Tank Acronyms

Hello everyone! I have I guess one question, lol. I would like to know all of the acronyms for tanking or just being a PLD. I had someone tell me I needed to do and I had no idea what they were saying xD.
I'd really appriciate it if anyone can help.

I'm not really sure about what tank-specific terms you're referring to, but a good guide for game-wide terms and acronyms can be found here: https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/D...erms_and_Slang

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Originally Posted by Frixel

Hello everyone! I have I guess one question, lol. I would like to know all of the acronyms for tanking or just being a PLD. I had someone tell me I needed to do and I had no idea what they were saying xD.
I'd really appriciate it if anyone can help.

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Most of the acronyms that are used for jobs and classes in the game are the 3 letter ones that are used by SE to visually show who can use the gear when looking at the tooltip.

If you have older multi-mmo players you may see PAL for paladin or PUG for pugilist. I know im pretty bad about using PUG instead of the SE provided PGL. The rest are pretty much used right. The only trick in there is Archer and Arcanist, given the both start with ARC but Archer uses this one so Arcanist uses ACN

TANK - Tank Class - Tank Job

Jobs:
WAR - Warrior
PLD - Paladin
DRK - Dark Knight

Basic Terms
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HP - Health Points
MP - Mana Points
TP - Tactic/Tactical Points
LB - Limit Break
AoE - Area of Effect
Enmity - Hate - Aggro
OOM - Out of Mana

Stats
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VIT - Vitality
STR - Strength

DEX - Dexterity
PIE - Piety
INT - Intelligence
MND - Mind

Crit - Critical Hit Rate
SS - Skill Speed/Spell Speed
ACC - Accuracy
DET - Determination

lolparry - Parry

P.DEF - Physical Defense
M.DEF - Magical Defense

Global Skills
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Voke - Provoke
Conv - Convalescences
MS - Mercy Stroke

Non acryonym Global Skills
Awareness
Foresight

Job Skills

Warrior(WAR)
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HS - Heavy Swing
SS - Sunder - Skull Sunder
BB - Block - Butcher's Block
SE - Storm's Eye
SP - Storm's Path
IB - Inner Beast
FC - Fell Cleave
SC - Steel Cylone
BS - Brutal Swing

ToB - Thrill of Battle
RI - Raw Intuition
HG - Holm - Holmgang
Equil - Equilibrium
Zerk - Berserk
SW - Wind - Second Wind

Tank Stance - Defiance
DPS Stance -Deliverance

Non acronym

Maim
Unchained
Decimate
Vengeance
Infuriate
Fracture

Wrath/Abandon - Wrath Stack(s), Abandon Stack(s).

Paladin(PLD)
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FB - Fast Blade
SB - Savage Blade
Riot - RB - Riot Blade
RoH - Rage of Halone - Halone
RA - Royal Authority
GB - Goring Blade
CoS - Circle of Scorn
SW - Spirit's Within
SS - Shield Swipe - Swipe

HG - Hallowed Ground
DV - Divine Veil
TW - Tempered Will
FoF - Fight or Flight

Tank Stance - ShO - Shield Oath
DPS Stance - SwO - Sword Oath

Non acronym

Rampart
Bulwark
Sentinel
Sheltron
Cover
Clemency
Stoneskin (Sometimes referred to as SS)
Flash
Protect (Somtimes referred to as Prot)

Dark Knight(DRK)
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DA - Dark Arts
HS - Hard Slash
SS - Spinning Slash
PS - Power Slash
SyS - Syphon Strike
SE - Soul Eater
DE - Delirium
CnS -Carve and Spit
DP - Dark Passenger
AD - Abyssal Drain

DD - Dark Dance
Sskin - Skin - Shadowskin
Swall - Wall - Shadow Wall
DM - Dark Mind
BW - Blood Weapon
BP - Blood Price
LD - Living Dead/WD - Walking Dead
SS - Soul Survivor

Tank Stance - Grit
'DPS Stance' - DS - Darkside

Non acronym

Unleash
Reprisal
Salted Earth
Low Blow

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Originally Posted by Frixel

Awesome thank you!
Well someone said I had to stack triple CD Im not sure what that is lol. Thank you for the responces!

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CD = Cooldowns
I'd imagine in that situation they were talking specifically about Defensive Cooldowns.

I.E
Rampart
Sentinel
Bulwark
Foresigh
Vengeance
Thrill of Battle
Raw Intuition
Shadow Skin
Shadow Wall
Dark Mind
Dark Dance
Convalescence
Awareness

Tank stances can also be considered in the cooldown rotation.
Grit
Shield Oath
Defiance

Awesome thank you!
Well someone said I had to stack triple CD Im not sure what that is lol. Thank you for the responces!

It's different across languages but you may also see MT (main tank) and ST or OT (sub/off tank) in groups with multiple tanks. Usually someone is designated the MT and they take care of the boss to prevent the aggro switching all over the place, while the OT picks up any extra enemies and takes care of emergencies, dealing damage when there's less to do.