This is a redone Glossary of terms for a tankadin adapted from Lore’s original one intended for Wotlk and thus has some abilities in their future forms rather than their live forms. If you spot spelling errors, syntax errors, or format errors feel free to PM me about them so I can fix them. If you have a suggestion please post it in the thread so we can get some discussion on it.

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96969 - Maximum TPS rotation against Bosses for Prot paladins. [url]Thread on the subject.[/url]

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AD (acronym) - Ardent Defender.

Anticipation - Tier 3 5-point Protection Talent. Increases Dodge chance by 1% per point.

Ardent Defender - Tier 7 5-point Protection Talent. When you have less than 35% health, all damage taken is reduced by 30%.

AP (acronym) - Attack Power.

ArP (acronym) - Armor Penetration.

AS (acronym) - Avenger's Shield.

Attack Table - The method WoW uses to determine whether an enemy creature's attack is a miss, dodge, parry, block, crit, crushing blow, or normal hit.

Avenger's Shield - Tier 9 Protection Talent. Hurls a holy shield at the enemy, dealing Holy damage, Dazing them and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Can be glyphed to reduce the targets hit to 1 but doubles the damage done.

Avoidance - Generic term for stats that give you a chance to completely nullify (avoid) an attack, ie: Miss, Dodge, Parry. Occasionally includes Block chance as well, usually when used in relation to uncrushable status (see: Uncrushable, Pure Avoidance).

AW (acronym) - Avenging Wrath (occasionally called Angel Wings).

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Benediction - Tier 1 5-point Retribution Talent. Reduces the Mana cost of your instant cast spells by 2% per point.

BiS (acronym) - Best in Slot. Gear set or piece that provides optimal performance. With dps there only (almost always) one set while with tanks and healers there tend to be varying sets based on sub roles.

Blessing of Kings - Tier 1 5-point Protection Talent. Places a Blessing on the friendly target, increasing total stats by 2% per point.

Blessing of Sanctuary - Tier 5 Protection Talent. Places a Blessing on the friendly target, reducing damage taken from all sources by 3%. In addition, when the target dodges, parries or blocks a melee attack the target will gain 2% of total mana, 10 rage or 20 runic power.

Block Cap - The point where additional Block Chance is pushed off the table. A paladin reaches this point against a raid boss when their chance to be missed+dodge+parry+block an attack adds up to 102.4. Formerly uncrushable.

Block Rating - Stat. Increases your chance to block an incoming attack.

Block Value - The amount of damage absorbed by your shield when an attack is blocked.

Blue Rage - Mana. More specifically when Blessing of Sanctuary is used on a paladin tanking multiple mobs.

BoK (acronym) - Blessing of Kings.

BoM (acronym) - Blessing of Might.

BoP (acronym) - Old acronym for Hand of Protection still in use by many.

BoS (acronym) - Blessing of Sanctuary

BoSanc (acronym) - Blessing of Sanctuary.

Boss - A special creature, usually in a dungeon or instance, that typically drops preset loot or is the objective of a quest. Also used in reference to boss-level ("??-level") creatures, most commonly found in raid dungeons.

BoW (acronym) - Blessing of Wisdom.

BR (acronym) - Block Rating.

Bubble Wall - Another name for Divine Protection.

BV (acronym) - Block Value.

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CB (acronym) - Crushing Blow

CBA 1. (acronym) - Crushing Blow Avoidance (miss+dodge+parry+block)
CBA 2. (acronym) - Can't be Assed - can't be bothered. "Look for the link on page 1; I cba to type it out again."

CC (acronym) - Crowd control.

CD (acronym) - Cooldown. A means of lowering risk through an ability that is short term and can not be used for some time afterwards.

Combat Expertise - Tier 8 3-point Protection Talent. Increases your expertise skill, Stamina %, and melee crit chance by 2 per point.

