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Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of

Warcraft, the people who play it.

Today is August 12, 2024, and my name is Spencer Downey.

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I'm joined today, as always, my main co-host, Jason Jason how are you doing this fine Monday?

Well Spencer hello happy Monday to you you just said it's August 12th which means we are 10 days

away from early access for war within. Yes. So that's pretty exciting. But I'm doing well.

I'm back home. Had a little vacay last week, spent a lot of time relaxing and just kind of hanging

out. A little bit of a lighter wow week as a result but you know what we're so close to the finish line here that I don't even really care about doing anything in dragonflight at this point like if we if we do it as a group cool that's fun I'm into it and if not I'm not going to be

remotely upset about having a little bit of a break before we start ramping all the way up

for expansion stuff.

Yeah, so I suppose that means you probably weren't raiding very much or what not last week.

No, no raids, no raids this past week.

I don't think the team even ran without me even one night just for like a heroic clear so you know we'll see what happens this week

I know I know we're gonna raid at least one more time because we got to do all the the

all Demon Hunters and Evokers raid for you, the night before early access goes out.

But, you know, if we don't end up doing anything this week coming up, it's weird, like Dragon

Flights been a great expansion, but I think this is like the lamest of lame duck

Endings of an expansion ever because I think for a variety of reasons right everything the the release cadence was so fast throughout the whole expansion. The gap

between Dragonflight and War Within release is very small. We had stuff like Plunderstorm and

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