Growing up playing this game, you don't realize all the lingo you have learned throughout the years. Very excited for all the new players to immerse themselves in the game I grew up playing!
You're pumping out videos like no tomorrow, Llama! Looking forward to getting back into the game. PlugY has been great, but the community is what I miss. Beta was everything I could have hoped for in terms of community and playing with others.
@@lyndonbauer1703 Same here and I don't say or type baba and soso either. They're barb and sorc. And I'll say amu instead of amy. I also pronounce the SoJ as soy instead of SOJ though, so there's that XD
If you guys think some of these abbreviations are strange or aren't what you remember, just keep in mind that East/West and Europe realms had vastly different terms since these communities did not play together, so their own terms formed in their own player-bubble. I'm sure Asia realms had their own stuff too, but I've never even met someone whos played there. I've played on USEast since 2002, but having used jsp I know a ton of EU only terms. I'll list a few that I can think of without going in-game. Baba = Barbarian (EU only for the most part) Soso = Sorceress (East started using this kinda recently, but I've seen it on EU though) Pala = Paladin (I've seen it very rarely on East, but its basically only a EU thing) Harle = Shako = Harlequin Crest Shako (Harle is definitely EU only) Taxi = Rush = Getting carried through the game (EU used to use this term, but they pretty much phased it out) Ama = Zon = Amazon (Ama is pretty much EU only too) Eni = Enigma = Enigma Runeword (Eni is 100% EU only, East and west just call it Enigma or nigma) runeword armor that gives massive bonus and teleport skill, probably best item in the entire game) Sk = Skiller = Grand Charm with +1 skill to certain skill tabs (Sk is 100% EU only, East and West call them different things depending on what class theyre for. example: pcomb is paladin combat skill grand charm.) Skin = Graphic (basically for OCD people who want matching charms or a certain type of ring graphic or amulet graphic. Every one of them has different names on different realms. Even some have multiple names, depending on the realm. There are guides for item graphic names out there especially on jsp).' Gater = Bumper = Bump = Grush Bumper (a level 60+ character who was glitch rushed or classic rushed through the game who has not done their ancient quests in normal, nightmare or hell thus giving the leacher the quests when the bumper completes them). Zaka = HoZ = Herald of Zakarum (unique paladin shield thats considered best in slot for some builds. somewhat uncommon in hell, but very useful for many paladin builds in late game) FT = fast trade (in EU this ALWAYS stands for "fast trade". which is quite confusing because in East/West FT stands for "For trade" as in, this item is listed for trade. FT is usually used when someone wants to trade an item very quickly, often slightly overpaying for whatever so they can get it quickly.) I'll edit this post with more as I think about them!
A lot of these "common phrase" abbreviations apply to NA only. Nobody on the EU server ever uses Nigma, ISO, BIN, Script, WUG, WUW or 4 that means "for" in game names. Just to add to the stuff that others have already pointed out, on EU, you'll commonly see O=offering, N=need, read (or simply r)=read game description, iwub=I'll whisper you back, ama=amazon and soso=sorceress (rather than NA's zon and sorc), PC=+1 to paladin combat skills grand charm (rather than NA's Pcomb), red=ruby, yellow=topaz, etc. Man, there are surprisingly many differences!
I agree with everything but I heard Sorc like 50 times more often than soso in EUW. I always thought it was pronounced sorK because i didnt know it was short for sorceress :D
@@sheetshoqx3708 idk if that's entirely true. I could see a new player not understanding anything going on in trade chat and seeking out something like this.
Absolute bullshit, I remember starting this game 20 years ago and doing just fine as a "New player" without watching nerds like llama telling me what to do and what top runewords, that no normal person would ever get their hands on, that I should use etc etc.. Are you implying that new players today are absolute morons or?
The abbreviations used in European lobby were kind of different from what I've seen over the years. No ISO/BIN, instead O (Offer) / N (Need), e.g. O shako N ist No Script, instead READ
I was about to say, I've never seen most of these.. must be EU.. its usually "O bug Exile N R" (R being "read description") Also Barb instead of Baba... as well as Sorc instead of Soso (though that's relatively common..) Also never heard of "CS Runs" its "Diaruns" or "Diabaal runs"
But we don't need a video explaining it; in EU things just make sense and we totally never misunderstand anything at all! :p Which reminds me of my classic days and someone wanted a woe from me and I was totally confused why they wanted a woestave but I had one so I went through my mules to get them one :p Like I said, we Europeans are just too smart to ever be confused by anything at all :p
Been playing this game almost since launch , still watched the whole video for some reason ahah ! Nice to see people from the D2 community putting in time to help new player to enjoy the game , keep up with the good work Llama !
A perfect example of why Acronyms like this are really dangerous, out of context they're easy to misunderstand. If people don't know what it means they make their best guess and are often off by miles.
@Jmt1000 really dangerous doesn't necessarily mean life threatening. In this case it just means that it causes rampant misunderstandings and miscommunication, which is a pretty big problem when it fundamentally fails at the purpose of communication.
When I was new to the game I kept seeing “shako” mentioned in titles and trade games so when a rare shako dropped I tried to sell it not understanding that shako referred to harlequin crest. I was pretty confused as to why people wanted random elite caps but I tried anyway
I like the comments on CtA and Eni: "you are going to see a lot of characters with xxx". I hope I am going to see MANY more people with ancient pledge to be honest... If not, that means botting is going strong.
"UP" means a town portal is opened. It can be to let you know they have the latest portal. It can be useful information when you join a game with 6 portals opened already. Or it can also mean that they reached the zone your party was looking for and a portal is up. So you have to watch out for that or you'll miss the boss/quest if you don't go back and take their portal.
mr llama is one of the most wholesome streamers and people ive ever come across, thanks for uploading so many videos they are very cathartic to watch and to fall asleep to.
Hey man, I've been watching your videos in prep for D2R. Thank you for reminding me how a lot of these mechanics work after 15+ years not playing. Also learning so many things I didn't fully understand as a kid. I appreciate your content!