Crit (abbreviation) - Critical Strike

Critical Strike - An attack that deals extra damage, 200% damage for melee attack and some spells and 150% for most spells.

Crit Immune - See Uncrittable.

Crushing Blow - A standard white damage attack done by an enemy creature that causes 150% normal damage. Can usually only be performed by mobs 4 levels or more above you, although there are some (rare) exceptions.

Crush Immune - See Uncrushable.

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Defense Rating - Stat. Increases your defense skill.

Deflection - Thought to be the ranged equivalent of a parry. This will be experienced when using HotR occasionally. It is not known yet if a deflected attack will cause a mob to experience parry haste and attack faster.

Deflection - Tier 1 5-point Ret Talent. Increases your Parry chance by 1% per point.

Devotion Aura, Improved - Tier 4 3-point Protection Talent. Increases the armor bonus of your Devotion Aura by 17%/34%/50% and grants a 2%/4%/6% bonus to healing to people under the effect of Devotion Aura.

DG (acronym) - Divine Guardian

DI (acronym) - Divine Intervention. Often used as a verb such as "DI someone before we wipe"

Diminishing Returns - A method of preventing inflation or undervaluation on a stat or method of CC. Applies to stuns in PVP, avoidance, damage scaling on ShoR and other situations.

Divine Guardian - Tier 4 2-point Protection Talent. While under the effects of Divine Shield reduces all damage taken by raid or party members by 15%/30%.

Divine Intervention - Sacrafices the caster to put an 3 minute immunity barrier on the target. Used as a wipe prevention tool or to prevent durability loss (caster's death is self inflicted).

Divine Strength - Tier 1 5-point Protection talent that increases strength by 3% per point.

Divine Protection - Reduces all damage taken by 50% for 12 seconds and also increase attack time between attacks by 100%. Triggers forbearance. Also called bubble wall.

DKP (acronym) - Dragon Killing Points. A looting system that uses a point (currency) system to purchase gear.

Dodge Rating - Stat. Increases your chance to dodge.

DP (acronym) - Can stand for Divine Plea or Divine Protection.

DPS (acronym) - Damage per second. Can either mean DPS done by an individual or a character that specializes in dealing damage.

DR (acronym) - Damage Reduction, Refers to reduction in damage from Armor or talents. Can also stand for Dodge Rating or Diminishing returns on avoidance.

DS (acronym) - Can either stand for Divine Strength or Divine Shield. Can also stand for the Retribution talent Divine Storm.

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Effective Health - The amount of raw, unmitigated damage that a creature must deal to kill you.

EH, EHP (acronym) - Effective Health.

EoG (acronym) - Essence of Gossamer

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G

GBTL (acronym) - Guarded by the Light.

GF (acronym) - Guardian's Favor. You didn't think Tankadins had girlfriends, did you?

Guarded by the Light - Tier 9 2-point Protection Talent. Decreases Spell damage taken by 3% per point and reduces the mana cost of shield based spells by 15% per point.

Guardian's Favor - Tier 2 2-point Protection Talent. Reduces the cooldown of your Blessing of Protection and increases the duration of your Blessing of Freedom.

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Hammer of Justice, Improved - Tier 4 3-point Protection Talent. Decreases the cooldown of your Hammer of Justice spell by 10 seconds per point.

Hammer of the Righteous - Tier 11 1-point talent. A melee strike that does 4 times weapon sheet DPS to 3 targets. Also applies the effect of your current seal to all 3 targets.

HoF (abbreviation) - Hand of Freedom.

HoJ (acronym) - Hammer of Justice.

HoP (abbreviation) - Hand of Protection.

HoR (acronym) - Hand of Reckoning. Single target taunt.

HoSalv (abbreviation) - Hand of Salvation.

HoSac (abbreviation) - Hand of Sacrifice.

Holy Shield - Tier 7 Protection Talent. Increases chance to block by 30% for 10 sec and deals Holy damage for each attack blocked while active. Each block expends a charge. 8 charges.

