World of Warcraft 1337 5l*34]{ (leet Speak)

This style of writing was originally used by hackers, and gamers, who were attempting to bypass word-filtering on mail and game servers. For instance, they would use the term 'haxorz' to replace 'hackers'. Internet users new to hacking adopted the style in an attempt to emulate those more experienced, and usage became widely spread.

World of Warcraft is an MMORPG, or massively multiplay online role-playing game. It is one of many games adapting Gary Gygax and J.R.R. Tolkien's works to create a fantasy realm with mycological creatures and fictitious lands. You create a "Character", or toon, and explore the realm. Each race, and class, have different abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. For instance a warrior seems touch, heavy armors, lots of big weapons, and lots of abilities like rend that causes enemies to bleed for rounds after the attack losing them health. But their weakness is magic! They have no healing, no pets, no flaming bolts, etc.. where as a warlock has great magical power, and pets, but no armor to speak of and a very limited range of weapons. This is to balance game play and was made popular in Gary Gygax's work "Dungeons and Dragons". The MMORPG genre has many formats from this type, fantasy, to futuristic space compat. The common factor in all these is YOU are a single character exploring the same realm, or universe, as millions of others. This is possibly the most addicting feature of all MMORPG, the realms constantly expand and change.

1. PWN, pwn3d, pwn'd - this term means basically you got owned! Used in Pvp and PvE.

2. FTW - F*** the world, usually uttered when someone kills a lame!

3. HAXOR - Hacker, anyone who has found a cheat, bug, or exploit to gain an advantage.

4. SUXXOR - Sucks, slang word meaning not very good

5. n00b - Newbie, AKA anyone who doesn't know as much as some lame things they should.

6. LAME - anyone who uses words like n00b to new players who need help not sarcasm.

7. PRON - a deliberate misspelling of the word porn. Usually used when a character undresses to their skivvies and dances for a crowed.

8. Kk - ok ok. Basically this is something lames say to sound 1337(Leet)

9. Lol - laughing out loud (originally used by AOL Lames in chat)

10. Rofl - Rolling On Floor Laughing (can also be used with lol i.e. roflol (rolling on floor laughing out loud)

11. Roflmao - rolling on floor laughing my arse off

12. Kewl - Cool

13. Koo - cool

14. Wtf - What the F***

15. Rtard - Retard

16. Woot - originally an expression coined by dungeons and dragons players to mean "Wow, Loot!"

17. w00t - an expression of joy!

18. Script kiddies - wannabe hackers who use other peoples scripts or codes to cause havoc on the internet.

19. Gamer - someone who plays a lot of video games, has a natural talent, and is usually good. (as opposed to someone who is good at games because they play the same game over and over till they are good at it)

20. Halo - Guys only questing

Leet Alphabet

A - 4, @

B - 8, 6, 13, |3

C - ¢,

D - |), [), ol

E - 3

F - 1=, 1#, |#, |=

G - 6

H - #

I - !, 1, |

J - _|

K - |

L - 1, |_, |, !

M - /\/\, ^^, |\/|

N - |\|

O - 0

P - |*

Q - 9, (,)

R - 12, |2

S - 5, $

T - 7, †, +

U - |_|

V - \/

W - \X/, \v/, \/\/

X - >

Y - `/

Z - 2

**** As a personal warning I must warn you: When using leet speak, you should be aware that you are almost definitely coming across as a moron.