Thank you for posting all this content. I'm having a hard time waiting until the end of September and these really help me get my fix without actually booting up the game.
There are actually some differences between US and Europe in that case. Examlpes I found in your video: Occy -> Ocu/Occu Os -> Sox (sockets) Pally -> Pala Sin -> Assa Zon -> Ama O = offer, ISO-> N = need, BIN -> FT = fast trade script -> read Rush 4 forge -> N taxi O HF Charsi food -> Akara food :>> I Think it's good to know both, becouse the game will be global. Great work, Llama. Cheers :)
I only played Diablo 2 offline for a few weeks 20 years ago. Underestimating how good this game was with the music and atmosphere. Never came back. But I still love watching experts like you and the explanations behind it. I think I’m going to start again with resurrection, mainly because of the memories and guys like you.
Juchu, I passed the class. Funny content. Thank you, llama. In Europa I usually see an "R" instead of "script" in game titles. I guess it means "read (more)"
I remember when LoD released and people initially abbreviated Shako to "HC" but it caused some confusion with Hardcore mode. Shortly after (first month maybe?) it switched to Shako and never went back.
The following could also be added: AR = Attack Rating (related to % chance to hit an enemy with a physical attack) 2/20 Ammy/Circ = +2 Skills, +20 Fast Cast Rate Amulet/Circlet which is generally for casters Fishymancer = A Necromancer who uses the summoning skill tree as his main PnB = Necromancer's Poison and Bone Skills Wind druid = Druid who uses the elemental skill tree (more specifically wind related spells such as hurricane, twister, tornado and cyclone armor) GFace = Guillaume's Face (A set item helmet mainly used for it's crushing blow and deadly strike) Ebug = A bug which causes an ethereal armor to increase it's defense by another 50% when it is cubed for sockets Cubing = Repeatedly transform an item using the horadric cube to get desired stats such as resistances, +skills, life or faster cast rate etc Dual Leech = An item which contains both modifiers for life steal as well as mana steal LR = Lower Resist. A useful Necromancer curse used by other elemental damage dealers such as sorceresses and druids Throwbarb = A barbarian who specializes in throwing weapons (such as throwing axes, javelins, etc) instead of the usual melee attacks Zealot = A paladin who specializes in the Zeal combat skill Hammerdin = A paladin who specializes in the Blessed Hammer combat skill Riftsin = An Assassin who makes use of a hybrid build using Traps skilltree and Martial Arts skilltree to deal very high elemental damage while using the Rift runeword
Epic video. A lot of stuff is shortened even more sometimes, e.g. "p torch", "s torch" for paladin torch, sorc torch, etc. although "p" also often means "perfect" so it's ambiguous if "p torch" is a pally torch or a perfect torch. Ethereal is occasionally shortened all the way to just "E". These sorts of super short versions are often used in the game names since game name has such a tiny max character limit. It's basically the Twitter of 2000. You could also use "s" and "ns" for safe/not safe portals. "nk" = "naked kill" (killing someone before they've picked up their corpse). "g" = "go" (ready to fight, usually both players say this before engaging in "gm" PvP).
Getting back into D2 because of the re-release. Thanks for the helpful content! It's fun to re-learn some of this interweb lingo that my generation pioneered, lol.
Llama you forgot to mention people who speak another language and for some reason decided it was a good idea to start watching a bunch of people who speak english and play this game like crazy! Lol no matter the reason I'm so happy I did. EXCELLENT video idea! Loved it
LIT=Leg In Town is highly useful to know FT=Fast Trade a lot of these games will exist Nec=Necromancer Surprised it wasn’t mentioned Good vid. Enjoyed the trip down memory lane
Cheer's MrLlama! I've been so exited, and even more now, after all of the content you've released - You truely are the spokesman of the D2 community! "Said as a player from, Diablo ps1, and with LOD as first time mmo experience" Sincere respekt towards you! I do have a question, that I dont think have been answered yet. What about the websites, such as d2jsp, will Diablo Resurrected have its own "trading community" or will the "pay2win" sites still be available? - I think it's an "issue" that might need to be adressed. Lotta love from Denmark!
D2jsp will still be used for D2R, but don't let this deterr you! You are on your own journey, make your own fun! If you want to compete you should do this at a ladder reset. Which will be more frequent in D2R than it used to be in D2.
With the nigma - BP Nigma for breastplate and AP Nigma for archon plate. BP great for low str req (bone necro, starter hdin - eventually wanna get that ap) also upd/upped - mainly on the HOZ (herald of zakarum pally shield - upping is ladder only). Also want a perf hoz with 200ed (1 ko + 1 lem + 1 p diamond) you can up exceptional items to make it the elite version of the item. Herald Of Zak is a gilded shield (exceptional) and can be upped to a zakarum shield. Also SS or Mon/Monarch is a Storm Shield Monarch. There are a lot of item abbreviations in the game too: Rend/Rends - Steelrend Ogre Gauntlet gf - Grandfather Colossus blade Homun/Homo - Homunculus CoH - Chains of Honor wf/windy - Windforce bow Buriza - Unique Crossbow lid - lidless wall shield coa - crown of ages vamp - vampire gaze helm botd - breath of the dying ebotd - eth breath of the dying val/valor - arkaines valor balrog skin armor tals - tal rasha set item HW/highlords/lords/hilord - Highlords Wrath ammy wt/travs/wartravs - war traveler boots (MF boots) tucs/btucs/barts - bartucs talon (assn weapon) rbf - rainbow facet pcomb (pally combat skill grand charm) can have max 20 life 3/20/20 - 3 to max dmg/20 to life/20 to attack rating small charm There are a TON more, a lot of PVP gear with rbf in it especially when dealing with a foh pally, also skill abbreviations too. ALSO soundchaosdebug is the best thing to type in chat, during the resurrection beta it bugged and required a game reboot (atleast for me). I still play Diablo II and now my birthday week just got better, Blizzard doing the good deed.
