"DM" is the abbreviation for...

[Rusken]

Deadmines was always VC to me. It's what everyone on my server (Jubei'thos) referred to it as. If you said DM you meant Dire Maul.

[Vakna]

Lots of people saying VC is Deadmines but honestly most people just called it DM. Some people called it VC but that was absolutely a minority. The entire time I played Classic I only ever remember a few people calling it VC and never widespread.

[scriM]

I have literally NEVER heard anyone call Deadmines for VC before I played private servers. It was either LFM DM for Deadmines or LFM DM [West/North/East/Tribute] back on the servers that I played on. I almost feel it's a private server thing.

[Super Kami Dende]

Lots of people saying VC is Deadmines but honestly most people just called it DM. Some people called it VC but that was absolutely a minority. The entire time I played Classic I only ever remember a few people calling it VC and never widespread.

Incorrect. Very very incorrect.

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I have literally NEVER heard anyone call Deadmines for VC before I played private servers. It was either LFM DM for Deadmines or LFM DM [West/North/East/Tribute] back on the servers that I played on. I almost feel it's a private server thing.

Perhaps you've heard it on Private servers since they are generally people that played in Vanilla when it was at its most common to call it VC.

[Kelathos]

Classic WoW. Are you max level? Congratulations, no one has a reason to enter Deadmines. So the default assumption is for the endgame content. Not the starter dungeon.

[Thage]

DM is Deadmines. DM North/South/East/West/etc. is Dire Maul. At least from what I've seen.

[Onikaroshi]

Lots of people saying VC is Deadmines but honestly most people just called it DM. Some people called it VC but that was absolutely a minority. The entire time I played Classic I only ever remember a few people calling it VC and never widespread.

I have literally NEVER heard anyone call Deadmines for VC before I played private servers. It was either LFM DM for Deadmines or LFM DM [West/North/East/Tribute] back on the servers that I played on. I almost feel it's a private server thing.

It was entirely a server thing, Mannoroth US EVERYONE referred to Deadmines as VC.

I've heard it called other things elsewhere, servers game up with their own abbreviations

[LinkR]

Ah, the pain of running several Deadmines groups for the Cruel Barb on my rogue back in the day... and losing it to hunters. Thanks for opening those old scars.

[Arcene]

Dungeon Master clearly.

[Najnaj]

Stupid question. There is no Dire Maul instance (well, technically there is but...) there are 3 of them. LFG for DM when you mean Dire Maul is only slightly better than LFG Instance and is (and was) never used. If someone says LFG DM they mean Deadmines, if they say DM west, east, north, tribute, prince...etc it is Dire Maul.

[CarlingBlackLabel]

DM -Dungeon Master
DM N, E, W - Dire Maul
VC - Deadmines

[Darkynhalvos]

Doc Martens. Also, Deadmines, never VanCleef, which is "VC".

Fixed.

Dire Maul ALWAYS needs the wing being run. DM East/West/North.

[ohwell]

Deadmines for me. Dire Maul is also DM though, but usually you specify which part.

I voted Dire Maul because the way I saw it if you wanted to say Deadmines you could say Dm to specify. I thought VC was just stupid because new players had no idea who Van Cleef was.

[Zyky]

Nobody was looking for Deadmines groups anyway while leveling

You're insane right? Deadmines was super valuable for almost any player and it had a handful of quests. It had the first ring in the game and weapons that lasted until mid to late 30s for both staff users and 1h sword users. It also had a decent 2H, but I don't remember people using it as long.

[White Goodman1]

DM = Dead Mines.
And for Diremaul you dont really just search group for "DM" you always specify which one. Non issue.

What? It was always Deadmines or DM for Dire Maul or like you said DM north.
You hear NY= New York or NJ= New Jersey, when did you hear someone saying CF= California?

[ringpriest]

DM = Dire Maul, and yes, it normally came with which wing you were doing; but no one called Deadmines DM - it was VC, or Deadmines.