Feral Druid DPS Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (Season 1)

Ulgrax for Feral is largely a single-target encounter, as while there are add spawns in the intermission, they are not nearly important enough to sacrifice talent points to deal with. This is mostly because your raid will have nothing else to do but AoE these down as the boss leaves the platform, so just focus on killing the boss as fast as possible!

• Use Barkskin whenever you are targeted by Digestive Acid.

• Berserk and Convoke the Spirits should always be used on the pull. The intermission will occur at 1m30s and take 45 seconds to complete, but hold your cooldowns until Ready to Feed is complete, as the boss takes 99% reduced damage.

• Use Stampeding Roar either on Carnivorous Contest to help players push against, or during the intermission to help avoid Juggernaut Charge.

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Dealing with The Bloodbound Horror mostly depends on how your raid wants to set up each group that is sent downstairs. As dealing with these is the make-or-break of the encounter, having at least Primal Wrath to deal some additional cleave damage is recommended. Fully investing in AoE, however, is not, as you will be spending the majority of the encounter hitting just the boss.

• Use Barkskin after Goresplatter hits to reduce the follow-up DoT.
• Use Renewal following Crimson Rain to help remove the healing absorb.

• Berserk and Convoke the Spirits should be used on the pull, and make sure to only use it when you are upstairs hitting the boss on subsequent casts.

• Use Stampeding Roar during Spewing Hemorrhage beams.
• Use Dash to get out the Goresplatter circle, then Wild Charge to re-engage the boss.
• Typhoon can be taken and used to knock back any Blood Horrors that get too close to the boss.

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Sikran is a pure single-target boss burn encounter that also has a large amount of movement needed should you be targeted by Phase Blades. Your main goal is to keep as much uptime on the boss as possible while handling the number of mechanics that force you out, so I would recommend a pure boss damage build.

• If targeted by Phase Blades, use Barkskin or Survival Instincts as it is about to hit to reduce both the up-front damage and the follow-up DoT.

• Use cooldowns as they are ready; no special considerations here.

• Use Stampeding Roar to help the raid get out of Shattering Sweep, and then use Wild Charge to quickly re-engage the boss.
• Tiger Dash is also a more flexible option here to be able to quickly get in and out with mechanics.

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The key part of Rasha'nan is single-target damage to burn the boss down, however, the add spawns are dangerous and investing points to pick up at least Primal Wrath is a good idea to deal with them. These adds should generally be killed before you can get good value out of a full AoE build, however.

• Try to use Barkskin or Survival Instincts for each Erosive Spray if the healers are struggling.

• Use them on cooldown whenever you can guarantee full uptime on the boss. Watch out for the transition timer to avoid using it as the boss flies away.

• Use Stampeding Roar as the boss moves across the platform to help the raid reposition. With Improved Stampeding Roar, it should be easy to cover every movement.
• Place Ursol's Vortex at add spawns to give the raid more time to deal with them before they spread out too far.
• Additionally, use Typhoon to lock down any add spawns that are getting too close to fixate targets to stop Infested Bite getting out of control.

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Broodtwister Ovi'nax is one of the more complex encounters within Nerub'ar Palace, as it requires your raid to carefully balance dealing with a large number of adds and the boss. Due to the volume of add spawns throughout the encounter, and that the entire raid generally needs to contribute to dealing with them, I would recommend an AoE leaning build.

• Use Barkskin as Experimental Dosage is expiring if you are targeted. This keeps you healthy from the eruption damage, and you can use Renewal to help clear the follow-up healing absorb.

• Berserk and Convoke the Spirits should generally be saved for situations where you have full uptime on just the boss.

• Save Dash to get to your assigned egg in case you are targeted by Experimental Dosage. Tiger Dash is a consideration here to have more access to a quick movement tool.
• You can shapeshift out of Cat Form to self-dispel Sticky Web. Be careful not to do this near other melee to avoid hitting them with the eruption.
• Use either the boss or Colossal Spiders as anchor targets to AoE from, as these are the priority targets with the most health.

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Nexus-Princess Ky'veza is again a very single-target focused encounter with no additional targets but a large amount of movement needed. I would recommend a pure boss damage build here.

• You need to watch your health here, and if you feel like you are not being topped use Barkskin to buy healers time to avoid Reaper.
• Survival Instincts is best saved for when you run out with Assassination as this will often mean moving out of the raid away from healers. Make sure to also shift into Bear Form as the hit comes in to stay healthy.

• Use cooldowns as soon as they are ready, so long as you can guarantee full uptime on the boss.

• Save Dash / Tiger Dash in case you are targeted by Assassination, and use it to run to your spot quickly.
• Stampeding Roar is best used for Nether Rift to help the raid push back against the drag and stay on the boss.

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The Silken Court is a two-target encounter with an extremely large amount of movement. Depending on how effectively they are tanked, you should have a reasonable amount of uptime on both of them warranting picking up a number of our AoE options. Just bear in mind that if they are not consistently tanked together or you cannot maintain your DoTs on both, it is probably better to stick to a pure single-target build instead.

• Use Barkskin / Survival Instincts on Venomous Rain.

• Use cooldowns whenever they are ready, ideally when you can guarantee full boss uptime and they are both stacked.
• While Anub'arash takes double damage following Reckless Charge, it is generally not worth saving any of Feral's big cooldowns unless they naturally line up without costing a use.

• Use Wild Charge following Void Step casts. Use Stampeding Roar to help the melee get out of the Entropic Desolation circle.
• Use Ursol's Vortex around groups of Shattershell Scarabs to try and keep them under control while they are AoEd down.

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Unfortunately, Queen Ansurek was not tested on the Beta realms at all, so exactly how the fight plays out and what is most important is unknown. Currently, I would recommend a single-target build with Druid of the Claw as it is likely boss damage will be most important here.

• At the time of writing, this encounter is unknown. Check back after the raid's release.

• At the time of writing, this encounter is unknown. Check back after the raid's release.

• At the time of writing, this encounter is unknown. Check back after the raid's release.

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