People will often type "h" or "here" in chat when you're running through a place like the act II deserts or some of the dungeons to let the others know that they found the stairs or way forward. "h" is fairly common because they can say it the instant they find it and then can keep on running into the next area without really stopping.
Trading stuff on EU works very different - game name would be "O Soj Read" (offer soj read description for what's needed) or "N Ber O Soj" (need Ber offer SOJ)
I remember stumbling upon a trading forum (ladderhall?) back before I was into D2, and it sounded like another language. I think it is part of the reason that I wanted to learn more about the game.
I always said soj as sOge (capital O, ge as in sarge), "a soj". And others say "an soj". We both know what we are talking about. Some more abbreviations are NK = naked kill, Meph = Mephisto, D or Big D for Diablo, ubers for Uber Tristram, Uber D for Uber Diablo, Key runs means farming for the three Keys. Andariel is Andy, Souls is any sort of "souls" monsters that shoot lightning at you and are very dangerous. Dolls means the very dangerous stygian dolls, and other monsters of that type. Both monster types are usually avoided if possible. TP also can mean "take my tp". A "Hot" tp you don't want to go into. It's an exit only TP. So if you see "hot", then a portal opens and the character pops out covered in poison, don't go in there. GD means Good Duel, GF means Good Fight if you are talking in duels, but Gold Find if you are talking about an MF build, BvB means barb vs barb (barbs only), also barb means Barbarian too (you covered baba), ZvA means AmaZon v Assassin, etc. Great video!
Here are some more, I don't know if these were covered.: ft = for trade xfer = transfer (move item from one char to another) botd = Breath of the Dying (runeword) ebotd = Ethereal BotD ebotdz = Eth BotD Zerker Zerker = Berserker Axe (one handed weapon) eve = Eth Exile Vortex [shield] wf = windforce (unique bow) AR = attack rating / all resistances
Funny you ended on the tp/pp matter, and they actually improved the game by letting us use an auto-party feature! Also, I'm glad to have actually remembered all of them and was playing (guess what it is) all along :P
Rushing is also sometimes called "taxi"... also any item with "perf" in front of it, means player is either offering top roll item, or at least one of most important item stats is rolled to max. Like "Perf CTA" would be 6/6/4, but some players would call 6/6/3 or 6/5/4 a perf CTA. It's probably less common, because its more clear to write down 141d shako (not that these 43 points of def in shako matter a lot). Anyways "perf" might show up next to item... "perf anni" etc. And as ladder goes by, prices of items go down as there are more of them, and "perf" items begin to be worth even more as there are always players looking for max possible stats...
Been watching Lama videos for a few months now, great vids btw been watching some of your older vids too, greatly appreciated, butI was always confused when you said 'mers' instead of 'merc' or 'sors' instead of 'sorc' but i was sort of like 'you know what, this is right, it's short for mercenary and sorceress, but after hearing you say Ossy instead of occy, now i'm just convinced you love soft c sounds to hard c sounds :D
EBUG - eth bugged armor (using cube formula to add sockets to non-superior eth gear) +50% defense, usually for Fortitude or Duress merc armor, also Exile shield for Pally Boo plz - recast your barbarian buffs Walk, or Act 2 Walk for example - (don't rush with higher character) GG trades - godly gear/game over gear, usually talking about best in slot items with perfect stats. Chant/Enchant plz- using a high level fire sorc to buff lower characters, usually in a form of a bot game 5 Nado - the elusive +2 skill +3 tornado rare druid helm, same applies to pretty much every yellow class item for the desired +5 skill, I believe magic version goes to 6-7 20/2 gloves - amazons and assassins might be looking for +20% attack speed, +2 to bow/javelin,+2martial arts trade for socket - someone wants to trade for your Larzuk's quest reward, often Ist if not high rune rush for rush - I rush you, you rush me
Thanks for that, you could eq your mic for a better sound, there is also 'proximity effect' to consider which is that the bass increases the closer your mouth is to the mic.
Adding to the already fantastic list - at least in my head - comes a bunch of PvP-specific lingo as well. Regarding the value of life/damage/ar small charms and specific gear, be it the "4s 9x life archon", the "3/17/20" or the very old "CCBoQ/CCSoQ/CCBoE/CCSoE" standing for "Cruel Colossus Sword/Blade of Quickness/Evisceration". But that's mainly true for myself as an avid(!) 1.09 PvP player. With the introduction of BotD, those Swords crafted via the chipped gem recipe sadly lost a lot of it's value. But you always knew you were up against one of "ye olden guys" when you saw a Barb running around with a pitch black (evisceration) or golden (quickness) sword.
Wow. This is very funny to watch since lots of these shortcuts were different on European Servers. Look here for the differences: --- General Stuff --- O = Offer N = Need R = Read the description S = open sockets T = Torch charm Anni = Annihilus charm ENI = Enigma PG = Perfect Gem EP/XP = Experience brb = be right back Sk/Sc = Skiller --- Classes --- Ama = Amazon Assa/Sin = Assasin Pala = Paladin Sorc = Sorceress Nec = Necromancer Barb/Baba = Barbarian --- Item / Affix Combinations --- The item name comes first, then the affix > e.g. Hoto 38 Anni would be written with XP > e.g. Anni 18/10/8 Torch would be written with light radius > e.g. Pala T 20/15/8 CTA could be CTA 4/6/3 or CTA x/6/x or CTA 6 Bo --- Trade Game Name Examples --- Offer IST Rune / Need 40 Perfect Gems > e.g. O IST N 40PGs Offer multiple items with longer names / Need Anni 20/15/x > e.g. O R N Anni 20/15/x + game description with your list of items
On rush 4 forge, let the rusher grab w/e they want and only grab the leftovers after they run off to Diablo/A5(depending where you did it) I doubt muling will highly be used in D2R with the shared stashes thanks for the refresher on this, I never knew the 1/2 thing for safe/not safe
In EU we use "read" to refer to the discription. And if I remember correctly, skillers are shortened to SK. E.g. cb sk = combat skiller Also chaos sanc are just diaruns. As well as diabaalruns. Or dbrun
great idea! a more advanced video could be cool too. IAS and FCR (breakpoints) , BP MP AP SA, COA Esch Dweb SS , Zerker PB CB WP TM, LWZ HOJ EBOTD fort COH, IK Tals Gris Mavs Trangs, SUP EBugged GG(item), Pelt Trap claws 6bohelm 8bswhite... dang theres a lot of lingo... anyways more content ;) you actually took me wayyyy back with the Shako explination . because i did in fact find a blue shako and wondered why it had value starting off.
also an explination to why there is so much lingo.. we get what 16 characters to fit into a game name? and hardly anyone takes time to read scrips unless they are minmaxing.
