - - Asura

[Deleted]

You forgot the
Quests.....Events
!.......<3

[Deleted]

Who isn't? -.- *sarcasm mode off* I mean seriously.. who does everyone claim to be Old school player in wow.. only like 400-600k players around back then were playing and most of them are now adults who have a: job, wife, house, and quit playing video games. Kinda fun fact, isn't it?

And afterall, who the fuck gives a shit have you played back in vanilla?

Please read more of the OP, in fact if you could make it to the end of the sentence where I say "since early-mid TBC" that would be great. Like I said in my reply, the term "old school" was in reference to the hard-casual mentality that doesn't seem to be present in a lot of the post-wrath players.

I'm still going to end up using wow terminology like buffs, talents etc it's drilled into my head.

I feel you, big time. I'm really going to try as hard as I can to take on new terminology though cus I think it will make a difference in how successful I am in searching for advice and such. If nothing else, I know it will annoy my WoW addicted buddies, so that will be worth it on it's own *trollface*