Episode #735: The Tanking Tune-up!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 119 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 tanking changes incoming, hidden decor duels changes, Balloon Festival, hotfixes and everything going on around Azeroth!
Episode #735: The Tanking Tune-up!
What's New this Week in World of Warcraft!
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- Weekly Event - Warlords of Draenor Timewalking
- PvP Brawl - Gravity Lapse
- Mythic+ Affixes: Ascendant
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
- Tank Adjustments Incoming – May 12
- 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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| 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. |
| 0:21.1 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:29.1 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft, |
| 0:32.7 | the people who play it. |
| 0:33.6 | Today is May 8th, 2026, and my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. I am joined, as always, and my name is Spencer Downey. Thank you so much for listening and |
| 0:38.2 | subscribing to the podcast. I am joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you |
| 0:43.1 | doing on this fine Friday Eve? I'm Spencer, hello. I'm doing quite well. It's been a long week, |
| 0:48.3 | but we are here and we are ready to talk some wow. And we don't have some super annoying, |
| 0:56.8 | controversial thing to talk about top of show which is which is nice there's been a couple of those lately and I don't it's like we can't |
| 1:01.9 | talk about them but I like when we don't have to and also you know I've mentioned this before |
| 1:06.8 | probably but sometimes we know we do the show every week and we have the same intro every week, but sometimes when I hear Colt's voice, it just makes me happy. So Colt, buddy, wherever you are, |
| 1:16.9 | thanks for doing our intro and hope you're doing well. He's still in California. He's still doing |
| 1:21.2 | well from what I've heard. He's great dude. I'm always, I always enjoy the times I get to bump into him and say hi and chat. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm hoping he'll be at Blisscon this year. I have no idea. I might reach out and poke him just to |
| 1:34.8 | see if he's going to swing by one night so we can say hello and whatnot. If a bunch of us do it, |
| 1:41.2 | then maybe he feels like he has to. Maybe shame him into it. Shame him into it. |
| 1:44.6 | Oh my goodness. |
| 1:45.8 | We'll see. |
| 1:46.3 | We'll see what he does. |
| 1:46.9 | Whatever takes, you know? |
| 1:48.0 | True. |
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