Love all the content you have been putting out in prep for d2r release. Might I suggest a video going through runewords? Which are best early on, mid-game, or higher end. Or for specific purposes like lld, pvp, goldfind/magicfind, etc
"aussie" for oculus. good one also in other regions people refer to lots of uniques by their base item, not just shako. i think with the removal of regions this will become more common as there are more players in EU where they do this
Very nice and I really appreciate the video but I plan on playing single player like I always have :D Also these abbreviations have always messed with my head.
I call the Sorceress Sorc, Barbarian, Barb. To me Baba is like the nickname of the Unique Talwar The Sword of Ali Baba.
Underrated comment
To me it's how a baby says bottle
Yeah only ever heard barb.
@Johnathan Smith i remember people saying baba bobo to remind the barbs to use their buffs
Yeah, I've never heard Baba for Barb..
@M L baba is barbarian - very old school
My god this is taking me back....I haven't played D2 for over a decade but these short hand phrases are bringing me right back to it.
HC WF FT
Growing up playing this game, you don't realize all the lingo you have learned throughout the years. Very excited for all the new players to immerse themselves in the game I grew up playing!
You're pumping out videos like no tomorrow, Llama! Looking forward to getting back into the game. PlugY has been great, but the community is what I miss. Beta was everything I could have hoped for in terms of community and playing with others.
Will Plugy work in single player D2R?
@@Stephen-mk5eu Plugy won't work with D2R sadly, hopefully later on we will get something that will work
He has a cast on his foot and nothing else to do but annoy people every day with another video. :p KC
I haven't played D2 since I was a teenager in the mid 00's. Thank you for this!
"No one short forms necro" literally the short form for necromancer 😂
I call them nec.
@@chrisc9497 we all do. Trust me Llama is the only one saying necro. spent too much time single player
No one short forms Barb.....
@@mannometermesser respectfully disagree, I do still call em a necro after all these years
@@lyndonbauer1703 Same here and I don't say or type baba and soso either. They're barb and sorc. And I'll say amu instead of amy. I also pronounce the SoJ as soy instead of SOJ though, so there's that XD
If you guys think some of these abbreviations are strange or aren't what you remember, just keep in mind that East/West and Europe realms had vastly different terms since these communities did not play together, so their own terms formed in their own player-bubble. I'm sure Asia realms had their own stuff too, but I've never even met someone whos played there.
I've played on USEast since 2002, but having used jsp I know a ton of EU only terms. I'll list a few that I can think of without going in-game.
Baba = Barbarian (EU only for the most part)
Soso = Sorceress (East started using this kinda recently, but I've seen it on EU though)
Pala = Paladin (I've seen it very rarely on East, but its basically only a EU thing)
Harle = Shako = Harlequin Crest Shako (Harle is definitely EU only)
Taxi = Rush = Getting carried through the game (EU used to use this term, but they pretty much phased it out)
Ama = Zon = Amazon (Ama is pretty much EU only too)
Eni = Enigma = Enigma Runeword (Eni is 100% EU only, East and west just call it Enigma or nigma) runeword armor that gives massive bonus and teleport skill, probably best item in the entire game)
Sk = Skiller = Grand Charm with +1 skill to certain skill tabs (Sk is 100% EU only, East and West call them different things depending on what class theyre for. example: pcomb is paladin combat skill grand charm.)
Skin = Graphic (basically for OCD people who want matching charms or a certain type of ring graphic or amulet graphic. Every one of them has different names on different realms. Even some have multiple names, depending on the realm. There are guides for item graphic names out there especially on jsp).'
Gater = Bumper = Bump = Grush Bumper (a level 60+ character who was glitch rushed or classic rushed through the game who has not done their ancient quests in normal, nightmare or hell thus giving the leacher the quests when the bumper completes them).
Zaka = HoZ = Herald of Zakarum (unique paladin shield thats considered best in slot for some builds. somewhat uncommon in hell, but very useful for many paladin builds in late game)
FT = fast trade (in EU this ALWAYS stands for "fast trade". which is quite confusing because in East/West FT stands for "For trade" as in, this item is listed for trade. FT is usually used when someone wants to trade an item very quickly, often slightly overpaying for whatever so they can get it quickly.)
I'll edit this post with more as I think about them!
Instead of Script in EU we say Read, as in read the desciption
Also Eq for equipment
A lot of these "common phrase" abbreviations apply to NA only. Nobody on the EU server ever uses Nigma, ISO, BIN, Script, WUG, WUW or 4 that means "for" in game names.
Just to add to the stuff that others have already pointed out, on EU, you'll commonly see O=offering, N=need, read (or simply r)=read game description, iwub=I'll whisper you back, ama=amazon and soso=sorceress (rather than NA's zon and sorc), PC=+1 to paladin combat skills grand charm (rather than NA's Pcomb), red=ruby, yellow=topaz, etc.
Man, there are surprisingly many differences!
red, yellow, blue... refer to token parts (essences) not gems
@@Cell2749 That actually makes way more sense, now that I think about it.
In EU back in the day nobody said 'rush' as well. I remember people called this 'taxi' :V
@@Kaktanternak I actually still see "taxi" time to time, haha.
I agree with everything but I heard Sorc like 50 times more often than soso in EUW. I always thought it was pronounced sorK because i didnt know it was short for sorceress :D
This was a really good idea. It's this kind of stuff that is a huge barrier of entry to new players.
