Assassination Rogue DPS Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Assassination Rogue for each boss of the following raid: Nerub-ar Palace. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.0.5).
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.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Assassination Rogues and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Nerub'ar Palace Boss Guides for Assassination Rogue
Nerub'ar Palace Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Assassination Rogue
Tips for Ulgrax the Devourer for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- Use Cloak of Shadows to remove the DoT from Venomous Lash if your healers are struggling to heal through the damage.
- You can also use Cloak of Shadows to clear the webs on the ground. Make sure to do so while no other raid member is close-by, or they still get webbed.
Cooldown Usage
- Simply send your cooldowns on cooldown to maximize boss damage. Other classes are better at dealing with the adds, so do not hold cooldowns for these.
Mechanical Tips
- Keep your Sprint to feed the boss with Chunky Viscera after each of the phases. Few classes have higher mobility than you do.
Mythic Difficulty
- There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Bloodbound Horror for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- You can use Cloak of Shadows to remove Crimson Rain, or simply use Crimson Vial to help with healing.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown, and try to make sure you are positioned well to cleave the adds while hitting the Forgotten Harbinger in the Unseeming phase of the fight.
Mechanical Tips
- If need be, you can use Cloak of Shadows or Shadowstep to get to the other side of the beam.
Mythic Difficulty
- There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sikran for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- Use Cloak of Shadows to get rid of the debuff placed by Phase Blades.
- Use Feint every time Simulacrums are being broken.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown. Keep an eye out on the timer for the boss's Charge ability, so the boss is not out of melee-range during your cooldowns.
Mechanical Tips
- You can stay in melee-range for Shattering Sweep if you time the usage of your Cloak of Shadows correctly. If you use it during the last second of the cast, you immune-cloak the hit. If you use it too early, you still get hit.
Mythic Difficulty
- There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rasha'nan for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- When the boss is casting Erosive Spray before leaving a position, use Cloak of Shadows.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- Make sure to hold Sprint to move from one boss position to the next.
Mythic Difficulty
- There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Broodtwister Ovi'nax for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- You can use Cloak of Shadows or Vanish to remove Web Eruption, but make sure you do not hit any other players before removing it yourself.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your DPS cooldowns on the boss.
Mechanical Tips
- Make sure to save Sprint in case you are targeted by Experimental Dosage so that you can break out the eggs that are furthest away from the raid, and closest to the growing void ground effect.
Mythic Difficulty
- Since you do not play Improved Garrote on this fight, you should be ready to break your own Web Eruption with Vanish wthout requiring a dispel.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Nexus-Princess Ky'veza for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- You can pre-cloak the application of Queensbane when targeted with Twilight Massacre.
- Make sure to hold your Healthstone and Health Potion in case you are ever close to dropping to below 10% HP. Especially during the intermission.
- Feint does NOT work on any of the major abilities in this fight.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown. This means your 1-minute Kingsbane will line up with the second set of Twilight Massacres. Read below for how to deal with this.
Mechanical Tips
- By pre-cloaking the Queensbane debuff, you will not have to run away from the boss. Make sure your arrow does not hit any other player.
Mythic Difficulty
- For maximum DPS, you will want to hold Cloak of Shadows for the second set of Twilight Massacres in order to be able to use all your CDs on cooldown. The enrage of the fight sits at 6 minutes and 30 seconds, and delaying CDs is not an option unless you know that you will make the DPS check.
- If DPS is not an issue, it is recommended to instead play out the second set of Twilight Massacres, use Feint to survive, and hold on to Cloak of Shadows for the last set of Regicides that hit all players during the intermission.
- It is highly recommended to play Elusiveness on this fight if you can, and switching to Bait and Switch. Use Evasion during the last 10 seconds of the intermission, and make sure to Feint every Regicide hit.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for The Silken Court for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- You can pre-cloak Venomous Rain to remove and avoid the DoT stack application.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your DPS cooldowns on cooldown, but if a charge is imminent, save them to benefit from the DPS increase on Anubarash.
- If you have a powerful damaging on-use trinket, use it during one of the damage amplification phases.
Mechanical Tips
- This boss is largely about executing well, and the boss will fall. Make sure to not use Cloak of Shadows when you have to spread the debuff to Takazj.
Mythic Difficulty
- You will likely be in the Red group on this fight. If your tanks end up having issues with threat on pull, talent into Tricks of the Trade to help them out a little.
- Make sure to pre-cloak the third Venomous Rain. This applies a second stack of the DoT to the entire raid, but you not only do not only avoid the debuff entirely this way, but also do not spawn an Orb that needs to be soaked.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Queen Ansurek for Assassination Rogue
Defensive Tips
- Make sure to hold Cloak of Shadows in case you get more than 2 stacks in Phase 1.
- Do NOT use Cloak of Shadows in Phase 3 to not take the portal. While you will survive the initial hit, you will die shortly after to a massive DoT.
Cooldown Usage
- Use everything on cooldown, unless your group struggles with damage to the absorb shield after Phase 1. Delay your CDs to 2:30 into the fight instead to blast the shield, and make sure to cast an extra Shiv in P1 to not overcap.
Mechanical Tips
- After triggering the Knock-up, you can Shadowstep back to the boss if the Poison Nova is already past you.
- During the Intermission in P1, you can use Shadowstep to negate the pull-in from the boss. Make sure you have enough distance to actually react to the cast, else you will die.
Mythic Difficulty
- There are no specific considerations to be made for Mythic Difficulty on this fight (yet).
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Cooldown Usage
Assassination Rogue has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Nerub-ar Palace:
- Deathmark - Our main, 2-minute cooldown.
- Kingsbane - Our 1-minute cooldown.
Make sure to use your cooldowns on cooldown as much as possible unless certain adds or DPS phases allow you to get more value out of them. This is typically something you will want to discuss with your Raidleader or the rest of the raid in static groups, while PUGs are more freeform than that. Simply keep an eye out on how you can best serve the raid, even if that means an add does not live to see the full duration of your Deathmark and Kingsbane. If it wiped you in the previous pull, and you now kill the boss, it does not matter if your DPS is a bit lower.
Changelog
- 21 Oct. 2024: Added a variety of tips for Mythic and regular difficulty.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Guide added.
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This guide has been written and reviewed by Seliathan, who has been playing Rogue since the first day of Classic. He currently raids in Familiar with Drama, and is one of the foremost Mythic+ Rogue players. You can often find him streaming on Twitch, or follow him on his personal Discord server.
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