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

people who play it.

Today is March 15th.

My name is Spencer Downey.

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

on this fine Sunday? Well, Spencer, hello. I'm here. I am doing well. I'm doing okay. I had my

second root canal retreat this couple days ago. So I'm all caught up with that at least. And this one has not been as painful as the first one. And so I should be able to speak relatively normally for the duration of our conversation today, which is great. Usually I try to hit you with something kind of out of the blue at the top of the show. What you do with that? I want to spark something like, you know, off the cuff that we could have a conversation about. But I'm not going to do that this week because we have so much to cover. We do. There's so much stuff I'm excited about coming up in this coming week and beyond. And it's awesome. It's really starting to feel like you know an expansion at this point I think

in some ways it feels a little bit like a continuation of war within for sure a buddy of mine one one

one of my guildies and team members described it as dragon flight season eight and uh that kind of

hit in a certain way I was like yeah you know there you know, there's something to do that for sure.

But we got some real cool stuff coming up.

And obviously this week is where, you know, not everything is happening,

but some pretty big gates are opening this week.

Yeah, it's tricky, right?

When Blizzard starts to have less borrowed power and carry systems over expansion to expansion, expansion,

expansion start to homogenize a little bit and feel a little the same, right?

And it's like that's expected. We don't have that radical feeling of, okay, throw everything out,

we're going in new with a new expansion for this new thing with a whole bunch of new stuff, right? Like you don't have that feeling as much, which, FYI, the players asked for when it came to the stuff, they wanted less borrowed power, they wanted more consistent systems carried from expansion to expansion. But also, you know, this is a trilogy. So you should feel like this is the second part of the War Within. And, you know, like that,

that should be the feeling. By the time we get towards Last Titan, it should feel like it's

the final part or entering the next part of the Midnight expansion that we were in. So I kind of

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