@@sheetshoqx3708 idk if that's entirely true. I could see a new player not understanding anything going on in trade chat and seeking out something like this.
@@ycombine1053 its not a barrier. all good.
wait till they try to stay alive in leveling runs, how i missed the days of hiding behind pillars.
Absolute bullshit, I remember starting this game 20 years ago and doing just fine as a "New player" without watching nerds like llama telling me what to do and what top runewords, that no normal person would ever get their hands on, that I should use etc etc.. Are you implying that new players today are absolute morons or?
@@FalseInformation 20 years ago the game was brand new. So you learned the abbreviations along with the other "new players"
oh my god, this brings back so so many good memories. I cant wait to play again...if I have the time. So glad I found your channel too
WUG IDK WUW IDK WUG LOTS WUW ANY, HAVE SOJS WUG
The abbreviations used in European lobby were kind of different from what I've seen over the years.
No ISO/BIN, instead O (Offer) / N (Need), e.g. O shako N ist
No Script, instead READ
Yep.
O jool READ
*Reading* 40/15 N Offer
I was about to say, I've never seen most of these.. must be EU.. its usually "O bug Exile N R" (R being "read description") Also Barb instead of Baba... as well as Sorc instead of Soso (though that's relatively common..)
Also never heard of "CS Runs" its "Diaruns" or "Diabaal runs"
Or just "R" instead of Read
But we don't need a video explaining it; in EU things just make sense and we totally never misunderstand anything at all! :p
Which reminds me of my classic days and someone wanted a woe from me and I was totally confused why they wanted a woestave but I had one so I went through my mules to get them one :p Like I said, we Europeans are just too smart to ever be confused by anything at all :p
One of these days I hope to get a script. You can seemingly trade it for anything.
Lmao right? Script FTW!
Been playing this game almost since launch , still watched the whole video for some reason ahah ! Nice to see people from the D2 community putting in time to help new player to enjoy the game , keep up with the good work Llama !
"Some people call it a 'SAWGE' and we don't allow those people to play the game" I love this guy and actual lol.
SAWGE?
Read this comment and prepared myself.
Still broke out laughing.
I always say SAWGE, come on @mrllamaSC you are so inconsistent. You don't allow sawge yet you say BO instead of B.O. . BO sounds so weird
Came to find this after I heard him lmao
The "ossie" though, just about killed me
I once thought HOTO meant Horizon's Tornado and tried to trade my 'HOTO' and got mocked and didn't understand why. :)
Lol that's such an understandable mistake 😂
A perfect example of why Acronyms like this are really dangerous, out of context they're easy to misunderstand. If people don't know what it means they make their best guess and are often off by miles.
@Jmt1000 really dangerous doesn't necessarily mean life threatening. In this case it just means that it causes rampant misunderstandings and miscommunication, which is a pretty big problem when it fundamentally fails at the purpose of communication.
@Jmt1000 Oxford says it has 2 definitions.
1. Able or likely to cause harm or injury.
2. Likely to cause problems or to have adverse consequences.
When I was new to the game I kept seeing “shako” mentioned in titles and trade games so when a rare shako dropped I tried to sell it not understanding that shako referred to harlequin crest. I was pretty confused as to why people wanted random elite caps but I tried anyway
I appreciate all the videos for new (or returning players like me) that will help us when the D2R gets released. Good job man! :]
I like the comments on CtA and Eni: "you are going to see a lot of characters with xxx".
I hope I am going to see MANY more people with ancient pledge to be honest... If not, that means botting is going strong.
Even in the high runes rws, cta is far from the most common. Hoto and enigmas are
I rarely use Ancient's Pledge, because I'll just go straight for a Spirit Shield.. :/
@@MissMayITheBreather I'd upgrade into a CTA before I upgrade a Spirit to a HotO.
@M L mal, ist, ohm… CTA is like 2/3 of the price of a enigma which will be the most wanted item in the game for a few weeks/months…
If WoW is any indication expect bots to run free and blizzard won't care even a bit.
"UP" means a town portal is opened. It can be to let you know they have the latest portal. It can be useful information when you join a game with 6 portals opened already. Or it can also mean that they reached the zone your party was looking for and a portal is up. So you have to watch out for that or you'll miss the boss/quest if you don't go back and take their portal.
“PP” also means portal please. In old d2 it meant party please but in the new world of auto party we got a new meaning
mr llama is one of the most wholesome streamers and people ive ever come across, thanks for uploading so many videos they are very cathartic to watch and to fall asleep to.
Hey man, I've been watching your videos in prep for D2R. Thank you for reminding me how a lot of these mechanics work after 15+ years not playing. Also learning so many things I didn't fully understand as a kid. I appreciate your content!
Played original D2 in my 20s for thousands of hours. Now that I am 40 years old, there is a whole other meaning for E.D.
XD
Eat watermelon
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that UwU was so smoothly added, omg, that was good, i really enjoyed that
UWU is "I think you're cute - I LOL'd when I heard you say that one so casually.
After 10 years of being away from the game, I still have all of it down lol. I cant wait for D2R comes out!
Sorc, Barb, Necro, Paly, Dru, Zon, Sin.
That’s the lingo for the names I always used.
Soso, barb, nec, pala, dudu, ama, assa
When I have to rush to keep up with D2 output, it's really a beautiful thing.
Thank you for posting all this content. I'm having a hard time waiting until the end of September and these really help me get my fix without actually booting up the game.
100% feel this post haha it’s how I learned to spell and communicate…. God I’m so happy my childhood game is back and better then ever!
There are actually some differences between US and Europe in that case.
Examlpes I found in your video:
Occy -> Ocu/Occu
Os -> Sox (sockets)
Pally -> Pala
Sin -> Assa
Zon -> Ama
O = offer,
ISO-> N = need,
BIN -> FT = fast trade
script -> read
Rush 4 forge -> N taxi O HF
Charsi food -> Akara food :>>
I Think it's good to know both, becouse the game will be global.
Great work, Llama.
