Arcanist, the ba♔se class that evolves into Scholar and Summoner.

Archer, the base class that evolves into Bard.

Astrologian, the card-based healer job.

Black Mage, the high-damage offensive magic job.

Blue Mageꦓ, the special🔥 'limited job' that absorbs enemy skills.

Bard, the archery & performance-focused range🍒d physical DPS job.

Dancer, the fast-paced melee DPS job.

Dragoon, the acrobatic lance-using melee DPS job.

Dark Knight, the edgy, heavy sword-wielding tank job.

Gladiator, the base class that evolves into Paladin.

Gunbreaker, the gunblade-wielding tank job.

Lancer, the base class that evolves into Dragoon.

Machinist, the firearm-wielding ranged DPS job.

Monk, the fist-wielding melee DPS job.

Marauder, the base class that evolves into Warrior.

Ninja, the stealthy dagger-wielding melee DPS job.

Paladin, the sword-and-board holy tank job.

Pugilist, the base class that evolves into Monk.

Red Mage, the multi-magic wielding melee DPS job.

Rogue, the base class that evolves into Ninja.

Reaper, the scythe-wielding melee DPS job.

Samurai, the katana-wielding melee DPS job.

Scholar, the fairy-based healer job.

Sage, the shield-based healer job.

Summoner, the pet-based magical DPS job.

Thaumaturge, the base class that evolves into Black Mage.

Warrior, the axe-wielding tank job.

White Mage, the white magic-based healer job.

Miner, the gathering class.

Botanist, the gathering class.

Fisher, the gathering class.

Armorer, the crafting class.

Blacksmith, the crafting class.

Goldsmith, the crafting class.

Leatherworker, the crafting class.

Weaver, the crafting class.

Alchemist, the crafting class.

Culinarian, the crafting class.

Carpenter, the crafting class.

As opposed to a weaponskill, Ability refers to skills that are not part of the global cooldown. These skills can usually be inst𒁃an💝tly cast.

🃏Addsꦰ are 'additional' enemies that arrive during a boss encounter in a dungeon or raid.

Aggro is the term for an enemy wanting to attack you. To geꦑt aggro, you need to increase emnity using various abilities. Emnity-increasing skills are standard to tank classes.

An Alt is an alternate character.

AoE refers to Area of💙 Effect: attacks or abilities that affect multiple targets in a specific area, usually a circular or cone radius.

BiS stands for Best In Slot, or the beওst 𓆉gear that you can currently equip.

Boosted refers to a character using one o🥃f the paid 'job skip' po꧂tions. This is a paid item that instantly advances your character to level 80.

A buff is any trait that affects your characters' performance in a positive way. These are gained from s🃏pells, abilities., food items and po𓆏tions.

Crowd Contro♍l is 💯the act of using attacks and abilities to thin the ranks of an overwhelming number of surrounding enemies.

D/C refers to disconnection from the gaꦜme due to an 🌊internet failure.

DC (without the slash) can sometimes refer🐻 to Data Center, the servers each region of the world.

Debuff refers to any negative trait your character can gain. These are usually applied by en🌼emy abilities.

DoH and DoL refers to D♉isciples of Hand and Disciples of Land the crafting and gathering classes, respectively

DoM refers to Disciples of Magic, the mag✨i🌠c-based classes.

DoT refers to Damage over Time: any effect that applies damage over a period of time. DoTS refers tꦛo a Damage over Time spell.

Disciples of War refers to any combat class/job.

Damage Per Second.

A Drop is any item 💙'dropped' by an enemy after defeat. Can i🅠nclude both cool and boring items.

Emnity is something you want to 🍬increase as a Tank: the amount that enemies are likely to attꩵack you.

Far🐟ming is the art of repeating content to get certain items (usually mounts or armou🌞r).

Grand Companies, the guilds of Final Fantasy 14.

Global Cooldown - the rate at which y𓆉our basic weaponskills must 'cooldown' before using your next weaponskillꦡ.

Harcasting is the act of casting a spell for its full amount of cast time, a🦹s opposed to using a buff to reduce the cast time♚.

Heals Per Second.

High Quality. This is a state tha🐽t crafted items can achieve when crafted skillfull𓄧y.

