Restoration Druid Healing Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Sep 18, 2024 at 18:00 by Torty 72 comments
General Information

On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Restoration Druid for each boss of the following raid: Nerub-ar Palace. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).

1.

Introduction

Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Nerub-ar Palace. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Nerub-ar Palace guides.

This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Restoration Druid and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.

All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for parsing.

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Nerub'ar Palace Boss Guides for Restoration Druid

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Nerub'ar Palace Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Restoration Druid

Ulgrax the Devourer The Bloodbound Horror Sikran Rasha'nan Broodtwister Ovi'nax Nexus-Princess Ky'veza The Silken Court Queen Ansurek
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Tips for Ulgrax the Devourer for Restoration Druid

2.1.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin whenever you are targeted by Digestive Acid Icon Digestive Acid.
2.2.

Cooldown Usage

  • Flourish Icon Flourish ramps for Venomous Lash.
  • Use Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life on pull to have it back up for the first intermission.
  • Save your third Tree of Life for the second intermission. That will mean using it 3 minutes after the previous one.
  • Tranquility Icon Tranquility should be used between Flourishes in each normal phase to let you pop 2 Flourishes per phase.
  • You can use Heart of the Wild Icon Heart of the Wild (if you are specced into it) to regenerate Mana right after the intermission ends, since the boss will be doing basically nothing for 20 to 30 seconds.
2.3.

Mechanical Tips

  • You can shift out of the roots if you accidentally get stuck in a web.
  • You can drop Starlight Conduit Icon Starlight Conduit and pick Typhoon Icon Typhoon to help control the adds. If this is not needed, then just keep Starlight Conduit since it will improve your DPS a bit.
2.4.

Best Talents

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

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Tips for Bloodbound Horror for Restoration Druid

2.5.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin after Goresplatter Icon Goresplatter.
  • Use Renewal Icon Renewal to help clear Crimson Rain Icon Crimson Rain.
2.6.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life on pull.
  • Use Flourish Icon Flourish on Crimson Rain. This happens every 30 seconds, so you just use Flourish on every second one or so. Pair it with Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life whenever possible.
  • Use Tranquility Icon Tranquility to plug in Crimson Rains that do not have Flourish.
2.7.

Mechanical Tips

  • Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex can keep all any small adds which spawn from the casters from reaching the boss. You can also spec into Typhoon Icon Typhoon, but this should not be needed.
2.8.

Best Talents

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

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Tips for Sikran for Restoration Druid

2.9.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Renewal Icon Renewal when you are overlapping the Cosmic Simulacrum Icon Cosmic Simulacrum DoT with any other mechanic.
  • If targeted by Phase Blades Icon Phase Blades, use Barkskin Icon Barkskin. You can also use Bear Form Icon Bear Form and then drop it immediately. Ursine Vigor Icon Ursine Vigor will give you 15% Stamina for 4 seconds even if you are out of Bear Form.
2.10.

Cooldown Usage

  • Your goal is to do Flourish Icon Flourish for Shattering Sweep casts. Unfortunately they happen about every 1:40 or so.
  • If you are Tranquility Icon Tranquility with Dreamstate Icon Dreamstate immediately after Flourishing the first Shattering Sweep, you can use an additional Flourish before the second Shattering Sweep.
2.11.

Mechanical Tips

  • Tiger Dash Icon Tiger Dash is an option to use on this boss to position for Phase Blades Icon Phase Blades and Decimate Icon Decimate.
2.12.

Best Talents

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

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Tips for Rasha'nan for Restoration Druid

2.13.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin for Infested Spawn casts especially if overlapping other mechanics.
  • Renewal Icon Renewal can be used on the Erosive Spray Icon Erosive Spray DoT to help top off.
2.14.

Cooldown Usage

  • Flourish Icon Flourish on Erosive Spray Icon Erosive Spray casts.
  • Use first Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life on pull.
  • If you use Tranquility Icon Tranquility with Dreamstate Icon Dreamstate after your second Flourish, you will be able to line up Flourishes for further Erosive Spray Icon Erosive Spray.
2.15.

Mechanical Tips

  • Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex can be used to keep the adds in place.
  • Stampeding Roar Icon Stampeding Roar can be used when the boss flies away to get your raid over to the boss more quickly.
2.16.

Best Talents

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

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Tips for Broodtwister Ovi'nax for Restoration Druid

2.17.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin as Experimental Dosage Icon Experimental Dosage is expiring to keep your health up while the healing absorb is removed.
2.18.