Cheers :)
I only played Diablo 2 offline for a few weeks 20 years ago. Underestimating how good this game was with the music and atmosphere. Never came back. But I still love watching experts like you and the explanations behind it. I think I’m going to start again with resurrection, mainly because of the memories and guys like you.
I never heard or will call my Barb, Baba. lol
I heard baba mainly pre-LOD. I call him baba lol
Love your content, super personable, may never play online but could listen to you talk D2 all day. Youre great.
Why not play online if I may ask?
Dude you are absolutely rejogging my memory of all this back in 2000 when Diablo 2 was 1st released thank you so much!!❤
He looked so uncomfortable doing the shortened versions of Enigma lmaooo
Love you llama, stay pure
Juchu, I passed the class. Funny content. Thank you, llama. In Europa I usually see an "R" instead of "script" in game titles. I guess it means "read (more)"
Dang, i learned all these the hard way in the pass 2 mths grinding legacy D2LOD and watching you, dbrunski, cooley and the rest..
probably better than trying to memorise all of these words, youve sunk that knowledge in to your long term now
I just never traded back in the day so I didn't need to deal with it.
I remember when LoD released and people initially abbreviated Shako to "HC" but it caused some confusion with Hardcore mode. Shortly after (first month maybe?) it switched to Shako and never went back.
The following could also be added:
AR = Attack Rating (related to % chance to hit an enemy with a physical attack)
2/20 Ammy/Circ = +2 Skills, +20 Fast Cast Rate Amulet/Circlet which is generally for casters
Fishymancer = A Necromancer who uses the summoning skill tree as his main
PnB = Necromancer's Poison and Bone Skills
Wind druid = Druid who uses the elemental skill tree (more specifically wind related spells such as hurricane, twister, tornado and cyclone armor)
GFace = Guillaume's Face (A set item helmet mainly used for it's crushing blow and deadly strike)
Ebug = A bug which causes an ethereal armor to increase it's defense by another 50% when it is cubed for sockets
Cubing = Repeatedly transform an item using the horadric cube to get desired stats such as resistances, +skills, life or faster cast rate etc
Dual Leech = An item which contains both modifiers for life steal as well as mana steal
LR = Lower Resist. A useful Necromancer curse used by other elemental damage dealers such as sorceresses and druids
Throwbarb = A barbarian who specializes in throwing weapons (such as throwing axes, javelins, etc) instead of the usual melee attacks
Zealot = A paladin who specializes in the Zeal combat skill
Hammerdin = A paladin who specializes in the Blessed Hammer combat skill
Riftsin = An Assassin who makes use of a hybrid build using Traps skilltree and Martial Arts skilltree to deal very high elemental damage while using the Rift runeword
1 = Safe
2 = Not safe
are something I’d have never guessed without this video.
By far one of the most useful videos regarding D2 culture. especially to brush up on terms.
Epic video. A lot of stuff is shortened even more sometimes, e.g. "p torch", "s torch" for paladin torch, sorc torch, etc. although "p" also often means "perfect" so it's ambiguous if "p torch" is a pally torch or a perfect torch. Ethereal is occasionally shortened all the way to just "E". These sorts of super short versions are often used in the game names since game name has such a tiny max character limit. It's basically the Twitter of 2000.
You could also use "s" and "ns" for safe/not safe portals.
"nk" = "naked kill" (killing someone before they've picked up their corpse).
"g" = "go" (ready to fight, usually both players say this before engaging in "gm" PvP).
Thanks ...coming back have not played since the lunch of LOD back in the day you have been a great help.
Getting back into D2 because of the re-release. Thanks for the helpful content! It's fun to re-learn some of this interweb lingo that my generation pioneered, lol.
D2R will be my first time playing this game and I am so glad I found this channel. You do great work!
Llama you forgot to mention people who speak another language and for some reason decided it was a good idea to start watching a bunch of people who speak english and play this game like crazy! Lol no matter the reason I'm so happy I did. EXCELLENT video idea! Loved it
Coming back to D2 after a nearly 20 year hiatus. With that said, Ammy = amulet in my world.
“They’re not looking for the blue shako, they are looking for...”
A D2 player never truly quits.
You always come back, weather it's 6 months or 10 years.
Just found your channel and these videos are really helpful. I’m relearning my beloved childhood game. Thank you. 🙏
LIT=Leg In Town is highly useful to know
FT=Fast Trade a lot of these games will exist
Nec=Necromancer Surprised it wasn’t mentioned
Good vid. Enjoyed the trip down memory lane
I always thought FT is For Trade
I've been playing D2 since I was like 5 and I still watched the whole video lmao
Cheer's MrLlama!
I've been so exited, and even more now, after all of the content you've released - You truely are the spokesman of the D2 community! "Said as a player from, Diablo ps1, and with LOD as first time mmo experience" Sincere respekt towards you!
I do have a question, that I dont think have been answered yet. What about the websites, such as d2jsp, will Diablo Resurrected have its own "trading community" or will the "pay2win" sites still be available? - I think it's an "issue" that might need to be adressed.
Lotta love from Denmark!
D2jsp will still be used for D2R, but don't let this deterr you! You are on your own journey, make your own fun!
If you want to compete you should do this at a ladder reset. Which will be more frequent in D2R than it used to be in D2.
Remember that when you have BO you will attract monsters from further away especially bog monsters in act 3 and you need some DEO to reduce that.
Man I can’t wait to make my first Grush for Forge game!
With the nigma - BP Nigma for breastplate and AP Nigma for archon plate. BP great for low str req (bone necro, starter hdin - eventually wanna get that ap) also upd/upped - mainly on the HOZ (herald of zakarum pally shield - upping is ladder only). Also want a perf hoz with 200ed (1 ko + 1 lem + 1 p diamond) you can up exceptional items to make it the elite version of the item. Herald Of Zak is a gilded shield (exceptional) and can be upped to a zakarum shield.
Also SS or Mon/Monarch is a Storm Shield Monarch.