Item Level: the number assigned to all items of gear that generate an 'average item level' cumulativ𒁏ely when equipped. Item level determines what content you can participate in.

To Kite an enemy is to drag them to a specific location as a Ta𒐪nk.

Limit Break - the special ability that you can use in party-based content. A number is sometimes added to the end of LB to indicate which type of Limit Break should be used based o🌃n the three parts of the gauge: LB1, LB2, LB3 etc.

Short ඣfor levequest, a type of repeatable quest that you can do in꧙ each region.

LS stands for Linkshell, which serves as a priv🔥ate gr🌺oup chat between players across servers.

To meld is to attach a piece of💖 stat-enhancing materia to your gear. You'll want to do this to get the most out of your gear.

Main Scenario Quest.

The Main Tank refers to the tank that takes on the primary duty of emnity and aggro for content♌ that requires two tanks.

Normal Quality - as opposed to High Quality materials or items obtained from crafꦇting or gathering.

An emoticon depicting someone raising their hand to wave hel♔lo. A friendly ges𒆙ture.

off-global cooldown skillไs are skills that can be activated at anytime including during the cooldown period of skills on the global cooldown.

The Off-Tank is as opposed to the Main Tank (see above). This tank will🍸 usual✨ly leave their tank stance off unless a tank switch needs to occur.

To 'pop' a skill is to use it.

Potency is the🐽 official in-game termꦦinology for the amount of damage or healing done by a particular weaponskill or ability.

Short for 'potions'.

Pre-pull means ﷺbefore you engage the enemy (see 'pulls' below).

To prog is to progress through content.

To pull is to draw enemies towards you by engaging 🍷them in combat and increasing emnity.

Player Versus Environment.

Player Versus Player.

Referring to Relic Weapons, which are frequent💧ly the best weapons possible to obta🎐in.

Rotation refers to t🌳he set of skills you 'rotate' through when dealing damage (or healing).

Role Play.

To Slid꧋ecast is to move slightly during the last moments of a cast timer.

A Sprout is a new or inexperienced player.

This can refer to the act of stacking on a player when they have ♈a stack ma♕rker.

A Tooltip is a description of a skill that can be read in the 'actions & traits' menus or by hovering over the𓆉 skill.

Terms of Service.

Wall To Wall refers to a style of tanking where as many enemies as possible 💞are aggro'd in order to advance through the content faster.

As opposed to an ability, a Weaponskill is any skill on the global cooldown that requires a weapon to use, usually as part of 🔜the basic rotation.

Ultima Weapon (Ultimate) or The Weapon’s Refrain, the hardest difficulty♛ of the ultimate weapon battle. A🌌lso, an emoticon expressing a cute face.

Binding C🔯oil of Bahamut, the A Realm Reborn raid series.

Second Coil of Bahamut, the A Realm Reborn raid serie💧s.

Fin𒁏al Coil of Bahamut, the A Realm Reborn raid series.

Unending Coil of Bahamut, A 🔴Stormblood raid series.

Heaven on High, the level 60+ Deep Dungeon.

Palace of The Dead, the level 17+ Deep Dungeon

Bozja Southern Front, t𓂃he l⛎evel 70-80 levelling content.

The letter A followed by a number then S or N refers to one of the raids in the Alexander series from Heavensward. The number after A ๊is used to indicate which turn of the raid, and the final letter is used to indicate the difficulty (such as N for normal, S for savage).

The letter O followed by a number then S or N refers to one of the raids in the Omega series from Stormblood. The ꦑnumber after O is used to indicate which turn of the raid, and the final letter is use൩d to indicate the difficulty (such as N for normal, S for savage).

The letter E followed by a number then an S or N refers to one of the raids in the Eden﷽'s Gate series from Shadowbringers. The number after E is used to indicate which turn of the 🎃raid, and the final letter is used to indicate the difficulty (such as N for normal, S for savage).

The letter P followed by a number then an S or N refers to one of the raids in the Pandaemonium series from Endwalker. The n𓆏umber after P is used to indicate which turn of the raid, and the final letter is used to indicate the difficulty (such as N for normal, S for savage).