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Hosted by Spencer Downey & Jason Lucas, The Starting Zone is a Podcast about the people who play World of Warcraft. Whether you are a brand new player, a casual World of Warcraft player or a hardcore committed WOWHEAD, this is the show for you! Jason and Spencer have relevant yet entertaining conversations about the game while providing valuable information for all Players!
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The Blizzard Watch Podcast is a weekly show covering the latest news on World of Warcraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and other games by Blizzard Entertainment! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the New Content first impressions, WotLK Timewalking, Class Balancing, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #696: TWW Season 3 Begins! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! W…
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This week patch 11.2 finally released, and we have the rundown of all the features for you, including the new World Boss, which was up this week -- surprise! We have a lot of opinions on the new Delve and dungeon and raid their collective lack of smooth Goblin jazz. We especially have thoughts on the new Cooldown Manager, which is slightly less "as…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Season 3 update, Massive Class Balancing, Bank Rework, Reshii Wraps, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #695: Ghosts of K'aresh! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! W…
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Cory joined us for this week's show, and by coincidence there was also a Heroes of the Storm patch the day they recorded. What are the odds? Not very good, if you ask Cory. There was also a new Hearthstone Battlegrounds season to discuss. We're all very much looking forward to next week, when patch 11.2 finally releases, and we learn more about wha…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss Class Balancing, Tips before Patch, Trial of Style, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #694: The lull before the patch! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event -…
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If you're dipping your feet into the newly released Mists of Pandaria Classic you probably have some time to listen to us chat about it -- though it seems like the bottlenecks of spawns from the starting experience back in the day have been hotfixed. Back in our day, it took two weeks of complaints, uphill both ways, to get a single tweet acknowled…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the must do's before Season 3, Bank Revamp, Housing Blog, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #693: What to do before Season 3! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly …
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Player Housing was up first in the lineup of topics for this show, because of course it is. Every bit of new info we get, we're excited about -- though Joe is a bit concerned about the concept of leveling up our house. There are a bunch of new appearances to get across a number of franchises, too. Plus, how many legs does a crocolisk have to have i…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Winds of Mysterious Fortune, Season 3 Soon, "The Doom of K’aresh" Warcraft Audio Novella, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #692: Season 3 August 5th! What’s New this Week …
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Ghosts of K'aresh and its newly announced release date were the first topic in this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is likely to be the final patch for this expansion. Story spoilers weren't shared, but we are excited to find out where we're going next. Our guest host Cory joined us since he's one of our resident Warcraft Rumble experts, and u…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Diablo Crossover, Winds of Mysterious Fortune, Season 3 updates, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #691: Greedy Emissaries! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekl…
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This week's Blizzard Watch Podcast begins with a discussion of several of the raccoons currently in the WoW trenchcoat -- Mists of Pandaria Classic is imminent, and there's a whole bunch of new stuff coming to retail WoW, from the Trading Post seasonal turnover to the Greedy Emissary event. And the best news is, almost all of it involves adding to …
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the upcoming Spell Density Features, Diablo Crossover, July Trading Post, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #690: Are our Spells too Dense? What’s New this Week in World of War…
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Ghosts of K'aresh, the upcoming content update for World of Warcraft, is the lead news for the show this week, because it was announced with a ton of detail the day after the podcast was recorded last week. Led by this week's host Joe, our crew discussed all things patch 11.2, from Tazavesh to Manaforge Omega, and where the story might lead us next…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the 11.2 Developers Notes, Turbulent Timeways, Overcharged Delves, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #689: 11.2 Preview! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event…
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We had two special guests this week: Phil Ulrich and Nick Marino were on hand to discuss the launch of patch 11.1.7. From Lorewalking to Timewalking to Overcharged Delves to the new one-button feature, there is a ton of stuff to discuss in patch 11.1.7. But of course, WoW isn't the only game with a ton of stuff going on. Overwatch 2 just put out a …
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the 11.1.7 Upcoming Content Update, Turbulent Timeways, Overcharged Delves, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #688: Legacy of Arathor! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft…
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While we did want to discuss some Blizzard news this week -- including the frankly hilarious Dastardly Duos shirt bug -- the biggest news of the week was the reams of announcements and trailers that came out of Summer Game Fest. From The Outer Worlds 2 to Failbetter's next offering, the farm sim Mandrake, to Relooted, a hate letter to the British M…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss Dastardly Duos, Catch-up mechanics, Lorewalking, Overcharged Delves, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #687: 11.1.7 Next Week! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly…
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This week our writer Nick Marino joined the lineup to talk about WoW Classic -- several iterations of it. Joyous Journeys is coming back to Cata Classic, Mists Classic is launching soon, and Season of Discovery servers will keep on truckin', even if all the Discoveries have already been Discovered. Plus, Heroes of the Storm turns 10 and there's a w…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss HV Orgrimmar, June Trading Post, Dastardly Duos, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #686: Dastardly Duos! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event - Burning Crusa…
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During this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, the conversation started off with WoW, specifically the upcoming Mists of Pandaria Classic, and just how many Classics there are now. Cory was our guest host, so of course they had to talk Heroes of the Storm for a little while. It's like a rule of the internet, like how you are legally obligated to repost…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss Horrific Visions Week 1, Timewalking Tuning, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #685: Visions Week One in Review! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event - World…
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This week's Blizzard Watch Podcast kicks off with the new hotness -- or maybe old hotness. Horrific Visions return this week in World of Warcraft. There are head enchants to collect, but no keys, which is great news for people who did these back in the day. The new player housing preview from a smattering of other content creators with an emphasis …