There are a lot of item abbreviations in the game too:
Rend/Rends - Steelrend Ogre Gauntlet
gf - Grandfather Colossus blade
Homun/Homo - Homunculus
CoH - Chains of Honor
wf/windy - Windforce bow
Buriza - Unique Crossbow
lid - lidless wall shield
coa - crown of ages
vamp - vampire gaze helm
botd - breath of the dying
ebotd - eth breath of the dying
val/valor - arkaines valor balrog skin armor
tals - tal rasha set item
HW/highlords/lords/hilord - Highlords Wrath ammy
wt/travs/wartravs - war traveler boots (MF boots)
tucs/btucs/barts - bartucs talon (assn weapon)
rbf - rainbow facet
pcomb (pally combat skill grand charm) can have max 20 life
3/20/20 - 3 to max dmg/20 to life/20 to attack rating small charm
There are a TON more, a lot of PVP gear with rbf in it especially when dealing with a foh pally, also skill abbreviations too.
ALSO soundchaosdebug is the best thing to type in chat, during the resurrection beta it bugged and required a game reboot (atleast for me).
I still play Diablo II and now my birthday week just got better, Blizzard doing the good deed.
Awsome video been playing since d1 so i already know it all but nice tutorial really like your content keep up the good work.
People will often type "h" or "here" in chat when you're running through a place like the act II deserts or some of the dungeons to let the others know that they found the stairs or way forward. "h" is fairly common because they can say it the instant they find it and then can keep on running into the next area without really stopping.
Trading stuff on EU works very different - game name would be "O Soj Read" (offer soj read description for what's needed) or "N Ber O Soj" (need Ber offer SOJ)
O is for Offer n For Need, just simple things
o bugged tal n jmod
First
Thanks for your content Llama
Btw is there a story about soj ?
I remember stumbling upon a trading forum (ladderhall?) back before I was into D2, and it sounded like another language. I think it is part of the reason that I wanted to learn more about the game.
Awesome. Good video. I would not expect script for description. In Europe we use R as "Read description" :))
I always said soj as sOge (capital O, ge as in sarge), "a soj". And others say "an soj". We both know what we are talking about. Some more abbreviations are NK = naked kill, Meph = Mephisto, D or Big D for Diablo, ubers for Uber Tristram, Uber D for Uber Diablo, Key runs means farming for the three Keys. Andariel is Andy, Souls is any sort of "souls" monsters that shoot lightning at you and are very dangerous. Dolls means the very dangerous stygian dolls, and other monsters of that type. Both monster types are usually avoided if possible. TP also can mean "take my tp". A "Hot" tp you don't want to go into. It's an exit only TP. So if you see "hot", then a portal opens and the character pops out covered in poison, don't go in there. GD means Good Duel, GF means Good Fight if you are talking in duels, but Gold Find if you are talking about an MF build, BvB means barb vs barb (barbs only), also barb means Barbarian too (you covered baba), ZvA means AmaZon v Assassin, etc. Great video!
Here are some more, I don't know if these were covered.:
ft = for trade
xfer = transfer (move item from one char to another)
botd = Breath of the Dying (runeword)
ebotd = Ethereal BotD
ebotdz = Eth BotD Zerker
Zerker = Berserker Axe (one handed weapon)
eve = Eth Exile Vortex [shield]
wf = windforce (unique bow)
AR = attack rating / all resistances
Funny you ended on the tp/pp matter, and they actually improved the game by letting us use an auto-party feature!
Also, I'm glad to have actually remembered all of them and was playing (guess what it is) all along :P
i have been in need of this video for like 10 years
17:17 Typed fart when writing the faster run walk. Nice freudian slip.
I don’t know how the twitch watchers do it. His UA-cam voice is so much better
Thanks so much for this. I've just reinstalled the game after a decade and this video really comes in handy 👌
Alex has a filled content plan leading up to D2R, this week has been insane 😯
Been playing since the game came out and I learned a ton for this video… Thanks Llama!
Rushing is also sometimes called "taxi"... also any item with "perf" in front of it, means player is either offering top roll item, or at least one of most important item stats is rolled to max. Like "Perf CTA" would be 6/6/4, but some players would call 6/6/3 or 6/5/4 a perf CTA. It's probably less common, because its more clear to write down 141d shako (not that these 43 points of def in shako matter a lot). Anyways "perf" might show up next to item... "perf anni" etc. And as ladder goes by, prices of items go down as there are more of them, and "perf" items begin to be worth even more as there are always players looking for max possible stats...
Amazing trivia trip down memory lane. Fun as hell.
Other nice content congrats MrLlamaSC!
Remember the newbies about the people that use a Emerald in a socketed Shako trying to 'scam' in trades.
Been watching Lama videos for a few months now, great vids btw been watching some of your older vids too, greatly appreciated, butI was always confused when you said 'mers' instead of 'merc' or 'sors' instead of 'sorc' but i was sort of like 'you know what, this is right, it's short for mercenary and sorceress, but after hearing you say Ossy instead of occy, now i'm just convinced you love soft c sounds to hard c sounds :D
EBUG - eth bugged armor (using cube formula to add sockets to non-superior eth gear) +50% defense, usually for Fortitude or Duress merc armor, also Exile shield for Pally
Boo plz - recast your barbarian buffs
Walk, or Act 2 Walk for example - (don't rush with higher character)
GG trades - godly gear/game over gear, usually talking about best in slot items with perfect stats.
Chant/Enchant plz- using a high level fire sorc to buff lower characters, usually in a form of a bot game
5 Nado - the elusive +2 skill +3 tornado rare druid helm, same applies to pretty much every yellow class item for the desired +5 skill, I believe magic version goes to 6-7
20/2 gloves - amazons and assassins might be looking for +20% attack speed, +2 to bow/javelin,+2martial arts
trade for socket - someone wants to trade for your Larzuk's quest reward, often Ist if not high rune
rush for rush - I rush you, you rush me
i pref 3/20 blue gloves over 2/20 yellows
This was very informative and interesting! Thanks for the content!
I just got back into D2R, and this was helpful. Rather than studying for my license exam ( I know the material 😁), I am looking into D2R lingo 😂
Thanks for that, you could eq your mic for a better sound, there is also 'proximity effect' to consider which is that the bass increases the closer your mouth is to the mic.
