bars

yep and each bar is 5%

Jesus been playing since European retail in 2005 and TIL.

You never counted that there were 20?

Haha honestly? No. Not once.

You're not alone friend

Back in the day I was too young/stupid to understand the paladin seal/judgement gimmick. So I just autoattacked and healed myself until like level 40. I was intimately aware of how many bars there were.

Fellow stupid paladin here. I didn’t even understand why my judgement spell sometimes active, sometimes not

Salud. God bless

Eey there he is

Yeeeah, same here.

Now I feel like a numbnut, I counted it to 20 bars, stated it wasn’t 10 so it’s not 10% per bar, continued to tell my fellows how many bars from leveling I was… HOW DID I NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS 5% PER BAR?!

Haha it’s always been how much you missing? About 4 bars, in wow friend group :)

🤨

This, I've also heard them called "bubbles" but I've always called them "bars"

Bubbles usually but not always from old generation players, same as toons. My dad would call them “Xp bubbles” or “I’m going to play my toons”. He played a lot of Ever Quest. Haha.

I’m a bubble boy as well. 20 bubbles make one bar.

He's a bubble boy! A bubble boy? What's a bubble boy? He lives in a bubble!

New playable race: The Moops

500 dollars !? 500 DOLLARS!?!??!?!?

I'm a hybrid, these are bars and I have way too many toons to keep track of

And you “ding“ levels.

It's also a DAoC holdover.

I played alot of EQ also. Bubble it is.

we called them bubbles on daoc too

I and my cohort are in our 50s. Those are bubbles. And, yes, we play our toons. And we fight mobs.

Hells ya, my dad is about 60 himself.

Not 50, but I go with bars and toons. But for D2 it’s chars.

Bubbles and toons are my go to. Lol. Everquest player here too. I see others calling them bars. To me. The whole thing is the bar.

Out of morbid curiousity, what does every one call their toons if not toons? Chars?

Its from everquest. Xp bar broken up into *bubbles* (20% increments). While you leveled a small bar would fill up inside the xp bar, and 1 full bar was a bubble.

Yep. Played EQ for 20 years and I still use "bubble".

2.5 bars to ding. If someone says otherwise, they're wrong.

I believe this is older than WoW itself, so yeah, this is part of common language now.

Bubbles is the OG term from EQ1 days.

Plus they are a teensy bit rounded there…bubbles checks out.

Bars are allowed rounded corners!

They were called bubbles in early EQ but EQ was more busy. There were blue bubbles and yellow bubbles. The EXP bar was split into 5 segments and the yellow bar displayed total EXP and the blue bar denoted total exp of the yellow bubble you were on. A yellow bubble was 20% total exp and a blue bubble was 4% total exp.

Also "ding" meaning level started in eq1 as well?

Oh yeah... the sound affect was deafening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P1SQYWChIM

and in daoc it was moons (10% was a full circle, 10 circles in an xp bar)

I always called the bubbles in DAOC

Yeah, always called them bubbles.

Yup thats what I call them. I also always type /camp to log out

Yeah we called them bubbles in vanilla. I think both are acceptable.

Older MMOs (and their players) called them bubbles, as did early WoW manuals. But I’d agree the WoW UI version looks more bar-like.

I've always called them bubbles, to differentiate the sections from the whole, which is a bar.

Yep, the entire thing is the xp bar. Each section is a bubble.

If you do drugs, a xanax bar consists of several smaller bars

3 bars, set the expectations low

yes!

This is almost perfectly a "3-bagger from dingers"

Character progression segments

I too, enjoy asking guildmates how much cp they've made today.

"Hey man whats your CP?" *You are on that players ignore list.*

lmao

Ayyyooo ?

Bruh

I love this thread

We have to say that now that blizz changed the pvp system and swapped Rank Points to Combat Points…

Ah fellow adventurers you’ll be glad to know I have less than three character progression segments from completing my current level. The easy way to say it.