HotR - Hammer of the Righteous

HoW (acronym) - Hammer of Wrath

HP (acronym) - Hit Points.

HS (acronym) - Holy Shield. Occasionally used in reference to Healthstones or Holy Shock.

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Imp. (abbreviation) - Improved. Usually refers to a talent.

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JoJ (acronym) - Judgement of Justice

JoL (acronym) - Judgement of Light.

b]JotJ[/b] (acronym) - Judgements of the Just

JoW (acronym) - Judgement of Wisdom.

Judgement, Improved - Tier 2 2-point Retribution Talent. Decreases the cooldown on your Judgement spells by 1 second per point.

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LoH (acronym) - Lay On Hands.

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Main Tank - The tank assigned to tanking the boss in an encounter. Some encounters can have multiple Main Tanks. Occasionally used as a broader term to define the tank that is most commonly used in this position by a guild.

Mitigation - Generic term for stats that reduce the amount of damage taken, usually by a physical attack, but do not avoid it entirely, ie: Armor, Block Value. May include Hit Points, usually when referencing Effective Health. Also occasionally used as a blanket term that includes all stats and effects which reduce damage taken, including Mitigation and Avoidance.

MP (acronym) - Mana Points.

MT (acronym) - Main Tank.

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O

1HS (acronym) - One Hand Specialization

Off Tank - A secondary tank in an encounter, usually assigned to tanking adds or building threat on the primary target.

One-Handed Weapon Specialization - Tier 6 5-point Protection Talent. Increases all damage you deal when a one-handed melee weapon is equipped.

OOM (acronym) - Out of Mana.

OT (acronym) - Off Tank.

OP (acronym) - Over Powered. Can also mean Original Post.

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Parry Gib - A death or near fatal string of attacks resulting from a mob parrying an attack or attacks. The danger of this condition was exagerated especailly when reguarding Paladins. With the removal of Crushing Blows the danger from parried attacks is greatly reduced and thus parry gibbing is less likely to occur. In the past the danger was that Shield Block or Holy Shield charges would be used up by parry hasted attacks and result in a series of crushing blows. PLEASE NOTE it is not okay for melee dps to attack from the front on most bosses as it will result in less dps and increased tank damage due to the large number of parriable attacks a whole raid group has compared to a single tank.

Parry Haste - An increase in attack speed of a defender's next swing following the defender's successful parry of an attacker's attack. When a defender parries an attack, the remaining time on the defender's current swing is reduced by 40% of the defeder's weapon speed, unless this would result in a reduction to less than 20% of swing time remaining. This can occur for both players and NPCs. PLEASE NOTE that increasing your parry chance does not cause a mob to attack faster but increases the tank's attacks.

Parry Rating - Stat. Increases your chance to parry.

PoJ (acronym) - Tier 3 2-point retribution talent. Pursuit of Justice.

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R

Raid Buffed - Having all of the buffs available in the player's average raid when "ready to pull". This can include Elixirs or Flasks, Mark of the Wild, Power Word: Fortitude, any number of Greater Blessings, Divine Spirit, Resistance buffs, food buffs, weapon buffs, and any available group buffs such as Auras, Totems, Shouts or Blood Pact. It does NOT include temporary "cooldown" buffs such as Nightmare Seeds, Avenging Wrath, or Stoneshield Potions.

Redoubt - Tier 8 3-point Protection Talent. Increases your Block Value by 30% and Damaging melee and ranged attacks against you have a 10% chance to increase your chance to block. The secondary affect lasts 10 sec or 5 blocks.

Reckoning - Tier 5 3-point Protection Talent. Gives you a chance after being hit by any damaging attack that the next 4 weapon swings within 8 sec will generate an additional attack.

RF (acronym) - Righteous Fury.

Righteous Fury, Improved - Tier 3 3-point Protection Talent. While Righteous Fury is active, all damage taken is reduced by 2% per point.

