Game Acronyms

These are the list of acronyms which will be helpful for you in your Maple life!
The terms are ever evolving, so we might even miss out some of them...

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1. Basic Terms
2. Social Terms
3. Trading Terms
4. Monster / Boss Terms
5. Item / Equip Terms
6. Area / Content Terms
7. Class / Skill Terms

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Basic Terms

Term	Definition
AF	Arcane Force
AP	Ability Points for your character's ability.
AS	All Stats
ATT / MATT	Weapon Attack / Magic Attack
BD	Boss Damage
BL	Buddy List (usually to add as buddies)
Buff	Buff Skills to boost character stats.
CC	Change Channel
CD	Skill Cooldown
Char	Character
CH	Channel
CMA	Cancel Magic Attack effect.
CR	Critical Rate
CS	Cash Shop
CWA	Cancel Weapon Attack
Daily	Refers to Daily Quests.
dark 1 / d1	An Elite Boss is spawning..
DC	Disconnect
DEX	Dexterity Stats
Dojo Buff	Weather EXP Buff similar to MVP EXP Weather
DR	Drop Rate
EB	Elite Boss
EC	Elite Champions
EM	Elite Monsters
EQ	Equipment
EXP	Experience Points
Farm	Monster Life
FFA	Free for All
GM	Game Master OR Guild Master
GP	Guild Points
HP	Health Points. When it reaches 0, your character dies.
Hyper	Refers to Hyper Skill / Hyper Stats.
IED	Ignore Defense Stat
IGN	In-game Name / Nickname
INT	Intelligence Stats
Lv / Lvl	Level
MA	Magic Attack
Mesos	In-game currency in MapleStorySEA
Mob Collect	Monster Collection
MP	Mana Points. Some classes do not use MP.
MVP	Most Valuable Player / Maple Value Point (Cash Term)
NPC	Non-Playable Character
Pot / Add Pot	Potential / Additional Potential
PQ	Party Quest
PT	Party
Ref	Damage Reflect
SF	Star Force
SP	Skill Points for your character's skill.
SS	Screenshot
STR	Strength Stats
Theme Dungeon	Dungeon content to allow fast progression.
Town	Safe area without monsters.
UI	User Interface
Union	Maple Union System
WA	Weapon Attack
WSE	Refers to Weapon, Secondary Weapon, Emblem

Social Terms

Term	Definition
F3	I don't care...
F4	Sad...
F5	Angry!!!
F6	WAH!
F7	So.. disappointing...
EZ	Easy!
GG	Good Game.
Grats / Gratz / Gz	Congratulations!
KS	Kill Steal
LF>	Looking For
MVP Buff	MVP EXP Weather Buff shared by an MVP Player.

Trading Terms

Term	Definition
AH / AUC	Auction House
B> / S>	Buying / Selling
FM	Free Market
MM	Meso Market
SVC	Service
WTB / WTS	Want to Buy / Want to Sell

Monster / Boss Terms

Term	Definition
Alien / UFO	Level 175+ Hunting Field, Omega Sector
Ark	Arkarium Boss
BM	Black Mage
CRA	Chaos Root Abyss Bosses
Drakes	Level 60+ Hunting Field, Sleepywood
e-/n-/h-/c-	Appended in front of a boss name to indicate Easy/Normal/Hard/Chaos difficulty (E.g. Czak)
KFC	Refers to Von Bon in Root Abyss
KFT	Korean Folk Town
KT	Kerning Tower
Lomien	Lotus and Damien Bosses
NHT	Normal Horntail. Also used for other Normal Bosses.
Robo	Level 110+ Hunting Field @ Ludibrium
Scorpion / Scorpie	Level 80+ Hunting Field @ Magatia
VL	Von Leon Boss
Willcid	Will and Lucid Bosses