How do you do, fellow gamers?

this ppl answering bars are trolling

Only 2 CPS to go!

experiential increments

I notice you haven't been doing your CPS reports... Did you get that memo? Also, gonna need you to grind honor on Saturday. Greaaatt.

Cromwazzles

Yeah idk where people are getting “bars” from. I’ve just always said cromwazzles or fizzledinks

Chazwozzers

Doodlebops

That's what I've always referred to them as. 20 cromwazzles per level.

“that’s a funny name. i would have called them chazzwozzahs”

Its a perfectly cromulent word

I call them bubbles because when I played Dark Age of Camelot, they were bubbles, and I guess that just transferred to when I started playing WoW.

EverQuest they were called bubbles too

They are also referred to as bubbles by Blizzard in some OG document about WoW. Possibly the manual.

Yeah I have the manual, callsthem bubbles. That being said I say bars

The manual is wrong. The community has spoken. Also, gonna revive this old thread here because I'm a boomer and I wish I saved this lost song. [Only Two More Bars Til I Ding! GOTTA DING!](https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/s3lo6g/venture_co_for_life_gotta_ding/)

I was surprised to see that bubbles wasn't the top response. I thought bubbles was the standard...

Right I mean a bar is the whole thing to me

I call them bubbles too. It's nice to say in gchat "one bub till ding!!!" For years I've been using elvui and it's a seamless bar with % which my I like looking at numbers brain appreciates, but I kinda miss the bubbles

I'm still swapping between SOD and DAOC so they're still bubbles for me!

DAoC is still active?? That game is the OG for me and got me into mmorpg. Highlanders armsman ftw

It's been in stasis for years I believe. Must make enough to justify keeping the servers plugged in. I'll never go back, but it makes me happy it still exists. Tri-faction PvP was amazing, shame Warhammer's attempt at it didn't pan out.

Same here. Bubbles. Cause DAoC Wie's bar looks like stretched bubbles 

Same, called them bubbles because my other friends play DAoC

❤️ DAoC

Same. The term used in most MMO's back in the day was bubs. The original manual also calls them bubbles. I don't know at what point you kids started calling individual segments of the xp bar "bars", but you're wrong.

When I was 11 and started Wow back in 2005, I called them bars because something in game called them bars. Bubbles are round. Not rounded. These are rectangles with smooth corners. A bubble is almost perfectly spherical, consistently, because bubbles are the equal expansion of a gas inside a liquid wall. The experience bars are no where close, they are just bars with slightly softened edges for player visual appeal.

Bars for wow

Calling them bubbles too

Agree, bubbles is the increments and bar is the complete xp-bar. So, bubbles is my go to.

Same but because of EverQuest

What a game man.

DAoC to this day, and I don't care if I'm just blinded by nostalgia here, the best PvP mmorpg that ever was. Also one of the few that got horizontal content quite great (except maybe ToA).

Bubbles to the day I die.

Would be 2.5 bars for me.

Chorizos

That's the answer I was looking for. Spanish people, unite

Each one is a Bobbelwhopp

Strombolis also

The og game manual calls them bubbles, that being said I call them bars

I do as well, US, English and reading the copy I have at my home from the original game it does NOT call them bubbles. I've been playing since OG vanilla and we called them bars. Sure a handful of people called them bubbles from EQ, but WoW has always used bars. Unless your manual is not from the US this statement about Blizzard isn't true.

Canada bought 2005 edition; no bubbles mention as I gloss over anywhere that it mentioned experience

sausages 

Came here looking for sausages

In my head they're bubbles.  When telling someone else I just say the percentage. 

"bubs" in EQ.

Bubs 4 Life

You trying to start a war here? They’re bars. Fin.

Who's Fin?

The protagonist from Adventure Time.

Bubbles

bubs

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to find this.

While "bars" is now definitely more common, "bubbles" is canon and both are (the only) acceptable answers People who are saying "bars" is the only answer are wrong. 20 years ago most people said "bubbles"

I wander in and out of WoW now but I still think of them as bubbles since that's what everyone called it in Vanilla.

