Episode #734: The May trading post is here!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 118 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 12.0.7 Announcements, the cost of WoW housing, May trading post, hotfixes and everything going on around Azeroth!
Episode #734: The May trading post is here!
What's New this Week in World of Warcraft!
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- Weekly Event - Battleground Bonus Event
- PvP Brawl - Arathi Blizzard
- Mythic+ Affixes: Devour
Don't miss it Weekly Checklist
- World Boss - Predaxas (Voidstorm)
- 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: Spring Balloon Festival May 10th to 13th
- Darkmoon Faire - May 3rd to May 9th
Important Posts
- Take a First Look at the Midnight: Revelations Content Update
- Get Decked Out with Gilnean Flair at May's Trading Post
- Midnight: Revelations 12.0.7 PTR 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. |
| 0:21.0 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft, |
| 0:32.8 | the people who play it today is May 1st. |
| 0:35.6 | And my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you doing one third into this year? Wow. That seems really weird when you put it that way. I didn't even think about it. But it's true. That's how math works. So here we are. Yeah. Well, man, it's a, it's a fun week to be doing this show because what a week it is in |
| 1:00.2 | the realm of discourse. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, we got that five that, you know, about a week and a half ago, as we're recording |
| 1:08.8 | this now. |
| 1:09.8 | And obviously it was not well received with many significant bugs being shipped and things |
| 1:16.1 | not working as promised and blizzard scrambling to try to make it better and doing sort of |
| 1:20.8 | this, you know, what would you say? |
| 1:24.1 | Like a charm offensive to try to smooth it over. |
| 1:26.5 | The blue post apologizing and saying you're going to learn from this and do better. They're sending Paul Cupid out to do interviews and explain like why this was a mess and why it would be better next time. And then a couple days later, we get a preview for the next patch that's coming straight down the pipeline and is probably going to end up doing all of the same things that this one did to the overall stability of the game and the way people feel about it. |
| 1:49.2 | Because this is a pretty familiar cycle if you've been playing since War Within. |
| 1:53.9 | I mean, I feel like they're just putting this stuff out so fast. |
| 1:58.5 | And it's not the scope of the game is just it's is growing so fast with all |
| 2:04.4 | these different features that they're putting in and all this content and it's like |
| 2:08.1 | I don't even know how a player is supposed to decide what to engage with and then they |
| 2:12.4 | don't have time to properly polish it for release I don't think I, for me, when we got the announcement blog, |
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