Cooldown Usage

  • The biggest damage happens when the boss moves to the new container. It will be close to on pull and then every 3 minutes or so. Make sure you have both Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life and Flourish Icon Flourish for that.
  • Use Flourish Icon Flourish to cover random damage events roughly every minute to not desync the usage from full energy event.
2.19.

Mechanical Tips

  • This is yet another boss with good Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex use case. You can drop it to control Blood Parasites.
2.20.

Best Talents

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

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Tips for Nexus-Princess Ky'veza for Restoration Druid

2.21.

Defensive Tips

  • Renewal Icon Renewal and Barkskin Icon Barkskin should be used liberally to stay healthy as you have less health on this boss than you usually do. There are not many high-damage dangerous hits, but there are a lot of mechanics to dodge, and it is better to be prepared.
2.22.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Flourish Icon Flourish on cooldown in Phase 1. Nether Rift casts are 30 seconds apart, so they line up perfectly.
  • Use Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life on the second Nether Rift cast. This way it will go over into the intermission.
2.23.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Dash Icon Dash to get your portal out. You can Wild Charge Icon Wild Charge back.
2.24.

Best Talents

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

3.

Tips for The Silken Court for Restoration Druid

2.25.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin on any mechanic that does damage. There are too many of them to save it.
  • Use Renewal Icon Renewal when you get a DoT and some other mechanic is incoming.
2.26.

Cooldown Usage

  • Use Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life and Flourish Icon Flourish for the first Venomous Rain. The HoTs will go into the Burrowed Eruption. As an alternative, you pop Flourish later for the Eruption and immediately follow it up with Tranquility Icon Tranquility.
  • Use your second Flourish Icon Flourish on the next Burrowed Eruption.
  • Further Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life and Flourish Icon Flourish will be used basically on cooldown for various mechanics.
2.27.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Wild Charge Icon Wild Charge to quickly reposition to your allies. Alternatively, you can spec into Tiger Dash Icon Tiger Dash.
2.28.

Best Talents

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

3.

Tips for Queen Ansurek for Restoration Druid

2.29.

Defensive Tips

  • Use Barkskin Icon Barkskin for Frothy Toxin Icon Frothy Toxin. It does damage upon expiration, but Barkskin will cover the entire DoT duration and explosion both.
  • Pop Renewal Icon Renewal if you are low health for the next mechanic. It is especially useful for Phase 2 during dispels. You will want to pop immediately after either dispel or grip, so that you do not die from the following mechanic.
2.30.

Cooldown Usage

  • You can use Flourish Icon Flourish for each Frothy Toxin Icon Frothy Toxin, if you either pop the first a bit earlier or use Tranquility Icon Tranquility after the second one.
  • Use Ironbark Icon Ironbark on tanks to help with healing the absorb. When specced into Regenerative Heartwood Icon Regenerative Heartwood, it will do quite a lot of healing.
  • Your second Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life should cover intermission healing.
  • Save fourth Flourish Icon Flourish for dispels in the intermission. Start ramping as you run.
2.31.

Mechanical Tips

  • Use Ursol's Vortex Icon Ursol's Vortex on adds in Phase 3 to prevent them from running into the boss.
  • Pop Heart of the Wild Icon Heart of the Wild in the start of Phase 3 and cast Wrath Icon Wrath. It will regenerate almost full Mana bar.
2.32.

Best Talents

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

2.33.

General Defensive Usage Notes

Restoration Druid has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate throughout mechanics. You should use Renewal Icon Renewal on mechanics that do mostly ticking damage and Barkskin Icon Barkskin for mechanics that do all the damage in one hit.

  • Renewal Icon Renewal
  • Barkskin Icon Barkskin
2.34.

General Cooldown Usage

Restoration Druid has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Nerub-ar Palace:

  • Flourish Icon Flourish — Our main, 1-minute cooldown.
  • Incarnation: Tree of Life Icon Incarnation: Tree of Life — it has a varying cooldown, usually around 2 minutes. It is usually used as a supporting cooldown for Flourish
  • Tranquility Icon Tranquility — 3-minute cooldown (most of the time). We generally run Dreamstate Icon Dreamstate, so Tranquility is often used as a cooldown reduction spell.

In addition to the general rotation, you want to keep in mind that your goal is to use your cooldowns as often as possible during an encounter. With that in mind, your secondary goal is to use them at the correct time.

For a more detailed description of how to properly use cooldowns, make sure to check rotations and spells page:

3.

Changelog

  • 18 Sep. 2024: Updated the guide with cooldown advice.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Guide added.
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