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Pax Announcements, Horrific Visions, Turbo Boost, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #684: Visions Return! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event - The War …
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In this week's podcast we talked about the reveals from the WoW team that came out of PAX East. Legion Remix has us particularly excited, but nothing is as exciting as the wild speculation we can do about those upcoming quote-unquote "experimental modes." Plus, Clair Obscur's wild success -- and the wild? success that was Heroes of the Storm. And s…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Machinegun Druid, Turbo Boost this week, Legacy of Arathor Content Update Blog, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #683: TURBO BOOST! What’s New this Week in World of Warcra…
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The Infinite Pirate Dragon is, of course, the top story this week on the Blizzard Watch Podcast. It comes in patch 11.1.7 as a part of Turbulent Timeways, and while we're unsure that it has anything to do with the Arathi narratively, that's what headcanon is for. Our resident Diablo expert Liz Patt joined our regular hosts Matt, Liz, and Joe to exp…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the M+ Cartel Chip, Ion's Addon's Discussion, May Trading Post, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #682: Ion on Encounter and Addon Design! What’s New this Week in World of Warc…
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Our hosts Liz and Joe were joined by our writer Eric O'Dea to discuss all the wacky hijinks they got into this year, as they drag an orphan into havoc and harm. That's right, it's Childrens' Week in World of Warcraft! And of course the reason we'd willingly interact with children is the fact that there's transmog on the line. Transmog is also on th…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Puzzling Cartel Chip, WoW Housing Decor, Dungeon and Class Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #681: Puzzled by Player Rewards! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Wee…
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Cory Taylor joins our usual hosts for this week's cotillion of a podcast, and the first thing on the agenda is to remind people to get their Noblegarden ducky costume! Transmog and costuming is very important to us. But, then we get into the usual topic du jour when Cory joins the crew: how Heroes of the Storm is primed for a comeback. Cory, as usu…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss 11.1.5 features, the Puzzling Cartel Chip, Dungeon and Class Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #680: 11.1.5 has arrived! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event…
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Puzzling Cartel Chips and the mystery of them leads off the Blizzard Watch Podcast this week. We're not exactly sure what the deal with them is -- hence the whole "mystery" thing -- but we're looking forward to figuring it out. Noblegarden is coming up so it's time to collect some new ducks in a six year long process, and no we're not kidding. We h…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss Class Balance changes, Horrific Visions, 11.1.5 features, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #679: 11.1.5 Part 1, coming April 22nd! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! W…
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Patch 11.1.5 for World of Warcraft was just announced as coming out April 22, so that leads the podcast this week — even if it may seem fast to some of our hosts. Our writer Nick Marino joined us this week because he’s our go-to staffer for WoW Classic news, and Season of Discovery phase 8 kicked off today with a whole lot of brand new content. See…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss what's going on this week in Azeroth on this short episode! Episode #678: The Traveling Dilemma! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event - Arena Skirmish Bonus Event Weekly Quest - Del…
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After a short apology for his scratchy voice, Matt leads the cohosts in discussion on a number of topics. Since Cory was the guest host this week, adorable mobile game Warcraft Rumble and its expensive Arthas bundle was a big part of the conversation. So was the April Fools' Day jokes we were treated to on that day -- some of our cast are quite ant…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the vote for Season 3 dungeons, DDOS Attacks, Horrific Visions, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #677: Your TWW Favourite Dungeon? What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! W…
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Hearthstone's new expansion Into the Emerald Dream was our lead story this week, as the two sides don't seem all that well balanced between good and morally gray, let's say. The team also discusses the morality of the character restores coming to OnlyFangs and other WoW Classic Hardcore players after a DDOS KOed their dreams of glory. Plus, Slay th…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Class Balance Changes, Trial of Style, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #676: After Race Tune-up! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event - The War Within …
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It probably isn't a huge surprise that our hottest topic this week was the World of Warcraft player housing preview. We also discussed how the Race to World First played out, and how this Race differed from past races. Plus, WoW Classic is getting its own new content in the form of the Scarlet Enclave, which seems cool -- if a little outside the sc…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Tank Bran, WoW Housing Decorating, Blizzon 2026, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #675: Extra Sparks and Decorating Delights! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! We…
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Joe started off the podcast this week eating crow as he reflected on his prior assertion that BlizzCon would never happen again. But, Blizzard announced that BlizzCon returns September 12-13 2026. He's not mad at all, just surprised -- as all our hosts were. After that, it's a little tough to focus on everything else that happened this week. The Ra…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the Season 2 launch week, Mythic+ Nerfs, World Soul Memories explained, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #674: Out of limbo! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly …
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This week's show started off with The War Within season 2. We discussed how we feel about Undermine now that we've had a week in the zone, though Liz noted the patch added a ton to do outside the zone, too. All the co-hosts are now on the record as emphatically pro jazz, and also pro Race to World First, which officially kicked off as the season di…
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the 11.1 Pre-Season and last-minute class tuning, March Trading Post, everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #673: 11.1 Season 2 has begun! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event…
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This week's podcast is all about the fun new stuff that just hit WoW with patch 11.1 and Undermine. The Everlasting Nogginfogger was a popular topic, as was the overall Goblin mystique -- and the IRL hot rod Blizzard made last week. We also delved into Delves, the new rares we'll be killing -- or taming! -- and the new cool campfire scenes players …
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! This week Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas discuss the 11.1 Update and last-minute class tuning, Kalimdor Cup, everything going on around Azeroth! Episode #672: 11.1 Dig in to Undermine! What’s New this Week in World of Warcraft! Weekly Event - World …
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Overwatch 2 was the game we were most excited to start discussing this week. The development team released a big showcase just ahead of season 15's release, which also contained a lot of content teasers like upcoming hero Freja for season 16 and beyond. Loot boxes? 6v6 in competitive? What year is this, 2019? Not to be left out, the Hearthstone tea…
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