Episode #719: Midnight Prepatch is here!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
The Starting Zone
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 135 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 a goodbye to WeakAuras, what's coming in Prepatch, Class Changes, Hotfixes and everything going on around Azeroth!
Episode #719: Midnight Prepatch is here!
What's New this Week in World of Warcraft!
- Weekly Event - World Quest Bonus Event
- Weekly Event - Battle for Azeroth Timewalking
- Weekly Quest - Titan Disc Fragments
- PvP Brawl - Shado-Pan Showdown
- Mythic+ Affixes - Xal'atath's Bargain: ?
- Legion Remix - Ends Monday January 19th at 1pm Eastern
- Micro-Holiday: Call of the Scarab - January 21st to 23rd
Don't miss it Weekly Checklist
- World Boss - Reshanor, in Karesh
- Special Assignment World Quests
- Theater Troupe
- Awakening the Machine
- Spreading the Light
- Severed Threads Pacts
- Worldsoul Memories
- Nightfall Scenario
Important Posts
- Legion Remix: Spend Your Bronze Before Time Runs Out!
- M+ Unbound Hero Title – Updated January 16
- Midnight Pre-Expansion Content Update Notes
- New Mythic+ Affix: Lindormi's Guidance
- Mythic Raid Testing: January 23
- Twitch Drop: Get the Cuddly Green Grrgle Housing Decor Item January 20!
- Midnight Beta Test Development Notes
- Hotfixes
- and much more!
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:29.2 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft and |
| 0:32.8 | people who play it. |
| 0:33.4 | Today is January 18th, 2026. And my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:37.6 | Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | I am joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. |
| 0:43.2 | Jason, how are you doing on this fine Sunday? |
| 0:46.2 | Spencer, hello, and good afternoon to you. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:50.6 | This is a weird, we're in a really weird space right now because we are we're in this liminal |
| 0:57.1 | realm between what is and has been and what soon will be we're in the eye of the hurricane |
| 1:03.6 | we're in the eye of the hurricane yes i mean as we as we record right now we are inside the last |
| 1:08.7 | 24 hours of legion remix that's almost over and we are inside the last 24 hours of Legion remix. That's almost over. And we are in the |
| 1:14.5 | last, you know, day and a half of, uh, or two days, well, depending on when maintenance comes up in |
| 1:21.9 | North America on Tuesday, uh, you know, last two days of 11.x, pre-patch is this week and is bringing some really sweeping changes to the game in terms of how our characters play and how we view the information on the screen. |
| 1:38.6 | And so, yeah, that's kind of where we sit as we dive into this week's topics and discussion. |
| 1:47.0 | And that means that there's always a lot of confusion around this time because so much stuff |
| 1:52.5 | is changing and it's like, what is going away? |
| 1:55.5 | What is coming in? |
| 1:56.3 | What is pre-patch versus expansion? |
| 1:58.3 | When are these changes coming in? |
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