Terminology

This page is intended to serve as a reference for terminology and abbreviations regularly used in discussion of Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst that may not be familiar to all players.

Items

Weapons

Hunter weapons

• "BKB": Black King Bar
• "CS": Chain Sawd
• "DF": Dark Flow
• "DLS": Daylight Scar
• "DoB": Diska of Braveman
• "Excal": Excalibur
• "Lame": Lame d'Argent
• "MKB": Monkey King Bar
• "RS": Red Saber or Red Sword
• "S&Y": Sange & Yasha
• "SJS": Sealed J-Sword
• "SoF": Slicer of Fanatic
• "TB": Twin Blaze
• "TJS": Tsumikiri J-Sword

Ranger weapons

• "FS": Frozen Shooter
• "SN": Spread Needle
• "CR": Cannon Rouge
• "HS": Heaven Striker

Force weapons

• "PW": Psycho Wand

Frames

• "13": Thirteen
• "BOVN": Blue Odoshi Violet Nimaidou
• "Lafu" (or "Lafuteria"): Virus Armor: Lafuteria
• "Mantle": Lieutenant Mantle
• "MG": Mother Garb
• "MG+": Mother Garb+

Barriers

• "3S": Three Seals
• "ADR": Anti-Dark Ring
• "ALR": Anti-Light Ring
• "FTD": From the Depths
• "RR": Red Ring
• "SSS": Standstill Shield

Units

• "H/Bat": Heavenly/Battle
• "PoSS": Proof of Sword-Saint

Tools

• "PGF": Parasitic Gene "Flow"
• "PD": Photon Drop
• "PC": Photon Crystal
• "PS": Photon Sphere
• "PH": Photon Hoard

Techniques

• "SD": Shifta and Deband
• "JZ": Jellen and Zalure

Quests

Episode 1

• "FoaM": Fragments of a Memory
• "LHP": Lost HELL PALLASCH
• "LSB": Lost SOUL BLADE, a quest that is particularly effective for farming both Sinow Beats and Sinow Golds. Players often quit out of the quest after the last room of Mine 1 to repeat the area, without continuing to Mine 2.
• "RFR": Rescue from Ragol
• "TE": Tyrell's Ego, a quest that serves as a "sequel" to Towards the Future. It features a large number of enemies in every Episode 1 area as well as the area's respective bosses. It is notable for being an effective method for encountering Hildetorrs (by resetting the quest after finishing the Forest segment, which has a high number of Hildelts), as well as rewarding players with an Anti-Dark Ring if the quest is completed under certain conditions.
• "TTF": Towards the Future, a quest that is the fastest method for repeatedly fighting Dark Falz, as well as being an effective method of leveling characters.

Episode 2

• "ANH": A New Hope
• "CCC": CAL's Clock Challenge, a quest that is very effective for unsealing certain equipment, as well as farming certain event drops.
• "GDVD": Gal Da Val's Darkness
• "PW#": The Phantasmal World series of quests, numbering 1-4
• "RT": Respective Tomorrow, a quest that is the fastest method for repeatedly fighting Olga Flow, as well as offering an encounter with Gal Gryphon, both of whom have coveted item drops.

Episode 4

• "BPD" (or "BPD1"/"BPD2"): Black Paper's Dangerous Deal and/or Black Paper's Dangerous Deal 2, which are quests that offer guaranteed chances at predetermined items in exchange for Photon Crystals.
• "CD5": Claire's Deal 5, a quest in which players can trade various items to the NPC Claire in exchange for other, unique items.
• "MAE4": Maximum Attack E: Episode 4
• "NMU#": The New Mop-Up Operation series of quests, numbering 1-5
  • "NMU3": New Mop-Up Operation 3, a quest that is particularly effective both for leveling characters, as well as hunting Heaven Striker (or other Desert drops). It is notable for being a timed quest, and includes heated rooms that continuously damage players, which can make it difficult to complete if the party composition is poor or players are unfamiliar.
• "PoD": Point of Disaster, a quest that quickly leads the party to a fight with Shambertin, making it particularly effective for repeated chances at encountering Kondrieu. Point of Disaster can only be played if all members in the party are on a team with the quest unlocked (party members do not need to be in same team).
• "RL": The Restless Lion, a single-player quest that offers multiple chances at getting high-attribute common weapons (up to 50% in three attributes, including Hit).

