Episode #682: Ion on Encounter and Addon Design!
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Summary
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 Warcraft!
- Weekly Event - Delves Bonus Event
- Weekly Quest - Choose One
- PvP Brawl - Deepwind Dunk
- Mythic+ Affixes - Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar
- Darkmoon Faire - May 4th to 10th
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- Awakening the Machine
- Spreading the Light
- Severed Threads Pacts
- Worldsoul Memories
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Important Posts
- Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club Fixes are Now Live - April 29
- Class Tuning Incoming - May 6
- M+ Dungeon Trinkets Added to Turbo Boost Event
- The War Within: Get a Look at the Legacy of Arathor
- Legacy of Arathor 11.1.7 PTR Development Notes
- Feedback: Single-Button Assistant and Assisted Highlight Mode
- Watch the WoWCast : Special Add-On Edition
- Welcome to Critter Country During May’s Trading Post
- Hotfixes
- and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the starting to the starting zone, a podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it. |
| 0:20.9 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:28.8 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, |
| 0:30.9 | the podcast about World of Warcraft, people who play it. |
| 0:33.2 | Today is May 4th, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm joined today as always by my co-ist Jason Lucas. |
| 0:41.1 | Jason, I'm sounding more like me today. |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah, people won't have to check their settings on their podcast player or whatever when they load up the episode. |
| 0:50.2 | So that's good. |
| 0:51.5 | Glad that you're on the mend. |
| 0:52.8 | Yep. And yeah, well, you know, last week was, it was kind of a weird show. |
| 0:59.2 | We got in some really intense kind of topics. |
| 1:02.3 | And I want to say thanks everybody who chimed in in various formats just to kind of, you know, |
| 1:09.6 | give us their two cents on a matter too. I feel like we are not on an island on this and that a lot of people can kind of relate to the feelings that we were expressing about the puzzling cartel chip system last week. And this week we got a we got a ton of news to talk about like I don't I didn't really I in my brain I know it's like okay as soon as |
| 1:28.7 | a patch is out it's time to start PTRing up the next one but I for some reason this kind |
| 1:34.7 | took me by surprise that it's like okay yeah it's time to start talking about 11.1.7 already |
| 1:40.4 | here here we got I mean it's just the way it is, but I wasn't expecting a 45-minute |
| 1:45.8 | video from Ian about what one particular design intention is going forward for the game. |
| 1:52.2 | To be something we got, I wasn't expecting all of the 11.1.7 talk that you're talking about |
| 1:57.9 | coming in. I wasn't thinking about even more changes to the |
| 2:02.1 | Galagio reward system slash cartel chip stuff. I wasn't expecting all that stuff to happen this week. |
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