Glossary

A

Achievement - account-based system tied to a player's Blizzard Account ID, tracks achievements in all Blizzard games to determine "Blizzard Level".
Adventure - semi-random mini-quests that doesn't tie into the overall plot.

B

Battle.Net - Blizzard's online match-making component for several of their game franchises.
Breakpoint - found in 2D games, and refer to how fast animations for attacking, spell casting, hit recovery, and many other things are displayed in frame-based games such as Diablo II.
Buff - generally a non-permanent attribute added to a unit, affecting it directly or indirectly for a period of time in a positive manner.

C

Caster - type of class or monster, capable of using ranged magical spells, or spell-like abilities from a distance.
Character customization - configuring your character through choices to appearance and gender when first creating a character and developing it within the game through skills, ability selections and items worn.
Characters - collective term for both playable classes and non-player people (merchants, quest givers, townsfolk) within the game.
Class-specific Quest - quests offered to a specific class and no other class has access to them.

D

Drop rate - dgeneral RPG term for the chance a monster will drop a given item.

E

ESport - games played competitively at amateur and professional levels. Diablo III is not being developed with this in mind.

Q

Quest - a set task to achieve a goal and be rewarded with experience, gold and/or items, not necessarily mandatory.

R

Reroll - starting a new character.
Respec - deleting stats that you can on your existing character to reassign points to skills, proficiencies or attributes.
Rush - process of using a higher level character to "rush" or "turbo" one or more lower level characters through the game. This is a useful tactic in most RPGs since characters earn higher rewards from higher level monsters.

S

Scripted Event - randomly generated small, quest-like actions when the monsters or NPCs behave in an unusual fashion that's been programmed in advance.

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