Episode #724: Midnight Early Access!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
The Starting Zone
4.8 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 81 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 Midnight Blog Blitz, Liadrin and Arator stories, Class tuning timeline, Hotfixes and everything going on around Azeroth!
Episode #724: Midnight Early Access!
What's New this Week in World of Warcraft!
- Weekly Event - The War Within Dungeon Event
- Weekly Quest - Choose One
- PvP Brawl - Gravity Lapse
- Mythic+ Affixes - Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
- Twilight Ascension - Ends March 2nd
- Lunar Festival - February 16th to March 2nd
- Outland Cup - February 24th to March 10th
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
- Midnight Goes Live March 2 Worldwide: Early Access Goes Live February 26
- Class Tuning, Updates, and What to Expect in Midnight
- Midnight Blog Roundup
- Welcome to Silvermoon City!
- Explore the Zones of Midnight: Eversong Woods
- Explore the Zones of Midnight: Zul'Aman
- Explore the Zones of Midnight: Harandar
- Explore the Zones of Midnight: Voidstorm
- Join Arator for a New Journey in Midnight
- Power Up with New Apex Talents in Midnight
- Befriend and Unlock the Haranir, a New Allied Race in Midnight!
- Unleash Your Skills in Midnight's New Delves
- Hunt or Be Hunted with the Prey System in Midnight
- Warcraft Short Story: "Legacy of the Amani"
- Watch the Liadrin Animation: All That is Sacred
- Watch the Arator Animation: Son of Two Worlds
- Discover Dream Homes with Zillow for Warcraft
- Share Your Azeroth Home with the New Pin-o-Matic Camera
- 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. |
| 0:24.0 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:32.8 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft, |
| 0:37.4 | the people who play it. Today is February 23rd, 2026, and my name is Spencer Downey. Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm joined today, as always, |
| 0:41.5 | by my co-host, Jason Lucas. |
| 0:42.9 | Jason, how are you doing on this fine Monday night? |
| 0:45.6 | Spencer, hello. I'm doing okay. |
| 0:48.3 | It's been, man, trying to get this episode in the can |
| 0:51.6 | has been a struggle this week. |
| 0:53.4 | You know, you've been ill. |
| 0:55.2 | I am dealing with the biggest storm that we've had in my neck of the woods and I don't |
| 1:01.3 | know how long, probably 10 years or more. |
| 1:03.5 | So yeah, it's been a process, but here we are. |
| 1:07.9 | And now it's our last episode of War Within. |
| 1:13.3 | Last episode before midnight. |
| 1:14.9 | You know, it's Monday night as we're recording this. |
| 1:17.6 | And so there's another three, you know, three more days. |
| 1:20.8 | And we'll be, for those of us with early access, it will just be midnight now. |
| 1:26.1 | You know, still will be a few days away from the full worldwide launch, but we will be |
| 1:31.1 | above level 80 moving on from Kazalgar doing the whole thing. |
| 1:35.9 | And so that's good, something to look forward to after the crap we've had to deal with |
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