Episode #723: What to do before Midnight!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
The Starting Zone
4.8 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 89 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 more class balancing, Love is in the Air, The Arcantina, Hotfixes and everything going on around Azeroth!
Episode #723: What to do before Midnight!
What's New this Week in World of Warcraft!
- Weekly Event - Nothing in the Calendar
- Weekly Quest - Delves Weekly from Brann
- PvP Brawl - Arathi Blizzard
- Mythic+ Affixes - Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar
- Winds of Mysterious Fortune - January 27th to February 22nd
- Twilight Ascension - Ends March 2nd
- Love is in the Air - February 9th to 23rd
- Lunar Festival - February 16th to March 2nd
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
- Class Tuning Incoming – February 17
- Second Midnight Pre-Expansion Update Notes
- What to Tackle in The War Within Before the Launch of Midnight
- Pull Up a Chair in the Arcantina
- Dress for Every Situation with the Updated Transmog System
- Watch the Xal'atath Animation: Supremacy
- Midnight Beta Test Development Notes
- 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. |
| 0:21.0 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:29.2 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, |
| 0:31.2 | the podcast about World of Warcraft and people who play it. |
| 0:33.6 | Today is February 13th, 2026, and my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:37.1 | Thank you so much for |
| 0:37.8 | listening and subscribing to our podcast. I'm joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason, |
| 0:43.0 | happy Friday the 13th. Oh yeah, it is Friday the 13th. Yeah. And actually that makes sense |
| 0:48.4 | with some events that transpired earlier in my day. Oh dear. But yeah, hey, whatever. We made it. |
| 0:54.5 | We're here. |
| 0:55.2 | It's another TSE after dark back-to-back weeks, with the difference being that I'm not |
| 1:00.3 | in horrendous pain from oral, minor oral surgery. |
| 1:05.1 | So another plus. |
| 1:07.2 | Good to hear. |
| 1:07.5 | Good to hear. |
| 1:07.7 | We're back. |
| 1:08.8 | We're ready to talk some wow and actually speak and all of our stuff. |
| 1:13.8 | Our technology works. |
| 1:15.0 | Our bodies work. |
| 1:16.0 | We're ready to go unlike last week. |
| 1:18.9 | I was helping someone move today. |
| 1:20.8 | So my body is like good, but not. |
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