Abbreviations

Overview
This page provides a quick, single page guide to abbreviations used in chat and other places in Guild Wars. It's meant to be a practical guide for users who are new to the game and need some help understanding the lingo.

Rules for adding content:
 * The page does not aim to be all encompassing, but rather to cover:
 * Terms that are likely to be encountered (i.e. if you haven't seen it used commonly in chat, then don't add it).
 * Terms that are not commonly known, and are not obvious. (E.g. don't add "lol" means) or explain that "u" == "you".)
 * However, there's some space for semi-commonly known terms at the end under Chat (Generic).
 * If the abbreviated and non-abbreviated terms are both common, list both.
 * If the term varies in capitalization, just list the most common abbreviation. (E.g. AB instead of Ab.)

Guild tags
Guild tags are the 2-4 letter tags appended to the name of players that belong to guild. E.g. if a player named Budweiser belongs to a guild "King of the Beers" with tag KotB, then their name in-game will look like "Budweiser [KotB]".

Guild tags are not necessarily abbreviations, and are not necessarily unique. E.g. all guilds that belong to the NiTe alliance use the tag "NiTe" and are all named something like "Dragons of winter [NiTe]", so that the appended guild tag is actually part of the name.

Guild tags can also be used to continue a phrase started with the guild name; i.e. "We Are Afraid Of The [Dark]", and, as stated above, may share a tag with a guild named "Dark Knights [Dark]".

Guild Wars
Guild Wars specific terms.

Generic Chat
Chat terms that you may see anywhere, not just in Guild Wars. For much longer list, see Webopedia.