Community

Gameplay

• "0FT": Zero Freeze Traps, used by android players to indicate that they have depleted their stock of freeze traps and will be unable to control the next incoming spawn(s). Other android players in the party should attempt to step in if they still have freeze traps remaining.
• "CK": Combo Kill, a term used to refer to a character's ability to defeat an enemy in one full combo. The ability to combo kill certain enemies is often used as a measurement of a character or weapon's effectiveness.
• "DMC": Damage Cancel, an unintended game mechanic not present on Ephinea whereby players using techniques or dealing damage values (typically referring to lower damage values) could "override" the damage values of other characters, which often resulted in certain strategies being more effective than others at killing enemies (e.g. an enemy hit by a Force's lower-damage Rafoie at the same time as another character's higher-damage charge weapon attack would only take the lower damage from the Rafoie). This was removed from Ephinea and is only displayed on this page for archival purposes.
• "CT", "DT", "FT": Confuse Trap, Damage Trap, and Freeze Trap, the different kinds of traps android characters can deploy to damage enemies or inflict them with status effects.
• "NNN", "NHS" (or any combination of "N"/"H"/"S"): Normal, Hard, and/or Special attacks, which are the different types of attacks used to make up a combo. The order of letters refers to the order in which attacks are used in a combo.
  • "N1", "H1", "S3" (or any of the above letters followed by a number from 1-3): Used to refer to using the corresponding type of attack as the corresponding step in the combo (e.g. H2 meaning heavy attack as the second hit, S3 meaning special attack as the third hit, etc.).
  • "SNS": Special Normal Special, a distinctly different combo process which allows for usage of the accuracy glitch.
• "NT": No Target, used in reference to when an enemy desyncs or glitches for a certain player, leaving them unable to be targeted and thus struck with attacks.
• "OPM": One Player Mode
• "RT": Retrap, used by android players to indicate that they are about to die intentionally and use a Scape Doll to restore their traps. It is said in advance of the intentional death, as revival by the Scape Doll can be interrupted by the usage of a Moon Atomizer or Reverser, which will disrupt the process and not restore the player's traps.
• "Twins": Mylla & Youlla, a photon blast which grants Shifta and Deband, and can be used in chains to grant higher levels than techniques can normally provide.

Party names

• "+Fo": Plus Force, meaning the players currently in the party would like a Force to join, usually to provide Shifta/Deband and Jellen/Zalure.
• "NoFo": No Force, meaning the players currently in the party already include a Force, and would prefer a character of a class other than Force to join.
• "Res": Reserved, indicating a game that is reserved for specific or pre-determined players only.

Trading

• "B>": Buying, used to indicate that the poster is seeking to purchase the following item from another player.
• "S>": Selling, used to indicate that the poster is seeking to sell the following item to another player.
• "T>": Trading, used to indicate that the poster is seeking to trade one item to another player in exchange for another.
• "A>": Auction, used to indicate that the poster is seeking to field offers of increasing value over a pre-set period of time to sell the item to the highest bidder at the time the auction concludes. On Ephinea, auctions may only take place on the auction forums, but this phrase is sometimes used elsewhere as a means of advertising the auction, typically alongside a link to the relevant auction post.
  • "PDA>": Photon Drop Auction, used to indicate an auction wherein the seller will only accept Photon Drops, and does not want to be offered any additional items.
• "PC>": Price Check, used to indicate that the poster is seeking other players' inputs on the value of an item (in Photon Drops).
• "Res": Reserve Bid, used to indicate the lowest amount a seller will accept to initiate an auction.

Miscellaneous

• "DAR": Drop Anything Rate, which is the percentage chance (typically expressed as a fraction in the drop tables) for an enemy to, upon death, drop any item. This value is multiplied with an enemy's rare drop rate to determine the final rate at which an enemy will drop its designated rare item.
  • "DAR Week": One of Ephinea's four unique weekly boosts, during which time the drop anything rate of all monsters is multiplied by 25%.
• "RDR": Rare Drop Rate, which is the percentage chance (typically expressed as a fraction in the drop tables) for an enemy to, upon death, drop their designated rare item, if they drop an item at all. This value is multiplied with an enemy's drop anything rate to determine the final rate at which an enemy will drop its designated rare item.
  • "RDR Week": One of Ephinea's four unique weekly boosts, during which time the rare drop rate of all monsters is multiplied by 25%.