The War Within Hotfixes for April 28: Nightfall Scenario Service Award Tuning

Author: Luxrah
Date: April 29, 2025
Updated: April 29, 2025
Expansion: World of Warcraft

Today’s hotfixes for Season 2 of The War Within bring some adjustments to help players earn their Service Award in the new Nightfall scenario. These include tuning to how points are earned as well as improved tracking to make the scoring more consistent. There are also additional stability improvements beyond those that were already hotfixed in previously.

In addition, there are a number of bug fixes included in the changes, which you can read in their entirety below.

Kaivax – (Source)

April 28, 2025

Classes

Paladin
- Retribution
  - Resolved an issue that caused Gleaming Rays to drop off and not be reapplied until specific events occurred.
Shaman
- Restoration
  - Fixed an issue causing damage from Acid Rain to not generate threat or aggro enemies.
Warrior
- Arms
  - Juggernaut is now a Tracked Buff on the Cooldown Manager.

Items

Explosive Hearthstone – Fixed an issue where parts of the spell visual could be hidden from other players.
Conqueror’s Prized Lacquer and Conqueror’s Prized Varnish will now supersede a lower PvP item level if present on the target item.
Fixed an issue preventing Amirdrassil tier tokens from dropping.

Nightfall Scenario

Implemented additional tuning to help players that are finding it hard to earn points for their Nightfall scenario Service Award score.
Added improved tracking for Nightfall scenario Service Award that should make scoring behavior more consistent.
Implemented additional stability improvements for Nightfall scenario objective assignment and for completing the Nightfall scenario.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue that caused the wrong Field Medic’s Hazard Payout to be awarded at end of match.

Quests

The Earthen Prototype and Overcharged batteries in the Siren Isle Introduction quest “To Scan a Crystal” should once again be interactable.

About the Author

Luxrah

I've been playing World of Warcraft on and off since vanilla, usually as a healer or caster and often as a guild leader. I play both retail and classic. I also love RPGs, sandboxes, and sims.