Nerub'ar Palace Raid Guide: WoW The War Within

Nerub-ar Palace is the first raid tier of the War Within expansion that contains 8 bosses. The raid opens on September 10, 2024, in North America, and on September 11, 2024, in Europe.

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Here is the unlock schedule for Nerub-ar Palace.

• Week of September 10: Nerub-ar Palace opens on Normal and Heroic Difficulty. Raid Finder Wing 1 opens.
• Week of September 17: Nerub-ar Palace Raid Finder Wing 2 opens along with the raid's Story Mode.
• Week of September 24: Nerub-ar Palace Raid Finder Wing 3 opens.

The minimum item level to queue up for the raid is 567.

Hall of Fame entries will require a minimum of 16 out of 20 raiders from the same guild to be eligible for rewards.

The raid entrance is located in southern Azj-Kahet at 43.7, 90.4.

The nearest Flight Master is Tekazza located at The Burrows near the entrance to Ara-Kara, City of Echoes dungeon at 54.1, 44.3 in Azj-Kahet..

Nerub-ar Palace contains 8 raid bosses. The raid has a linear boss order. The only time where you can select which boss you kill is after defeating Rasha'nan. You can either go for Broodtwister Ovi'nax or for Nexus Princess Ky'veza before progressing to The Silken Court and Queen Ansurek

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3. Sikran;
4. Rasha'nan;
5. Broodtwister Ovi'nax;
6. Nexus Princess Ky'veza;
7. The Silken Court;
8. Queen Ansurek.

Nerub'ar Palace contains a raid skip that you can unlock via a quest that requires you to collect 3 quest items from The Silken Court on the same difficulty. This means it will take 3 weeks to unlock the raid skip. This section will be updated in the near future with more details about the raid skip, when we unlock it on live servers.

At some point after the raid release, players will be able to complete a quest and collect Nerub-ar Finery from Nerub-ar Palace raid bosses. The currency has a maximum cap of 8, and it can be exchanged for 1 stack of the Severed Strands buf that increases your damage dealt and healing done while inside the raid by 3%, stacking up to 15 times for a total of 45%. The buff acts as a soft nerf for the raid over time, allowing players to defeat bosses more easily. The information is based on datamining, and we do not know when the soft nerf activates. The following section will be updated with more details, as they become available.

Group Loot is the only method of loot distribution in the raid. There is no option to return to Personal Loot. Certain items like professional reagents may still use Personal Loot where appropriate.

All item-level restrictions placed on trading between members of your raid group are entirely removed. while inside the raid, allowing you to trade items with small item level increases that are not upgraded (rings, necklaces).

Nerub-ar Palace loot has fixed item-level ranges depending on the difficulty. Here are the exact item levels of rewards from Nerub-ar Palace (Unique Drops are omitted):

• Story Mode &mdashl Does not drop any loot;
• Raid Finder Difficulty: Item Level 584-593;
• Normal Difficulty: Item Level 597-606;
• Heroic Difficulty: Item Level 610-619;
• Mythic Difficulty: Item Level 623-632.

Certain raid bosses will have one or more items that intentionally drop at a higher item level from a boss's normal table. Such items include unique appearances, items with special bonus effects, or trinkets. The list of Unique Drops is fixed for each boss and does not change.

You can read more about Very Rare Drops in Nerub-ar Palace in our guide below.

Bind-on-Equip items drop from 'Lieutenant' enemies once per week per difficulty. Trash mobs will no longer drop BoE items in The War Within.

For the first few weeks of The War Within Season 1, Bind-on-Equip items will drop as Bind-on-Pickup items in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace. Other difficulties are not affected by the restriction, and BoE items will drop from Day 1.

Nerub-ar Palace Tier Sets drop from the following raid bosses:

• Helm Tokens: The Silken Court;
• Shoulder Tokens: Rasha'nan;
• Chest Tokens: Broodtwister Ovi'nax;
• Gloves Tokens: Sikran, Captain of the Sureki;
• Leg Tokens: Nexus-Princess Ky'veza.

Tier tokens are used to create a soulbound class set item appropriate for your class.

• Dreadful tokens are shared between Death Knights, Warlock, and Demon Hunters.
• Mystic tokens are shared between Hunters, Druids, and Mages.
• Venerated tokens are shared between Paladins, Priest, and Shamans.
• Zenith tokens are shared between Warriors, Rogues, Monks, and Evokers.

Queen Ansurek, the final raid boss, drops an omnitoken that you can exchange for 1 class set piece at Kir'xal in The Burrows (Azj-Kahet). All classes can roll for the Web-Wrapped Curio. The item level of the class set piece depends on Raid difficulty.

We have a separate guide covering all the methods on how to obtain Nerub-ar Palace class sets linked below.

The following section is dedicated to the rewards you can get in Nerub-ar Palace. These include character titles, mounts, and more.

The meta-achievement this time around is called Glory of the Nerub-ar Raider. To complete it, you must earn the following raid achievements: Slimy Yet Satisfying, You Can't See Me, Sik Parry Bro, Cowabunga, Would You Still /love Me if I Was a Worm..., Kill Streak, Love is in the Lair, Missed 'Em by That Much.

Upon completing the achievement, you will receive the Reins of the Shadowed Swarmite mount.

Those brave enough to defeat Queen Ansurek on Mythic difficulty will receive the Reins of the Ascendant Skyrazor mount.

Additional Visual effects for Neru-bar Palace class sets are unlocked via Luminous Nerubian Catalyst Stone. The item comes from the Web-Wrapped in the Finest Silks achievement. In order to get it, you must earn one of the following achievements or feats of strength:

• Mythic: Queen Ansurek — Defeat Queen Ansurek on Mythic difficulty.
• The War Within Keystone Hero: Season One — Attain a Mythic+ Rating of at least 2,500 during The War Within Season One.
• Elite: The War Within Season 1 — Earn the rank of Elite in The War Within Season 1.

Players who earn the Hall of Fame: Queen Ansurek achievement will receive the Famed Slayer title. The achievement requires players to be among the first 200 guilds worldwide to defeat the final boss of the tier on Mythic difficulty.

Defeating Queen Ansurek on Mythic Difficulty ( Mythic: Queen Ansurek) rewards the Queenslayer title.

Ahead of the Curve: Queen Ansurek is the Heroic achievement for this raid tier and requires the defeat of Queen Ansurek on Heroic before the release of the next raid tier.

Cutting Edge: Queen Ansurek is the Mythic achievement, requiring players to kill Mythic Queen Ansurek before the release of the next raid.

Great Vault requires you to defeat multiple raid bosses to unlock item choices in the Raids category. Our Great Vault guide has you covered with all the latest information.