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

Melee weapons

Term	Item Name
BKB	Black King Bar
CS	Chain Sawd
DF	Dark Flow
DLS	Daylight Scar
DoB	Diska of Braveman
Excal	Excalibur
Gal	Galatine (or Gal Wind)
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

Ranged weapons

Term	Item Name
FS	Frozen Shooter
SN	Spread Needle
CR	Cannon Rouge
HP	Heaven Punisher
HS	Heaven Striker

Technique weapons

Term	Item Name
Elemental Wands	Fire Scepter: Agni Ice Staff: Dagon Storm Wand: Indra
Gal	Gal Wind (or Galatine)
Glide	Glide Divine
MP	Magical Piece
PW	Psycho Wand

Frames

Term	Item Name
13	Thirteen
BOVN	Blue Odoshi Violet Nimaidou
IC	Ignition Cloak
Lafu or Lafuteria	Virus Armor: Lafuteria
Mantle	Lieutenant Mantle
MG	Mother Garb
MG+	Mother Garb+

Barriers

Term	Item Name
3S	Three Seals
ADR	Anti-Dark Ring
ALR	Anti-Light Ring
FTD	From the Depths
Kasami	Kasami Bracer
RR	Red Ring
SSS	Standstill Shield

Units

Term	Item Name
101	V101
501	V501
502	V502
801	V801
H/Bat	Heavenly/Battle
PoSS	Proof of Sword-Saint

Mags

Term	Item Name
GG	Gael Giel
Tellu	Tellusis

Tools

Term	Item Name
PGF	Parasitic Gene "Flow"
PD	Photon Drop
PC	Photon Crystal
PS	Photon Sphere
PH	Photon Hoard

Techniques

Term	Technique Name
SD	Shifta and Deband
JZ	Jellen and Zalure

Quests

Episode 1

Term	Quest Name	Description
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 areas' 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

Term	Quest Name	Description
ANH	A New Hope	An older, story-focused, one-player mode-only custom quest that is notable for including a fight with two consecutive Gal Gryphons. Also features VR Temple Alpha as an unlockable area, accessible only after clearing the rest of the quest, which offers an extremely large number of high-density enemy spawns in one room.
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	-
MSB	The Military Strikes Back	The multiplayer version of A New Hope. Does not include the two consecutive Gal Gryphon fight, but retains the unlockable VR Temple Alpha room.
PW#	Phantasmal World (series)	High-enemy-density quest series for Episode 2 similar to the Endless Nightmare quests, taking place in Jungle/Seaside, Mountain/CCA, Seabed, and Control Tower (1-4, respectively). Notably, they award Lucky Coins for clearing.
RT	Respective Tomorrow	A quest that is the fastest method for repeatedly fighting Olga Flow, while also offering an encounter with Gal Gryphon, both of whom have coveted item drops.

Episode 4

Term	Quest Name	Description
BPD; BPD1; BPD2	Black Paper's Dangerous Deal; Black Paper's Dangerous Deal 2	Quests that offer guaranteed chances at predetermined items in exchange for Photon Crystals.
BTH	Beyond the Horizon	-
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#	New Mop-Up Operation (series)	-
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. Note: Point of Disaster can only be selected from the quest menu and played if all players in the party are on a team with the quest unlocked (party members do not need to be on the 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).
WoL#	War of Limits (series)	-

Community

Gameplay

Term	Meaning	Description
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 (no longer 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 at killing enemies than others (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).
CT DT FT	Confuse Trap Damage Trap Freeze Trap	The different kinds of traps android characters can deploy to damage enemies or inflict them with status effects.
NNN NHS (any combination of N/H/S)	Normal Hard Special	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.
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 Person 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, disrupting the process and not restoring the player's traps (and thus should be avoided).
TPD	TP Death	Used in Challenge mode to denote an intentional death for the purpose of using a Scape Doll to fully restore TP.
TP	Can refer to either: Telepipe Team Point	For "Team Point," it is usually referring to the act of converting an item into Team Points (e.g. Player 1: "I just found <bad item>!" Player 2: "TP it LOL")
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

Term	Meaning	Description
+Fo	Plus Force	The players currently in the party would like a Force to join, usually to provide Shifta/Deband and Jellen/Zalure.
NoFo	No Force	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	Indicates a game that is reserved for specific or pre-determined players only. Use of this term is not ideal, as it is not a commonly-understood term, and may result in communication issues. Passwords do not have these problems.

Trading

Term	Meaning	Description
B>	Buying	Indicates that the poster is seeking to purchase the following item from another player.
S>	Selling	Indicates that the poster is seeking to sell the following item to another player.
T>	Trading	Indicates that the poster is seeking to trade one item to another player in exchange for another.
A>	Auction	Indicates that the poster is seeking to field offers of increasing value over a predefined 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 can also be used elsewhere as a means of advertising the auction, typically alongside a link to the relevant auction post).
PDA>	Photon Drop Auction	Indicates an auction wherein the seller will only accept Photon Drops, and does not want to be offered any additional items.
PC>	Price Check	Indicates that the poster is seeking other players' inputs on the value of an item (in Photon Drops).
Res	Reserve Bid	Indicates the lowest amount a seller will accept to initiate an auction.

Symbol Chat

Symbol Chat can be used in-game and can mean many things depending on context.

"Hello" can mean:

• Follow me
• Come stand where I am (there may be an upcoming Delbiter or Dorphon which will charge when it spawns)
• I have just used a telepipe so that you can warp to my location
• I am ready to rejoin the main group and need someone to use a telepipe
• I have rejoined the main group

"Goodbye" can mean:

• Don't follow me
• I'm temporarily leaving the main group to do something else
• I think that the party should split up here

Miscellaneous

Term	Meaning	Description
CC	Character Change (or Changing Character)	-
DAR	Drop Anything Rate	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.
RER	Rare Enemy Rate	The percentage chance (typically expressed as a fraction, but nowhere in-game) for an enemy to spawn as its respective rare variant. By default, this chance is 1/500.
RDR	Rare Drop Rate	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.
DAR week	-	One of Ephinea's four unique weekly boosts, during which time the drop anything rate of all monsters is multiplied by 25%.
RER week	-	One of Ephinea's four unique weekly boosts, during which the chance for an enemy to spawn as its respective rare variant is multiplied by 50%.
RDR week	-	One of Ephinea's four unique weekly boosts, during which time the rare drop rate of all monsters is multiplied by 25%.
TA	Time Attack	-