Chat icons

From Liquipedia StarCraft Brood War Wiki

The following are the various icons that appear next to usernames in the Battle.net chatroom.

Old Battle.net interface for StarCraft

Icons[edit]

StarCraft specific[edit]

Icon Description
Indicates the stats of the user.
Each half-star represents one win.
If the user is not ranked in the top
1000, their rank appears over this icon.
If the user is ranked on the top 1000,
their rank will appear over this icon.
The user was ranked 1st on the ladder.
User playing a Spawned copy of StarCraft.

General[edit]

Icon Description
Blizzard employee
Channel operator
Squelched user
User connected to Battle.net through
non-normal means, i.e. not using a game.
User playing Diablo.
User playing the Spawned version of Diablo.
User playing StarCraft.
User playing StarCraft Shareware.
User playing StarCraft Japanese.
User playing StarCraft: Brood War.
User playing Warcraft II BNE.
User playing Diablo II.
User playing Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
User playing Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
User playing Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
Notes for StarCraft Shareware
Warcraft, Diablo II, and StarCraft Japanese icons will appear blank.
StarCraft vanilla users will appear with their stats/ranking icon.
Diablo Spawn users will appear with the normal Diablo icon.

Latency[edit]

The following appear to the right of usernames, indicating their ping.

Icon Lag
Low
Medium
High
Unable to play games.

Other games[edit]

The following appear in other games, representing StarCraft players.

Avatar Appears in
Diablo II
Warcraft III