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Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it.

Today is September 2nd, and my name is Spencer Downey.

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

I am joined today, as always by my co-host Jason Lucas.

Jason, how are you doing on this fine Monday?

Oh, Spencer, hello.

I am, I'm doing quite well.

I've been a very busy and wow, as you might expect.

We are learning so much about the war within and how to actually

play it and what happens and what all the things mean so it's been really you know I

really appreciate the fact that we had the extra weekend for early access despite the

controversy surrounding it that gave me a lot of room to breathe with kind of

doing all the stuff for Lour Master and just sort of immersing myself in that whole level up experience and everything getting to note the zones and everything like that and then having you know two solid weeks of just very low power ceiling, right? You're not getting very much power right now from anywhere.

So that's giving me an opportunity to level some extra characters and you know actually do some relatively

meaningful stuff on them like do some of the stuff that's actually

available at endgame right now because really the only places that you're

getting any notable or like significant power from are your

renowned pieces, right? There's the three renowned pieces you can buy of armor and there's a trinket

that you can buy from severed threads that's halfway decent.

And then you get 571 gear from heroic drops, you can upgrade them and you can, we did get a complete spark last week kind of midweek they put in the

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