Item / Equip Terms

Term	Definition
Abso	Absolabs Equipment
Acs	Arcaneshade Equipment
Anvil	Fusion Anvil / Medal Anvil
APC	Additional Cube (Additional Potential Cube)
ASOK	Avatar Scissors of Karma
Aug Soul	Augmented Soul
BBM	Black Bean Mark
BC	Black Cube
Bebe	Refers to Bebe Boxes, usually given after a game update.
BF	Balanced Fury
BIS	Best in Slot (Equipment Term)
BODR	Breath of Divinity Ring
Boom	Term used when destroyed an equipment.
BS	Black Scroll
CF	Confusion Fragment, used to craft equipment/acessory.
CRA Helm	A lucky item helmet which can fit in all set effects.
CRA Set	Level 150 Equipment Set
CRF	Crimson Resurrection Flame
CSOG	Chaos Scroll of Goodness
CSS	Clean Slate Scroll
EPS	Epic Potential Scroll
Evo Ring	Evolving Ring (Tradable)
HQEES	High Quality Equip Enhancement Scroll
HTR	Hyper Teleport Rock
ICSOG	Incredible Chaos Scroll of Goodness
Inno	Innocent Scroll
LGR	Lightning God Ring
LPS	Legendary Potential Scroll
Mega	Hyper Megaphone / MVP Megaphone
PC	Purple Cube
PE	Power Elixir
Perm	A term to refer that an item is Permanent.
Pnou	Princess Nou Boss or Princess Nou Secondary Equips
PSOK	Platinum Scissors of Karma
RC	Red Cube
Royal	Royal Style / Royal Hair / Royal Face
RRF	Rainbow Resurrection Flame
SOK	Scissors of Karma
Sus Cube	Suspicious Cube
Typhoon	Typhoon Growth Potion
UPS	Unique Potential Scroll
WBR	Welcome Back Ring
YC	Yellow Cube

Area / Content Terms

Term	Definition
AEA2	Level 180+ Hunting Field @ Twilight Perion
Ardent	Profession Town, Ardentmill
BH	Blockbuster Content: Black Heaven
CCI	Chew Chew Island
CCIPQ	Hungry Muto Party Quest @ CCI
CLP	Cave: Lower Part (Road to Extinction) or Cave: Lower Path (Arcana)
CWPQ	Cross World Party Quest
Cyg	Cygnus Boss
DB	Dream Breaker
DIPQ	Dimensional Invade Party Quest
Dojo	Mu Lung Dojo
FR	Flag Race
Gpot	Weekly Guild Potion / Blessing
GPQ	Guild Party Quest, Sharenian Sewers
Heka	World Raid Hekaton
Hene	Henesys
HOM	Blockbuster Content: Heroes of Maple
JQ	Jump Quest
Lach	Dream City Lacheln
MGH5	Level 190+ Hunting Field @ Haven
MLS3	Level 235+ Hunting Field @ Esfera
MP	Monster Park
MP3	Level 180+ Hunting Field @ Boat Quay Town
PL	Level 170+ Hunting Field @ Showa Town
RA	Root Abyss
RTE	Road to Extinction, also known as "Arcane River".
Seed	Challenge Content: Tower Under the Ocean "The SEED"
Slurp	Level 210+ Hunting Field @ CCI
TOT	Temple of Time

Class / Skill Terms

Term	Definition
AB	Angelic Buster
BAM	Battle Mage
BM	Bowmaster
BS	Bishop
CM	Cannon Master
CO	Combat Orders, Paladin Skill
DSE/DSI/DHS/DCO	Decent variant of the original skills (E.g. Combat Orders)
DA	Demon Avenger
DB	Dual Blade
DK	Dark Knight
Door	Heaven's Door, Bishop Skill
FA	Final Attack
FP	Arch Mage (Fire, Poison)
FW	Flame Wizard
HB	Hyper Body, Dark Knight Skill
HS	Holy Symbol, Bishop Skill
HY	Ho Young
IL	Arch Mage (Ice, Lightning)
Kishin	Kishin Shoukan, Kanna Skill
KOC	Knights of Cygnus
Mech	Mechanic
NL	Night Lord
NW	Night Walker
Pala	Paladin
PF	Pathfinder
SE	Sharp Eyes, Bowman Skill
Shad	Shadower
SM	Soul Master
WB	Wind Breaker
WH	Wild Hunter
XBM	Crossbow Man

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