A Guide For Recovering Hitpoints
From DDO Compendium
This guide was a runner up in Turbine's 2007 User Written Game Guides Contest.
Terms to Know
- "AP" stands for “action point”.
- "Agro" is the term used to describe when an NPC is fixated on killing your character.
- "Character level" refers to total number of character levels a PC has obtained. (I.E. TestSubject is a fighter 3/ranger 8. This means he is fighter level three, ranger level eight, but character level eleven.)
- "Clicky" is an item or ability that can act as a spell. It is termed this because of the fact that the item or ability in question must be placed on a hot bar to be activated.
- "Class level" refers to the number of levels in a particular class.
- “clw” stands for the spell “Cure Light Wounds”.
- “cmw” stands for the spell “Cure Moderate Wounds”.
- “csw” stands for the spell “Cure Serious Wounds”.
- "DC" stands for "difficulty check" normally in reference to skill based rolls for success of failure of an action.
- "Fleshy" is the term used for denoting a "flesh and bone" race. I.E. dwarf, human, halfling, elf, dark elf.
- "gp" stands for "gold piece" or one gold coin.
- "HP" stands for Hit Points.
- "Incapped" is the term to describe a character who has fallen but is not yet dead (0 to -9 HP), short for being "incapacitated".
- "LoH" stands for “Lay on Hands” the ability paladins gain at second level.
- "Loot" is the term used for items pulled from chests.
- "Mnemonic potion" is a potion that restores spell points.
- "Mob(s)" are NPCs that are trying to kill your characters in quests.
- "Non Action Zone" is the term describing places like the Marketplace, any of the Houses, the Harbor, etc. This is essentially any area that does not have mobs in it.
- "NPC" stands for "Non Player Character" most typically the creatures in the game trying to kill you or the people you interact with to get quests, buy or sell items, etc.
- "PC" stands for "Player Character", in other words your own character or those played by other people, not a computer.
- "Ping" is the noise you make if you stand around in a tavern for a minute. If you ping, it means you have fully rested and your clickies have recharged.
- "Plat" is the short hand term for platinum. Platinum is worth 10 gold coins.
- "PnP" stands for "Pen-and-Paper", the table top dice rolling version of Dungeons and Dragons.
- "pp" stands for "platinum piece", or one platinum coin.
- "Pots" short hand term for “potions”.
- "Res Shrine" is the short term for resurrection shrine.
- "SP" stands for Spell Points, also known as mana.
- "Tick" is a duration of time. This value is different per action/event.
- "Wand whipper" means a person who heals by using a wand.
- "WF" is the acronym for warforged, the living constructs in the Eberron world.






