Restoration Druid Healing Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)
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 (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.
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.
Nerub'ar Palace Boss Guides for Restoration Druid
Nerub'ar Palace Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Restoration Druid
Tips for Ulgrax the Devourer for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin whenever you are targeted by Digestive Acid.
Cooldown Usage
- Flourish ramps for Venomous Lash.
- Use 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 should be used between Flourishes in each normal phase to let you pop 2 Flourishes per phase.
- You can use 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.
Mechanical Tips
- You can shift out of the roots if you accidentally get stuck in a web.
- You can drop Starlight Conduit and pick Typhoon to help control the adds. If this is not needed, then just keep Starlight Conduit since it will improve your DPS a bit.
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 Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin after Goresplatter.
- Use Renewal to help clear Crimson Rain.
Cooldown Usage
- Use Incarnation: Tree of Life on pull.
- Use 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 whenever possible.
- Use Tranquility to plug in Crimson Rains that do not have Flourish.
Mechanical Tips
- Ursol's Vortex can keep all any small adds which spawn from the casters from reaching the boss. You can also spec into Typhoon, but this should not be needed.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sikran for Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Renewal when you are overlapping the Cosmic Simulacrum DoT with any other mechanic.
- If targeted by Phase Blades, use Barkskin. You can also use Bear Form and then drop it immediately. Ursine Vigor will give you 15% Stamina for 4 seconds even if you are out of Bear Form.
Cooldown Usage
- Your goal is to do Flourish for Shattering Sweep casts. Unfortunately they happen about every 1:40 or so.
- If you use Tranquility with Dreamstate immediately after Flourishing the first Shattering Sweep, you can use an additional Flourish before the second Shattering Sweep.
Mechanical Tips
- Tiger Dash is an option to use on this boss to position for Phase Blades and Decimate.
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 Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin for Infested Spawn casts especially if overlapping other mechanics.
- Renewal can be used on the Erosive Spray DoT to help top off.
Cooldown Usage
- Flourish on Erosive Spray casts.
- Use first Incarnation: Tree of Life on pull.
- If you use Tranquility with Dreamstate after your second Flourish, you will be able to line up Flourishes for further Erosive Spray.
Mechanical Tips
- Ursol's Vortex can be used to keep the adds in place.
- Stampeding Roar can be used when the boss flies away to get your raid over to the boss more quickly.
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 Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin as Experimental Dosage is expiring to keep your health up while the healing absorb is removed.
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.
- You can use Control of the Dream in a combination with Convoke the Spirits to get more cooldowns for Experimental Dosage casts. With this setup you can use Convoke the Spirits, Flourish, and Tranquility on the container, then Convoke and Flourish on the first debuffs and finally Convoke on the third debuffs. Then you rotate cooldowns on the other containers. The only exception will be third Dosage on the second container, where you will have to skip Convoke.
- Use Flourish to cover random damage events roughly every minute to not desync the usage from full energy event.
Mechanical Tips
- This is yet another boss with good Ursol's Vortex use case. You can drop it to control Blood Parasites.
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 Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Renewal and 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.
Cooldown Usage
- Use Flourish on cooldown in Phase 1. Nether Rift casts are 30 seconds apart, so they line up perfectly.
- Use Incarnation: Tree of Life on the third Nether Rift cast. This way it will go over into the intermission with the Reforestation proc.
- If you spec into Improved Ironbark and Regenerative Heartwood, you can use Ironbark on the second Queensbane and then in the intermission.
Mechanical Tips
- Use Dash to get your portal out. You can Wild Charge back.
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 Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin on any mechanic that does damage. There are too many of them to save it.
- Use Renewal when you get a DoT and some other mechanic is incoming.
Cooldown Usage
- Use Incarnation: Tree of Life and 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.
- Use your second Flourish on the next Burrowed Eruption.
- Further Incarnation: Tree of Life and Flourish will be used basically on cooldown for various mechanics.
Mechanical Tips
- Use Wild Charge to quickly reposition to your allies. Alternatively, you can spec into Tiger Dash.
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 Restoration Druid
Defensive Tips
- Use Barkskin for Frothy Toxin. It does damage upon expiration, but Barkskin will cover the entire DoT duration and explosion both.
- Pop 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.
Cooldown Usage
- You can use Flourish for each Frothy Toxin, if you either pop the first a bit earlier or use Tranquility after the second one.
- Use Ironbark on tanks to help with healing the absorb. When specced into Regenerative Heartwood, it will do quite a lot of healing.
- Your second Incarnation: Tree of Life should cover intermission healing.
- Save fourth Flourish for dispels in the intermission. Start ramping as you run.
Mechanical Tips
- Use Ursol's Vortex on adds in Phase 3 to prevent them from running into the boss.
- Pop Heart of the Wild, if you are specced into it, in the start of Phase 3 and cast Wrath. It will regenerate almost full Mana bar.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Restoration Druid has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate throughout mechanics. You should use Renewal on mechanics that do mostly ticking damage and Barkskin for mechanics that do all the damage in one hit.
- Renewal
- Barkskin
General Cooldown Usage
Restoration Druid has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Nerub-ar Palace:
- Flourish — Our main, 1-minute cooldown.
- Incarnation: Tree of Life — it has a varying cooldown, usually around 2 minutes. It is usually used as a supporting cooldown for Flourish
- Tranquility — 3-minute cooldown (most of the time). We generally run 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:
Changelog
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated some boss recommendations and talent builds.
- 18 Sep. 2024: Updated the guide with cooldown advice.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Guide added.
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This guide has been reviewed and approved by Torty, one of the main Restoration Druid theorycrafters. He is an author of the Twig It spreadsheet and DPS action priority list. He currently raids in Pure.
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