Episode #733: Addressing the Mess!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
The Starting Zone
4.8 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 139 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 first impressions of the 12.0.5 features, M+ Keystones, hotfixes and everything going on around Azeroth!
Episode #733: Addressing the Mess!
What's New this Week in World of Warcraft!
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- Weekly Event - World Quest Bonus Event
- PvP Brawl - Deep Six
- Mythic+ Affixes: Devour
Don't miss it Weekly Checklist
- World Boss - Thorm'Belan (Harandar)
- Special Assignment World Quests
- Weekly from SIlvermoon, outside the Bank
- Dungeon weekly from Halduron
- World Events
- Saltheril's Soiree in Eversong Woods
- Abundance in all zones, with a rotating Abundant Harvest zone
- Legends of the Haranir in Harandor
- Stormarion Assault in Voidstorm
- Children's Week - April 27th to May 4th
- Micro-Holiday: Volunteer Guard Day April 28th
- Darkmoon Faire - May 3rd to May 9th
Important Posts
- Unholy Death Knight Festering Scythe Update
- Midnight Keystone Myth Achievement is Now Available
- Bonus Roll Bug Fix
- Bonus Rolls – What Happened and Next Steps
- A Message Regarding the 12.0.5 Launch
- Twitch Drop: Get the Cuddly Pearl Grrgle Housing Decor Item April 23!
- 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. |
| 0:23.8 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:32.5 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft. |
| 0:35.8 | The people who play it today is April 24th, and my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:37.9 | Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | I am joined today, as always, by my co-host, Jason Lucas. |
| 0:44.3 | Jason, how are you doing on this fine Friday evening? |
| 0:49.8 | Well, Spencer, this Friday evening is not up to my standards, |
| 0:53.8 | and I know that this disrupted your time and caused justified frustration. |
| 0:57.0 | Just apologize for that. |
| 1:02.0 | No, we, man, what a week to be covering World of Warcraft. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.5 | And man, it's been a long week for me outside of game, for sure. |
| 1:06.6 | Today was a long day. |
| 1:08.2 | But I am, well, we're here. |
| 1:10.4 | We got a lot of stuff to talk about. |
| 1:27.9 | We don't have a lot of news, really. But, man, it's been a very busy week in and around the game for sure. It has. So I will say, this is one of those weeks where I have a very heavy work schedule Monday to Friday. I also have a very heavy work schedule next week, Monday to Friday. And I was grateful for it. Not Monday, Friday, Monday, Thursday. |
| 1:31.7 | Because Thursday was really my first time to really jump in on things, |
| 1:36.5 | which meant that the entire hub of blue of what had been happening in World of Warcraft was something I was just completely not able to engage in until they'd fixed everything. |
| 1:41.3 | That was like, literally Thursday was like, oh, Paladins got fixed. |
| 1:46.2 | Their damage is normal again. The re-roll system's better. This is fixed. We had an apology. |
| 1:50.7 | Here's a plan for coming forward. Here's that all that new stuff just dropped on Thursday. |
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