You're listening to the Starting Zone, a podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it. And now, here are your hosts.

Well, hello and welcome to the Starting Zone, the World of Warcraft Podcast for new and experienced players.

Today is December 21st, 2022, and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the show.

Jason Lucas is with me as always as my co-host.

Jason, how are you doing this morning?

Spencer, hello, it is Wednesday morning,

which is a weird time for us to record this show,

but you know, we, end of the year can get kind of busy before it becomes very not busy so

scheduling stuff also just continuing our quest to have recorded shows like every

day of the week this year we're pretty close I We are, I don't know.

Yeah, we did all kinds of, you know, schedule shuffling this year.

But, yeah, you know, here we are.

We are now in what feels like actual, you know, Dragon Flight end game kind of weekly rotation with everything being open, getting vault rewards and then kind of leaning into that, you know, you start to figure out that kind of

kind of routine what's important what you want to focus on and

what your goals are and that stuff was kind of formless for the first couple

weeks and even in the first week of the season I think it feels a little bit

different until you start

seeing those results so now it feels like an expansion yeah yeah and I'll caution everyone ahead of time

this is just like a caveat for today's episode I have a wicked cough at the moment and so I will be pausing every now and then to try and not do that on the recording. So if anyone's noticing like a pause here or there that I didn't catch in post that is what that's coming from so apologies on that

But Jason let's dive into what's going on this past week for you in World of Warcraft and yeah sure so big thing I think last week obviously

first week of season one and so rate opening and all that the thing I spent the most time in was

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