0:54 - Shako
1:42 - Occy
2:22 - SOJ
3:12 - BK
3:40 - 40/15
4:50 - 1os, 2os, 3os, 4os, 5os
6:10 - Torch
7:13 - Anni
8:20 - Baba, Sorc, Paly, Zon, Sin, Necro, Druid (Dudu)
9:13 - Hoto
10:35 - CTA
12:20 - Nigma Teleporting armor
13:20 - HR
15:15 - Stats
15:40 - Small Charms
16:18 - 1 (safe) 2 (not safe) for portal safety
17:02 - FHR FRW FCR FBR
17:45 - MF
18:33 - Grushing, Bumper
19:40 - DS, CB, OW, CTC
21:05 - DR, pdr, mdr
22:30 - PGEM
23:03 - PK
23:26 - ISO, BIN, FG, Script, WUG, WUW, NN, T4T
25:23 - Skillers
27:00 - Pindle (and other runs), NG
30:25 - Tele
30:29 - Muling
30:48 - Charsi
30:12 - BM vs GM
31:44 - WP
30:49 - Game+Pass
32:24 - PP/TP
Hope this helps and all is correct.
I didn't want to spoil the joke.
@@nibbix6970 true, my bad
Adding to the already fantastic list - at least in my head - comes a bunch of PvP-specific lingo as well. Regarding the value of life/damage/ar small charms and specific gear, be it the "4s 9x life archon", the "3/17/20" or the very old "CCBoQ/CCSoQ/CCBoE/CCSoE" standing for "Cruel Colossus Sword/Blade of Quickness/Evisceration". But that's mainly true for myself as an avid(!) 1.09 PvP player. With the introduction of BotD, those Swords crafted via the chipped gem recipe sadly lost a lot of it's value. But you always knew you were up against one of "ye olden guys" when you saw a Barb running around with a pitch black (evisceration) or golden (quickness) sword.
Whatevererall sorch item they want, there's usually an abbreviation for it.
Every beginner needs to see this video. You should do another video on how to avoid trade scams.
Wow. This is very funny to watch since lots of these shortcuts were different on European Servers. Look here for the differences:
--- General Stuff ---
O = Offer
N = Need
R = Read the description
S = open sockets
T = Torch charm
Anni = Annihilus charm
ENI = Enigma
PG = Perfect Gem
EP/XP = Experience
brb = be right back
Sk/Sc = Skiller
--- Classes ---
Ama = Amazon
Assa/Sin = Assasin
Pala = Paladin
Sorc = Sorceress
Nec = Necromancer
Barb/Baba = Barbarian
--- Item / Affix Combinations ---
The item name comes first, then the affix > e.g. Hoto 38
Anni would be written with XP > e.g. Anni 18/10/8
Torch would be written with light radius > e.g. Pala T 20/15/8
CTA could be CTA 4/6/3 or CTA x/6/x or CTA 6 Bo
--- Trade Game Name Examples ---
Offer IST Rune / Need 40 Perfect Gems > e.g. O IST N 40PGs
Offer multiple items with longer names / Need Anni 20/15/x > e.g. O R N Anni 20/15/x + game description with your list of items
Damn, Llama is rocking my feed with content and Im LOVING IT
On rush 4 forge, let the rusher grab w/e they want and only grab the leftovers after they run off to Diablo/A5(depending where you did it)
I doubt muling will highly be used in D2R with the shared stashes
thanks for the refresher on this, I never knew the 1/2 thing for safe/not safe
Lama is the david ocke of diablo 2, teaching us his 20 years experience in just 1 hour.
Do you mean David Icke? Remember when he declared he was Jesus lol?
@@darrylcampbell4426 Where was the lie?
Back in 1.06 we always referred to Stone Ring of Jordan as 'So-Jo' maybe that was just among my mates.
Lol. Yes. Big difference between "A" Shako, and "The" Shako.
no a shako is a harlequin crest. both the and a would be the same thing. nobody refers to any other type of shako
@@Frilleon I mean a blue, white, or rare elite cap is still a shako. Obviously his point.
In EU we use "read" to refer to the discription.
And if I remember correctly, skillers are shortened to SK. E.g. cb sk = combat skiller
Also chaos sanc are just diaruns. As well as diabaalruns. Or dbrun
This was so incredibly helpful - thank you
great idea! a more advanced video could be cool too. IAS and FCR (breakpoints) , BP MP AP SA, COA Esch Dweb SS , Zerker PB CB WP TM, LWZ HOJ EBOTD fort COH, IK Tals Gris Mavs Trangs, SUP EBugged GG(item), Pelt Trap claws 6bohelm 8bswhite... dang theres a lot of lingo... anyways more content ;) you actually took me wayyyy back with the Shako explination . because i did in fact find a blue shako and wondered why it had value starting off.
also an explination to why there is so much lingo.. we get what 16 characters to fit into a game name? and hardly anyone takes time to read scrips unless they are minmaxing.
Love all the content you have been putting out in prep for d2r release. Might I suggest a video going through runewords? Which are best early on, mid-game, or higher end. Or for specific purposes like lld, pvp, goldfind/magicfind, etc
Mr llama definitely has access to the full version of the game... he can't tell us because of legal reasons... just putting that out there.
Love that you typed fart when you were explaining FRW etc
Your next video ought to be about the economy and rough trading values for items.
"aussie" for oculus. good one
also in other regions people refer to lots of uniques by their base item, not just shako. i think with the removal of regions this will become more common as there are more players in EU where they do this
Really well needed vid. Good call, dude.
Amazing guide! Thanks, Mr Llama
16:45 we always used to write "s" and "ns" instead.
yea or saf/ns Maybe this is an eu thing I dunno.
Very nice and I really appreciate the video but I plan on playing single player like I always have :D
Also these abbreviations have always messed with my head.
its the acronyms that get me, so this was helpful. now i’ll know what the he’ll you’re talking about😅