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

people who play it.

Today is August 3rd, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. I am joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you

doing on this fine Sunday? Oh, Spencer, hello. I'm doing quite well. Man, we are right on the cusp.

We are. Like, just a huge, massive patch. Like, one of the biggest patches i can even remember in the last several

years this this reminds me of like the argus patch back in legion in terms of the scope of what

what they're bringing in and yeah man uh you know i've just been anxiously awaiting it at this

point i kind of flipped around i thought like oh it's too early whatever i kind of flipped around. I thought, like, oh, it's too early, whatever.

I kind of talked about this last week, too.

And, man, I just wish it to come out this week is really what it comes down to. I'm so ready. I have all of my ducks are all in a row at this point. And I'm very excited to dive into the new stuff. Go check out a new locale. just have new, you know, have new raid bosses to do, have a new dungeon pool. Just do all of the things that we do. You know, I'm so ready for it.

And it's weird because I've been feeling the wow it's really bad, but just no way to really scratch it, you know.

I thought maybe I'll check out some PTR, but that seems like a complete waste of time this close to the launch. And like I'd rather just do it all on live at this point. I thought about, you know, maybe I'll play some classic anniversary just because it's, you know, I just want to immerse myself. And I ended up not doing that. I'm like, I don't want to get started because I don't really have enough time to get anywhere with it.

Misapandaria Classic isn't really holding my interest, to be honest. Like, it's a great version of the game, but I played it to death when it was the version that we played. I played remix. And the leveling is really slow, and I'm mostly playing solo. So it's just like, I want to play wow, but I don't know how to do that right now.

In two days, I will not have this problem. slow and I'm mostly playing solo. So it's just like I want to play wow, but I don't know

how to do that right now. In two days, I will not have this problem, but it's been a weird week

for me on that front. Yeah, I definitely am feeling the pinch, actually, a little bit opposite

of you. I'm feeling the pressure of, oh, my goodness, it's right here.

As someone who works in the education industry for my outside of wow job, I definitely

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