Episode #698: Gamescom Part One!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
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🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 154 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+ Leaver System, Midnight Gamescom Reveals, 11.2.5 Development notes, Hotfixes, and everything going on around Azeroth!
Episode #698: Gamescom Part One!
What's New this Week in World of Warcraft!
- Weekly Event - Battleground Bonus Event
- Weekly Quest - Titan Disc Fragments
- PvP Brawl - Temple of Hotmogu
- Mythic+ Affixes - Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
- Winds of Mysterious Fortune - July 15th to August 12th
- Eastern Kingdoms Cup - August 26th to September 9th
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Important Posts
- M+ Dungeon Leaver Penalty System Online
- The War Within Patch 11.2.5 Development Notes
- World of Warcraft: Midnight Revealed!
- The World of Midnight Developer Panel VoD
- Ion Hazzikostas and Paul Kubit Xbox Interview
- 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, the podcast about World of Warcraft and |
| 0:32.2 | people who play it. |
| 0:32.8 | Today is August 21st, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:36.5 | Thank you so much for listening and |
| 0:37.6 | subscribing to the podcast. I am joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you |
| 0:43.6 | doing on this Thursday evening? Yes, good evening to you, Spencer. Yeah, this is weird. We haven't |
| 0:50.0 | done an evening record. I'm sure we've done like a Thursday evening record at some point in history, but it's been a long time since we've done an evening record. I'm sure we've done like a Thursday evening record at some point in |
| 0:54.3 | history, but it's been a long time since we've done an evening record or a Thursday, but here we are. |
| 1:00.3 | Circumstances just kind of aligned because of various things in real life. And then also it turned |
| 1:06.7 | out to be like, I wouldn't say perfect timing with the midnight announcement, but pretty good. Yeah. We're still waiting on some more details. This is like part one of gamescom midnight stuff for us. But, you know, we got a ton of stuff to dig into. It's obviously a huge news week for wow and everything. And then we'll have even more details on, you know, we're recording this, like I said, on Thursday. So Saturday is when |
| 1:27.5 | we get the, the next big info dump. So it's really exciting times, man. I mean, season three is |
| 1:33.3 | in full swing. I'm having a great time. And then, you know, we just have so much stuff to comb through |
| 1:37.8 | the expansion reveal stuff. I mean, I just want to preface it by, like, it's, for me, it's a little bit weird because, you know, usually wow expansion is like so exciting. |
| 1:49.0 | It's such a big deal. It's like a Christmas morning kind of thing. This time, it's just different because we knew the title. We knew the overall theme. We knew where we were going to, where like our home base was going to be or something. |
| 2:01.5 | We knew we were going to quell phyllos, right, |
| 2:03.9 | regardless of what kind of shape that took. |
| 2:07.5 | So it's just, |
| 2:08.3 | it's a different vibe this time. |
| 2:09.7 | They never did that before, |
| 2:10.9 | you know, |
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