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The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!

The Starting Zone is The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players! Hosted by Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas, it includes content for players of all skill and experience levels. So whether you enjoy World of Warcraft raiding, PvP, or are rolling a toon for the very first time, we think you’ll really enjoy The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast! The show started in 2009 with co-hosts Jesse Kobayashi and Mick Montgomery sharing helpful tips on how to play World of Warcraft. The show was very popular in its first year cracking the top 20 iTunes podcasts for World of Warcraft while also being featured in the New and Notable section upon its debut! Currently The Starting Zone is the top World of Warcraft podcasts on iTunes and enjoying its largest subscription rate to date!
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Now displaying: February, 2015
Feb 27, 2015

Episode #105 of The Starting Zone: To Tweet or Not To Tweet is ready for Download! The World of Warcraft Podcast for New Players and Experienced Players is back to talk about Blizzard Entertainment’s MMORPG video game, you know, the one we all love!

This week Mick Montgomery is joined by the Tyler Rivers,  Guild Leader and Blood DK Tank! 

THE BREAKING WIND: This week we covered the top news stories in and around the World of Warcraft!

  • Method EU wins the World First for Black Rock Foundry!
  • Patch 6.1 is go for launch on Feb 24th!
  • The Iron Docks are post poned until Patch 6.2!
  • Apexis Dailies get changed and a lot of people do not like it!

Helping Hand: This week we  cover a topic we think will make YOU a better player! We cover Player Positioning and Character Positioning, and yes, there is more to it than simply staying out of the poop!

The Round Table: This week we discuss the integration of Twitter into WoW and what this means for potential future platform integration for services like YouTube and Twitch!

We also get into some Listener Questions and Comments!

The Starting Zone is produced by Spazbot Studios, Good Shows by Good People Visit them today! Also, The Starting Zone is a proud member of The Signals Media All Star Network, Check out all the Awesome Shows on the network today! It’s okay to stick their shows in your ears, Really!

Feb 24, 2015

Episode #104 of The Starting Zone: #WhyIWow with Ben Bumhoffer is ready for Download! The World of Warcraft Podcast for New Players and Experienced Players is back to talk about Blizzard Entertainment’s MMORPG video game, you know, the one we all love!

This week Mick Montgomery is joined by Ben Bumhoffer from a ton of podcasts including Azeroth Round Table, Battle Pets, Flex Mode and Geektopia! Ben is an awesome guy and a familiar voice for the World of Warcraft Community! In fact he was interviewed during our Blizzcon 2014 Special!

 

The Starting Zone is produced by Spazbot Studios, Good Shows by Good People Visit them today! Also, The Starting Zone is a proud member of The Signals Media All Star Network, Check out all the Awesome Shows on the network today! It’s okay to stick their shows in your ears, Really!

Feb 11, 2015

Episode #103 of The Starting Zone: Guild Recruiting and Class Resources is ready for Download! The World of Warcraft Podcast for New Players and Experienced Players is back to talk about Blizzard Entertainment’s MMORPG video game, you know, the one we all love!

This week Mick Montgomery is joined by the man, the myth, the priest legend, Mr. Matt Low from World of Mattticus, The Edge Podcast and a whole bunch of other stuff is back to talk about some World of Warcraft!

THE BREAKING WIND: This week we covered the top news stories in and around the World of Warcraft!

  • Black Rock Foundry is Open and Matt has his first impressions of the Raid!

  • World of Warcraft reported subscriptions are holding strong at over 10 million players!

  • Wow Insider shut its doors, and a new website with the same crew opened up shop at Blizzard Watch!

  • Ask Mr. Robot has introduced a NEW stats tracker for raid teams called Combat Inforgraphics!

Helping Hand: This week we  cover a question submitted by many different readers, where can I find good solid information about my class? We list off popular websites and class specific blogs, as well as YouTuber who are doing valuable content!

The Round Table: This week we take a look at how guild recruitment has changed with the advent of Warlords of Draenor, and Matt Low provides some tips on how to recruit effectively!

We also get into some Listener Questions and Comments!

The Starting Zone is produced by Spazbot Studios, Good Shows by Good People Visit them today! Also, The Starting Zone is a proud member of The Signals Media All Star Network, Check out all the Awesome Shows on the network today! It’s okay to stick their shows in your ears, Really!

Feb 5, 2015

Episode #102 of The Starting Zone: The Great Garrison Debate is ready for Download! The World of Warcraft Podcast for New Players and Experienced Players is back to talk about Blizzard Entertainment’s MMORPG video game, you know, the one we all love!

 

This week Mick Montgomery is joined by Josh Augustine from the Happy Hearthstone Podcast! And he was just as awesome as usual!

 

THE BREAKING WIND: This week we covered the top news stories in and around the World of Warcraft!

  • Black Rock Foundry Opens 2/3

  • We talked about a Player leveling 100 characters to 100!

  • Celestalon’s tweet on Class Development!

  • Patch 6.1 Notes!

THE ROUND TABLE: This week we discuss the comments from Watcher that we may not see Garrisons in future expansions! You all had some strong opinions about this, so we had to discuss!

 

THE INN KEEER: This week the Inn Keeper Invited us over to talk a little bit about Hearthstone! Josh gives us an update on the expansion and how the meta settling over a month after the Release of Goblins vs Gnomes!

 

IT CAME FROM THE INTERNET: This week we talked about the Closed Beta Release for Heroes of the Storm!

We also get into some Listener Questions and Comments!

The Starting Zone is produced by Spazbot Studios, Good Shows by Good People Visit them today! Also, The Starting Zone is a proud member of The Signals Media All Star Network. Check out all the Awesome Shows on the network today! It’s okay to stick their shows in your ears, Really!

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