Holy Priest Healing Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (Season 1)

Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Desperate Prayer is best used to counter the damage from Venomous Lash.
• Fade can be used to drop threat and prevent the adds from coming after you, avoiding more stacks of Disembowel

• Divine Hymn and Holy Word: Salvation can be used during Hungering Bellows. While on a shorter cooldown and can be used early and often, both Halo when talented into Archon and Premonition when talented into Oracle can and should be used here as well.

• Phantasm does NOT work on this boss as its abilities are roots and not a snare.
• Angelic Feather and Life Grip can be used both for the pull during Carnivorous Contest for anyone too close to the boss, or to help with movement during the intermission where players need to quickly bring Chunky Viscera to the boss.

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Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• You will want to use Desperate Prayer whenever there is a Crimson Rain, especially if you are going to be in the next soak group as the Gruesome Disgorge will happen immediately afterwards and you will want to be topped up for it.

• Divine Hymn and Holy Word: Salvation should be used for the overlap of Crimson Rain, Bloodcurdle, and the Gruesome Disgorge. You will need to make sure your team is topped before they are hit with the frontal and transported to the other phase where they will not be able to receive further healing from you.
• In between these overlaps there will be other instances of Bloodcurdle that will do small raid-wide damage that smaller healing cooldowns can be used on.

• Make sure you are positioning yourself properly to easily soak the Gruesome Disgorge that will transport your group to the other phase.
• We can help with crowd controlling the small adds that get summoned with Psychic Scream, or Holy Word: Chastise, if needed.

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Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• You will want to use a defensive during the large raidwide damage, Shattering Sweep.
• If you are targeted multiple times with the Phase Blades and Decimate, that is also a good time to use a defensive.
• Both Fade and Desperate Prayer will have good use pretty consistently on this fight for all of the above mechanics.

• Heavy cooldowns such as Divine Hymn and Holy Word: Salvation will be best used during Shattering Sweep.
• More minor cooldowns can be used during Decimate, which does raidwide damage and leaves a dot depending on how many Simulacrums are destroyed.
• If the Simulacrum mechanic is not done well, and this ends up with many of them being destroyed at once, that can also deal very heavy damage to the raid and may warrant an ad hoc cooldown such as Holy Word: Salvation.

• Most of this fight is about movement, you want to make sure you are close to the dropoff spot for the Simulacrums so you do not have to move as much if you are targeted.
• You also want to make sure you are staying away from the boss as you will take extra damage from Shattering Sweep if you are close to Sikran during it.

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Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• You should consider either Fade or Desperate Prayer for the Erosive Spray whenever possible.
• During Acidic Eruption you will be moving and may not be able to stop and heal yourself, making this another good time for defensive abilities if you get low.

• This fight has a lot of small spikes of damage - raid healing cooldowns will go well during the any Erosive Spray, which happen very often during the fight.
• The Infested Spawn adds can also do a large amount of damage in a very short time frame if they are not properly crowd controlled, which you should be prepared for.

• We can assist with crowd controlling the Infested Spawn with Psychic Scream.

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Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• A lot of the damage in this fight can be mitigated by properly crowd controlling adds and keeping your tank topped off.
• Save Desperate Prayer in case it looks like the Voracious Worm will finish its cast of Poison Burst, or use it when the Volatile Concoction is going to expire on the tank.

• Similar to the above defensive tips, raid damage can vary drastically depending on how other mechanics are handled.
• There is planned raidwide damage when Broodtwister uses Ingest Black Blood, which will be a good time for Divine Hymn or Holy Word: Salvation.

• Assisting with crowd control can be very helpful here if the team needs it, with either Psychic Scream or Holy Word: Chastise.
• Heroic - Sticky Web will apply a slow to players which can be dispelled. Upon dispel, a root will be applied to players nearby the target, so make sure they run away before you dispel them.
• You can personally use Phantasm to remove your own Sticky Web if you get it, saving a dispel for another player.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Fade or Desperate Prayer can be used when afflicted with Queensbane, which will explode upon expiration.

• This encounter can be tricky to play optimally - a good damage event for heavy cooldowns are the Nether Rifts that will spawn every 30 seconds. Divine Hymn or Holy Word: Salvation are good for this - however the Nether Rifts will suck you in and kill you if you fall into them, which can make Divine Hymn tricky to use if the Nether Portals are not placed properly. Be mindful of positioning so you do not waste Divine Hymn ticks.

• While this advice may change depending on the strategy your raid use, try to stay in the middle as much as you can, so as to minimize the amount of movement needed for the fight. Leap of Faith can be used on players that are about to get sucked into a Nether Rift.

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Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Use Fade or Desperate Prayer for Reckless Charge, or when inflicted with the Stinging Swarm debuff.

• Raid-wide damage will happen during Reckless Charge, and Venomous Rain. Both are good times for Divine Hymn or Holy Word: Salvation. Make sure you are positioned properly for the charge before you start your Divine Hymn cast so you do not get caught up in it.
• Stinging Swarm can also do decent damage if your strategy involves dispelling all 3 debuffs at once.

• In phase 2 a dispel mechanic will occur, Stinging Swarm.
  • When this debuff is dispelled it moves to the closest player or to the boss Takazj.
  • The goal is to get all 3 of the debuffs onto the boss.
  • Wait for the player you are going to dispel to stand next to Takazj before dispelling.
  • You may also Mass Dispel all 3 targets at once on top of the boss if that is the chosen strategy for your guild.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!

Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.

• Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.

• Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.

• Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!