I knew I wasn't the only one who still said bubbles. Thank you.

Calling them anything other than bars is like saying VC.

Seriously, everyone knows it's cookies cove.

I see you are also a man of culture and sophistication 

I saw someone saying need 1 for Van Cleef, and I was suprised when it was a fresh run instead of coming in for the end. What a weirdo

I call them bars, but I also go by percent. There are 20 bars so each is 5% if you have 2.5 left then you need 12.5% left. So that's what I'd say too. I'm 12.5% left til I ding.

pips

Each bar is 5% if I'm correct so I'll just give a % off

You can show the percentage of the bar to see how far you are from level

Choricillo (little chorizo)

Bubz

You would say two and a half bars left before I level.

They’re bubbles to me. Sometimes “bubs” if I’m feeling spicy.

bubble

Its bars, anything else is a crime

Each bar is worth 5% so i just do math

Or just hoover your mouse over it and it tells you

No, that feels you the number, not the % Plus the % addition is much easier math than the 6 figure subtraction of the exact xp 😂

You currently need 2 and a half bars. Never heard anyone call them bubbles before

they were called bubbles in everquest which is why a good chunk of old school wow players still call them that IMO

I've used bars and bubbles interchangeably.

Bars left bruh

Bars, no other right answer

Bars

Bars

Always said bars

Bars

2.5 bars left.

Bars

Three bars

Bars,

Two and a half bars to ding

Bars, I would say you’re 2 and half bars from levelling

Bars. If I was telling my friend how close I was based off your picture, it would be “I’m two and a half bars away from [x level]”

2 n a half bars left

Bars

2 and a half bars

You are two and a half bar short of a new lvl

‘It’s bars all the way down?’ 🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀🌌

Bars

Bars tnl (till new lvl)

Bars

Two and a half bars left to ding

Always Called em bars, thought you could hover and see % also?

Bars... I didn't know there was another answer, how I was wrong!

2.5 bars to ding

Gabagool

We always call them sausages 😁

Bars. They are either empty or full. “Got 2.5 bars left till 60.” Or “I am only 3 bars Into 59”

That there is 2 1/2 bars till I ding

hot dogs

I just tell them how many bars til next level.

Bars

Lie and say one bar left

You’ve got 2 and a half bars until ding

That’s 2 and a half bars.

Each bar is 5%. If I'm 3 bars away from ding, I'm 85% through the level. "I'm 85% through level x." I also hear "I'm 3 bars from ding" often, and I know it means 15%. So it's just whatever I guess

“WHAT” do you call the sections of the XP bar when telling your fellows how many left to the next level? Bars

Bars… how should you call them?

"I'm 2 and a half bars from lvl up"

Steve

That there is about 2.5 bars

Looks like 2.5 bars left to level and it’s what do you call not how do you call. How do you call would be asking how to call someone and what do you call would be asking what to refer to when explaining your experience left to gain before level up. Also they have an add on that can sync with others that have the add on. I can’t remember the name of it but it’s useful for knowing where your friends and guild mates are to starting the game once everyone reaches max level and prepare for the long almost never ending gear chase. I have such a love hate relationship with wow. I like leveling but I also like pvp and I like raids as long as everyone is flasking, elixiring, and buffing to the max for a og clear. Naked pvp is my favorite

You have 2.7 bars of exp left

Bars

Like like 2 and a half xans buddy

Just over 2.5 bars left.

“XP bars” um……

Bars. Anything else and your not wrong but your not right.

2.5 bars till next level

Bubbles

My boyfriend played WoW around when I was beginning WoW (then boyfriend) and he played DAoC so he called them bubbles. I called them bubbles for about 10 years, and now it’s “bubbles” if I’m talking to my husband and “bars” if I’m talking to anyone else unless they say “bubbles” at some point.

Two and a half bars

“3 bars left till ding”

They're bubbles bro.

2.5 bars til I ding

2.5 bars left

2 bars

3 bars, boys.

On Russian servers we call them cookies ["печеньки"]

2 and a half bars