RNG (acronym) - Random Number Generator. The dice roll that the game does to determine the out come of Attacks, Loot drops, or Procs.

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SA (acronym) - Spiritual Attunement.

Salv (abbreviation) - Hand of Salvation.

Sacred Duty - Tier 6 2-point Protection Talent. Increases your total Stamina by 3%/6%, reduces the cooldown of your Divine Shield spell and reduces the attack speed penalty.

SB - Shield Block. Also can refer to a warlock spell Shadow Bolt.

SD (acronym) - Spell Damage. A.K.A. Offensive Spell Power.

Seals of the Pure - Tier 1 5-point Holy Talent. Increases the damage done by SoV, SoR, SoCorr (SoV) and Judgements while those seals are active by 3% per point.

Shield Block - A Warrior ability that increase chance to block and block value by 100% for 10 seconds.

b]Shield Slam[/b] - A Warrior ability that hits an enemy for damage. Some Protection paladins have taken to calling the paladin counter part, Shield of Righteousness, Shield Slam due to their similar nature.

Shield of the Templar - Tier 10 3-point Protection Talent. Increases damage done with shield based attacks by 10% per point and decreases damage taken by 1% per point.

ShoR (acronym) - A commonly used acronym for Shield of Righteousness.

SoB (acronym) - Seal of Blood.

SoC (acronym) - Seal of Command.

SoCorr (acronym) - Seal of Corruption (Horde version of Seal of Vengeance). Use of SoCorr is frowned upon and SoV is prefered.

SoJ (acronym) - Seal of Justice.

SoL (acronym) - Seal of Light.

SoM/SotM (acronym) - Seal of the Martyr (Alliance version of Seal of Blood). Use of SoM/SotM is frowned upon and SoB is prefered.

SoR (acronym) - Seal of Righteousness.

SotR (acronym) - Another commonly used but often disputed acronym for Shield of Righteousness. Most likely thought to stand for the erroneous name Shield of the Righteous. It's use is frowned upon

SotT (acronym) - Shield of the Templar.

SotP (acronym) - Seals of the Pure.

SoV (acronym) - Seal of Vengeance.

SoW (acronym) - Seal of Wisdom.

SP (acronym) - Spell Power.

Stoicism - Tier 2 3-point Protection Talent. Reduces the duration to Stun effects and reduces the chance your spells will be dispelled 10% per point.

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Tank Burn Out - A condition where a tank becomes disenchanted with tanking. This can occur for various reasons including being obligated to run too many heroics, raid leading too many raids, too much time spent playing on WoW, or resentment towards party or guild mates. The term for the general condition that may or may not be tanking related is Player Burn out.

TBL/TBTL (acronym) - Touched by the Light

TC -Thunder clap

Toughness - Tier 2 5-point Protection Talent. Increases your armor value from items by 2% per point.

Thunder Judge - Judgements of the Just.

TPS (acronym) - Threat per Second.

Touched by the Light - Tier 9 3-point Protection Talent. Increases your spell power by 10% per point of your stamina and increases the amount healed by your critical heals by 10% per point.

Thunder Clap - Warrior ability that slows enemy attack speed and is used as an AoE tanking tool.

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Uncrittable - Not susceptible to receiving a Critical Strike from a creature. Most often refers to a raid boss. It takes 490 defense skill at 70 and 540 defense skill at 80 to be immune to crits from raid boss mobs.

Uncrushable - Not susceptible to receiving a Crushing Blow from a creature while Holy Shield is active. Redoubt is typically not considered when achieving Uncrushable status. No longer a valid term as raid bosses can not crush anymore. SEE Block Cap

Unhittable - SEE Block Cap


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White Damage/White Attack - Damage dealt as the result from a player or creature's automatic weapon swing, ie: not a special attack or spell.

Wings - Avenging Wrath

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Yellow Damage/Yellow Attack - Damage dealt as the result from a special attack or spell cast by a player or creature.

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